North Carolina Newspapers

THt STIlDiBD. THE STAH D&RD. AND ARB. rCBLISHED EVERY FHIpAY BY Standard Pi-bushing Co. Itates of Advertising: One square, one insertion, $ 00 Que square, one month, ' 1 05 One square two months, 2 00 One. equarej three months, 2 50 One square, six months, 5 00 One square, one year, ' 9 00 TEUMS : CliE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, - $1.25. SIX MONTHS, - : .75 VOLUME I. CONCORD, N; C, SEPTEMBER 21, 1888, NUMBER 37. The LOW FRXOES. :0: THE FALL TRADE Will soon open, and It. A. BROWN, as usiial, Jsj fuljy pre pared to sell every thing in the line of ' Dry Goods, Groceries General Merchandise AT :0: He is now receiving a Full Stock of Fall and AY inter Goods such as the people need and will have. He will nofc.be under sold, and takes for his motto LOW PRICES. His line of Dry Goods, Hats, Boots and Shoes are no Sko'ddj Articles or sec ond hand purchases, but the Price will raise a regular RACKET in the Market. 4 i of the very best quality for every customer, grades of FLOUR A SPECIALTY, and always in Stock. Be sure to call on him if van want Bargains. Country Produce of all kinds taken in exchange for goods, at Cash Prices. Po not sell before you see him. And now thanking you for the very liberal patronage so freely bestowed heretofore, and asking a continuance of the same, I am Very Respectfully, . ' A. H. PROPST, Mitsehsi Contractor. Plans and specifications of build ings matte iu any style. All con tracts for buildings faithfully car ried out. Oilice iuC-. ton's building up stairs.' ' ' 13 ; For Sale Cheap, A SE' OXI) HANI") OMNIBUS v it li a capacity for twe've pis-ensror, in E"d mailing order. Call at this oltice." ' FUNiTURE CHEAP FOR CASH AT M. E. CASTOR'S ID b Siik taw, 00 mil (101 HOilADE COFFINS,ALL KINDS5 A SPECIALTY. 1 (IO UVt rx. tx,. ... . I ... 11 profit. Come and exumue my line of Old furniture repaired. 12 M. E. CASTOR. Sale of Valuable Land! I3y virlure of a decree of tho Su perior Court of Cabarrus county in thi Special Proceedings of E. G. liwin, Adui'r of .b;hn A. Baker, de ceased. v. J, P. Baker end other. I, a CoiiiXuis-MOisor, will st-11 at public auction, in front of ti e court Jiousc cloor iu Concord, on the first iAj is iSisiS. at one o'clock p. m.. a tract of land situated in " 3 Township, snlj .nTiiitv. confahiniir tmy acres more or . ss and adj mh'g the lands of I. A. lli.mhr.idt, W. F. Ci niao anil oth i-rs, it bein a yr.n of what was the home rlace of snl.i John A- leaker. . I will also sell the reversion in the dower of Sarah A. llab-i, sa'd dow.r consist it,r fr 2-1 J af res and otitis a wart of Kiid home pla?. Ttrr.s of tale, 'hxyjiird cadi. I'idauce on t-ix nionllis time 'iih 8 per cent interest per annum frin day of! ale, secured hy tjourl bond. " itle re served uuiil purchase money is paid iu full. ; E. G. InviH, Corr.mi.oioner By W. (J. Means, Atty Aug. 23, 18-?8. MIME STORE n j M I 111 UiA'l The very, best CHAMPION I still kee ep on hanit a stock of Charupioa Slower ': Repairs. My old customers wiil hnd meat the old stand, Allison 8 comer. " nl tf C. E. WHJTIL The undersigned having taken put letters of administration on tLe es tate of A aron Ritchie, dec!d, all per sons who are indebted to said estate are hereby notified to come forward ntxl .t'Hv Pllii nil nrsnni! liriLtm.r claims against the said estate will preseat them for paymeut withm tweive months of this notice, or the same will be pleaded iu bar of their recovery. S. M. Ritchie and Lctheb Ritchie, Admi ?s of Aaron Ritchie, dee'd. Aug. 24, 1888. Sale of Land. By authority vested in me as Commissioner, by a decree to sell lnd for partitio;;, tiled in the office f the Cerk of the Superior Coi rt ti CaoaiTus couuty, on' the 16th City of August, 1S88, in a "Special Pio oeediug, wheiein Paul Barnhardt and others are Plain tiffo and Paul Barnhardt, Guar Han, r. V. Ury, Guardian, and others are Defend ants, I wiil sell, by public auction, at the Court House door iu Concord, X. C, on Monday, I he 1st day of October, 1888, a tract of land, known as the borne piace of 'Daniel Barn hardt, deceased, in No. 9 township, Cabarrus county, containing 2(JQ acres; the description and bounda ries whereof are tuliy set orth iu a deed, for said tract of land, from Daniel Barnhardt to JtiVeiiue Barn hardt, recoided in Bpok No. 28 rage 3W.1u tbenffiBK&f J&b' Reiser: of Deeds forl a nnus countv. lenns 01 naie: wneiourtn or tne purchase money in cash, balance payable twelve months after date of cent interest, with good sureties and title reservea till purchase money is paid m full. Title to this land is perfect. GEORGE L. TATxERSON. Cmmissioner August 16th., 1838. News-Observer. The "Weekly News and Observer is a long ways the best paper ever pub lished in North Carolina. It is a credit to the peoi)!e and to the State. The people should take a pride in it. It shoual be in every family,-. It i3 aa eight page paper, choek full of the best sort of reading matter, news, market reports, and al that. You caunot afford to be without it. Price $1,25 a year. We wiil tarnish the "Weekly News and Observer until January 1 st. IS'?, for 31. send for sample eopj'. ' Addres News and Ob-erver Co, " ; . ", llalfrigii,.??. C. MOWER:-:REPAIRS. 225 lbs. CALICO AT 20c per Pound AT jb osTi-A.:sns RACKET STORE. AS FIM. OF UOLD; The Homanre of(lt; Tread well Sfin in Alaska It has be?n whispered from time to time in. the last ycsir- that Alaska has the richest gold mine in the, world, but people who heard frag ments of the story simply shrugged their shoulders and paid no further aVt(mt$n to' the ubject. Investor iu miuiug property have been fleeced so often tht every interprise for getting the precious metals out of th,e earth bears t their eyes the, marks of a swindle. And then (burring the beautiful fur seal) they flunk there is nothing i that far off country but Thlinke's, Ilvdahs, Chilkat nfwskrats, icebergs gla ciers, and other unmerchantable ar ticles. Only u few of the mor favored tourists who hnve been let into some of the secrets of the small clique qwnng the property appre ciate tb,e.gyit wealth that is lockejj up in the forbidding cliffs on the shore about two hundred miles north of Sitka. It is no concern o.f the insiders. .o have the world know that they owiv. millions of tons of jock into which long ages ago the precious metid was so generously filtered. They have tip mine for sale. It is the little fellows owninsr holes in the ground which have been hea' ily stocked who want to sell. They are content to quietly dig out 100 per pent, a month in this dark corner of the earth. Moijest fellows they arc. On the west side of the Gastineau Channel, within pistol shot of the mainland and under the shadow of precipitous mountains, is Douglass Island. ; Just back. from the shore, in a cliff froui 800 "to 1000 feet high, s a horizontal shaft 400 feet wide and many hundred feet lM)g. At intervals along the top of the clilf are perpendicular shafts. This is the Tread weU Mine; It is said that some rock has leen taken out which yields as high as $200 per" -'taw, but that is exceptional. The statement of one intelligent man is that the average is $9 pgr ton, ant that it cpsts $1.50 per ton to convert the raw material iuto gold bars, and that 300 tons ftf rock can be reduced per day. These figures being cor-j rect, the net product of the mine is $675,000 a year, allowing only 300 wording days. ' Another authority estimated that the qutput for the year 1887 would be $100,000 per month, or $4,200,000 per year, and I the yield this year certainly cannot be less. Diamond drills have been run long distances iu various '. direc tions and show no change in the character of the rock or the ore. A thousand feet below the level of the earth it is just the same. It sounds extravagant, but experts who have made careful investigation declare that there is unquestionably enough gold, i the mine to pay the national debt (about $1,200,000,000) and that there are many million dollars worth of pay rock in sight. The confidence of the owners of the pro perty is shown by the fact that they have in operation more stamps than there are in any other mill in the world. The appreciation of the mine by other people is indicated by a bid of $16,000,000 which was made tor the property some months ago. The mina was named for its dis coverer. Tread well was an old Cal ifornjan of long experience in mill iner, lie was one ot a great-number r n- . W P"Ple ho cowing., that . there are valuable mineral deposits sorne- where in Alaska, went there pros pecting. The natives, a good-na- touristg and explorers aqng the coast almost any distance. Many old miners are constantly testing the rocks with hammer and glass. They have located deposits of gold,. silver, copper, iron and other'metals, but it was reserved for Tread well to find this.mass of gold-bearing rock. It is said that when he first visited it there was a vein of gold running conspicuously up and down tz face of the cliff. After satisfying hirascf that it was worthy of further tests, he went t3 California, bought some machinery, and then returned. It required but little work with this machinery to excite his cupidity to the highest pitch. Having secured his rights in the claim, he went to San Francisco with some specimens of the ore. Senator Jones, of Neva da, was at thaj; time in bad luck, and poor. It was his opportunity. lie went up to Alaska and was con vinced that another fortune awaited hiin if he could get control of the Tread well Mine. He formed a syn dicate and was given a quarter in terest in the profits of the mine as a consideration. 'Tread well, it is said, received $1,000,000 in cash and a small percentage pf the profits. The j stock of the company is now owned mainly by fpr pe.rsons, of whom Jones and D. 0. Mills are two. The mine employs natives, and Cornishmen, and laborers, paying them $1.5Q per day and upward, and has already become quite a center of miscellaneous business. "With Cali fornia losing its prestige a3 a gold producing pqmitry, Australia dis-. appointing its friends, ami other parts of the earth failing to meet expectations, the students of fina: c. are lqoking about the world for a new source of supply. Perhaps Alaska will fulfill the requirements. Bnrmah, a mysterious country, of tyhich Americans know even less than pf their own Alaska, is said to h'?e enormous stores of gold qrp, pf the location of which nolody but a few persons connected with the Government know anything, but developments Cannot fee expected there for many years. Meanwhile Alaska Trill come to the frpnt. At all events, people who have seen the Trcadwell like to remark: i'Ahuia was" certainly worth the- $7,?00,000 Seird paid for it twenty years ago." Chicago Tribune. Slate Tnx and Bepublirn Plunder- 'c propose to say a word now on a subject in regard to which the Ue publican leaders never dare to open their lips. But because they are silent i. no reason why we should be, and we propose ,,ow and here to tell what the Republicans think it best not to tell, that s to sav. the storv of He- pablican waste, Republican plunder, ! and Republican financial misman-1 . li x- a n t: ' agement generally in Aorth Carou-. na. It is a story worth hea, ring That party practically began its government of North Carolina in the sprpig of 18C3 by the organiza tion of the Can by Constitutional Convention, which was speedily fol lowed by the Canby -carpet-bag Leg islatureof 1863-'6I)-70. In the matter of legislative ex penses the Legislature inaugurated its career by paying its members seven dollars jer diem and mileage at the. rate of twenty cents per mile, sat three hundred and four days, and received for their labors the amount of 430,95.?. t The expenses of the several -Legislatures from the year 1K(JS to 1887, both inclusive : 1868-'9 at $7 per day and 20 cents mileage $430,958 1870-'l at per day and 20 centi mileage 212,893 1872-'3 at $5 pur day and 20 cents mileage j 1G74 at 5. 1C3.30G per day and 20 cents mileage 1876 at $4 per day and 10 cents mileage 1879-'80 at $4 per day and 10 cents mileage " 1881 at S4 per day and 10 cents mileage 1883 at $4 per day and 10 cents mileage 1885 at $4 per day and 10 cents mileage 188.7; at $4 per day and 10 cent? mileages 81,8; 71,293 71,293 5C.259 57,478 58,280 60,499 From the above it. will be seen that from 1870, Avheu the Democrats hLsLP?i,l':Zs ot " that""bodv ' f;i ; icof when, instead of of $430,958, as in 1868-'69, it cost the State only $56, 259 for the Democratic Legislature of that year, and 1887 only $58, 286. The records of the Treasury show that the average cost; c,f-each of the four Deinqccatic Legislatures from 1881 to 1885, inclusive, in milage and per diem was $58,130, being nearly one eighth of the liadi ical Legislates 18S8-69. The latest postal law decision is to the effect thakjuiblishers of news- . pancrs can, umier tne law, arrest any man for f rami who take? a paper and refuses to pay for it. Under this law it is a dangerous trick for a man to allow his subscription to run on for six nio'jth to a year and a half unpaid and toU theposniaster to mark it "refused" or scud the editor a postal card to diecoutiuue the paper. Wiimiugton Star. The man withouta purpose is like a ship without a rudder a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a pur pose in life if it is only to kill a-r.d divide and sell an oxen well, but have purpose; and having it, throw such thought Of ming and muscle into your work as Cod las given yoxi. " ' " KIEL SMITH S STRATEGY. How fie Once-Got KM of Some Troublesome Lonrei-N. law throughout Maine knows I Court Recorder Rue! Smith, whlle a:,u I,eC!i:no lKrf-tiy dipgust-,a wln iKiinllv ti-Pl tbJed with the rdavers. to think what State with Chief Justice Pe-i ters. Once upone a time liti el was in charge, of the tele graph office at Ea stport, which wa on the ground floor. Just unUer the window of this office there was a wooden bench, and on it there formerly gath ered a crowd of loafers, who persisted in occupying the place and in making noise, despite the frequent appeals of Mr. Smith. Finally the time came when they gathered so thick as to darken the win dow, and Rnel laid Jiis plan to clear them out. First he suggested that the old seat needed repairing, and fitted fm a brand new zinc cover. Then he ran a wire from the main line inside, out through a small hole in the side of the building, connecting with the zinc. About the usual time for the crowd to gather he went outside and thoroughly wet down the ground where rested the feet of the loafers, and then resumed his usual at titute inside. By and by along came the gang, and-noon the usual loud conversation and the whistling began, and soon, too, a whole row, some ten or a dozen loaf ers, were seated along the new ana innocent looKing zinc. Mr. Smith is a patient man, lm; (,n forbearance ceased 10 )e a telegraph virtue, and, .. it . , ' casting one look of misrhtv pity and pleasure at the group, he gently "made connection," and in a flash the electricity was darting'up and down that bench and off through the bodies of the loafers to the vyet earth beneath their feet. "Gee whiz!" one exclaimed as he sprang from the seat, rub bing the parts most affected, and it was "Gee whiz!" or something worse, that sprung to the lips of all the rest. When they recovered, all look ed at some one- else, but for their life none could tell I what ha d happened, They ac cused each other 01 using some kind of needle, but a close in spection of the seat failed re vealed anything, and soon all were seated and hard at their arguments again. Mr. Smith made annother connection, and this time he let her go the whole bigness. Those fellows went endwise, sideAvise and otherwise, and ever af ter their ways led them clear of the zinc seat in front of the old Kastporr telegraph office. Iown in MisftiM.si)!i. "Good mawnin, boss," said Uncle John Dixon, walking up to the general delivery win dow of the post-oflice in a Mississippi village and taking off his hU hat. "Say, boss, has you got any mail fur me" After looking through about forty five letters the postmas ter answers in the negative. One-half hour later. IT. J. I). Say, boss! has you got any mail furrnei JJV mail has arrived yet. P.M. No mail for you. U. J. I). You didn't look. P. M. Been no mail in yet. U. J. J). Why don' you look, how does you know dere ain't nuthin'i P. M. You were here half j an hour annd tw ! U. J. D.-Moimhty quar you icawn't look: von never look for cnllud folks. P. M. Go on, now; when I say there' t no mail tiiere is none. U. J. P. Pis is de j' -office, ain't it ain't iti P. M. Yes, tj. J. P. Week I'se got a right to come an' ask fur mv 1 mail, I has P. M. Man won t be m for an hour. U. J. P. You ought er look. (One hour later.) Uncle John Pixon loos up be ! .1 ...,r j lore iii 10 w, P. Yl. Nothing for von on this mail. U. J. P. You didn't look. 'Pease to me you mought look P. M. (Looks thought the Q's to appease him) Noth ing. U. J. P. Sure dere s nuth- m'J Moughty quare! There ought to be a postal card here. Gotnuthin' fur 'Liza Pixon? Mebbe it was sent to her. P. M. No; there's nothin for Pixon. U. J. P. You dida' -look.. nuthin' fur Liza: Yon ouht look. Petroit Free Press. HARD POKi:St I.Vi'K, A Mjn Cbe.ated II isnseif out ofZO.OQO I took mv napers and t ried to read, ! drew my chair close to the table tj j watch the Samy' I looked on for a! chumps thy were. Why, they did'f t know how to, play. Here was anothei evidence of my luck. If I hadn't sworn off I might have won a couple hundred of dollars. I watched their game so long that IJ thought I wqnld risk rifty dollars, and if I lost that I would quit, and well, fifty dollars more or less for expenses woman t cue lmiQii or a; figure. So I went to the captain J and bought fifty dollars worth of! "corn." They used corn in those days, having no chips as we do now, I startel fh to play, and after a while lost all the oru I liad. It was not my bad playing, but simply hard luck. I thought I couldn't alwavs lose, so I invested one hundred dol lars more in. com, and, to make fa long story short, I lost that. After losing vone hundred and fifty dollars I became desperate, and played with great recklessness. I invested the ballance of money in corn, and had lost all but five or ten grains, which 1 had in my coat pocket, when Wi boat whistled for a landing. The first mate arose and said : "Gentlemen, I am very sorry, but we have to take some wood at this station and my serviced are needed. You gentleman can continue the game or wait until we set under steam again, and I will join you." After awhile we agreed to wait for the niatf. I thought f would take a stroll on the deck and get some fresh air. I walked down the gang plant, and where the boat had land ed there was a great, large house. I could not tell what kind of a house it was, as the night was pitch dark. I walked up to it and felt that there i were holes in the side. I ran mv fingers through the holes, and imag ine my surpripe when I found it contained corn. I had aceidently run across the cirn crib. I was not of -a thievish disposition, but I thought if I took an car of corn and I won, why I would place in my pocket what I had taen and only cash what I had really won ; but on the other if I lost 011 the other, if 1 lost well, it y.is like i drowning man catching at a straw. Sol took an ear of corn and placed it in my pocket and commenced shelling it. In the course of half an hour the boat started down the river and we resumed the game. From the start I commenced winning- Everything I drew to I got. I won pot after pot. About 3 o'clock a. m. some one pro posed that we have a jack pot and quit for the night. Everybody ajrreeu. mere was sonietiiiug imt $5,000 in the pot, ind I won it. Every one commenced counting their corn to cash in, and I commenced counting mine, I was y,i:nir of 810,000, when the captain said, 'Hold on there. I don't issue any red corn." There was a stir immediately. The Captain wanted everybody searched, and in going through my pockets he discoved the ear of corn which I had taken, which proved to be red. In taking out the corn I had won, some qf the red corn got mixed in with the white. Some of them wanted to shoot me; others wanted to lynch me, but the cap tain said no; he would not cash my corn and would put me off the boat. Immediately he stopped the boat I walked back until I had gotten as far as the crib of corn which con tcined 75,000 ears of white corn, aud the one I got was tire only red ear in the crib. t. Lewis Post Dispatch. Why the MatfX wan Broken Off. Mother It is hard for a widowed mother to part with her only daugh ter. Suitor No doubt of it, but she will be well taken cave of. .Mother You may have her on one condition. Suitor Name it. Mother That I make my home with vou. Suitor Livq with r.s all the time. Mother Ye.?. Sniror (after a little reflection) All right. It will save us the expense of hiring a servant girl. Boston Courier. At Spezzia,Italv, the whole Ita'- inn flppt is to assemble for months exercise. One of the items in the programme is to show the facility with which a large force can be disembarked, fully equipped sor attack, and EiiS alarmists ! Fno-knd could be invaded before u ' defensive force couia ue gaiueieu on any point .SITTING SIDE BY Slitll. A:il They Gftt lo Tisinkinar How Fnn. uj it Would Be. The Boston Courier savs they were sitting togagher in warm parlor, saving Iittie, ! hut tiiinking much. Hut love- .0 not need to .sav much to!:., I);; companionable. The little clock on the man tel for a considerable tiroe had been the only speaker. Its tick. tick. fink. tifk sppttio.-I i0 tlQ youth to say . ttKiss her, kiss her, kiss her, kiss her." To the maiden it said : "Leap year, leap year, leap year, leap year," and its reit eration of this phrase forced the maid to break the silence. 'How funny some people are!" she said. "Funny " '.Qh!" vYes, some want to be mar ried in a balloon, some on the middle arch of a bridge, some in a boat, some in a railroad train, some on horseback, some on the edge of a precipice, some down in a coal mine" "Yes I have noticed it." "What is the object I won der r "Marriage, of caurse." "But I mean their object in getting married out of the usual wav." '.'Well J'U tell you what I think; They get married in this way so that tliey can tell their children and their grand children that they were mar ried under peculiar circum stances, n s for instance : Your mother and me, children, were married in a coal mine,' or, 'Your grandmother and me, children, were married in a balloon." I'll bet that's just the reason, said the maiden. "Of conrse it is the reason." There was a pause. Then the maiden with a to1"' "o cheek said : "I've been thinking, John ' "Yes i" he said inlerrog. atively. "I've been thinking how funn it would be " (a pause and deeper blush.) "Well, Bella, you've been thinking what ?' 'I've been thinking how fnnny it would be if " "Yes." "If, when the subject marriage come up thirty of or forty years hence, you would i point to me and say Why, ' children your grandmother vironosed to me in leai) year and we were married a tew weeks after." John is very busy these days furnishing a nice little cottage, and Bella is superin tending the making of her wedding dress. A Railroad 9Inn Keen Fur. A fine ear for music is no rarity, yet peculiarities are occasionally no ticed that attract attention. It is said that expert musical conductors can tell which cue of thirty or forty musical instruments should come in at given points in orchestral work or in minute technicalities who is wrong. About to name a keynote is also sometimes noticed that is some people on hearing a chord up on a piano or organ can tell, without seeing the instrument or playci, what key has been struck, or what is the signature of a chord or a con certed piece. This i3 quite rare, but a more peculiar faculty ig some times exhibited. Sometime ago two cWSshlg'iti the 'evening. The man had at one time been-a switchman on the railroad. His companion said, as a railrpad train was heard approaching. "Is that the Chicago Express ?" "No,' he answered, "that's a wild cat with engine No. 23G." "How do you know ?' "I know by the sound of her bell." His companion was skeptical, so. he said! "Now, yon stand here till the train comes in sight and see if I am right" And sure enough, a minute later a-light engine, No. 230. passed under the electric light at the crosaing, tolling her bell meanwhile. "1 karned to u; that when I was switching lights," the man explain ed. "I had thirty tmins to let into the trainhouse between 7 p. m. and 'noTO uoro p.iiu fr.'ieks '-"" V to know which w-13 which with a smile by the tone of their bells." :.rh a fiimiltvis a rare one, and j nQt fce acqujr gpriS, ed where it dots ngSeld Republicac. To destroy autsj sprinkle powder ed borax around the invested places. A Short .Sermon for the Boy. The Daily truths every Thoso following extract from, the News, Chicago, contains that it would be well for y iU4 man to consider. that, are so unfortunate as r nroi Art M.t maJ hn C4A..ninJI ttta Every man builbs hii house by the time he is40 jears old. After that he may decorate, it and fresco it and oinamer.t it in many yays, but the house is built qnd he cannot change it. He has cqlainated. The growth, is oyer and the processes qf decay are begin uing or haye begun j He will r.ot progress further, but, on the c-jntrary, will go backward, Look aro.und. you and jou will see that it is true. The world's work is being done by men who are less than 40 years old. Look through all the ' ehauuals of human industry and see the rueu who are actually pushing on -the work ; they are all young men. It is the same in business, in Jaw, in the churches, and iu the newspapers. Of course, the men who are most prominent in nffaars axe o.ver 40, but they are all men who haye done their woik. Tbey are not progressing now; they are sittiLg still. They are not growing, they aue decaying. It is true that men may become rich er, and they will, of course, have a deeper fund of experience to draw upon as the years go on, but that is not what I mean. It is in the decade between 30 and 40 that tbey havo made themselves cr marred them sel ve - Show me a man 40 years old who has not succeeded and I vill show you a man who never will suc ceed. A man is elected President alter lie is 40, but the foundations of reputation and fitness were laid be fore. That is not housebuilding it' is decoration. ' " The Jnrtfre and (he Ball. There were several snoring tales told at recent gathering of lawyers ai 3.;iiens, ua., Din it was lett to ex Senator Pope Barrow tofiinish them up. - He said that Gov. Lumpkin, for merly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was in Louisville, in Jeffer son county, attending court, and that the laudlord put him in a room on the ground floor of the hotel, the ; windows and doors of which open ed on the street. Judge Lumpkin, when sound asleep, could awaken t!i3 n itive. with his loud breathing. About midnight, when everything , was quiet, the Judge commenced -puffing blowing and snortiDg hi h.a sleep. Out on tlrc-otrti wits IHthi jrinvy woods bull, which was "monarch of ' all he surveyed." He heard the snor- ing of Governor Lumpkin, and he must havo imagined that it was one j of his rivals from a neighboring plan-' Station. The little bull threw a few bushels of dirt over his back and prepared for battle, He bellowed once or twice to notify his adversary that he was on the ground, but it did not disturb the Governor in the least, T he huoring went on without inter -mission. This exasperated the little' bull, aiid curling his tail over his, ack, he made a break for the win dow aud went through it, carrying , everything before him on his horns'.' The sr.ddenjiush of the bull into tho i oo'm awakened the Governor, qntj taking in the situatipn, he left, with the bull in full possession of the room." POt KEttY'S TICKET ISIHH4. At the election iu Richmond coun ty iu 1881, Oliver H. Dockery, the present Republican candidate for Governor, voted as follows: . To represent the public in the Legislature he voted for Harvy Quick, a negro lawyer, against John W. Sueed, one of the best white farmers of Richmond county. For Coroner, he voted fo Felix Jacobs, a negro man, against Dan iel Gjy, a one-legged Confederate soldier. , . ..nj- for one N. "VY. Harlefl, a negro man, aginst Alexander L. McDonald, a white man cpmpetsnt to fill the office and universally esteemed in the county for his courteous heariDg. News and Qbservor. In many respects, as foreigners truthfully say, the English language is a very curious one, the same word often having so many different meaninss. Here is an instance : A sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in which the sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which the s'eep er wh'ch earrios the sleeper, while he s'eeps, runs. Therefore, while the sleeper sloeps in the t-leeper, the sleeper carries the sleeper over the sleeper tinder the sleeper, until tbe sleeper which carries the sleeper jumps off the sleeper, and wakes the sleeper in tbs fcleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper, and there is no longer at.y sleeper sleep in" in the sleeper on tho sleeper. A gentleman who wears a Cleve land beaver says that eome of thes'Qp. weak-kDfted would be-:Third-party men remind him of an pld maid about fo ty-fivo years old passing off foi thirty, when che goes to cross a muddy place on the side-walk. If she raises her dress she will show her ankles and if she don't raise it she wiil get bcr skfrts muddy. Come out, boys, and let us know who you are. Don't be afraid to -show ycur colors. Plant.