North Carolina Newspapers

THE STANDARD. u i: no ALL KINDS OF job woirik: IX THE i- vv TEST MAJVXER ' " AND AT - f!!r ;7M!X" JUTES. . yfOSV Altl!l'.V ESCAPE. all lor n Railway Train. ,av was a groat day on the ,A n branch of the Richmond illo railroad. t),.. lv-uilar passenger train from 4;02, ' . , .1. . ..:n., t ilno ai -vsuowuc t tftu miles east of Pigeon r ir nation, at one of the most i !, r.".i points on the whole line, i'"! mM horrible disaster almost ,n;ninii I !.. t u-iy t soapou. ;U!1 I'OllSISteU Ol il Moa.iJ.i ,, n. a bagsrage and mail 1 'ii :'.,!. ami two freight eoacu cars. .pi'rIl. !o some thirty passengers i' , .,!. mon, women and children, fjl.'train left Pigeon River only a ,v n.ii.uie lae. The heavy grade t ,l t .p of the hill was soon over- ,-m'. auu witn tnrouie vaive eiuaeu and train were being , . i i .:. . . :.l . f aiouiul i no mountain mug vi mil weight. The big trestle, :n:t on the whole line, had rii cleared, when the pasgen , iv thrown into consternation h:.-iV rt l m ' iol.ntlv thumped and IV iii tluir seats. It was known atoly that the coaches were u-'u-k. and were plunirinff c ,.n the cr S3 ties. On the A- e'hIo was the mountain wall, a diota'icc of from seventy- tif t a hundred feet, lay a narrow tiuoni'h wl.ieh Ilomiuv creek brawling a ong. A panic c..t liners on in Tlx' :i inaa passe mrers rusneu ior me , u l.v a prcacner wno janueu shouidere, getting first mud. engineer stood to his post like and Capt. Kerns did all in i i i i i j. is iwr to chock the rushing tram. Afttr grinding and crashing over tlie tii'S f. i- several hundred yards ti- f.no truck of one of the freight , ,rs dropped into a waterway some ht.vti inches deep and brought tram to a sudden stop. In- -reat peril of the passengers i i i . fi i : l. : on IV reauzeu auer uiaemuaihing. TIh' Ui'i'l i. d bed at the point of the xn: was barely wide enough for the erois ties. Had the coaches J, !! cud from the rails as much as hu-he inches, the whole train would have topled down the precipitous lank a distance of seventy-five or a hundred feet immediately on the wU nf two small houses, into the wry chimneys of which the passen pcrs gazed. Fortunately the engine did not kave the t-ak, and the passengers ui-rj .-lioedilv put on board her and taken, after two or three trips, to Turnpike, some three miles distant, where they were kindly cared for at the Inimitable house of Mr. Smathers. (t. Kerns then boarded his engine and came to Asheville, got a new sat of ruches, returned, and by ten o'el( -k had landed all safely in this city. The accident was caused by the q wailing of the trac!-. The rail on the lower side was turned completely on its side for a distance of several hundred yards. The crosstios were aini'-t rott.-d to a pulp, and vt'eilv iiKideijuate for holding the p in.iiiv of them l-ii:g rrouuU. to a shap. To t i s miss Ly the car wheels, fact that the truiu was ruu- i.i'.r at a low rate of speed not ex t'diiig fifteen miles an hour and the further fact that the engine did not leave the track and kept the train straight until it was stopped, mav he attributed the escape from a fri htf .il disaster. Asheville Citizen. S'-n Wrrka in a 1.1 Wallace and wife, Vade!xro, have been Well.1 colored, of living for e"iii time in a house rented from I'r. Ashe. About seven weeks ago the woman disappeared, and nothing l"i- j lo ard of her, it was supposed th;" .-In- had grown tired of her snr io ' diiigs, ami taken 'French leave.' After the lapse of several doys, Hel ium hnbaiid stated that she hud left . and that he was going to hunt , .- he put out for parts unknown, i" days after the disappearance of wiiinau, the colored people living io same place, and using the well, begun to notice that there something terribly wrong with water, and abandoned the use of th- 1! ( I i.-t Sunday morn in r, one of th - wornm said she had dreamed the :-it:ht tie fore that Wallace's wife was hi the well. The matter was iaves-t"-' . vd. and the dream corroborated i v the discovery or the woman s ''"ly. after seven weeks in the water A iicro man volunteered to bring the hudy up, so tying a batch of cot- i"!i -aiiirated with a disinfectant 'V' r his mouth and nose, he went (he,w, the wvll, taking with him a r"! . which he tied around the "imii's neck, and hauled the hor t il'!.' sju ctaele to the surface. Char 1"U" Clironicle. A Woman llaupetl. London, Mrs. Mollie Pearcy was Lin-ed th s morning for the murder t'f Mrs. llotrir and her babv. Mrs 11 -g was the wife of a London i'-r. The crowd outside the prison Is set up loud cheers when the hla, Was ek Hair, show ing that the woman landing on the scaffold, was h, tod iusr upon the prison flag staff. 1'.: the nijrht the unforlunat "1'i.ui was quiet, and resigned, ai.d t -r several hours she praved in t'iMiijiany with the prison chaplain. '1" the latter she confessed that the S'-ntence passed upon her was a just, one, though she said the evidence "I"'11 wnicn sne was convicted was fiUe. AsHtx-lnle J nut Ice Nominated. Washington, D. C, Dec. 23. The l n-Mdent sent to the Senate to-dav the nomination of Heury B. Brown, i .Michigan, to be Associate .Justici of the Supreme Court of the United bUtes, vice SamT F. Miller, deceased. VOL. III. NO. 53. vaxce am tiik allaxce. The Senator's Reply to President Corr of the Stale Alliance. This week's Progressive Farmer contained the following correspord ence between Mr. Klias Carr, Presi dent of the State Farmers' Alliance, and Senator Vance: HttSU'tXT CARli's LLTTfcR. November 20, 1800. Hon. Z. Vk Vance, Llack Mountain, Buncombe County : Dear Sir, After carefully consid ering the politiral situation in our State, I deem it -vise to write you and ask the following question ; ' If the Legislature instructs you to ad vocate and vote for the Sub-Treasury plan of iinancial n form, will you carry out said instructions in good faith?' I hope that you will nnde -stand I do not reflect in the slightest degree on your devotion to the peo ple of North Carolina, but there are precedents where United Jtates Sen ators have carried out instructions, and a'so precedents where they have 1 1 it T i i . 1 i oisr- iraraea ineni. l iruti ma jou will give me an answer at your ear liest convenience. Very respectfully, Eu as Caku. senator vance's reply. United States Senate, ) "Washington, D- U., Dec. 20, "JO. Elias Carr, President N. C. Farmers' Alliance, Old Sparta, N. C: Dear Sir, In answer to your oill cial communication of thex'Oth ult., which did iut reach me until the 1st ihst, I have to say that I recognize the old Democratic doctrine of the right of the people to instruct their representatives of t!ie fullest extent to rfhich it has ever been carried in North Carolina. I hold that the will of the people, clearly and une liiivoeally expressed, must be obeyed unless complianeu would involve the representative in a moral wrong, iu which case it would be his duty to resign and give placv to a represen tative who would obey. Good faith in the observance of instructions and public pledges is absoln elv essential to a government based on the popu lar will. Very respectfully yours, Z. 11. Vance, The I'ouiiKFwt jHiiifH i:i Iloatl. St Peter, Minn., Dec. 20. The cave in which the Younger and the James gang lint during the raid on Northfield, where six men were kill ed, has been discovered. At the same time the mystetions disappear ance of the youngest of the James boys has been solved. His skeleton has been found and identified by trinkets in the subterranean rtndoz vous. A party of hunters traversing the great Fay ravine in Nicollet county last week, found an old door opening into a common dugout. Hewed logs at the rear forced a ''blind door," which led into another room 20 feet long and 1G w ide, along one side o: which bunks were ar ranged. There were sleeping ac commodations for thirty persons in it. The room contained several benches and stools, an old table, va rious cooking utensils, and the skele ton referred to. There was also a letter referring to the theft of some horses, supposed to have been writ ten by Frank James to Jim Younger Still another apartnie.it was found where horses had been secreted, the artificial cave being large einugh to accommodate 20 animals at a tune. KtamMl Ihe I.lfeOul f Ilnti. Danville, Va., J)t c. 2:J. Janus Gravett and Edward En ch had a quarrel in a Craghead saloon today, w hen Enoch knocked dravett dov. n and literally stamped the life out of him. liravetts fac was leaiiully crushed, and he died in a few mo ments. Both men were drinking at the time. J he quarrel was ot a trilling character, and the saloon-keeper, who was the only person who witnessed the tragedy, did not know that the men were mad until he saw Enoch knock his victim down. Enoch was arrested and jailed. He seemed much surprised when he learned that his victim was dead. Xorth 4'nrol tniiin Hark. Messrs. W. J. McGraw, of Fate, Rockwell county, Mo., and L. M. Kluttz, of Clinton, Mp., came in Tuesday night from the West. Mr. McGraw was raised in No. I) town ship and went West about eight years ago; he farms, and this year ha i lifty -hve acres planted in cotton which yielded 38 bales. He will re turn to Texas in several weeks. Mr. Kluttz was raised in No. 7 township, and left here about four years ago ; he is a veterinary surgeon and has charge of a large farm of blooded stock. Mr. Kluttz will re turn in several weeks. Both of these gentlemen take the Standard, and came in to express their high appre ciation of it. 6.000 Yard liutton-llole Th 1st. At the auction sale at the Farmers' Store, Register of Deeds Patterson bid on a lot of silk twist in spools of twenty-five yards each. Ihe lot, wlr,ch he thought to be about two dozen spools, was knocked down to him at two and a quarter cents a spool. After the sale was over, Register Patterson went up to settle and to get his twist The efficient Register was surprised to learn that the lot consisted of twenty dozen, or 240 spools, or 6,000 yards of silk twist, value $5.40. He consulted Deputy Morrison about the disposi tion of "it. He has decidsd to pre sent each license applicant with a spool of it Now for a rush in mar riage licenses. TIir.Y UK AD, TIlIMi AM JIDGE, The Standard knows that one great work has been accomplished by the strong and vigorous organiza tion of the Alliance. There are not a few reforms, but the most percep tible one to us, a friendly outsider, is the educating influences of the Alliances. There are but few mem bers within the order, in this county, that are not subscribers (payers, too.) to newspapers; they are read, too. Within the last week not less than a hundred men, representing different sections of the county, have spoken to us regarding the sugges tions upon the Keformatory School. Not a few of them have even "thought :he subject over," and have outlined what they consider a feasi ble svstem. Some of these men, to our certain knowledge, eight months ao had no occasion to call at tne olnce for man. We are aware of the influences that lead to this change. The repre senting spirits in this couuty assure us that it is a principle of the order to encourage reading, thinking and the exchange of ideas. In this change, in this improve ment that Lf makiog, we see the re su ts. Our weekly mailing list has grown nearly 500 in eight mouths, and it has been a voluntary growth, without any special effort on oui part towards an increase, except what follows an apparent disposition to "tote fair," and ;o make our pa per worth the subscription price and r nder it, what it should be, a me dium of news. This week's issue reaches 1592 homes ; and allowing live to the fam ily, it is evident that not less than 7,000 persons are reached with the items of its columns. That the number of rural readers of newspapers is increasing, is a happy fact; and the good work, w hen properly inaugurated, will itself make the grow th more rapid and ex tensive. Communicated.) Ait IuIutiri:il Kt'liool i'orfiirls. Miss Annie Cannon was canvass ing today for signatures to a petition to the next State Legislature for the establishment of an industrial Train ing School for Girls. There is such an institution at Asheville, sup ported by the Mission ;Board of the Northern Presbyterian church,whi; h donates 20,000 u year to its sup port. The present accommodative capacity, and the number of stu dents in attendance at the school, is 250. Application for admission has been received by the superintendent from over 500 pu-'ils. The State is very much in need of such a school under its own man agement, and the uext law-making b. dies, w hile providing for the edu cation of the boys of North Caro lina, should also provide for the girls. We hope Miss Cannon will succeed in her worthy undertaking. I. IK' It .V t'DKlliOllt. Last night on the way home from church, Mrs. W. II. Branson report ed that she had lost her watch and chain, costly articles of gold, and that there would bean advertisement furnished this morning. It turned out more fortunately, however, for the wach was found m one ot the folds jf its owner's dress. Greens hvvo Work nian. Several months ago a iauy in this town lost (?) the watch given her by her beau upon bended knee. After spending a night in sobs upon a sleepless pillow, the watch was found iu one of the numberless folds of her exquisitely made dress. ma TIM- ;! t ItailroiKl Mi ike urin l!l' l.IKl. Glasgow, Dec. 2i. Many signs of the great railroad strike are Hearing the end and the strikers sooner or la er will submit to the inevitable. Should this be the case it will not be because the general public is not in sympathy with the strikers. The passenger and freight traffic on the main lines is slowly but surely im proving, and the North British road is to-'d v opening its lines, in fact k may e said that the railroad business is resuming its usual course, though the attitude of the strikers and the railroad officials towards each other seems unchanged. X 1' !' Pihcs on tlie Vestibule. The editor who' gets on the fast vcst.bule train on the Richmond & Danville and flips his pass at the conductor, is going to be taken down a peg or two The News has had a glimpse of a little book issued for guidance of these traius and one of the paragraphs states that no parses, annual or otherwise, are to be recog nized. The editor who tries it will have to pay cash or hit the grit. The fare on this palace train will h-3 three dollars more between Washing ton and Altanta than on the other trains. Charlotte News. It may be that the arrangement is all right. Death of Mr. Price. Died, at the residence of her son-in-law, A. Parker, iu Salisbury, De cember 20, 1890, Mrs. Jaue E. Price, in the 74th year of her age. She was the widow of Charles N. Price, formerly a resident of Concord for many years, and a sister of Jeremiah Keisler, a name well known in this vicinity. The deceased was a con sistent member of the Presbyterian church, a lovely Christian character, full of kindness, tender love and chi.rity to all. One son and daugh ter survive her 11. W. Price and Mrs. 'A.' Parker; of Salisbury. The young may die, and the aged must die Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. X. Standard. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, STANDARD NOTES. The coming man : The one with brains, energy and enterprise. Bad Xmas weather did not keep out new subscribers to the Weekly. Get ready, ye chair riders, and fall into the line of "sturdy sons of toil." Sad is the record of many a one for 1890 ! May the coming year be different. It was once "What is home with out a mother r It reads now: "What is home without an organ ?" The Big Foot band of Indians have been cap'ured, and everything begins to sound like peace all along the line. Mr. Hal. W. Ayer, city editor of the Daily State Cnronicle, is hot Col. Polk's private secretary. He has gone to Washington. Good crops have been made in all parts of the United States except drought-stricken Kansas, and the over-esti mated Ok lahoma. Rock Hill, S. C has an oil mill, which is now to be enlarged. It pas. Why can't Concord have an oil mill. It would pay here, too. Now that the fun is over, let us turn our eyes and sense's jto the cem etery fund. This fund is to lie raised, and you'll not rest until it is. A crowd of citizens Saturday even ing were discussing a mayor's ticket for the May election. Wait till the agonies of the Legislature are over! The office of the Twin-City Daily, of Winston, is burnt down the re sult of Xmas fire crackers. But Bro. Foy will not down ; he comes again. Senators Hoar and Hiscock made speeches yesterday in favor of the election bill. There are some fools in that old party, who will not listen to what the best men in it tell them. Colonel Polk has made Mr. Hal. T. Aver his new secretary. Mr. Ayer is a line young man with brain and back bone, and has for a long time been connected with the Raleigh Chronicle, as city editor. Is it not unfortunate to baptise our growing and thrifty towns a3 'on a boom ?" The manly strides being made by our sturdy sons of vim and brains don't result in booms, but beget a prosperous, steady aud substantial growth ! The ladies of Greenville, S. C. admiring so much the manner in which Mr. Williams, the editor of the Daily (Greenville) News, de fended Wade Hamton, have pre sented him with a happy gift. Oh, the editors are lucky(?). Monday was Gladstone's birthday, and he was 81 years old then. Many friends and admirers of Mr. Glad stone were in the little town of Ilawarden, and made the grand old man feel jrood by showering on him many tokens of their friendship aud love. Mr. Alexander endorses the Standard's suggestion ot a Reforma tory for young offenders. Read what he says; it rings pretty well, but the Standard doubts the Refor matory feature of the whipping post, but it may prevent many a one from indulging in the offenses he speaks of. The Legislature of South Caro lina passed a Railroad Commission bill similar to the Georgia law. Gov. Tillman vetoed it for several reasons among others because it provided for the commissioners to be ap pointed by the Legislature, and he thought the people ought to do tho appointing. Tiik medical world, while in a state of thorough trial of Dr. Koch's consumption cure, is not proned to jump on the medicine with both feet. No one has sought to con demn it without its first, having a thorough and complete trial, though some leather-headed quacks claim they .have made a discovtry of a sure cure. The Wilmington Messenger has completed its seventh six-months' volume. That the Messenger has struggled, is the history of every paper in the State ; that it is sur mounting the difficulties and prom ises to be a fixture of great benefit to the State, there seems to be no doubt. Long live the indefatigable Bonitz aud the learned Kingsbury. With the incoming of the new year there will be- four new Superior Court J udges to begin their circuits : Hon. Henry Bryan, of New Berne; Hon. Robert Winston, of Winston ; Hon. James Mclver, of Carthage, and Hon. William A. Hoke, of Lin colnton. These gentlemen bring to the bench high integrity of charac ter, fine judicial attainments and urbanity of deportment. Nojone doubts th right of a fel low spending his natural life on earth ; but when it comes to spend ing it in one office it savors of good ness on his part and kindness on the part of the -dear people. Warren county, this State, has had only two clerks of the Superior court since 1817. Mr. B. C. Cook held the office 51 years; siace then his nephew, Mr. W. A. White, has filled the place. Morrison, Lents A Co. The Standard was pulling for Xmas yesterday, and overlooked the firm whose name appears above. There's not an ugly man in the crowd that stays in that house. They sell nice goods in a dry goods line. They sell lots of 'em. M. M. Gillon was a war captain; Baker Morrison has a family and has served on the jury ; and Dolph Lentz why he's a Jim dandy. He itsed to make kites and horse bridles, but now he understands how to sell roods. AMOJiti OUR EXC1IAXOKS. The Press and Carolinian, of Hickory, came- out in a handsome Xmas supplement, used as a back. Editor Murrill is on the other side of the hill, but he's a hustler. The Charlotte Chronicle, like its past history, didn't miss an issue during Xmas. Robert Haydn be lieves in giving news during Xmas as well as at other times. The Chronicle has " no flies on it" The Fayetteville Observer had a special Xmas issue, but ours did not reach us this was what was "hearn" from it. That kound paperThe Globe of Durham came every day. Awful Funny Al Fairbrother took his, " Xmas " at night and worked dur ing the day. The people of Durham ought to present him with a new beaver. Wade Harris took one day off with his News, but he's joggiug along as lively as ever siuce Xmas. The Salisbury Herald jumped a week ; but this office has no advice about the Watchman, if we hadn't missed every issue of it under its new management, the Standard would be inclined to think it drunk. The Oxford Day the notorio.is " wire grass daily " pulled itself in for several days, but the Standard hopes o see Day again. Our neighbor, the Times, took a week's rest. The brother had a right to do it, and then he has something to play Santa Claus for. The Greensboro Record stopped recording for awhile and the Work man stopped working, but both are back at iheir jobs. The Congressional Record came very near slipping up, as it came out several times as a two-column four pager. This was a great loss to us as that paper furnishes so much "cut-throat" sensational matter. The lialeigh papers took some time off. The Standard took three days off from the Daily, but our Weekly, the meanest paper in the State, bobbed up without jumping a single cog. The other fellows at the pen will please let us know if they had any Xmas. The Sux, Jim Robinson's paper in Durham, we are told, will rise and shine upon the Globe after several days iu darkness. Bear Creek Item. Christmas passed by with several sociables to make the occasion one of joy. The hearts of the young were light and happy, and knew no sorrow, and the old were once more wafted back to childhood when th?y enjoyed the same festive pleasures. Peck, Fisher & Co., have ginned 123 bales of cotton this fall. The crop was good and they are hustlers. We regret it, but we fear we will lose our good friend, Dr. Lefier He has not yet decided where he will locate. Communion services will be held at Bear Creek church on the second Sunday. Preparatory services will be held on Friday and Saturday previous to that date, a' 11 o'clock. The young men's debating society will hold its meetings on Friday night, instead of Thursday night, as heretofore. From the looks of things around here we think theie will be some passing from single cussedness to double blessedness before long. Lookout preachers and magistrates, you may be called upon at auy hour. Rex. Copal tirove Nummary. A fine time to all at the Christmas tree at Bethel church and all went away happy. Mr. A. E. Lyerly is at home on a visit from N. C. Collece. Miss Effie Lyerly ha3 been suffer ing from a wound in her foot caused by stepping on a nail, but she is do ing well and will soon be all right again. Dan Basinger, of lower Rowan, shot and killed himself last Satur day night, the 20th. His mind was thought to be unbalanced, and John Barleycorn wa? present and assisted, we are told. A good many rabbits bit the dust during the holidays. One fellow a short time ago awoke and found himself in Will Russell's shuck pen. His mind had become unbalanced and he had taken the wrong end of the road and slept or lay in the shuck pen during the night. We hear the snort of the iron horse on the Yadkin railroad very distinctly. Our letter is short on account of news. Will try and do better next time. R. Mr. Coulter and the "Y. M. C. A. L. A. Coulter, State Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., arrived in the city Saturday night, and lectured to the Y. M. C. A. Sunday evening at their rooms. Sunday night he lectured to a large audience at the Methodist church. Hi 5 audience was highly pleased with his remarks, and the good that he has done will doubtless be felt in the liberal way the busi ness men and boys respond to the calls for money to sustain this noble institution. Mr. Coulter said he wanted to raise as much as four hundred dol lars to carry on the work here and to make the rooms attractive, and at the meeting at the Methodist church he succeeded in getting over three hundred dollars subscribed. This morning he called en several of the business men and added much more to that amount. yf r It is strange that every man be lieves in bragging on his own, boys. 1891. A COl'BfTRTMAJI'S VIEW OP REFORMATORY. - TUE The Correapoudent Branches Out Freely on Anth,er Subject. Editor Standard : I heartily endorse your idea of a House of Correction for boys and girls who commit crime, instead of sending them to the penitentiary. Now, while on the subject of cor rection, let us have the law for the whippinff-post revived, for all tier- sons convicted of larceny for the second time, or even for the first offense in aggravated cases, such as DanK robbery, big steals, tc. Still further: I think it would be a good thing if we had a law (and it rigidly enforced) to prevent people from employing boys and girls under twenty-one years of age, witnout tne written consent of par- nts or guardians. It has gotten so lately that parents or onardians can not keep their children or wards at home, if they take a notion to de part, inere are people, too, that will persuade such persons off, so as to get the benefit of cheap labor. They thus get into bad company and into crime that thev otherwise would not, had they been with pa rents or guardians. Respectfully, J. M. W. A. The Old Bachelor' Clufc Growing and Expanding with the Tears. General W. T. Meadows will or ganize a branch of the Old Bache lors Club at Tom Waller's room this evening at 7:30 o'clock sharp. All the candidates for initiation will present themselves and be prepared to ride the goat. A charter has been obtaine'd from Col. Al Fair brother, cf the Durham Globe. Oxford Day. We regret to state that several of our members could not be present at Oxford, but Colonel Meadows initi ated some twenty-one bachelors. The Globe will promise just this much: We will grant charters to all towns which desire to form a club. There is but one exception. Plain Jim Cook cannot join the clnb snd we have concluded to see to it that Concord is not given a charter. Durham Globe. Thej are only a few bachelors in Concord, and they are too respect able to join any wild scheme that prevents a man from enjoying the felicitous presence and inspiring in fluences of our many noble girls. It is true that there are two or three bachelors here who want to marry "mignty bad" but can't get any one to have them ; but even they are too nigh-toned to swear off from trials towards matrimonial bliss. Keep your charter, Grand Mogul of the Bachelors' Club Concord is too progressive a town to even tolerate such a curse as a bachelors club ! Down In 'o. 10. Things have begun to look town i:-h around Flows. A broad street with sidewalks has been laid out, and the nice stores do a profitable business. The Christmas tree and Missionary sale was a success. Some very fine and costly presents were given. About $25 were raised for missionary purposes. Miss Jennie Gourley was home for holidays. C. B. Muse was in such luck in finding gold that he did not stop for Christmas. They have had a few weddings, and are expecting to have more soon. Nothing has been heard of the "devil of night" that has been the terror of 'possum hunters. It is a fact too plain to be unnoticed that a young man hardly ever goes out hunting now. Messrs. Will and Gus Boger, of North Carolina College, and Luther Hartsell, of Trinity College, are spending Christmas with their pa rents. Miss Lula Sloan, of Rowan, is visiting friends and relatives in and around Flows. Several Deaths I.axt Week. The last ten days have brought us not a few sad announcements. About ten days ago, Mr. and Mrs Asa Bost, of Mill Hill, came to town on a. damp, cold day. Both took very severe colds, which rapidly changed to pneumonia. Mrs. Bost died one day, and the following day the husband passed away. They were getting somewhat aged. Mr. Bost was a brother of Messrs. Aaron and Martin Bost Mr. Tom Sapp, of No. 5, died one day last week. He had been quite sick for some time Mr. Monroe M. Goodman, of No. 5, waslsick only a few days of paraly sis. He sank rapidly. He was a brother of Mr. 11. &l. Uoodman, of this place. A. M. Tucker, who lived in No, 2, died several days ago. "My Ciod ! Its my Daughter.'' Lock Haven, Pa., Dec. 27. Emma Mather was killed yesterday on a railroad bridge near Halifax, in a most shocking manner. She was half way across it when she heard a train coming. She realized her danger and attempted to drop through the ties into the creek-be-low. The space wag too narrow, however, aod while she was trying to squeeze through the engine Btruck her. All her clothing was, torn from her as the locomotive passed her and she wa3 killed instantly. Her body dropped into the creek and one of the men who happened to carry th crushed body to the shore stopped to see if he could Identify it, Suddenly he exolaimed, "My God, it js my daughter." The girl was twenty-three years old. WHOLE NO. 164. A LARGE I.ANO MALE. Gouebe's Peak, Near This City, Sold for 870,000. The property known as Gouche's Peak, and consisting of 700 acres. has been sold by W. T. Reynolds to Mr. E. B. Webster, president of Fannington College, near Warren, Ohio. The price paid was $100 an acre. This property is four miles from Asheville, and the view from there is considered to be one of the grand est around here and one most stran. gers visit. Mr. Webster is said to be a very weairny man, and will no doubt greatly improve this valuable pro perty. Asheville Citizen. That is a tremendous price to pay for a view, but let the money come among us and with it good men. The bars are down, and the welcome 13 an honest, sincere one, notwith standing the motion of a hot-headed Hottentot in the Immigration Con vention he wanted to table a reso lution that extended a hearty wel come to Northern and Western sturdy sons of toil. At Caton's Hall Monday Sight. The entertainment which was given Monday night at Caton's Hall for the benefit of the Thompson Orphanage, located in Charlotte, was a most surprising succesi in every respect to the largest audience which was ever assembled in Concord on a similar occasion. We may safely say that iu no town of Concord's population was there ever given an entertainment characterized by rarer or more ar tistic merit The first recitation, by Miss Ida Joyrer, not only gave great pleasure to ths audience but evinced a degree of talent and such a thorough con ception of the spirit of the selection which is rarely, if ever, excelled by an amateur. The rendition of two selections from Shakespeare, by Mr. Morrison, gave to a Concord audience the first opportunity ever enjoyed here of hearing and seeing a living repre sentation of some of the thoughts and feelings of the greatest of the world's authors. One could but feel, as he looked and listened, that he was sitting in the presence of a true master. The varied and various recitations, by Mrs. Morrison, not only gave intense pleasure to the entire audi ence, but also, in their every feature, gave evidence of the high culture in this line of art, to which this lady has attained. ine singing ot tne two songs, "Sweet Alpine Roses" and "Coming Through the Rye," by sweet little Bessie Campbell, was a source of such pleasure as no audience any where ever before had a greater opportunity to enjoy. So true and so pure wa3 her exquisite little voice and so artistic was her rendition of the two songs, that a lady of great experience and much observation of such things said to the writer: "She had never, throughout her expen ence, seen anytning wnicn more nearly approached the line of per fection. ine music ior tne occasion was furnished by the Concord Orchestra, and was of that high order which may always be expected from this band. And who, though they are only amateurs and pursue their studies from a love of music, have given to their town and community, not only a very great pleasure, but also a just pride in their attainments. The Snakes Xot Here. It may be put down as a fact that more whiskey is drunk in Salisbury and Rowan county than need be, The snake season is over for the present year. Salisbury Watchman. You ought to persuade your peo pie to do like ours, brother. We have prohibition, and the only time our people drink i3 when they have a sore throat Not Apt to Do Damage. It is a splendid feature, and the Standard is delighted with the idea the sub-Alliances holding New Year's thanksgiving services. The Alliance is doing not only good work in a financial sense, but the blessings of the Sunreme Bein2 are not lost sight of in the deliberations of the organization. To those who see so much danger in the Alliance the Standard wishes to whisper in their ears that an organization that be lieves in and recognizes the existence of an All-Wise Power is not apt to do any giv it damage. i m mm Dr. Herring Back from the EhhI. Dr. II. C. Herring, who has been to Sampson county to visit bis pa rents, returned Monday night While down there the Doctor went fishing, and if he did not have the things along to prove the con trary, we would think he told some fish stories. But knowing the doc tor, as we do, and seeing some of the fish bones and scales, we tell our readers "it's a fact." He caught one fish that weighed thirty pounds, and three other, all of which weigh ed ninety pounds. We saw a few of the bones of these fish and they looked like the ribs of a Kansas City beef cow. The doctor's face is scratched up a little, and .we asked hin to explain. "Well," said he, "I caught the biggest one of those fiah and when I pulled him to the bank, I sat my weight down upon him to hold tiim and the blamed thing trotted off with me just like aTexa3 pony would, and carried me through a brier patch. While going through, I managed to get a grape- Tine and run it through' the fish's mouth like nwld bits, and held him to tho ground." THE STANDARD. LARGEST PAPER -PUBLISHED IN CONCORD- CONTAINS MORE KEADIKO MATTER THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IN THIS SECTION. LITTLE DROPS OF Ta r, Pitch, Turpentine and Other Tar Heel Products. Raleigh Visitor: There are twenty five prisoners in the county jail awaiting tral at the January term of the Superior Court. Tarboro Southerner: It is re ported that there is qnite a crowd of negroes at the Jepot awaiting the arrival of the emigration train. Agents are in the county now solic iting labor. Goldsboro Argus: A notorious negro, named David Jcnes, from Wil mington, stole Mr. J. J. Casey's over coat from his buggy in this city a few days ago, and the Mayor gent him to jail to await the next term of Superior Court Italeigh Chronicle : Yesterday morning there was a wild and sen sational rumor going the rounds to the effect that Prof. E. P. Moses. superintendent of the Raleigh graded schools, had been shot at Jonesboro, Tenn. Investigation failed to reveal anything whatever to verify the report, and it was soon regarded aa something that sprang up without root from nowhere, Charlotte News: Following the usual custom, a colored man and wife living on Mr. Jno. Orr's plan tation in Crab Orchard township. yesterday wen off, locking up their children in the house. When theT returned they found their three vear old daughter burned to death. Iler clothing had caught fire from the open fire-place. Asheville Citizen: The Salvation army, under the management of Capt. r . L. Sawyer, opened its cru- pade against sin last night at the old opera hall iu the court house, which has been leased for a year. About 300 persons were present aud some seemed to take an interest in the ser vice, which consisted of exhorta tions, singing of familiar airs, and praying. The following is gotten from the Charlotte Chronicle: Joseph Beckani, colored, spent Saturday at Mt. Mourne and return ed yesterday, bringing news of an accident which occurred there Satur day. The two year old child of Jno. Stewart, colored, was shot and in stantly killed by its five year old brother. The father, it seems, bad gone hunting, and the mother left the children in the house while Bhc went to a neighbor's. The elder boy, m her absence, found a pistol, and was playing with it when it went off, killing the baby instantly. The ball entered his bead under the ear and came out betweea hi.s eyes. Mix Pokpr Hnnds. At a social game of poker Friday night in one deal, with six playing, the first man drew two cards aud got a full hand of three queens and two nines. The second man drew one card and got a Hush of hearts. The third man drew one card and filled a straight of king high. The fourth man drew two cards and got four aces. The fifth man drew three cards and got four eights. Tho sixth and last man drew two cards and got a straight flush of spades with seven high. As these wero remarkable hands to come out in one deal and all drew cards and no pat hands, I thought you would like to publish them, as it was, without the shadow of a doubt, a straight deal. Boston Herald. A Destructive fire. On last Sunday the round house of the Raleigh & Gaston railroad, at lialeigh, was burned, and with it seventeen engines. One of the en gines belonged to the Egypt road and the other sixteen to the lialeigh & Gaston. At the time it happened more locomotives were in the round house than at most any other time, as a great many freight traius bad been run into lialeigh to carry the holiday goods. The round house was a new one, having been built about two years ago. The burning of the locomotives put things in a right serious condition, but five loco motives were sent to the relief of the Raleigh & Gaston company by the Carolina Central company. The origin of the fire is not known. Accidentally fchot. Burdette Cross, a son of Mr. Chas. Cross, who lives at Burdette post office, in thn county, was shot and painfully injured Saturday. A littlu negro who became offended at his aunt, got a gun and tried to shoot her. Another little negro tried to prevent the consummation of sj sanguinary a deed and they got into a scuffle for the possession of tho gun. Burdette was standing near by looking on. During the struggle the gun went off, and the load took effect in Burdette's left leg, just above the knee. Dr. Winchester dressed the wound, which is painful, but not a serious one. Charloito News. . I.i of Advertised Letters At Concord, Cabarrus county, N. C, for the week ending December 20, 1800: LADIEi. Berge, Mis, Juicy Fa?an9, Miss Looter Bo wan, 3IrshU . - raiton, iim jtu" GENTLEMEN. Bason, MM l' Berd, John Kichanl, M 1 DinaiiB, S A To obtain any of the above the,' fcimlicant must pay one cent and call for "advertised letters, stacng tne date of the list. The Standard is a hummer