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TIE S T A II D A R D. r THE ST&1IDARD. VlUilT TAPER rl r.I.IHED IN CONCORD.- ins "more heading M VTTKK THAN ANY OTHER pArKK IN THIS SECTION. i reflex c;lory. head comes up the stair Vi frcviutnt and suggestive nod, , '' :i;.,.r v!1.tiii.K everywhere 1: -v did vou see Him, baby mine, in 1. rh eek llim day and night u'ViT pierce His mystic shrine, v that presence bright V" w'w piljrim on his way Vlnainland, sings his good-night w: l'r tune. .i;i;i long enough to say, 'Me :-:',v m e moon." Ji is. M. L. Rayne , in Free Tress IT WAS GRAND. BY Z. D. Was the play good, my dear?"' .lied Mr- Greylock the other night ifter bis wife had come tome from theatre, whert Bhe had been with some friends. lioiKl?" cried little Mrs.. Greylock, .rttusiastically, "it wa- just grand, ufiuier! It was a lovely play, and tje dvebsesl Iu the first act bhe tore cue of the most bewilderingly Muitifnl things I ever saw in all my Coital life a pale apple greeu skirt, bioeuded in the sweetest shade of pin'K. with a perfectly u.agniticent ti a; u of- ' as her acting good? heavy silver brocade without a rartkle of trimming on it, but the wai?t was trimmed all over with goiut-thmsr I couldn't make out, al tLeugli I strained my eyt s trying to R'j he time she was on the stage. It was an evening dress, and when gae rlrst came on she Lad on " llut was she aLy good as an ac tre?" "My dear, please don t interrupt au opera cloak of soft pink plush, Yn.el witu apple green satin, with the loveliest fringe, with seed pearls ehiuing in it ana "Hat tell me 8 bout her acting." "Then in the second act she wore tbe most magnificent bridal costume T ever laid eyt 8 on a heavy, shin inc. ivory satin, with the most im mense court train, and yards and var Is of the lovhest .Brussels lace. The whole front o the drefs was cue mass of tiny flounces of real lace and down the si ies there were cascades of the lace and pearl pas- 6finer.teria, while at the back "But the play, my dear. I " "And the sleeves of the dress were of the lace and they hung clear to the cround, away from the arm. vou know. I. never 6aw anything like it before and I cant begin to describe it to -cu, but it was perfectly lou need not aescnoe any more of it, my dear; I'd rather hear about "Then in the next act she came on in the most exquisite thing a lovely shade of rose pink silk, made with a sweeping train over a petticoat of Turkish embroidery oh, thi;t em broidery was too sweet! It was in all sorts of soft, del;cate tints and and at the bottom there was a rich fringe fully half a yard wide falling ever a broad band of pink pliit-h and tLe were with tee dress a " "Come, come, my dear, have done with her gowns and " "Yes, yes, I am done with the gowns, but I W89 going to tell you about her jewels. "With the pink dress she wore a perfectly gorgeous diamond necklace, with a huge star pendant, while a glittering crescent shone in her hair and a spray of dia mond leaves shone among the lace at her corsage, and in hf-r ears she had " "I don't care a continental what she had in her ears don't care much whether sh had any ears at all or not. Can the act? Thai's That I'd like to know." "Aci? Of course she can act. I never saw a woman more perfectly self-possessed tl au she was before that great audience. She never sat down or rose awkwardly a single time and I never saw any one mau age a train more gracefully thau she Managed hers; and in the fourth act her train was so immense. It was of the heaviest Lyons velvet with a front of netted silk so heavily jetted that it jingled when she walked, and ohe wore with it the heaviest and luvniiPijt erirdle of jet I ever saw. ai d she'd ostrich tips in her hair ftud Jr.er amis were bare. She'd b' i itiful arms, too, and " "At least tell me what the play w I-.'' 'J'.a:nonds on her wrists and on a (.!i-t band around tier throat, an 1 -ih, the play did you ask?"' "Ys, what was the play?-' "Why it was it was row let me see what was the play? Strange, I letuetuoer seeing it on the run down stairs and get my muff, dear, and 3'ou'U find a programme in it. I really don't remember just what the imie of tbo play was." Detroit Five Press. fioniHiody Kindly Touched Vp. The Biblical (tiaptist) Recorder publishes a communication and in tiv luces it with this sentence: "A btr-ii hearted brother from Scotland Nwk writes." The matter had n-v.r occurred to us; and to precip itate such a nolion The Standard thinks u unwise and will work in jury to the institution, which de fi' i vis the united and hearty sup port, of charitable people. So the b ii 'cr is a christian, a worker, a max that's all we need demand. This, is the item : "I see you have put in another Mtthodist preacher at Oxford. I am glad of it. Why don't they buy it. I hear it whispered down here that they will ask the State for $20, 000 tins year, and of course we Baj tists will ht them have it" Well, we could net help it. The brethren were determined to have bini, a-ide from the fact that the institution is absolutely in their baii'U. They will hardly buy what is theirs by capture, but we hardly think they will sisk the State for more than they are now getting while all the other religions denom inations in the State are conducting orphan asylums without asking or receiving aid from the State treas ury. Calvin S. lirice, chairman of the National Democratic Executive Com mittee and U. S. Senator from Ohio, has heen elected a director of the Richmond & Danville Kail road Com pany. Put Calhoun, who tried to" go o the Senate troin Georgia, is yne, .n i Jay Goul t boDa up serenely in the tame body. VOL. III. NO. 49. THE STOBY OF TWO WO.HEX. The following from the Durham Globe is readable. It tells two tales feelingly : In a dark room, in tbe midst of poverty, with gnawing pains at heart, a young woman is working. Her eyes are weary, her temples are throbbing aud a deathly despair is iu her soul. Still her needle goes back and forth as inexorably as the pendulum of yonder clock, that is measuring the seconds as they glide away into eternity. Her lingers are worn, but she may not rest them; ber eyes heavy, but she may not close them, bhe must toil on, tnere in ber rags and wretchedness, far iuto night, and has again to toil on as ever. There is no home for ber, the future is as dark as the room in which she sits, and the sum of it is the word Toil. Nothing but that until the kindly sleeper of death touches ber brows, and the tired eyes may close forever. Then she will be taken to the city of rest, the earth will close over her, and another poor but brave, virtuous and honorable life will be forgotten. Her struggle was long and heroic and 'he reward is oblivion; the night winds sob for her, and the dews fall upon the grave perhaps the dew is the tears of the angels. In another room in the same city where there are lace curtains and heavy carpets, and glistening furni ture another woman stands. She is before a mirror and the bright suu shine streams upon her sallow face and indolent form. The eyes are bleared and lusterless, the lips color less and cruel ; the hand that reaches for the color and compounds to con ceal the haggard complexion trem bles. To see her now one would be reminded of "She" after going through the fire the second time. But thoie hands, though they trem ble, are deft ; and the stores of cosmetics ar ample. It is not long before "She" is rejuvenated; the layers of paint on her face are heavy ; the robe she wears is gor geous ; the evil mouth has adopted a smile ; and the siren is ready to guide poor devils into the path that leads to doom ; she smiles serenely as 6 he leads them; and when they are stranded, and wrecked and lost in the thorny wilderness, she leaves them there and mocks them. She is also ready to drag down the pore if she can;" and it is her example, in its recklessness and splendor, that causes so many other women to long to be as reckless and splendid. She will die some day perhaps she will die in squalor and misery, and be buried as a pan per; and per haps 6h will die in soft luxury and have a towering monument over her grave b.U either way her life was a grievous mistake, a menace to good morals and an injury to the world. "What a contrast is presented in The Story of Two Women! One was all courage, honor and industry and the other all falseness, hypo crisy and mockery. May tho- w orld be kinder to the brave women who toil I THAT REFORMATORY. Among o'her high endorsements of our article, by the leading State papers, ike Wilmington Star remarks editorially : The Concord Standard, of the 9th inst, ba3 a very well written and forcible article abvocuting the estab lishment of a house of correction in this State for youthful criminals, instead of putting them in th peni tentiary. The object of incarcera tion should be reform when possible, as well as for punishment, and it gjes without saying that reform is not only out of question when youth ful criminals are pLced in contact and daily intercourse with old and hardened criminals, but that they become more demoralized, : nd come out of confinement set in '.heir vices and equipped for a life of .lawless ness and wickedness. The State does injustice to the erring youth and makes a confirmed criminal out of otie who might have been saved if the oroper course has been pursued. Thpre. shou d. bv all means, be a reformatory institution in connec tion with, but separate from the penitentiary, so separated that the two classes of criminals, young and old, would not be thrown in contact with each other. Lt a Iiere of II i Ear. A colored train hand on the D. & N. railroad lost a piece of his ear a day or two since, and he aid not seem to mind the loss very much. We did not learn his name. He was unloading kecs of nails, and shoul dering one of them a nail in the keg gripped him in the ear and tore out a piece, leaving it hanging by. a small fragment. It was suggested to him to visit a doctor and - have it replaced. He did not cire to do this. He was then advised to cut off the dismembered part. With a knife he removed it, and is now get ting on as well with an ear and two thirds as if he had two whole ears to arouse to tbe signals of his train. Durham Sun. Editor Scott, of the Lenoir Topic, has been elected captain of a base ball club. The editor did not an nounce what place he filled proba bly always "on deck. The State Board has added Mrs. Snencer's history to the State list. The State Board ha3 a good deal of liberty in the selection of school books; and the Standard, judging from a number of changes it has made, would not be surprised to see most any book introduced. I he State needs a history, but it does not neeu ill ra. opeuuci b uioiuijr iu iuc public schools. H THE OMIXH LEGISLATIVE. The State is safe ! The legislature meets in January to legislate for the people, and we hope will not fail in its purpose. These biennial gatherings of the people's representatives are a neces sary evil. From the number of com mittees appointed by the espousers of different causes and schemes, to canvass for signers to petitions and to memorialize the legislature for appropriations, the Standaid feels like ex daiming, keep down the TAXES. The governor's mansion is about completed and needs but little more money; the State penitentiary is virtually self-sustaining aud needs but little of the State's funds ; but now comes the Agricultural and Me chanical College that will ask for $25,000 ; the Vf. C. T. U. will ask for $15,000 or $20,000 for the estab lishment of a training school for girls, and representatives of the North Carolina Teachers' Assem bly will ask the legislature to pro vide funds for the establishment of a University Normal School for girls. So it goes ! The Standard does not believe it ngnt ior a great crate to be nig gardly in its appreciation of aud ap propriations to needed reforms and measures. Uut tnere is a stopping point. The agricultural college is costing too much, the men are paid high prices for the work they do not that they are not worth it, but this work does not justify it. The industrial training school for girls is unnecessary in this State. The idea is a mere fancy that has origin ated in the brain of an enthusiastic body of women. There's no need for it. The honie3 we have ought to be training (industrially) enough; the female colleges ought to supple ment what may be needed in the in dustrial line; and there is scarcely any doubt that the legislature will provide for a University Normal School for girls that is enough. mere are institutions tnat are sadly needed, and the matter will be thoroughly discussed at the proper time. EDITOR CADE AM) THE PROGRES SIVE FARMER. There's a new man among the North Carolina We's. It is Rev Havlus Cade, who has assumed edi torial control of the Progressive Farmer, the organ of the State Alli ance. Bro. Cade was raised on the farm and knows the hardships that attend agricultural life. Politically, the editor has this to say: "1 want to sav, once for all tnat i am a uemocrat have never been anything else. But that state mentof my political faith must not be taken as an admission, on my part, that I wear the collar of anv self-appointed clique of political bosses, .in oc out of olhce. I he Standard hopes that Hev. Cade will like the harness. Old Paper ami Inlerewting; Itfin. Esq. V. N. Mitchell, of No. 5, ha3 been "laying off" to subscribe to the Standard, and he did so. In reply to our request for news, the old gen tleman handed us a newspaper, "The Dollar Newspaper," published in Philadelphia. This copy bears the date of Wednesday, February 10, 1843. In it we find an item concerning a soldier s being cfinf Kit his own comrades, during the war with Mexico. In the soldier's trial Esquires Mitchell and J. N. Brown were witnesses. Here is the item: Dreadful Sceue. Saltillo, Dec. 29. Yesterday (Monday) one of the most painful scenes took place here I ever witnessed. A soldier by the in me of Victor Galbraith, a bugler in Captain Miers' company of vol unteer cavalry, was shot for threat ening the Captain's life. The troops were all mustered to witness the dreadful scene. The unhappy pris oner was brought forward under the charge of the Provost Marshal and guard. Sixteen men were detailed and formed in single file. The prisoner cal nly sat down on his coffin at abouc eight pases distance, and looked the executioners firmly in thi face. His sentence was then read to him ; he then threw his head back ward,' und said to the men: "Take good aim ; I am ready to die." They fired; he fell immediately, having r'ceived three balls in !s body ; but in a few moments he again arose, resting on his elbow, and ask for watei, and drank. He then said, "kill me at once and re lieve me f my misery;" when four of the men who had reserved their fire advanced, and, placed the muz zles of their guns to within a few inches of his body, fired, almost cut ting him asunder. Truly, he was the most resolute man I ever saw. Some of the officers were entirely overcome by the distressing sight The R. fc l. Hat Urn Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the Eich mond & Danville stockholders was held in Richmond Tuesday. The officers elected were : John II. In man, president. . Directors : T. M. Logan, Calvin S. Brice, C. M. McGee, II. B. Plant, Pat Calhoun, Simon Wocmser, John A. Rutherford, John G. Moore, Samuel Thomas," James Swann, Jay Gould, George J. Gould, Sidney Dillon, Abram S. Hewitt, R. T. Wilson and J. C. Mabur. The Wilkesboro Chronicle is au thority for the statement that a 75 year old man, with perfectly white hair, woke on the morning of Dec. 1 with scarcely a gray one. The ed itor failed to state whether the man's wife was living. CONCORD, N. 0. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, CARL ni'XBER. "Xobodjr Vlinn Two Times Alike in Tills Country." "Well, where have you been for the iast three months?" queriei Ser geant Kendall yesterday, as Carl Dunder softly opened the door of the Woodbridge street station about a foot and squeezed through the aperture. Un, 1 vhas keeping quiet. 1 like to shpeak to jou a few words to day." "All right.'' "Der odder day a man comes py my pb.ee und drinks a glass of beer und plays me a game of dominoes und says his name vhas Shon White Dot makes no deeference to me if he vhas Sheorgo Yaishington. He must pay me shust so queek or I knock him out-" "Of eniirsfi." " vhell. he pays me und seems like i a decent fellow, und pooty soon he has a check on der b .nk und likesThat there are fewer cases of very me to go White. "And you went?" "Vhell, I like to oblige " "And you identified him?" "Vhell.vhen I knows he v. as Shon White how could I help it? Dot vhas a bogus check for feefteen dls lar, und I haf to pay it. I doan' see how it vhas." "Urn! Auything more?" "Somepody doan' play me dot vhay again. My eye teeth vhas cut awfully queek. In two days a fel low comes along mit a subscription paper. He says he likes me to put down a dollar for der poor. I ask him for his name, und he says he fays he vhas Peter Davis. Sei gtaut, you should see rce Knock him oafer der middle ot lasi SLuly." Ies, aud you II have to pay for it. He was at the Police Court this morning to get a warrant for you." A warrant for me' lut he vhas a eh windier!" "Oh, no, be wasn't; he was all right." "Vhell, might ash vhell shump into der i iter. How vhas I to tell aboudt things? Nothings vhas two timeH alike. "Anything else?'' helJ, you see, a man comes in my place mit a package und Hays vbas 1 Carl Dunder. 1 vhas. Here vhas some oxpress from Chicago, und he haf to collect Vhas dot all right, sergeant?" "Looks that way." "Of course she does, but after he goes avhay i nd I open dot package I find some brickbats in it. He vhas an awful sch windier." "But you ought to have spotted him." "Oh, yes! Spots vhas all light! In two days how vhas she? In shust two days vhat you believe? "Well?" hell, some ou.ler man s coma in mit a package und snys vhas my nraue Carl Dunder. Yes. He haf some package for me from Noo York, und I haf to pay one dollar. Sergeant, I thumps on dot man und knocks him so cold dot his own un ole doan kuow him und beliefs he vhas a yourg man from Troy "Then you spatted him!" bpots! bpots! Ies, l see some snots! He belongs by der regular oxpress company, und he vhas going to sue me for rife tousand dollars! Crn you see how she vhas? One time it vhas all wrong, und der nest time it vhas all right. Nopody vhas two times alike in dis country, und I now bid you good-bye." "Going away?'' "No matter. I vhas seexf een years in dis country und all der time 1 yhas in some mistakes I vhas now plejed out- If you doan' see me some more times remember dot I doan mean to do it, but der country vhas to blame. t'Ol'RT CLERK .MATTERS. Some Wild Report Going tbe Ronndi Some Faettt About Chan. I. Vp rhurrh an Shown by the Pub lic Record The Suits and Clalnta Affainitt Him. Ever since the last election reports have been sent out from Raleigh al most every . day concerning the oflice of the clerk of the Superior court. As a sample of these rumors it may be stated that the Richmond Dispatch of yesterday printed a tele gram to the effect that the Guardian account book of the office had been found, and it showed a deficit in accounts of $16,000 on the part of Chas. D. Upchutch, former clerk of the court. Since Mr. John W. Thompson was swo n into office, he has not seen any Guardian account book. The former office clerks state that Upchurch kept the book in a private drawer under lock and key, aud regarded it as private property. It is claimed, however, that the book is in Raleigh and can be produced. But this claim carries with it no certain in formation as to whose possession the book is in. Justice M. B. Barbee has been before the new clerk and accepted services as attorney-in-fact for Air Upchurch, and on thi3 may be based the claim that the book can be pro duced But be it remembered now that this is only a rumor. ihe Uhronicle has made such in vestigations as the public records will admit, and from that investiga tion can state the following facts: Suits have been entered against Upchurch by minors, aggregating $5,500. Besides thee there are other claims made for which suit has not been eutered which increases the above amount to about $7,000. The Chronicle has no advice of any cash assets which Upchurch may have on hand as guardian or trustee or other wise. The responsibility of the bonds' men is cumulative, and each one is fullv responsible for any deficit which may have occurred at any time while he was a surety. Two of the bondsmen above men tioned L. D. Stevenson and W. C. Upchurch have made assignments since Unchurch crave up tne omce, and at the time their assignments were piven in this paper as well as the amounts for which they were on the bond. -Raleigh Chromcla. T AND ARB. IS CRIME IXCREASIG ? The Wilmington Messenger ia wedded to the belief vaat crime i3 increasing in North Carolina. It says: "We will not insist in the face of what Judges say that crime is in creasing in North Carolina, but the trying of 10,427 persons in a year and a half for crimes is not hope ful of a diminution. We will say that such a record is distressingly lad. although it may be no worse than that of other states." That is an average of 110 per coutry. There is doubtless more cases brought to court than in former years, but our courts, it must be re membered, are called on to dispose of a few chicken scrapes, little fist exercisee', and a good many 6pecu mens of malice and pine-blan ' ed. Speaking on this subject, it oc curs to us that some magistrates liav considerable more legal work to do than others. The Standard believes that the Justices cf Peace can work a great improvement along this line. A lot cf discretion and a number of refusals to issue warrants on the part Oi these officers of the law, might save a great deal of neigh borhood hard feeling, prevent use less court costs and make affairs more pleasant all around. So. 3 Takes Her. Thev do some mighty funny things out west sometimes. If a man does not like anything he dds not care to say so. The other day at Casper, Wyoming, George Sprack- lin concluded that he did not love his wife, aud Marsnal Buxton knew that he alwavs had loved Mrs. Spracklin, and so they w nt down to Sprackliu's house, and the follow ing conversation took place: " I don't love her, Buxton ; do you want her ?" Buxton answered : "Yes, I alwavs loved her." Spracklin said: "Take her, and I will throw in the furniture. "Thank vou, George," replied Buxton ; "I will set em up when come up town tonight." Spracklin gave Buxton a bill of sale for the household troods. All the parties have heretofore enjoyed a good reputation, and the town is thunderstruck at their doiugs. Mrs. Spracklm U a Long Pine ministers daughter, and is a pretty, intelligent woman of twenty. A Crushing: RIow It would not be surprising at any time now to hear that Superintend eut Census Porter had committed suicide or had fled to England whence he came. A great many at ticks have been made on his work, but the final blow came without warning, and from a quarter least expected. It remained for Father Jule, who visited the Sioux hostiles in their camp in the Bad Land3 last week, to discover the real cause ot their thirst of blood. Mr. Crow- Dog said : "e object to the recent census returns," and all the other braves said substantially, "me too." It only remains for the Chinamen who have illegally come into this country since the exclusion act, to send a petition to Congress asking for a recount, and Mr. Porter's cup will be full to running. Asheville Citi zen. m t A ext. Some one remarking that it was hard to kill wire erass, P. H. Thorn as told the fallowing story the other day: "When I lived in tbe country, in my mother's garden there was great deal of wire grass. I deter mined to destroy it. "I dug un everv vestige of it. burnt it. took the ashes aud made lye of it, ni ad 3 soap of the lye, washed my hands with the soap, threw the water out of the window on the hard, beaten yard, and m a few dayb there was a flourishing patch of wire grass on that before barren srround. "No, sir, you can't kill wire grass!" Oxford Day. More About Wire Urass. Dr. P. Booth .ead the wire grass tale in the Day of yesterday, and said : "It is a fact, you can't kill v. ire grass. I knew a farmer in the lower end of the county who was one day burning a large pile of the stun. "A man running the next farm, in which direction the smoke was blowing, came over in a great pas sion and told him to put ,out his fire ; that wherever the smoke struck the ground it took root, and a crop of wire grass would come as sure as death and taxes. Farmer number two said he would be darned if he stood Buch an imposition." Farmer number one extinguished the fire. Oxford Day. mi m Wire Grass Tale So. 3, By Liar So. 1 Ben. K. Hays stepped into th Day sanctum this morning and said: "I am surprised that any one should doubt the truth of your statements about wire grass. 'The following came under my own observation. Desiring to obtain some carbonic anhydride (002), I burned some, of the grass and col lected the gas in a bottle. "After I was through with the gas the empty bottle was thrown in the garden. The next Spring, while plowing, the horse stepped on the bottle and broke it. Ere the vegeta bles which were planted came up the wire grass was several inches high." Ox ford DayM m The wire-grass editor of the Ox ford Day, to complete his lying, must have turned into wire-grass himself. This ia suggested by the fact of his non-appearance on Thursday. 1890. STATE XOTES. Charlotte will have a new steam laundry at work .before many days. The machinery has been placed in position. Erskine College will remain at Due' West, S. C. Sard is, a g-od community of Mecklenbury coun ty, tried to get the college. The North Carolina Conference is now in session at Wilson, with Bishop John C. Keener presiding, and Donald W. Bain secretary, Shelby Aurora : Last week we chronicled a murder at a negro festi val near a still-house and our ex changes told of four other murders on the same night at four other dis tilleries in North Carolina! Mv countrymen, think of this ! j ohina Grove Dart : The potato crop (Irish and sweet) is not saving very well, so say our farmer. Mr. Robert Bostian tells us that he has already lost twenty-five bushels of his late crop of Irish potatoes. At this rate "taters" will be "taters" by planting time. Alamance Gleaner: A negro named Thompson, was found lying before the fire m his room dead, on last Saturday morning. He is sup posed to hare killed himself drink ing whiskey, as he went home drunk the night before, ard it is said that he drank a pint and a half. A great many northern bird hunt s are now making headquarters near Taylorsville. Some times they are hel I up by the farmers and but for their prompt answers and gener ous disposition, they would be fired off the premises. But if the farmer is mad about them hunting on bis land, when it is posted, they just pay his taxt-s and they all skake hands aud .ire friendly. Durham Globe: Mr. A. E. Lloyd has just brought to this office a full grown, fresh blon rose, which he plucked yesterday from his front yard and which had escaped the ic fingers of old winter as he passed through the town night before iast. Roses in December are, to the' Globe, something of a novelty, and speak volumes in favor of the climate in the world. grandest Charlotte News: Mr. K. W. Smidifcr, a well known lawyer of Gaston county, was taking measure ments of Mecklenburg's vaults in the court house, ihe commission ers of Gaston have decided to place vaults in their court house for the safety of the books and records, and delegated Mr. andifer to inspect the Mecklenburg vaults and get posted on what is the best. Mr. Sandifer says that the arrangements of the vaults here is the best he has seen. Lenoir Topic : Two "mad dogs" were killed in the county last week, one by Mr. R. C. Houck, in Boone's Creek and the other by Mr. 'John Hartley about two miles North of Lenoir. One of the sturdy old confederate veterans who seldom comes to town is Lieutenant Milton fc. Jilair, oc Little laver, who came up to pay his taxes, last week. He is the man of whom Col. Lane spoke as saving the colors of theSCth regi ment at Gettysburg, after the color- sergeant was shot down High Point Enterprise: The demand for goods put up by the High Point Canning Co., has been great this season. The company has supplied about all they can for the present. Last Wednesday, in Uie neighborhood of Zion, Mr. Tvm lilion, son of Mr. English Hilton, was out hunting when he happened to a very serious accident, lie was leaning on his gun when his dog jumped against him causing the gun to be discharged, shattering his arm terribly. Dr. Strickland amputated the arm at the shoulder later in the day. Shelby Aurora: Last Saturday night Mr. Phi Jo Harris met and shot Commodore Carrico between the two distdleries of Thomas Ware and 1 V V T .1 lit Miles ware. ixin were uncier tne influence of whiskey, had a drunken quarrel at nine o'clock at night on the road, Carrico gave Harris the d n lie, t en Harris shot, with a pistol, Carrico in the neck, the ball going around the neck three inches. Dr. J. W. Tracy could not at first, by probing, find the ball, but the next day it was removed. The wound is a very severe one and Harris has fled, but it is thought the wounded man will recover. Why do men "put such an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains ?" Elizabeth City Economist : Oyster shucking houses multiply and th- native population in the vicinity of the oyster rocks do not 6upply the demand for labor. New build ings for residences and stores are making their appearance in different parts of the town, but more con spicuously on the water front. There is a movement among the farmers of this neighborhood to raise truck for the supply of a can ning factory in town. It is a good move for the trucker and the can nery and we hope it will be carried out for the benefit of both. While our people are looking out for new industries we wonder that some one has not thought of a kindling wood factory, and we wonder that we have not suggested it before. We know men that have became wealthy from it in otner places. The waste of slabs and small timber that it would utilize would make somebody a millionaire. Friend J. E. Chilcutt, who has been some weeks in Suffolk, Va., kindly called our attention to the profits of the business. It was one of the Springvale high school pupils who, being asked to compare just, replied promptly, "Just, justice, justification."-Lew-iston Journal. WHOLE NO. 162. THE ARIZON A KICKER. A Fresh Hatch of Interesting Items, VYe extract the following interest ing items from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker : One Less We know of one In dian who won't gambol alang the flowery war-path any more to speak of. We refer to Lay-Down-And-lioll Over-On-The-Graes, otherwise known as Big Jim. He was help' iug nimaelf to a mule from Thomn son's corrcU the other night, when one ot the herders killed him so dead that he didn't have time to pull in his tongue. As usual, most of the funeral expenses had to come out of our pocket, although he was not our meat. Ltettiko MoxoToxot's. borne one in Omaha is selling oil' land in this neighborhood for gardens and pas turage, and every day or two a.ten derfoot shows up to take possession lie finds the lands to belong to the government, and to be composed as follows: Cactus 18 Sage brush 18 Sand 64 100 In five different cases our private graveyard has been included in sales putting us to considerable trouble and expense to hold it. We are get ting rather tired of this sort oi thing, and the next pilgrim who comes along and takes that grave yard for a cattle range of which he is the sole owner has got to skip at the word, or make the tenth man sleeping under the sands. We Apologize. The editor, own er publisher and proprietor of tbe thing called Uur Uontemporary was driven frantic with jealousy be cans we were able to order and pay for three bundles of paper at once. YY e happened to meet him in Bol" ny's hardware store Tuesday after noon, where he was dickering for a i grindstone to use as a balancj wheel on his "only steam press," and he ooiled over and called us a liar. We hope ho can be patched up, sewed together and saved from the grave, though the latest reports are dis couraging- "We didn't mean to. J.l he only will get well he may abuse us the rest of his natural life and we won't say a word- AssocxcEMEXT. We hereby an nounce ourselves as a candidate for Mayor at the election in April. It is a little early, but no man ever se cured an office by being a little late. We don't propose to jet any sense of false modesty stand in ihe way of our getting there- We can read aud write aud ipher. We represent the intelligence aud manners of this com ounity. We are the top sheaf of society and can borrow a bun died dollars at the bank any day. In brief, we are the best candidate who can be put up for thi. office, and we are doing the public a favor by cons'enting to run. We shall have so lethiug further to say on this sub;ect later on. Wo don't want the office, but the office wants us. At least, we think she does. It's Ocr Wat. We understand that Judge Rich feels very bitterly towards us because we said in The Kicke. last week that he got only his just deserts in the row with Maj. Baldwin. It's our way to state facts. The two gentlemen were disputing as to the color of a jackvrabbit's eye The major was the soul of good nn rure until the judge pulled his nose We stood close by and saw it all, and distinctly heard the "spat!" of the bullet as it struck the judge in the shoulder. The fact Major Bald win subscribes for five copies of the Kicker, while Judsre- Rich won't have it in the house, does not bias us in the least. We say that when a man pulls another man's nose in malice lie should be prepared for tbe worst. If the judge was not pre- pared it was his own fault. He is bragging that he will serve our nasaf organ in the same way before the year 1891. Judge, don't vou try it not unless you are tired of this vain world and want to go hence! De troit Free Press. THE REFORM SCHOOL, It is with a piofound feeling of gratefulness to see so many papers in the State speaking favorably of, and even urging, the coming Legis lature to provide for a Reform School for youthful offenders. The Stand ard is confident of the fact that the State owes this debt to the people, and the debt is one that humanity and the lives of hundreds of boys and girls will not, with consistency and right, allow a delay in payment. Since our long article in Tuesday's issue, advocating such an institution, we have heard from various sources that there are such institutions in some of the northern states, and that after the first year they were self-sustaining; and further, the records of those institutions show that nine-tenths of the boys and girls released from them become re spected and useful citizens many of them actually rising to promi nence in some chosen professions. Are there even ten, who, atter being released from our State prison, ever became citizens in the degree that their services, influences and lives amounted to much force ? Let the matter be agitated, thoroughly and and to a successful issue. The law that provides for such an institution will cause no expense to the State ; when the betterment of this offending class follows, the de crease of crime follows, and the sat isfaction of having done our duty pleases us. A valued exchange, in referring to our suggestion, says: "The boy who errs whose vice is called crime and thrown iu the penitentiary among hardened and abandoned wretches, ha3 no hope .nd no chance to do better. His daily walk is with the lowest ; his ambitions are choked; his pride is drowned and the dreary days that he consumes in treading the Mine press are devoted alone to what dev ilment he will indulge in ujion his release." In New York City there are 50,- 000 negeoes. Some of them have gotten rich, several being worth as much as $200,000. WE DO ALL KINDS OP JOB "WOEK IN THE- KEA TES T MA NNER -AND AT THE LOWEST RATES. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a C. ipl A; :a,.g ye Takin Notes and Faith He'll Prent Them." l'rof. Ingram's Vaeation. Prof. J. N. Ingram, who has been on a lecture tour on Asiatic and Polynesian countriesTr-in Tennessee and the mountains of Western North Carolina, returned from thd Blue ludge on h nday. lie will go North in a few days and meet King Kala kana, with whom he was acquainted when in the Hawaiian Kingdom, having lectured on his Majesty's dominions in half of the United States. The Cotton was Sot Stolen. 'Twas reported here Thursday that Capt. J. M. W. Alexander had lost a bale of cotton, and it3 mysterious disappearance led him to believe that it had been stolen. The Captain had made arrangements with the township constable to go to Char lotte and look for the cotton and the men, while he intended coming to Concord and keeping an eye out for man and cotton. But the 'Squire was not exactly satisfied with this movement and so went back to the gin and counted his bales, then counted again the amount that he had ginned. He found that it had turned out all right and all of his cotton was there safe. Fear Oil Murder. A friend hands us a paper, con taining a long account of the bloody killing of Maj. J. A. West, of Ma rietta, Ga., by his own brother. The Major had gone to Brownsville, Miss., where he owned a plantation, superintended by the brother in question. This is what occurred: Hugh West attacked his brother with a pistol, and after shooting him three times and when he had fallen to the ground and was strug gling to get up, shouted, "lie still, sir," and running into the house, procured a shot-gun and shot the top of his brothers head off, scatter ing his brains over the yard. Maj. West was a teacher of Mr. L. D. Duval's son, who i3 now with his father's family here in Concord, A Very Serious Wound. Sitting a while with the tax-collector these days affords one consid erable insigntinto the affairs of gov ernment. The pension business is li t-ely. Some men, who are tolerably stout and able-bodied, though having been wounded, get pensions all the way from $17.75 lo $71.00. Pen sions are not paid wounded parties who are worth over $500. On one occasion, while sitting in the collec tor's office, Mr. Dan. S. Foil came in to pay his taxes. This gentleman was shot through the jaw, fractur ing it so that his jaws cannot be opened and his teeth separate not more than three-eights of an inch. The gentleman has great difficulty in eating, it requiring him mora than half an hour, and then he can enjoy no food unless it is in a shape to be eaten without mastication oa. his part. A man, wounded as he is, deserves a pension; but being worth more than $500 debars him from drawing cue. Mr. Foil lives in No. 5 township and is 55 years of age. The Two Whoppers. Saturday morning something f nnny was seen when the 'busses started to the depot. As is well known, L. W. Springs i3 the biggest drunmer on the road, and he says the hand somest. It is another well known fact that F. V. Snell is the biggest man in this whole section, and is so solid that a negro once run against him, ad afterwards declared he thought the dummy had crashed him under its murderous wheels. It is right hard for the two men to stay in the same town at once, and rather than be crowded to the out skirts, Mr. Snell concluded he would go down to Charlotte. For the same reason Mr. Springs concluded he would do the same thing. Snell juat could squeeze into the 'bus, and so got in, but Springs could not get inside, but agreed to occupy the driver's seat if they would allow him. Then he met another difficulty he could not get up. But the porteri, always anxious to he'p their customers, took him and rolled him up to the seat and then placed him iu an upright position. When they got to the depot a more serious ob stacle was still in the way. It was dangerous for them to go on the shoo-fly train, for they might weight her down, and the dignified cannon ball train would soon be along, and it 8top3 for nothing. They soon agreed Springs rode in one car and Snell in the other. Springs gob out of Snell's way before Snell caught up with him. One will stop in Charlotte and the other in Rocfe Hill. It is very important to keep this old couutry balanced right, just now, and a movement is on foot to gee Mr. Snell a position as traveling: salesman. The effect of Springs' weight has been felt in several sever cold snaps, and it is now proposed to keep the two men traveling at equal distances apart and let them, be directly opposite to each other all the time. Of course we regret to lose Mr. Snell, but it is necessary to the health of the country that he hold things down level, and let the sun strike us all alike. The Standard appreciates no little the number of enthusiastic endorse ments of our article on a "Honse of Correction." In fact, the matter does not seem to be at all debatable ; but the duty that now concerns na i3 the working on an enthusiastic appeal to the Legislature for such a measure. i
The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
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