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4 Ml o4v'- A.- THE STANDARD nn ; a ARB hi UNTIL -UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1889, 75 JANUARY 1, 1889, 75 CEIlsTTS. VOLUME 1. CONCORD, C, 'APRIL 27, 1888. NUMBER 16 A U nn NB Hardware Headquarters. t SEE HEBE, mm, DEOIIIB.- IHGIIIEEfiS, MlllfRS, Farmers and -Everybody Else Can be suited in Hardware at YORKE & WADS WORTH'S at bottom prices tor the CASH. Our stock is full and complete. A splendid line of Cook Stovee and cooking utensils in stock. Turning Plows, PloT Stocks, Harrows, Belting, Feed Cutters, Cornshellers, Tinware., Guns, Pistols, Knives, Powder, Shot and Lead, Doors, Sash and Blinds, Shingles, Gkasr Oils, White Lead, Paints and Putty a specialty ; .Wire Screens Oil Cloths, -wrought, cut and Horse Shoe Nails, and in fact everything usually kept in a hardware store. Wc will sell all these goods as cheap, quality considered, as any house in North Carolina. Our warehouse is filled with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, Reapers, Mow ers, Hay Hakes, of the-best make ou the market, which must and will be sold at thej 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 and Wando Acid at prices to suit. Y. & vV. ma victory avER him- fbicui II 1ST 1 DIAL OF ' THE S FBI ZST Gr The undersigned once more comes to the-front and' avows his determinalioi tojlead all competitors in the good work of saving the people money and sup plying them with a superior quality of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. We are ''loaded to the muzzle," and there is danger of an explosion when wo fire off our big gn. Lverybody must "stand from under,n for tk bottom has dropped out ol LOW PRICES, and i an body gets caught when it falls, somebody is sum to get hurt. Now Open your eyes, bargain hunters, and if you are close calculators and know a yo' d thing when you see it, come and see me if you waut to save money by buying yonr Dry Goods, Hi, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, provisions and other articles of home use. A specialty on flour which cannot be purchasod elsewhere of it. Don t sell jour country produce before calling on T?, A BRO"WNT P. S. Thanking you for past favors, prices to merit a continuance oi me same. NEW I would inform the ladies of Con cord and surrounding eOuntry that I have opened a new Millinery Store At ALLISON'S CORNER, where they will find a woll selected stock of Hats and Bonnets Ribbons, Co'lars, Corsets, Bustles, Kucbing, Veiling, &c, which will be sold cheap for CASH. Give me a call. Respectluliy, 6 3 n Mns. MOLrjE ELLIOT Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed before me by E W. G. Fisher, guardian of J S Fisher, asking for the attachment of the home ptead and personal property exemption fo J S Fisher, and you are hereby no tified that petition of said Fisher's will be heaid at my office in Concord on Monday, 8th October, 1888. 13 7t J. F. WILLEFORD, J. P. 1LIHERY STORE. FoCrcdilorsofJ.S. Fisher. SEASOISTI if our ock is not speedily reduced. the sama grade as cheap as I will sell I hope by fair dealing and reasonable u. a. $ isriE'w RAGKET STORE IN CONCORD A NEW FIRM! More -than a Slaughter in PEICES I Come and see our beautiful stock consisting of- Calicos, Dress Goods, Full stock of Notions, Men's Furn ishing Goods; A full line of Linen and a large lot of Jewelry. Also in Cups, Buckets and many other things. ABRAHAMS & FELDMAN, Formerly of Baltimore. . Next door to Mrs. Cross' Millinery More. 14 The "Weekly News-Observer The Weekly News and Observer is a long ways the best paper ever pub !ished in North Carolina. It is a cred it to the people and to the State. The people should take a pride in ifr It should be in every family. It is an eight page paper, chock full of the best sort of reading matter, news, markei reports, and all that. You cannot af ford to be without it. Price $125 a year. We will furninh the Weekly News and Observer until January 1st, 1889, for$l. Scud for eample copy. Address, News and Observer Co , Raleigh, N. C,. HOPE. BY DAKSKE DANDBIDGE. Ah, me ! what battles I have fought ! I would I knew the rune that lays The swarming shades of weary days That take the lonely house of thought t A restless rabble unsubdued ; A wild and haggard multitude ; Distorted shapes that spring from t?ars And torments born of wedded fears. Sometimes amid the changing rout, A rainbow figure glides about, And from her brightness.like the day, The whimpling shadows slink away. I know that lyre of seven strings, The seven colors of her wings ; The seven blossoms of her crown There violets twine for amethyst ; Small lilies white as silkweei down, Those myrtle sprays her locks hate kissed, And pansies- that are beryl-blue, And varied roses rich of hue, With iridescent dewy eyes Of buds that boom in Paradise. Come often, thou ethereal child ! Now string thy lyre and Bing to me. Thy voice ecstatic, fresh aud wild, Enthralls " each dark - browed fantasy. Beyond the walls she bids me peer To see a future dim and dear ; Sweet faces shining through the mist Like children waiting to be kissed. A lovely land that knows not pain, Atlantis-land beyond life's main Where we who love may love again ; Ah, me ! is this beyond the plan Of God's beneficence to man ? fNew York Independent. FICURSN OX THE AVENUE. Hfen and Women In Washington Who Have Interesting Histories. Cities, like human beings, have their ganglionic or nerve centres, and so do nations. Such a city is Wash ington, aud there is one place there which will answer this description. Thoreau says somewhere in his w rit ings that you can find anything any where if you hunt long enough for it. In this same spirit it may be said tfiat there is one place in Wash ington where if vou stand long enough, you may see almost any per son distinguished in life that is, the corner of Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Tast this "cor ner during the day, in a never-ceasing flow,-go the representative people of the United States, their wives and families, the members of the lega tions from all foreign countries, and men and women noted in political, re ligious, historical, social and all other departments of life. At 4 o'clock every afternoon the departments in the government ser vice close, and all the busy thousau Js, from Cabinet officers and heads of deparments down to messengers and call boys, are relieved from duty and suddenly throng the streets. At this hour, too, the aristocratic people are out upon the avenue with their splen did turnouts, their fine carriages, coupes, barouches, victorias, village carts, dog carts and every variety of vehicle, and there is a display of beautiful horses, fine trappings, gold and silver trimmings, rattling chains, monograms, liveries, coat-of-arms, etc., hardly equaled outside of Hyde Park in London during afternoon parade. But underneath all this show and glitter of the aristocratic republican capital one may see upon that corner many things ot suggestive- interest to the American. As the throng passes by, composed of clerks, male and female, from the various de partments ; of young men, sous of noted statesmen and millionaries ; young ladies, celebrated in the social and gossip columns of the news papers; characters well known to the world, etc., one may now and then see a face that will recall some thing of interest to the American people outside of the present posi tion or social supremacy of the throng. For instance, a tall,, slender gen tleman comes walking -along the avenue. He wears a full beard, slightly tinged with gray and parted in the middle. He is handsomely dressed aud aristocratic in his bear ing; he has dark, brown eyes that are quick, bright and fearless. He seems to know almost everybody and is continually raising his crape bound tall hat to ladies and gentle men that he meets. You would take him for a business " gentleman, well bred and well to do, and stand' ing well socially; and yet what a history is connected with that man's experience in. life! He is Mr. Frank Brownell, known in history as "the Ellsworth avenger." Those who are old enough to let their memories go back to those wild days of the breaking out of the late civil war will recall what a tremendous sensation was created throughout the North by the death of Ellsworth and the killing of his slayer by Brownell. The nearest point to Washington from which the Confederate flag ever floated was from the roof of the Marshall House. Mr. Jackson, the proprie tor of the hotel, had run" up the Confederate flag and had made a sol emn vow that he would kill any man who touched it or lowered it. Col. i Ellsworth, with a few hundred men, went down the river to take posses sion of Alexandria -and haul down the flag from its staff upon the Mar shall House.' Whftni' he was coming down the stairs, accotnpanied by Ser geant Brownell and .others, carrying the flag upon his arm, he was met upon the staircase fey Mr. Jackson, who emptied two bjirrpls of a shot gun loaded with buckshot into Col. Ellsworth's body, who fell back dead in the arras of onefof'his soldiers. Almost simultaneously with ' Jack son's shot Sergeant- Brownell put a minnie ball throufh Jackson, and followed it with apiunge of his bay onet through his ody, and Ells worth's death was.avenged. It is not easy to believe that this quiet, handsome aid gentlemanly person passing us, raising his hat his lady acquaintances, is , the man who put bullet and bayonet through the body of the miri wfio shot his chief. Ever since the war he has been in the employ of the govern ment. ? And now occuFfca peculiar scene illustrative of Washington life and -the character of American people. Coming from the north, . as Mr. Brownell walks in that direction, are three ladies, evidently clerks in the government departments from the little lunch-bass they carry. The lady in the centre isw ell-dressed and good-looking, with dark hair;- dark eyes and yery expressive face. The three ladies bow to Mr. Brownell and he raises his hat,. with a pleasant smile, to them. he lady in the centre is the daughter of Mr. Jack son, who killed Colonel Ellsworth and through whose'body Mr. Brow nell sent a bullet . and a bayonet, Both are now clerks in the' depart ments and employed and supported by the government. There is a strik ing lesson of reconstruction and re conciliation between the two sections in this little story that is above and beyond all that th.s political recon structionists of either party can ever do or say. ,2 A moment later iu the great com mingling throng of people passing and repassing, with glimpses of faces of famous men, cabinet officers, Sen ators, Congressmen, men noted in all walks of life, menibers of foreign legations, strange costumes, etc., ap pears a face that sngv-sts and brings to one's recollectionfone of the most magnificent events that ever occurred iu warfare. The ctairge of Pickett's division in the bilttle of Gettysburg will through ail time stand side by side with the greatest exhibitions of heroism noted by the historian. The lady passing is Mrs. Pickett, the widow of the general whose name is identified with that splendid en deavor. She, too, is a; clerk in the government departments. In these three people we have an illustration of the characteristics o our form of government that needs 'no 'comment. In no other country, under no other form of government, could such a fact be possible. . Mrs. Pickett is a handsome woman, with a bright, in telligent face, and she is accompanied by her daughter, who promises to be as fine-looking a woman as the moth er. When the reunion occurred last summer on the field of Gettvsburg between the men of Pickett's divis ion and the Pennsylvania veterans who were a part of the force that repulsed that splendid charge, Mr3. Pickett was present, a centre of in terest, and was as much compli mented and admired by the " Yan kee " soldiers as by the Southerners. And here comes another face that brings up more recollections of the old stormy days of the civil war. A man six feet tall, broad-shouldered, smooth-faced and of commanding appearance, passesalong in the crowd chatting with friends and laughing at the jokes interchanged between them. It is Mosby, the famous gue rilla chief, whose name at one time during the war was a terror to the Union soldiers. Now the only attack" he makes upon a "Yankee" is to invite him to sit down over a little half-bottle of Pommery Sec and swap stories about the old war- times and laugh over their adventures. In a few minutes you see coming along from the other direction a man of slight build, about five feet seven inches in height and wearing the regulation military cape and the old cavalry hat with gold cord and acorn. He has a very clear complexion, white skin, bright eyes and white moustaches and imperial. He is a man who impresses you at once with the idea that he is or has been of some consequence, and that he cer tainly must have been a soldier, be cause the appearance of a soldier is stamped upon him in every look and gesture. It is Gen. Alfred Pleasan ton, the famous cavalry officer,whose name during the war was a-synonym for dashing bravery and brilliant exploit. The story of Pleasanton in the great crisis during a great battle in Virginia has been told over and over again in song and story, when in the supreme moment he asked for ten minutes' time to get the artillery of the Army of the Potomac in line to repel the tremendous assault of the Confederates that was sweepingevery thiug before it and threatening to crush the Union army With this comes the memory of the other Union cavalry officer, who at the head of a few hundred cavalryman, rode out against an assaulting force of 20,000 men, smilingly bidding uen. Pleasanton good-bye forever, knowing that he and his men were going to their death to secure the ten minutes necessary te save the army. Yet today Gen. Pleasanton, who is better known in all foreign countries than almost any other of the soldiers of the civil war, lives in his native city, the capital of his country, in poverty, almost in want. And for many years a bill to retire him as a major has failed in Congress at every session. . The old saying about the "ingratitude of republics" is illus trated in this instance to an extent that is almost pathetic. We will close our half-hour's ob servation on the corner by mention ing one or two things that will prob ably strike people as somewhat pecu liar. First, a lady walks by carrying the usual little lunch-bag that dis tinguishes the clerks in the depart ments. ..The lady is a clerk in a de partment and is the mother-in-law of the head of one of the most im portant bureaus of the government. Just after her comes an old man ac companied by a little boy. This old gentleman is the father-in-law of a United States Senator and is a clerk in one of the departments. Two young "gentlemen dressed iu the extreme dude style, with Inver ness ulsters, billy-cock " Darby " hats, high collars, terra cotta gloves, creased trousers and carrying canes with enormous buck-horn and oxi dized silver heads, come strolling by, doffing-' their hats in the style whieh is as truly English as they can make it to the young ladies who go past, leading dogs or being led by them. They are the sons of United States Senators, and their business in life is to draw salaries as private secreta ries, while paid stenographers do the real work. These are but a few of the things that may be seen and thought of on the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth street on a pleasant afternoon. Philadelphia Times. A Persian--91 id as. When passing an Arab's tent I met a man from Shustor, who related several anecdotes to me, among which was the following version of the story of Midas and his ass's ears. King Shapur had horns, of which he wp.s greatly ashamed. Feaiing that his subjects might learn the fact and that. his dignity might be thus compromised, he ordered every bar ber who shaved his head to be put to death immediately afterward, so that the secret might not transpire. At length one who was about to ex perience this fate succeeded in per suading the king to spare his life, and to employ no one else, && that the secret which he took a solemn oath not to reveal, might remain with him alone. , For three years he kept his oath, but at last, the secret becominp1 too heavy a lead for him to bear, to release himself from it he went to the mouth of a well and called out: "0, well! Know that Kiug Shapur has horns." Shortly afterward a sheperd passing by the well cut a reed growiug at its edge to make himself a pipe to pipe his sheep. The first time he played upon it, instead of music there only came from it the words : "Shapur has horns ! Shapur has horns !" The kiug soon learned that his secret had been betrayed and sent for the barber, who confessed that al though he had divulged it to no one, according to his oath, he had been compelled in consequence of the in tolerable burden of keeping it to de liver himself of it at the mouth of the well. King Shapur accepted his excuse and graciously pardoned him. Early Adventures in Persia. How to Boom a Town. There are many ways of awaken ing an interest in growing and pro ductive sections, and we might de vote considerable space to show the best ways of accomplishing such work. We will, however, quote from the "Commonwealth," endorsing all thatissaid on this importaut subject: Talk about it. Write about it. Spak well of it. Help to improve it. Beautify the streets. Patronize its merchants. Advertise in its newspapnrs. Speak well of its enterprising public spirited citizens. If you are rich.invest in something; employ somebody; be a rustler. If you don't think of any any good word to say.don't say anything bad abcut it. Remember that every dollar you invest in a permanent improvement is that much on interest. Be courteous to steangers that come among you, so that thev may go away with a good impression. Always cheer up the men that go in for improvements. Your portion of the cost will be only what is just. Don't kick about any necessary public improvement because it is not at your own door, or for fear that your taxes would be raised fifteen cents. A physician says : "If a child does not thrive on fresh milk, boil it." Few children can stand boiling. Written Signatures Binding. Little Dick Howell was a boy who surprised people. They called him "Lazy Dick," because he loved to get into sunny corners and think, and he was not alwaJ-S ready for work such as little fellows cau do. But one day he said : "Pa, I want a lot of money." "Yes, Dick,-I have known other folks who felt so Go to work and earn it." "How?" asked Dick, who was really in earnest for he longed for a little express cart. "Oh ! weed ths garden," said Mr. Howell, growing absent-minded, as he often became. He remembered suddently a business letter he must write, and so when Dick said, "Will you give me a penny for every big weed ?" his father suid "Yes." Well, that night Dick amazed his father by presenting him with four hundred big weeds and eagerly claimed four dollars. Mr. Howell never broke his word to a child ; he said he did not think what he was promising, because he knew there were too many weeds in his garden foi such a bargain ; but he paid the money, and Dick had the prettiest cart in town. Not long after his father said: "Dick, you and I ought to have made a written con tract about those weeds. If we had I should not have agreed to such terms. . A man thinks when he signs his name. If I had been dis honorable, too. I could have said I never agreed to pay you a penny a weed and you could not have proved that I did. You must learn to write your name before I do any more business by contract with you. Then we can each sign our names." And so Dick's father went on to tell him that soleman promises not to be broken were made in writing, and men who broke such promises were men that nobody could trust. Chickens ox a Spree. Mrs. A. C. Davis, of Findlay, O., yesterday opened' a can of peaches, and, dis covering that they had "worked'' considerably, threw them into' the back yard. Not long after the chickens on the premises began eat ing the spoiled fruit, and, as the "working" had generated alcohol,the fowls soon became gloriously drunk, swaggering about in the most ridi culous manner. One staid old roos ter, who had never been known to indulge in a fight, became very tight, flew over the fence into a neighbor's 3Tard, attacked a rooster twice his size and got licked. He managed to get home again, however, and with the hens soon became so-drunk that they dropped over, apparently dead; When Mr. Davis come home in the evening he threw the whole flock over the back fence, supposing that they had been poisoned. In the course of a short time the rooster came to, crowed lustily and soon his companions sobered up also, but for awhile they acted as if they had a bad headache. Thanhs- at Both EifDs. tittle Fred D and his father and mother were going to board with a neigh bor for two weeks while the house was undergoing repairs. Fred was delighted at the prospect. "Mamma," he said, "didn't you say I must thanii God for every good thing." "Yes, Fred." "Shall I thank him because we are going to board ?" "Yes, if you like." When the two weeks had expired, and the last dinner at the boarding house had been eaten, Fred leaned back in his chair, and heaving a'Jong sigh of relief, said, in the hearing of the hostess : "Now, let's thank God we've' got' through boarding." Bostcn Globe. Thank God She's Lit. Ax com mercial tourist informs the Aniris ton Watchman that as he was com ing over from Atlanta a few dajs since, an old lady boarded his train at Tallapoosa, occupied a seat near him, and from her actions was ex periencing her first-ride on the cars. The train was moving at a high rate of speed when it ran on the hifch trestle between Anniston and that place, where it seemed as if the train was suspended.in mid-air. The old lady convulsively grasped the seat and seemed to hold her breath until the opposite side of the chasm was reached, when she gave a deep sigh of relief and exclaimed : "Thank God, she's lit !" They tell this story of Congress man Herbert of Alabama : His youngest daughter, " who is at a Washington boarding school,, was entertaining two young lady friends from her home. One day the Con gressman called and sent up word that he had come to take his daugtb er and "the young ladies irom Ala bama" to the matinee. Pretty soon Miss Herbert and a dozen bright girls, all from Alabama, came rush ing down stairs, exclaiming : "Oh, how perfectly lovely of you, Mr. Herbert, to take us all." The Con gressman made the best of the situ ation au4 paid the bill gracefully. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Comparlfton of School Finances Of Southern Stales, Ac. No. 6. Estimating the increase of popula tion to be in the same proportion as the increase of children according to the school census, I present the fol lowing statistics for January 1st, 1886: Expenditures per cap ita on total population. Maryland $i si Noith Carolina 41 South Carolina 3'.) Tennessee 61 Virginia -. 87 Georgia 4:1 Alabama 50 Mississippi. 63 Arkansas..' 92 West Virginia 1 50 Texas ; 1 07 Florida. . . . : .t 1 14 Missouri 1 78 . These are all Southern' States. Kentucky is left out fotf Want of sat isfactoiy statistics at command. Of these States North Carolina' expends less money for schools .peb capita on her whole population than any other except South Carolina and Georgia, and only about one-half as much as Virginia or Arkansas. The column of "expenditures per capita of total population" affords a very fair comparative view of what we are doing in public school mat ters, 'and in the comparison we are' put in no favorable light. When we consider carefully the' column of "Total assessed value of property" and calculate the rate of taxation necessary to raise the total amounts expended in the different States we find our rate would be less than that of any of the States named except South Carolina and Georgia. If all the expenditures were raised from tax on r-KOPEKTY the rate would be 39 cents cn $100 in Maryland ; 33" cents in North Carolina ; 28 cents in South Carolina ; 46 cents in Tennes see ; 43 cents in Virginia ; 21 cents in Georgia ; 44 cents in Alabama ; 60 cents in Mississippi ;: 66 cents in Arkansas; 65 cents in West Vir ginia; 44 cents in Florida, and 59 cents in. Missouri. If it be said that some of these States? have peimauent State funds, the interests of which goes to the support of the schools it will be" found upon examination that this is really a very small item compara tively, and that annual taxation in ail these States,; as well as in all the' Northern States, i3 mainly relied upon to support the schools. I have not selected a year that would make the worst showing for our State. Looking back for about four years, I find that much the same proportions existed, cvd that the year I have selected shows us in a favorable a light as any other. According to the assessed valua tion of our property we are far f rom doing as much for public education as most of our sister Southern States. This is apparent not only from the proportionally smaller amount of money expended, but by the short annual school terms, Vir ginia having 118 days, Alabama 83 days, Mississippi 78 days, Tennes see 80 days, Arkansas 102 days, while we have only 60 days. These figures seem to show not' only that we are far behind, but also that we are able to do better. The total expenditures in the States above named was $17,833,185. In all the States of the Union the expenditure was 1111,304,927. S. M. Finger, Supt. Public Instruction. C'ottou Fires. Notwithstanding the general idea that cotton is capable of spontane ous ignition, it is neverthlefts a fact that this phenomenon has never yet occurred. Owing to the recent fifty disasters, Mr. Dupre, chemist at Liverpool, England, was commis-" sioned to ascertain the cause of the burning" of the packet boat, "City of Montreal." Without any suc cess, he made all possible expert naentsto provoke the spontaneous ignition of cotton. According to th chemical analysis, it was admitted that Indian cotton would be more' liable to spontaneous combustion, however it never ignited, the Ameri can and Egyptian cotton having alone this unfortunate privilege. We are sure now that cotton is quite as inflammable as gun powder ; a spark falling on a bale at the mo ment of its being put on board or unloaded on the quay, will suffice for a fire to break out at sea on the quay, or even in the factory. Cot ton often burns slowly, stopping' smoke and smell, and fire does not burst cut often for sometime. The remedy consists in avoiding the4 presence of fire of any kind in the locality of the cotton, and in inclos ing the bales - with a more or less combustible matter. The result is perfectly satisfactory for Indian cotton, which never ignities when the bales are inclosed in a special' wrapper of linen cloth, manufac tured at Dundee, Scotland. More ever, the bales should be lighter, like those of India, so that they could be more readily manoeuvre?" without the aid of hooks which tear the covering. French paper.