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I'trliitjf lliinvi'ir Ontor Dangfr, the
1,1 i lor MhWoh Koine Cniiueut
and Observation.
'i'riuinphant Democracy !
It is said that the corset "must
Never !
Ko raker uikI his tongue can be
.rcnilv laid awav in the blood v-shirt.
The Democratic gain in Massachu
sot: is twenty-four members of the
U-islature. Good!
What a benefit it would be, if ev
ery one would keep before liim the
fact, "our life is our best moment."
Costumes don't make character
tlu'V may assist in the formation of
reputation, under which black hearts
iif ten exist.
That is a glorious victory the
IViuoerats won in Virginia 42,000
majority. Billy Mahone can devote
h'; time to his pair of triplets.
What is the matter with the Re-p'.-.l'lican
majority in Pennsylvania?
It swilled the wrong way to suit
tlklll.
A widow S(J years old has donated
slon.niM) dollars to Johns Hopkins
l"n' versity. She's lost to us, but
li. r influence still lives.
More than 50,000,000 copies of
Wd'rU-rs spelling books have been
s i!. In this respect, the Blue
luck leads the world.
Mr. J. S. Carr is opposed to mov
hv Trinity College to Raleigh upon
tlie proposition of a site and $20,000.
lie thinks the amount too small.
Ti." Administration says "the re
ceii'. ilefvat is due to local affairs."
I: : to be hoped that these "local
t'" will continue to show up
sr.ih sensible results.
Ti. postmaster and his clerk in
S.-'.::.;i. N. C, are "in the soup."
Til' v have been arrested and bound
cur to court on the charge of open
ing registered letters.
Tli.it irau who refuses to act ua
I ss he gets his own way and kicks,
bites the air and makes an ass of
himself all because he cannot dic
tate and rule, is a curse to the com
munity and to himself.
They are figuring around for a
Democratic Presidential ticket for
ls'.,".2. It reads now: "Cleveland
and Campbell" the two C's are all
rL'ht, but wait, men, until the
sinoke of the recent battle dies away
and the thunder of the next begins
to roll.
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard wa3 mar
rii il November 7th to Miss Mary
Willing Clymer, of Washington, D.
C. There is one fact that clearly
presages a happy marriage the
Iride was willing. We are glad we
got to say this before the Wilming
ton Star got it off.
The Goldleaf shows its mind
fjuite plainly in a long and pointed
editorial about the little gambling
schemes allowed at our agricultural
fairs in the State. Thad Manning's
meaning cannot be misunderstood.
He's right! But the meanest thing
is the outrageous . and rotten prac
tice of jockeying, thus cheating the
'pectators out of an honest and fair
rue.
The Stanly Observer tells that
Davidson Tolbert in that county
made with two plows COO bushels of
( l,rn and about 200 bushels of wheat.
' f course he raised his potatoes, his
pumpkins, his meat, his molasses,
ai id ro bet that his good wife has
i. piigli home-made jeans cloth to
make suits for the boys and some
parineuts for the girls. This is
business ! This man has a head on
li:ui he's tired of his corn crib and
"'at house being away out West
Miss Mamie L. Hatchett, late of
the Orphan's Friend, wa3 married
" the 5th to Mr. Fairbrother, of
tl"- Lincoln (Neb.) Daily Call. We
congratulate our brother of the far
est, but the people of Lincoln are
also to be congratulated, for if that
'banning and brilliant little woman
il--its her husband, the Daily Call
v '11 better serve the interest of its
''' aders. Mrs. Fairbrother, knowing
the glories (?) of an editor's life,
mis shown gocd taste and wisdom in
manying an editor.
VOL. II. NO. 43.
KOTII SI DEM.
A man in bis carriage was ridicgr
along.
A caily dressed wife by his aide;
In satin and laces she looked like a
queen,
And he like a Ling in his pride
A woodsawyer stood on the street
as they passed;
The carriage and couple be eyed;
And said, as ho worked with bis saw
on a lojr,
"I wish I was rich and could ride."
The man in the carriage remarked
to bis wife,
'"One thing I would give if I could,
I'd give my wealth for the strength
nnd the health
Of the man who sawed the wood."
A pretty young maid, with a bundle
of work,
Whose face, as the morning, was
fair, . , .... ..
Went tripping along with a smile of
delight,
"While humming a love breathing
air.
jhe looked on the carriage; tho la
y she saw,
Arrayed in apparel so fine.
And said in a whisper, "I wish from
my heart
Those satins and laces were mine."
The lady looked out on the maid
with her work,
So fair in her calico dress,
And said, "I'd relinquish position
and wealth,
Her beauty and youth to possess."
Thus it is in the world, whatever
our lot,
Our minds and our time we em
ploy, In longing and sighing for what we
have not,
Ungrateful for what we have got.
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A Woudrrial f ottou I'laiil.
Charleston, S. C, November 3.
News comes from Spartanburg,
one of the best cotton-growing
counties of this State, of a new
cotton plant, which, if it is as
claimed, will make a wonderful rev
olution in the agricultural and cotton
oil interests of the nation. T. Fer
guson, an experienced cotton planter,
claims to have a cotton plant w hich
will produce nothing but cotton seed
without the lint. His statement is
briefly as follows :
He claims that there is a male and
female cotton plant the male being
designated, he thinks, by the red
calks. The seeds are vari-colored,
the shades being generally blue,
green and white, and of couise can
not be distinctly specified. Given
this fact, Ferguson commenced,
some time ago, to pick out the male
plants, and with the seed extracted
from them planted another patch
seperately. When the crop was
ready for picking the male plants
were again selected and the produc
tion of seeds planted separately again.
This process of selecting the male
plants was kept up until at last
the lint refused to germinate and
nothing is left in the bolls save a
large amount of seed. The amount
of seed contained in the boll is more
than equal to the weight of the lint
and seed found in the averaged sized
boll of cotton. Ferguson claims that
he can produce four hundred bush
els of seed to the acre by this new
discovery, where only thirty-five
bushels are now gathered with the
lint. He has been very earful in
producing the results given above
to obliterate all vestige of lint
from a boll of cotton and ha3 sue
ceeded in a most remarkable manner
Other experienced planters have
been shown Ferguson's new discov
ery and are much struck with it.
An expert who was shown the
plant and bolls, said the boll has the
appearance, both on the exterior and
the interior, of a regular boll of
cotton after the lint has been picked
out. The seed are a little larger
than the common seed and arc per
fectly free from any semblance of
lint. The bolls are filled with these
seed which are as numerous as okr
seed in a pod of okra. The revolu
tion that will be effected by this
new cotton plant, if it be cultivated
successfully, will be beyond calcu
lation. If Ferguson's calculations
are correct, the cotton oil business
will be entirely revolutionized. ,-The
planters who now raise cotton are
fortunate if they can make 200
pound8oflint catton to the acre,
Counting the value of cotton seed at
$50 an acre is considered a big re
turn to planters in thi8 State. Fer
guson claims that his new cotton
seed plant will yield at least $90 an
acre. Th!s amount he says will be
obtained from 400 bushels of cotton
seed at twenty cents per bushel, that
being the present prico paid for
the raw seed. The State agricul
tural bureau will investigate th
matter.
Chauncey M. Depew says Cleve
land will get the nomination in
1892. That looks like down-Hill
business for the Governor of New
York.
The
OH! THESE WOJIEX!
Bill Arp Ilnce Himself on Record.
Atlanta Constitution.
Oh these women, these women
they make me so tired. But it is a
sweet service. Here I've been work
ing in the harness for forty years
and I don't reckon I would be happy
if the harness was off. I know I
wouldn't for some times when Mrs.
Arp goes off to spend the day I don't
feel natural about the house. I want
somebody to order me around in a
sweet feminine way. "William that
stick that was between the sash has
fallen out and is down there on the
ground don't you feel the cool air
coming in," "William the clock
needs cleaning very bad it stopped
twice yesterday hadn't you better
take it down to Mr. Baker's." "Wil
liam I wish you would get a little
paint and give the old mantlepiece a
coat you have scratched so many
matches on it to light your old pipe,
that it is a sight. A little can of
prepared paint won't cost much.
And that old grate needs a coat of
polish oh, I did see some of the
loveliest grates down at the exposi
tion and those tiles for hearths were
exquisite. I don't mean for you to
buy any, but I am just telling you.
Somehow whenever I tell you about
the beautiful thirds I see you look
like you didn't have a friend in the
world. Of course I don't mean that
I want you to buy them. ""William
what am I to do with the Uowers
the geraniums and verbenas and all
the potted plants. The winter is
coming on, and I do wish we had a
little pit somewhere. It will be a
pity to lose them. Hattie has had
a pit dug and says it didn't cost but
two dollars and she is roinr to
cover it with a cloth frame." "Sam
Pitts digs pit,' she continued
"Sam Pitts diss pits," said I. And
so I sent for Uncle Sam and marked
off the place, six by ten, and squared
it according to rule and he had been
digging a few minutes, when Mrs
Arp raised the window and said she
thought it was a little too far that
way, and so I moved the marks a
couple of feet and began to dig
arain. In a lit' le while she came
out and said it was too far this way
and I moved it back where it was at
first and she said it was about right
now. She thinks that I split the
difference, but I didn't. The next
day she asked me in a gentle voice
how much a brick wall around the
top would cost a brick wall about
three feet high on one side and a
foot high on the other. "And sash
with glass to cover," said I; fori
knew she was thinking about it
She smiled sweetly and said, "Yes."
I scratched a match on the mantle
and lit my pipe and ruminated. That
was yesterday. Mr. White is mak
ing those sash today and the brick
mason is building the wall and I am
still in the harness. Alex Stephens
said he wanted to die in the harness
and he did, but he never knew any
thing about matrimonial breeching,
or he would have wanted to live and
not die at all. What would become
of a man if he didn't have a woman
to keep him lively? When we were
in Atlanta the other day, my wife
asked me for five dollars Jo buy a
pair of shoes, "Have shoes gone up,'
said I, as I handed her the money
"No, but I have," she said, "I want
a fine pair shoe3 that are as soft as
kid gloves you owe me lots of shoe
money you promised me before we
were married that you would give
me thirteen pair a year don't you
remember?" "Yes," said I, "and
you have had them and more to. How
can a woman raise ten children on
less than thirteen pair a year? But
I would have promised you any
thing then. I would haveclimed the
Chiamborazo mountaius and fought
a tiger for yon then a small tiger
but I would fight a big one now.
Here take another five and buy you
some fine stockings to go with the
shoes, but don't buy black ones. I
despise to see a white woman wear
black stockings. It is like a heathen
Chinee blacking his teeth." I wish
I had the making of the fashions. I
see that the bustles have gone out at
last, and I am glad of it. I never
did like these unnatural humps on
a woman's back. They have been
in and out a dozen times since I was
a bov. and so have hoop-skirts. It
is funny to see a new fashion come
in and go out. There are women in
my town still wearing bustles. They
feel sorter shamed to leave them off
all of a sudden. But they will fall
into line and slim down before long.
They have done slimmed at my
house. They keep up pretty well
I saw lots of nice ladies at the fair
who were behind, and so were their
bustles, but they were from the
country and little towns and hadn't
caught up. It is a good deal of
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15,
trouble to alter a bustle-dress to a
no-bustle dress, and all the myste
rious garments underneath have to
be altered, too, and that is why it
takes a fashion so long to run out.
It costs money and work. Now, if
the ladies will cut off about four
inches of their skirts and keep out of
the winter's mud, they will be all
right. Let them show their ankles
if they want to. There is nothing
prettier than the poetry of motion
that is in a lady's foot and ankle
when she walks. It pleases an old
man mightily.
But the men have passed through
some very ridiculous fashions too.
When I was in my teens and had
begun to notice the girls and put oil
on my hair and cinnamon drops n
my handkerchief, the fashion was to
wear short pants and straps leather
straps about an inch wide that came
under the shoe and fastened to but
tous sewed on the inside of the
pants. When a fellow sat down the
whole concern was drawn as tight as
an eelskin, and there was a coutinu
al strain ou the straps at the bottom
and the suspenders at the top. Some
times a button broke or a strap
burst under peculiar circumstan
ces, and theu the pants crawled up
amaziugly. One day I was riding
out with my sweetheart and the ca
tastrophe happened as we were run
ning a galloping race up a long hill,
and my pants crawled up to my
knee and carried the undergarment
along, and it wa3 on her side of the
horse, and she laughed and laughed
until she liked to have fallen off,
and I had to get down and cut a
skewer off of a rail and fasten the
strap on agaiu. The mischievous
thing told it on me and I never got
even with her until one day her bus
tie came untied and dropped off as
she was passing my 6tore and I pick
cd it up and handed it to her with a
bow as polite as a Frenchman, and
said, "Miss Mary your shoe strap is
brokeu." The bustles of that day
were shaped like a new moon and
stuffed with bran. They were gen
erally about as large as a hoe handle
and tapered out to a point at each
end, but the more style the larger bus
tle. They were all home-made and
were considered a verv sacred and
mysterious article of feminine furni
ture. Sometimes one of these big
ones would rip from long wear and
tear, and the bran would leak out as
the woman wiggled along and you
could track her all the way home
just like the hogs would track a mill
boy when there was a hole in his
corn sack. I remember when the
hoop-skirt of a high-flying woman
was three feet across at the bottom
and when she stood up close against
the counter, her dress didn't need
any shortening behind. It was a
sight of trouble to squeeze them in
the pews of the churches, and some
times they behaved in a very unseem
ingly manner when the wind was
blowing in a shifty way. I remem
ber when the college boys wore boots
according to their politics. The
toes were shaped like a duck's bill,
and when turned up and over on the
top of the foot like a skate, and if
the boy was a whig he had Clay
printed on the toes in large letters,
and if he was a democrat he had
Polk printed there, and so they
walked about sticking their politics
into everybody's faces.
But, after all, I believe the women
of this generation are more reasona
ble in their dress than for many
generations past. Three thousand
years ago they were fast, very fast,
for Josiah tells about "the bravery
of their tinkling ornaments about
their feet and their cauls and their
round tires like the moon (bustles,
I reckon), their chains and bracelets
and mufflers, the bonnets and orna
ments of the legs and headbands,
and tablets and earnings, and nose
jewels and changeable suits of ap
parel, and the mantles and wimples,
and grisping pins and hoods and
vails." Oh, it took a sight to set up
one of those high-flying Hebrew
women, and the- prophet went for
them as fiercely a3 old Allen Turner
used to go for our women a half cen
tury ago. "If that young woman
with the green bonnet on the back
of her head and the devils martin
gales around her neck and his stir
rups on her ears, kon't quit her gig
gling, I'll point her out to the con
gregation." Yes, we are all doing
better except 6ome. But I must
stop; Mrs. Arp is calling me to come
and put out some more chryeanthe
nms, and I am so tired.
Bill Arp.
A private soldier says that deser
tions from the army are largely due
to the tyranny of the younger offi
cers and the drunkenness of the
older ones.
TANDARD.
Au Alliance Lecture.
fA lecture delivered before the Ponlar
Tent Alliance, October 25th, 188!), by a
member.l
Mr. President: I believe we
are all agreed that the farming in
terest is in a very depressed condi
tion, especially in our bounds.
Would it not be well to enquire into
the causes that have brought about
this condition and sec if there be
not a remedy? Some seventy years
ago we had here a beautiful country,
a rich soil, well watered and well
timbered. There was more wealth,
more large land holders owning
more negroes than any other section
of our county of equal area. I will
name some of these farms: The
Morehead farm of nearly three thou
sand acres, the Harris farm of two
thousand, the Pharr lands two thou
sand, the Gibson, the Young, each
one thousand, several of five hun
dred, etc. The policy then was to
clear up and wear out the land. And
what a legacy was left us after the
war! A gullied and worn out land,
and a surplus of worthless free ne
groes. With our resources all gone we
made herculean efforts to regain our
losses. We tried hiring the negro
foi wages, but failed; we next took
the negro in partnership, which we
still pursue, the landlord furnishing
stock and tools and feeding and
clothing his partner and family.
This policy we have found to be ru
inous; the negro won't work more
than seven months of the twelve and
that work is but poorly done. The
consequence is, our lands are getting
poorer every year and we are on the
high road to bankruptcy. These
are some of the causes producing the
state of affairs now existing, but the
greatest cause is our neglecting the
first and most important principle
of good farming, that is the im
provement of the soil. An Eugli
writer long ago said "he was a good
farmer who made two blades of grass
to grow where but one grew before."
We cultivate too much poor land; if
we had cultivated but half of our
lands and done it well for the last
twenty years, our farms would be
worth twice as much as they are,
and we would be twice as well paid
for our labor. Now shall we not
stop this losing business? Let us
cultivate our farms with wage labor
and if the negro won't work, and
work well for wages, let him go. We
have too many any how. They are
like the locusts of Egypt ; they are
destroying our substance, eating up
the products of our fields, and mak
ing us no returns. Now sir, I don't
wish to oppress the negro; neither
do I wish to be oppressed by him.
Let him have his just right ; free
dom gave him the right to labor
and enjoy the fruits of his labor,
(this right to labor wa3 one neither
expected nor desired by him). Some
say educate the negro and he will
make a good laborer. Let him have
a common school education more
than this is injurious, except where
these uncommon talent, then let him
be educated as high as he can bear,
We see this in the higher education
of the negro women. They are not
ready for this high education. Right
here permit me to say we have in
our town an institution doing more
to unfit the negro women for their
position in life than any thing else;
after graduating what are they fit
for? A few of them may do to
teach the children, but the majority
are too proud to work, fond of dress
and no property to live on. In all
communities there is a class without
property who have to labor for those
who are able to pay them for their
labor. Who of you can hire an
educated negro woman to cook or do
your washing? They have to keep
house, dress and visit.
Now sir, shall we continue to suf
fer this state of things or shall we
take this matter in hand ami regu
late it? We are trying to free our
selves from the bondage to trusts
and monopolies. Shall we not also
try to free ourselves from the evils
immediately surrounding us? We
have a mighty task before us. Shall
we w'ork as the bandy legged Smith
in the Fair Maid of Perth, who
fought on his own hand, or shall
we stand shoulder to shoulder, and
make a united effort to free ourselves
from the deplorable condition in
which we find ourselves?
I have touched lightly on some of
the causes and remedies for the evils
of our situation. Let us haTe a free
and full discussion of these matters
and find out what we ought to do,
and do it.
Dona Isadora Consi no, of Valpaf
iso, Chilli, is perhaps the richest
est woman in the world. Her all
and all is estimated in rcund num
bers at $200,000,000.
1889.
Men Xot Equal.
A St. Louis Republic reporter, re
cently had the following interview
with the Rev. Dr. R. A. Holland:
"Dr. Holland," said the reporter,
"the report of your speech before
one of the Episcopal societies in
New York have you say that all
men arc not born free and equal,
us the declaration of independence
reads, and as every youth of the
land is taught along with the rudi
ments of their education."
Dr. Holland was sitting on an
easy settee, leaning back on the
upholstered arm, and as the re
porter spoke he half raised in his
seat, and, with eyes fairly blazing in
the conviction of his belief, he said :
"Well are they? Can anything be
more absurd than to say that men
are born free and equal ? I assert
again, and I think no man can gain
say it, that men are not bom equal
in any way, physically, mentally or
morally, except in the fact that all
men are born men. You might as
well say that all men are equal from
a physical standpoint, that the man
who is weak physically is the match,
from a physical point of view, with
the giant. Theoretic democracy is
absurd. It never did and never
can exist on earth or in heaven.
Men are not equals anywhere not
in governmental rights, any more
than in physical strength, wealth or
talent. Nor are men equal in any
sense before the law. They are not
enlisted into the army equally, can
not go to West Point or Annapolis
equally; may not pass competitive
examinations for civil service equal
ly, nor equally become public school
teachers, nor pay equal taxes, nor
stand with equal severity before the
criminal courts. Equality before
the law means simply that law is
law, and men are men a tautology
not quite aphorismic on the part of
those who, by acute distinctions
would save the Declaration of Inde
pendence and democracy from non
sense. Law is equal inasmuch as
its distinctions act uniformly. These
are the views in a nutshell which
I gave before the society, and I am
free to maintain that the theory is a
a true one. There was no excitement
over these statements among the
members of the society or the con
vention, and I was surprised to find
that so much had been said on the
subject by the people and the press
of the country."
It Was a Plot.
Detroit Free Press.
A stranger entered a well-known
saloon on Woodward avenue the
other day, and after imbibing a weak
drink he said to the proprietor :
"I want to wait here a few aiin
utes for a man who borrowed some
money of me."
He was motioned a chair, and
when an hour had passed away he
was asked :
"Yes, sir."
"Did you lend money to a stran
ger to you ?"
"I did."
"How much?"
"Forty dollars."
"Humph! Under what circum
stances ?"
"Said he had a freight bill to pay
and couldn't get info the bank.
He gave me this check for $200 to
hold as security. Said he'd meet
me here at 11 o'clock."
"My friend you have been bam
boozled." "No !"
"Yes you have. That is the old
freight bill dodge. That check is
worthless, and you'll never see the
man again."
"But I can't believe that. He
looked honest and talked straight."
"So they all do. Sorry for you,
but you must read the papers."
"Say ! I don't pretend to be aw
fully smart, but I'll bet that chap
was honest."
"You will ! What'll you bet ?"
"Even twenty. I do honestly hi
lieve he will come here by 11 o'clock
and pay the money."
The bet was taken, the money
put up, and the greenhorn sat down
to wait. At five minutes of 11 a
man came in, handed him $10, ex
pressed his thanks, and took the
check and placed it in hi3 wallet.
"I told you he was honest," said
the greenhorn as he reached for the
stakes.
They were handed over, but half
an hour later, after much serious
thought, the bartender suddenly
slapped his leg and exclaimed :
"I see through it now! They
were pals, of course !"
He "Will you marry me ?" She
"No," He : "Will you marry Bob
Sawyers ? He wanted me to ask for
him, too, while I was about it."
Epoch.
WHOLE NO. 96.
Fighting the Truttts.
Courier Journal.
Two young couples dressed entire
ly in cotton bagging were married
in Georgia last week, in the pres
ence of 00,000 persons. Their choice
of such attire was to attest the
strength of the war the people are
making against the jute trnst, and
the immense attendance shows how
heartily the agricultural population
is taking part in the contest.
Georgia is vigorously opposing
the jute trust, but the strongest op
position is furnished by the State of
North Carolina. North Carolina
is not the wealthiest State in the
Union, and she has been less favored
by nature than some of them, but
her people have always been noted
for industry, honesty, sobriety and
the love of liberty, and she will not
go without sympathy in her present
fight against an oppressive combina
tion.
Some may consider such mode3 of
opposition weak, and likely to defeat
their own ends through the lack of
union, but when the grievance be
comes too great, necessity forces the
people to unite, and then they can
not fail. In our history there are
some famous examples of the suc
cess these methods have attained.
In the troublesome time3 preceding
the Revolution when they were re
quired to buy all their manufactured
goods from Great Britain, theAmer
ican colonists, rich and poor alike,
adopted resolutions that they would
wear nothing but homespun, and
from Maine to Georgia they kept
their agreement so well that the
sale of British cloths fell to noth
ing. In the same manner they de
nied themselves the use of tea, and
in a half dozen other ways proved
their ability to unite against and
crush monopoly.
In such early contests no people
were more active than those of
North Carolina, whose descendants
are now dealing such heavy blows at
the jute trust. It was fitting that
this lively spirit of opposition should
be manifested by the inhabitants of
the Old North State, who have al
ways been renowned for their love
of liberty, who declared independ
ence before the Fourth of July, who
gave the first sacrifice of blood for
the Revolntion, who, when the port
of Boston was closed against com
merce, sent half of what they had to
feed the people of that starving city,
and have never failed to respond to
the call for help.
This is a great year for trusts,
and the jute combination has plenty
of companionships, though it has
attracted more attention, because of
the partially organized opposition
to it. To the sugar trust the people
have paid the largest tribute. It
was backed by vast capital, and has
been managed with such dexterity
that the profits of the operators have
gone high into the tens of millions.
They forced prices fuliy 25 per
cent, above the natural value, and
every consumer in every part of the
country was compelled to contribute
to the immense earnings of the
trust.
A trust in coffee was attempted
and was partially successful, but an
unexpected heavy crop in South
America overturned all calculations,
and the market resumed its natural
condition. The copper trust was
organized in France, but it iucluded
America, as well as the remainder of
the world, and for many months
copper sold for five cents a pound
more than it was worth. The lead
trust has had sore vicissitudes, but
has succeeded in thoroughly disar
ranging and confusing the market.
These are the trusts that have
attracted the most attention, but
others have either been formed or
attempted, and the year 1889 has
given birth to so many that they
form a family more numerous than
the model household of the early
Puritans, which contained two dozen
childen.
Suspicious Submission. A small
boy had been having a day of un
mitigated outrageousness, such as
all children who do not die young
are likely to have at times, and when
he was ready for bed his mother said
to him:
"When you say your prayers,
George, ask God to make you a bet
ter boy. You have been very
naughty to-day."
The youngster accordingly put up
his petitions in the usual form, and
then before closing with "amen" he
added : "And please, God, make me
a good boy." He paused a second,
and then to the utter consternation of
his mother concluded with unabated
gravity: "Nevertheless, not my will,
O Lord, but thine be done. Provi-
idence Jonrnal.
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and Tilings.
Representatives of the Baseball "
Brotherhood are holding a meeting
in New York city.
The Prince of Wales, who is on a
visit to Egypt, was accorded an ova
tion at Alexandria.
Five men were killed and three
severely burned by the breaking out
of molten iron in a mill at Lebanon,
Penn.
The vote of Montana has been
canvassed, and the Republicans elect
the Legislature and all of the State
officers, with tle exception of Gov
ernor. A National Convention of Africo
Americans has been called to meet
in Nashville, Tenn., on the 15th of
January next.
It has been definitely ascertained
that thirty persons lost their lives
in the Glasgow carpet factory dis
aster. A wholesale liquor dealer of
Shreveport, La., was closed on the
5th by attaching creditors; liabili
ties said to exceed $33,000.
Several lighter firms of London
have conceded the demands of the
dock strikers and their action will
probably avert suspension of trade.
It is announced that three of the
large steamship companies of Ham
burg are about to combine in one
immense corporation.
The Czar has written a letter to
Queen Natalie, in which he assures
her of his sympathy, and that he still
recognizes her as Queen of Servia.
The Secretary of the Navy has
accepted the cruiser Charleston,
built for the Government by the
Union Iron Works, of San Francisco.
The Swiss Government has pro
hibited the holding of meetings by
the Salvation Army, and has closed
the halls occupied by the Salvation
ists. In the U. S. Court, at Charleston,
application was made by holders of
of first mortgage bonds for a receiver
for the South Carolina Railroad
Company.
The famous shell grotto at Pots
dam has been almost entirely ruined
by some unknown miscreants, and a
large reward has been offered for
their detection.
Another strike has been inaugu
rated on the Loudon docks, and
scores of ships are lying idle, it be
ing impossible to get men to handle
their cargoes.
Mr. Nelson, father of Stanly's
chief officer, has received a letter
from his son conveying the assur
ance that Stanly will arrive at Zan
zibar some time in January.
The Southern Exposition opened
in Montgomery, Ala., Monday at
noon, when the machinery was put
in motion by President Harrison by
touching the key of a wire in Wash
ington. A monument to Joachim II. has
been unvailed at Spandau, the cere
mony marking the opening of the
celebration of the Reformation.
Prince Leopold represented Emperor
William, who telgraphed his con
gratulations. The schooner Flora Rogers reached
Charleston Monday with the mate
and four of the crew of the water
logged schooner Jennie Rosaline,
for Savannah from Providence ; the
captain and his wife were swept
overboard and drowned.
A terrible election riot occurred
on the 5th at a polling place in
Maryland ; the judges were driven
from the room and th ballot box
was taken ; the opposite factions
arrayed themselves on each side of
the road and fired at each other.
The captain of the Cunard steam
er Malta, which went ashore at St.
Just during a fog on October 16th,
while enroute to Italy with a party
of eighteen persons, has been found
culpable by the court of inquiry, and
suspended for three months.
The new railway bridge across the
Frith of Forth, one of the most
marvelous pieces of engineering of
the century, i3 shortly to be put to
the test of carrying fifty locomotives
hitched together, and travelling back
and forth at varying rates of speed.
In New York city, last Monday,
an electric light current roasted a
horse to death, threw his driver to
the street, and knocked a police ser
geant senseless ; the current was car
ried to the victim through a tele
phone wire which had fallen and
formed a loop across the track of
the Fourth avenue railroad; the
scenes in connection with the acci
dent were of a very exciting character.