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(INE AXI .E.
BY T. T. WATSON.
Long ago the two
Walked under ihe sunset red
Will yoa love as I love you t
I will love you better, she said.
A young day pledged its best.
Gave it, and then grew old ;
A hand drew from the west
All Its glory of gold.
Oh. Giver, let her stay
Where she baa pi oven her worth j
Oh, call her not away,
I need her here on earth.
A star ran down the sky
And entered into a room ;
A soul went forth to try
The trail it made in the gloom.
TUB LIME-KILX CLI O.
Brltfr Whalebone Hwker Pmm
- Orr b iMM-k Btnr.
At a special meeting of the Lime
Kiln Club, called on Saturday even
ing, the Bad announcement was made
that Brother Whalebone llowker had
passed from earth away. It seems
that he stopped an ice wagon in the
middle of the street to ask the driver
in what particular year Columbus
discoverel America, and while the
driver was consulting his memoran
dum book a grocer's wagon came
along and collided with Brother
nowker. The shock of that alone
might not have kille l him, but he
had had consumption, enlargement
of the liver and the weakness of the
heart for many years, and within
two hours of being carried home he
breathed his last.
Remarks of Brother Gardner : The
President said that this was another
illustration of the old saying:
"When ye think ye stand ye may
fall." Brother Howker was a close
studeat of American history. He
had settled the fact that Columbus
did discover America, but was not
quite satisfied as to the date. It was
in seekiqg to 61 this that he nobly
perished. . He did not die leading a
brigade of cheering men against a
battery of belching cannon, but his
tory would still remember him and
record his name on its pages. Brother
Howker borrowed considerable
money and forgot to return it and
now and then he didn't seem to care
whether he told the truth or some
thing more solid, but he averaged up
with other men, and only his virtues
should be remembered.
Remarks of Sir Isaac Walpole:
Sir Isaac Walpole said that death
loved a shining mark, and Brother
Howker was a good deal ot a shiner.
He was a patient, even-tempi-red and
good-natured man. It made not the
least difference to him whether ht
was bitten by a fifteen-cent or fhe
dollar dog. If it rained he hoped it
would be go-.d for somebody's cab
bages. If it was dry, he knew that
thousands of wash-women wo-dd
rjr-ir;e. He was amlutous, but not
gpresiive. He had his aims, but
wa not wire p. tiler. No doubt he
meant to repay all borrowed money,
but absence of mind stood in nis
way. Brother Llowker w u. g"iru!lv
behind on his rent, but he had
fijured out the weight of the Pyra
mids to a pound. He was in debt
to the butcher and grocer, but he
could tell all about Demosthenes and
Cicero. While all flesh must die,
there was a good deal of flesh walk
ing around which could have been
spared.
Remarks of Samuel Shin: Sam'l
Shin said that the Sad news was
broken to him while carrying home
a can of oysters which he had pur
chased at a discount on account of
the thaw. He was stunned. He felt
like one who had received a crushing
blow on the end of the nose. It was
only the day before that he had met
Brother Howker pricing turnips at a
grocery, and his remarks that the
turnips of today were not the turnips
of forty years ago still sounded in
his ears. He has already called on
the bereaved widow and assured her
that BtJJher Howker owed, him $4
borrowed money, but he would not
press the matter for a month or so.
Remarks of Waydown Bebee:
Brother Bebee said he could scarcely
realize the sad news. , Just one brief
hour before the word came to him
Brother Howker had called at his
bouw to ask him what year William
the Conqueror died in, and to borrow
half a cake of bar soap. That soap
was found in his coat-tail pocket as
he was taken home, and that fact
would always be a consolation. He
had known the deceased for twenty
two long years and he had never
heard him express dissatisfaction
with his lot but once. That was
when he was laid up in bed with the
rheumatism, and an afternoon paper
stated that 2,000 chickens had got
out if a barn and were scattered all
oaer the northern suburbs. Brother
Howfcer was diffideut too much so.
He two ted t go to the Legisla
ture bt he communicated the fact
only to hit wife, nd the called him
an idiot. He hud been eighteen
ys gathering the material or a
colored cyi'aeneyclopedi. but- deftih
had O7ortooik hint and his labors
woald ome to nangbt.
Pwvhi of Vol. Cahoots: Col.
Qrvioota bid lfr in hi eyes a he
ar Ej, too, had r(- tuud by
ta? td&Tn av. It v e"tlj
Uf rinutw trorioivt to Lii dth
ttrfrl Broth Horrfeer had .stepped
iOk on th rurtat ffld asked him
forthsbrm e? fifty cento; alip, if
he iuo the eict nuQber of vesseit
in fn ep-aiiah Armada. He had
lied to bio about being aurd up and
hClb no money, and had never
hjr", of bti Arursda, Spanish or
otherwidfk
Tsriotaings noa tortured his con
icieiic, ttod ha propoaad to offer the
widow dollar to cet even. A good
wn bad pMMd wj. Could h
VOL. IV. NO. 1.
have saved him by having his own
nose broken he would have done 60.
There were a number of other
speeches iu this straiu, and after a
committee had been appointed to
draft resolutions suitable to 'he occa
sion the meeting adjourned. Detioit
Free Press.
THE GOVERNOR AKOT1IE REFORM.
AIOKY.
Besides other recommendations in
his message to the. .Legislature, Gov.
Fowl urges the passage of a b''l
providing f-T a Reformatory for
young criminals. The .Standard is
gratified at this. Just how strongly
the Governor urged the establish
ment of such an institution we are
not informed ; but it is enough to
know that His Exc .Honey thought
themttterof enough importance to
call special attention to it.
It is to be hoped that our Repre
sentatives will act on this question.
North Carolina cannot afford to pen
up youths, though guilty, with hard
ened, depraved men. The State does
not punish to ruin lives and to grat
ify the wrath of insulted dignity;
but the true motive in punishing
offenders is to check further break
ing of the law, aud, in particular, to
reform offenders. That the common
jail, the horrible, manhoo I- crushing
chaingang and the State penitentiary
are not reformatories, is well and
sadly known. As a great State of
a noble and humane people, efforts
should be made to reform the many
youths, who, from parental neglect
or unfortunate associates, have gone
affray, and make of them useful aud
upright citizens. Let it be done !
The cost may be heavy at the begin
ning, but such an institution can be
made self-sustaining, and in a short
time our court calendars will be
greatly decreased. For the sake of
some mother's dissipated child, let
the Legislature provide a Reforma
tory. If such is done, the Standard
will have just cause for great pleas,
ure in Beeing the young offenders
placed where reformation is possible
and strongly probable.
But more about this at auother
time.
A Ntrtke ia Durham.
It may be written about tday that
there was a little strike in Durham
yesterday some eight or ten men
walked out of the Medicated Cigar
ette Factory.
But a word about strikes in general:
A manufacturing establishment
tlwavs continues. No matter how
many men walk out, there are always
men enough, someway, or suniehow,
to take the piaces of those who go
or, if they do not supply places, th'V
go on and on, aud the man h talks
about the eternal piinciple of rigit
is generally fo nd without monev
nough to pay out. Ihe OU.be lia
all the symp thy in ihe world for the
working man ad the worki.--
woman. It makes bold to sav tha
the peorle wiio m ii.ae and in tkt-
this paper ok more hour- .-.rd
lunger hours ihau any people isi Ihir
ham hence it claim-! its. if to b .
laborer to know bv experience and
Belf denial what a laboring man or
woman endures, but at the name time
it wants to s:;y that it is opposed to
strike'.
A strike means that those who par
ticipate in it will at least lose one or
two week's work it means that the
Saturday night envelope will not
come, and it means that the concern
which causes one to quit will flourish
and go on and on.
Better than a strike any and every
time, is a settlement of differences.
If the mail for whom you are work
ing refuses to pay you what you
think you earn never consider him
or his company in the proposition
but figure out how much you can
make by going on a strike. Princi
ple is a great and glorious thing in
the abstract. But principle is grander
when it goes alone into a room and
says, " I will stay here until I get a
better job."
A better iob is always preferable
to the one you have but never throw
a sure thing over your shoulder for
something in the wind. Some one
once wrote something about a "bird
in the hand being worth two in the
bush," and whoever wrote that cer
tainly knew what he was talking
about.
Strikers always wear poor clothes
while the other ' fellows wear dia
monds. It may be the fault of the
world, but the fault is pertain and it
is sure and those who expect to
strike, in these times, and win their
fight, might as well get out and try
to kick off one of the blue rafters of
the dome of heaven. Durham Globe
LITTLE CHKOMU'LEN
From the Ctaroalvle, That Never Takes
Christmas.
Will Ozmen resigned the position
of bagaae master at the C. .0. depot.
The County Board of Educaiion
hn hf.n in session four daS aDDor-
tiotting th tjchooi f nnd. Edward
Baxtei Perry, ibe celebrated blind
piauis-, who gave a piano recital
here las' winter, will aain visit the
city. At Squire Boyd6 court yes
tenia, V. J. Vanderhurg was up far
failin- !0 support hia wife and ehil
dreu. " He wa nciuin-d to pay $1.50
per week tor ti.eir support. The
motion was carried that a co.-umm.ee
b appointed to invite Mr. Fife to
come to Charlotte as soon, as the way
jg ciar, There wa a marriage in
high magisterial circles. Char
lotte is to have an architect.
The Sali sbury Watchman, edited
by a red-headed nun, says: "Use
planty of bedding." Does th man
think a fellow has no better sense
than to lie down nnd freeze ?
The Legislature
Is Bet-inninff to Orlnd Slowly But
Narely.
The officers have all been elected,
and th
rnrhsage of the Governor
has been asked fof.
The officers of the House are:
Speaker Rufus A. Houghton, of
ALeghmy; Principal Clerk J. M.
Brown, of Stanly; Reading Clerk
H. G Latham, ; Engr'.Sbing
Clerk A. U. Ha)es, of Swain;
Principal Doorkeeper Hill E King;
Assistaut Doorkeeper Kilput
ri k, Lenoir.
The Senate officers are: Lieut-Gov.
Holt, Presid ug officer; Chief Clerk
R. M. Furman, of Asbeville; Read
ing Clerk G. P. Ped, of Wiuston ;
Doorkeeper J. H. Hinnant, of
Hyde; Assistant Doorke'p-r A M.
Noble, of Johnston; E grossing
Clerk Mike Bradshaw, of Ran
dolph. The Jointj Caucus nominated A.
K. Smith for Enrolling Chrk.
We clip fram the Raleigh Chroni
cle some
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
The galleries of the halls Avere
filled with ladies yesterday.
There are four colored Represent
atives and two Senators in the pres
ent General Assembly.
Twenty-one members of the pres
ent, session are "old hands at the
bellows," having been members of
the session of 1889.
R. M. Lee, (col.) of Chowan
county, tells the Chronicle fhat he is
here to contest the seat of Mr. II.
A Bond, Jr., of Chowan.
For the first time in the history
of the government of North Caro
lina, every Senator was present yes
terday at the roll call of the organi
zation of that bod)'.
Wake fared badiy, notwithstand
ing the recent glorious Democratic
victory. All its candidates were
defeated. It hurt very much, but
our people accept the result philoso
phically, aud submit gracefully.
There is general regret at the de
feat of Mr. Wiley Clifton for door
ke per of the Senate. He had held
that position many years, and in use
fulness and aceeptibility he ranked
equal to any officer the State ever
had.
It has been supposed by some that
the present session of 'he Legisla
ture, being composed mainly of
farmers, would not favorablv com
pare with other sessions. If such
supposition u as entertained, it wis a
great mistake. The persot'el of the
body now in session is c-itainlv up
to the a'-rrat."', and as fiiv a Cather
ine of I. esl.i-i- as ever a-s- niMed
in North 1 a o na.
Yest rdav a pei:ta!r T-o wa$
pre-ent during the irg iniza: .on of
'he Lf'j slatuiv ran.-kul that t :is
ahs the a"':est and bes. s t - f
'ink r-. lh-t' he h.- seen ,h,- f.iji
tol i i m.-toi ye r?. The gentieJua.i
I'trtiivT i-ai-i h- :..t'J '.u'n-ftvil ev, n
org:!ma"i-''n of ihe.Stufe bisiat r.
sii.ee tliev. ai , s'ti'i t :i mn i.i.jircsn-!
him more at the ttait than any in
tiis re-ol:ecMon.
Numerous bills hve been intro
duced by the different members. A
petition wa presented by ouv Repre
sentative, A. F. Hiletnan, for the
prohib tion of the sale of spiritous
liquors near Mt. Carmel Methodist
church and New Giltad Reformed
church iu this county. A joint
committe on railroad commission
was asked.
Senator Lineback introduced a
bill agafnst the nse of railroad
passes by State officials.
Representative Wood introduced a
bill to appoint a joint committee,
two on the part of the Senate ai.d
two on the part of the Jouse, to
let the public printing out to the
lowest bidder.
OOIXG TO A HI UII COl'RT.
" The Concord Standard says that
there is an organized effort being
made to discover the age of the edi
tor of this organ of unterrified Dem
ocracy and intimates that he is at
tempting to assume the role of
youthful innocence for purpose! of
deception. This is undoubtedly a
conspiracy against ns, and we pro
pose to have Dr. Caldwell and Dr.
Coo' before a U. S. Commissioner
iustanter." Lenoir Topic.
Great Scott 1 You are too old to
enjoy the luxury of a legal investi
gation ; and, then such a trial would
bring to light your "purposes of de
ception." You can't scare " Dr."
Caldwell with as little a thing as
U. S. Commissioner; and ae long as
old reliable Joe shows grit, the
other defendant shall keep close to
his fatherly wing.
Tbey Were Wot Jflce About It, Bat
Aatlsfied.
The following from the Wilming
ton Messenger's Raleigh correspon
dent is interesting: Secretary T. K.
Brnner, of the Department of Ag
riculture, talked to me very encer
tainingiy of gold mines and mining
in N oi th Carolina. Apprtpoe to a
statement that $6,000,000 had been
taken from the Gold Hill mine, Bear
Salisbury, Mr. Bruner says that not
over $4,000,000 in gold has been
taken from all the North Carolina
mioes. lie says in the old days at
Uolol Hill mine the owners were
three gentlemen, one of whom was
the late M. L. Holmes, of Salisoury.
A the end of a week the gold was
melted into a big bar. This was
roughly divided, lines being drawn
across it, and it was then cut into
three parts, an axe being nted to do
the cutting. Then the partners
drew lots for the pieces.
The Standard ia a hummer.
CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15,
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Eastern Journalists Have to Get Ac
climated.
In its last issue, which was three
days late, owing to a circumstance
below narrated, the Arizona Kicker
B&ya :
- One More Unfortunate. The
othr day a tenderfoot who said he
had been a reporter on the Pittsburg
Chronicle, came along and struck us
for a job, and we set him to wor"k
Monday on the agricultural depart
meut of the paper. We warned him
against the strange climate of this
strange country, and that he must
not attempt to handle anything until
he first a-ked the name of it. After
two or three hours he got the swoll
head and went out to chin with ihe
boys, and that afternoon we buritd
him. He had heard tell of jackass
rabbits, but had never seen one, aud
somebody made him believe that Col.
Moore's mule, which was tied near
the postoffice, was one of the gentle
creatures of the plains. He was
looking to see if the rabbit's feet
were webbed when the calamity
came. Mortum bum, which is Latin
for he didn't know it was loaded,
and that we have his latch-key, five
cent3 in money and a summer necktie
which we will forward to his friends
on request.
Told Him So. Three months
ago, when a young man who had
stuck tyie for tnirty-five cents per
M on a Cleveland paper, and had
knocked off because he couldn't
agree with the editorial policy of the
paper, came out here to establish a
plant and grow wool on his back.
We sat down and talked to him like
a brother. There's nothing mean
about us. We don't want the earth.
We have a great weekly newspaper,
a butcher shop, grocery, saddlery,
shoe shop, millinery store and signal
service bureau all under one roof,
and we don't care how many other
enterprises are established in this
wild west.
This young man planned to start
a weekly over at Pedro Valley, and
we warned him to pitch into the Czar
of Russia and go light on the boys
at home. That's the safe policy
while learning to shoot right and
left handed. He didn't seem to take
kindly to our advice, and our last
words, as we lent him sixteen letters
out of a iont of job type, were to
prepare for the up-hills and down,
hills of the hereafter. The seqml
proves that we were correct. He
ieattid one ctlitio", jabocd his home
suk-cribers, and now he sleeps on lot
No. 17, section 21, of To.ver's sub
division of the 2,0u0 acre tract. He
died a. ueti'ii of the climate, assUted
bv w i'ii. rig bauds.
Took a A'alk". A in particular
aik ot in teres-. n o rdhon.il page
' -..eek m tut ! 'aid 'o a i ; e
ii' i-.jfi t w rt eh i"ird Tued.v
f T i iK'ii A eroS'-eye-: pr. Sti'ini.
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a- ciseo
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-.a put in :-orpi,- t -..
i'h us a nt.i;:;-y ediT.-i'. ii
seemed a pri d-in, icvel headi-i fel
low, -nd we pasred i.i hi.- ( wiiu
out reading it. Wli.it d.d lie d i but
ring iu a little i-eiu o tuultec th t
four aC'S always beat a royal flush,
no matter what old liar held to the
contrary. Col. Johnson, who is
Arizona authority on poker, came
around to have a look at our man
and ask where and hov we had
captured him, and he had scarcely
stepped inside the office when the
proBsman lost hi3 nerve and began to
shoot.
What was the colonel's gain was
our loss. We had a finger split by
a bullet, the devil got a rake across
the skull, and the foreman now car
ries his arm in a sling. The colon ?1,
it is needless to say, was untouched.
When our young man got through
shooting at everybody except the
man he wanted to hit, we assisted to
take him out, head him for the cac
tus plantation, and start him off.
He won't see his mother die not if
he keeps on in that direction. Ten
derfoots sailing in this direction
should bear in mind that our cus
toms, ways and habits are somewhat
different from those of Boston and
New York, and on arriving in this
locality they should expect to be
advised and posted by citizens who
can exhibit nine graves in their
private burying grounds.
Knit Trr Own Pleasure Abont Read.
trg r1s.
The Standard calls your attention
to something that is innocent, right
and proper. Our friends could not
do a better act something that will
cost you but little, yet shows appre
ciation for hard work, shows that
friends are remembered, advertises
the town and county, and is a lucky
rood act. It is this: Besides sub
scribing for and paying for the Daily
Standard, Mr. W. C. Kime came in
and ordered the Weekly Standard to
be sent to three distant frienus in
different places. This helps us to
make further improvements on the
paper, advertises the town, and does
a Kindness and benefit to others.
Now come right along, next!
A IHtrtresstwa; C'aar.
Teachys, N. C, Jan. 5. A man
was found yesterday on Rockfish
Neck near here whose mind is badly
deranged. He gives his name as
John Sesflonis and says he lives 11
miles from Richard Autry's store in
Sampson county. He is supposed to
have been without anything to eat
for several weeks excepting sparkle
berries, and his condition is deplor
able. The Standard rises to remark that
it is not a candidate for State printer.
A FISHY DEXIAL.
Tlie Cabinet Disagree and Then Try to
Patch l'p IHflerenceH.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 7. The
published statement that all the
ionx Indian agents are to be sup
planted by army dicers is denied
tonight at the Interior and War De
partments. There will be a change
made at the Pine Ride agency, the
s- at of the Indian war, where Indian
Atrent Rover is iu charge, and who.-e
removal fur lu'"k of capacity to m et.
the present emergency has b en re
commended to the Piesidei t ly Sec
retary Noble and Iuaian Commis
sioner Morgan.
It is understood that the President
wM make the removal at once, and
that Captain Pierce, an army officei
of much experience in Indian agencv
niatters, will be detailed to take tem
porary charge of the agency until
the present troubles are ended, but
he will be under the control of the
Secretary of the Iuterior and the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs like
any other Jndian agent, and will
have no more authority than any
other agent
There is no probability at all that
any of the other Sioux agents will
be removed. The published state
ment that there was a stormy cabinet
meeting yesterday growing out of the
Indian troubles, and that there were
disagreements and friction between
Secretaries Noble and Proctor, be
cause of a disposition on the part of
the War Secretary to trench upon
the domain or authority of the for
mer in Indian affairs, is authorita
tively denied tonight. The meeting
was entirely harmonious, and the
change in agents at the Pine Ridge
sgency, determined upon today,
meets with the approval of both of
those officers, Secretary Noble ap
proving it as heartily a3 Secretary
Proctor himself do.
NIIE WAS DESPOSDEXT,
No Mary Would aw Noon Iie One bay
as Another.
Mary Dobbins, a damsel of ebon
hue, and until last night a resident
of the pestiferous neighborhood
kuown as Cripple creek, was before
the mayr this morning on a charge
of being drunk and disorderly. Mary
had spent the night iu the calaboose,
and she looked very cold. Seeii g
this the mayor's great heart went
out in sympathy for any w ho might
have to sojourn in the "jug," a"d
he sr jgested that until the weather
becaaie warmer it would be a good
idea to send tiie city's guests to the
county jail, whete there would be
less liability of the'r freezing.
But this Musy re'" !!. ! ar.inst.
"Mr. P.'tnwof.," slcsiid, "1 do n'
Wan I to . d .. n dei" . I s ui;d ad
der st;n ill 'Us c.i -abooe. '
" W'uy ,'-.ked I lie ,na...r.
" 'Cans- I 'loan' iiVe de ide . ..f
'Vl:e- ; j-l.i -;..t-- d.u. Ise ril
si'.-k an v.av, '-'i' I d.in' !,. in -b
i .. . i;-. v e. i .,. . -.
lie ; !.-.e n.-. a!-d o ' ..
' xc :n. n !. -. . " -'-k
' lie r..i;.!.o, .. n "S 1 di' I ; : '
e.liV."
:-o : he mav!t tave M a' l-r c- ;e-.
reinarkn g h ! if S'.e w.ts v.-.y a .x
ious lo slH.flle otl l.eciy could lur-uitha-giiod
rope !o aid her in her
praiseworthy efforts. Asbeville Cit
iz. 11.
Ciol 111 Arm MaHhed WAT.
Ivey Bret Be, a white lad about
sixteen years of age, who resides at
the cor tier of Fourth and Dock
streets, met with a severe injury yes
terday afternoon at three o'clock
whde at work in Wilmington Cotton
Mills. He got bis right haudcaught
in the machinery and it was mashed
to a pulp three or four inches above
the wrist. The unfertunate fellow
was carried to the City Hospital and
Dr. Lane amputated the injured
member just below the elbow. Wil
mington Messenger.
A Dummy Robbed.
Last night a pretty cold night to
a man that had no overcoat a negro
man went to the store of G. Will
Armfield and saw an insensible
dummy with a warm overcoat, and
he a poor cold shivering feeling
creature had none, so he concluded
it would be an act of humanity, or
at least he acted accordingly, and
stripped the unfeeling dummy of its
overcoat and carried it off lor his
own use, but he had not gone far
before an officer met up with him
and escorted him to jail. Greens
boro Workman.
Small-Pox at Savannah, Ot.
The Sauitary Board of Savannah,
Ga., published a card Tuesday, says
the Wilmiugton Star, announcing
that there are three cases of small
pox in that city. One of the cases,
a white child, on Biougbtou street,
is convalescent, and the other two,
negroea, have been removed to th
pest house.
i wm
Crossed In Lotr.
Mr. Junius Mooney, of Kerners
ville, tried to commit suicide on
Sunday night, last, by taking laud
anum, because the arenis of hi.
tady iove would not give their con
sent, but plate i her benind a locked
door. He was able at last accounts
to take in the situation in a milder
light after the vigorous application
of the btoniach-pump. Greensooio
Record.
Trial of Dr. Koch's lymph is be
ing made in Asbeville. The Daily
Citizen says : Dr. Karl von Ruck
made applications of the Koch
lymph to tour patients at the Wiu
i ah aanitarium to-day. The patients
under treatment are doing well. The
Mission hospital patient was inocu
lated again tnis morning, and shows
good progress under the treatment.
1891.
STANDARD NOTES.
The question now is, " Who will
succeed the beautiful and lovely In
galls ?"
George P. Pell, of Winston, will
succeed Hal. W. Aver as city editor
of the Raleigh Chronicle.
North Carolina is to be congratu-lat'-d.
The Governor's mausion is
completed. It wa3 a long pull I
As a mail destroyer and b.'g tearer,
! he present system of mai carrying
by the Richmond & Danville is un
equalled. The Lodge force bill has been
forced to lodge on a limb so far
away that it will hardly ever do any
Sody anv harm.
A deficiency of fifty millions!
'Tis this the Republican party, its
legislation and administration can
go down in history with.
The seawi at Monto Carlo has
opened with plenty of gamblers and
suicides. The weather has nothing
to do with the season there.
There is but one thing that comes
into our market free of duty, and
we all know that that article is
cheap the English sparrow
To waste life, to kill time well,
just go to Maine with a sixty-below-zero
thermometer. The glorious
South well, her climate is a win
ner. Chattanoega applied $500,000 to
the improving of its streets. The
amount some towns in North Caro
lina have applied have never been
audited.
Of the fifty-nine chnrcLes for
whites, in Richmond, Va., thirteen
are Baptist, twelve are Episcopal,
nine ard Methodist and 6ix are Pres
byterian. G rover Cleveland is just as solid
and level above the ears as he ever
was, but he has got to climb over a
monstrous bisr Hill between now and
the shank of '92.
The first lady of the world, Mrs.
Eve-Adam, did not enjoy the privi
leges that the fair sex have now.
You know there were no fashion
journals along that time.
Will some one tell ns just how
many men, women, boys and girls,
lovesick ones and all, got tired of
life and voluntarily "shook off their
mortal coil during the past year i
Some one started the report that
the Progressive Farmer would bid
for the public printing. That paper
denies it. The Standard does not
care ho gets it, co it is let to the
lowest bidder.
An earthquake shock was felt
a ong the Pacific slope recently. It
is s..nl th:it Installs, over in Kan.-as,
was alniosi completely unnerved,
tin kii g 1: was the Legislative shock
t'.'tt he is hourly expeeiiug.
Bambn-j;. S. V , h d a $20,000 hV
on a u r 4' The tire came ne.ir
d io iti: ; K uboji to . n. I ut it is
bisig r i't '!'!; i the
. c 1 A ..;; ' i . . V.i Ot ' i.l. g
a . e... . ..' o-., life .e . T.
' . oini: - i-i o o: honor
l..;.)r.J M. S'r-Hi.. uf A ibein rl. ,
tow .crves r.is :nird, or jioc.-ib'v the
fours h, term is pru.ir'iial clerk of
the House of II-pivse .latives. Ca.
ban" s is s.iticfi 0, for Stanly is our
right hand neighbor.
Tiomas E Miller, Republican,
and Colonel Elliott, Democrat, of
South Carolina, will have a racket
over the latter's seat in Congress.
The grand old "Palmetto State" has
been the scene of an almost ceaseless
political war for nearly one year.
No rebate on tobacco in quantities
less than 250 pounds will bea.lowed.
That's justice with claws ! Very
few dealers ever have 250 pounds in
stock. This is some more ruling
that helps the "big dogs" ride
rough-shod over the small and un
pretentious dealer.
It has been said that we live in
an age of cranks. There is a cause
for everything that happens, and the
reason of the existence of so many
cranks is because people like to be
humbugged by humbugs, and enter
tained by fools, and to meet the de
mands of the times men make them
selves such.
All through the South is seen the
marks of the rapid advance industry
and capital has made in developing
the wonderful natural resources that
are around us. Something that is
of special interest is the fact, as the
records show it, that the whites have
increased in population mnch more
than the blacks, during this period.
There are only two editors in the
present General Assembly. They
are Senator Marion Butler, of the
Samps m Caucasion (Dr. Herring's
old home ; just see what he escaped)
and he is only 28 years of age, and
the other is editor W. W. Hall, of
the Halifax News. May our brothers
survive, and never want to go back
again.
The Greensboro Record's editor
has something wroug about him;
he's showing bad signs, and one of
Greensboro's policemen would do
well to keep an eye o him. The
editor with a bear to sell sayt : "Con
cord is evidently the place for the
English sparrow to settle." Doubt
less a wise change might be made if
tne bear succeeued the tdhor.
Ihe Georgia Alliance made a
move in the right direction when it
advises, and even urges, its members
to cut down the acreage planted in
cottou, as compared with last, year,
and increase tho acreage of the food
crops correspondingly. If the farm
ers of the South would raise their
own supplies timt, and thee all the
cottou they can after, they would
never need to be bothered - by hard
times, or fear that the wolf would
come to the door. :
WHOLE NO. 157.
THE EQUALIZATION OF TAXATION
Correspondence State Chronicle.)
Concord, IJ. C Jan. 8, 1891. Your
editorial of last Saturday in regard
to the equalizatic n of taxation was
very timely. As you Bay, the ine
quality in the levying and collection
of taxes is a matter of complaint in
all of the States. We have seen the
statement in a New York paper that
tho personal property Escaping tax
ation in th . city oi N$w "iork runs
up into the hundreds of millions of
dollars.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsjlva
nia, in his meBsage in '89, Baid to his
State: "We are allowing i nder our
present lawa the taxation of those
least able to bear such a burden at
the rate of from six to thirty mills
upon every dollar's worth of value,
whilst we are allowing millions of
corporate property to escape taxa
tion altogether, and imposing upon
personal property, vhich yields
greater returns than real estate, only
one-half to one-tenth of the burden
of taxation borne by tne latter. Is
it not, therefore, true that our farm
ing population and the owners of
modest homesteads have a right to
complain?"
As real estate cannot be concealed,
being always in sight, the burden of
the support of the government falls
mainiy upon this form of property,
while personal property, m a great
measure, escapes.
We heard recently of a case, to
supplement your illustration, in a
town not a thousand miles from
here, of a gentleman standing high
in the community both as a Chris
tian and citizen. He died leaving an
estate, supposed, from his tax re
turns and what was in Bight, to be
worth fifty or sixty thousand dol
lars: and yet, when the estate was
settled, it proved to be worth one
hundred and fifty thousand. The
excess was in stocks, bonds, mort
gages, &c, which had escaped taxa
tion. How?
Another instance happened in one
of the eastern counties. A gentle
man died leaving an estate estimated
to be worth some twelve or fifteen
thousand dollars, but was found to
be worth fifty thousand, the excess
consisting of registered mortgages
that bad never been returned lor
taxation.
As you say, this question of the
equalization of taxation is one of
supreme importance, and we have
the following to offer the Legisla
ture, and especially the joint com
mittee of finance, to be adopted as a
section of the act to provide for the
assessment of property and the col
lection of taxes, with the belief that
it. will remedy, in a great measure,
this inequality by making it very
unsafe for the owners of bonds,
stocks, notes and mortgages to evade
the law:
Sko. - Before any process, sum
mons or writ shall be issued by any
officer, or by any Justice of the
Peace authorized bylaw to issue the
same, for the collection of any sol
vent credit, or evidence of debt, the
owner, atreut or trustee of such sol
vent credits or evidences of debt
thail make oath or affirmation before
miy of haid officei h, or Jusdee oi the
1 eaee, that t-aid so'veut credits or
evidences of debt have been duiy
i.st) d for taxation ax herein pro
vided; and anv of said officers or
Jiitieiof u e P ace vftto shall isue
Hif.v i. eev, u.!i:nojjrt, or writ for
ec.;j-i t-i.r solvent credit
i iil i : '.- . icl not listed for
i x t o. i '.ii .1 ) g-i Jty of uiinde
i::ear.or, tol, u,h;;. l ouvietiou, nhaii
I. tidt d not exi-eviiujg five lion ?red
ou-ti B, and lmoiis lied not exceed
ing i vyeive mouths, and shall be. dia
qaanti.d I torn iioulintr said office or
iioin acting as a Justice of the
Peace. It shall be the duty of the
snenff of th county in which en
listed solvent credits or evidences of
debt should have been listed for
taxation as herein provided, to col
lect from the owner, agent or trus
tee of all unlisted solvent credits or
evidences of debt two per centum
per month, in lieu of all taxes, upon
the face value of said solvent credits
or evidences of debt from the time
said solvent credits or evidences of
debt should have been listed until
the next succeeding day authorized
by law for returning or listing the
same; and the said two per cent,
shall be collected in the manner pre
scribed by law for the collection of
delinquent taxes. AH public sales,
or foreclosures of any solvent credits
or evidences of debt not listed for
taxation as herein provided, shad be
void and of no effect, and shall con
vey no title to the same, nor to the
real estate or personal property rep
resented by the same.
C. McDonald.
The 6111 Bnrg-larj Case.
The four young men, Joe Martin,
Sam Daniels, Joe Davis and Fon
Jones, who were arrested and jailed
here a few weeks ago for entering
the house of Mr. S. R. Gill, near
Falls of Neuse, and taking over $150,
were arranged in court yesterday
morning on the charge of burglary.
Mr. Gill himself, who is almost
entirely deaf but talks plainly, was
placed upon the witness stand and
examined, all questions being written
upon paper. Petitions were read
from neighbors of Mr. Gill and Mr.
Gill himself, asking that the young
men be tried for burglary in the
second degree as they were all young
and under the influence of liquor at
the time. Solicitor Pou consented
that the case be submitted on a
charge of burglary iu the second de
cree. Judge Winston thereupon
sentenced Martin and Daniels to
thirty years in the penitentiary and
Joe Davis to ten years. Fon Jones,
who was a mere lad and refused to
go into the house with the other
hree, submitted through his counsel
ou a charge of larc-ny and was sen
tenced to five years on tne pu one
roads. Raleigh News and Observer.
Mnnthlv visits are too slow and
here is what the Asheville Citizen
says about Country Homes : Begin
ning about January lotn, tne i. oun
tw HnmeH. heretofore published as
a monthly paper, will be published
weekly. The editor, w. r. xomuu
uon, has associated with him Walter
L. Ray, of Yancey county. The
paper will be, as ever!, devoted to he
farm alliance, and home circle. The
price haa been fixed at $1 per year.
WE DO ALL KINDS OF
job "woee:
IN THE
NEATEST MANNER
AND AT
THE LOWEST RATES.
LITTUC DROPS OF
Tar, Pitch, Terpentine and Other Tar
Heel Products.
Charity and Children is thankful
on account of the fact that with all
the fire-crackers sent to the Thomas
ville Orphanage Christmas only one
bed was burned.
Wilmington Star: The "Lilling
ton Mansion," in Holly township,
Pender county, formerly the seat of
Gen. Alexander Lillington, the hero
of the battle of Moore's Creek, was
b.irned recently, through the care
lessness of coon hunters. It was
tne property of Daniel Shaw, Esq.,
ofjPender.
When the members of the House
were being sworn in, Republi
cans and Democracts took the
oath of office together. Mr. Chears,
of Union, who is a good friend
of the negro, but has decided
views, said : "I have sworn in iiany
men, but I never swear in a white
man and a negro at the same time ;"
and the gentlemen sitting near him
agreed with his views. Raleigh
Chronicle.
Rev. Mr. Fincher, of Seversville,
came very near being killed Wednes
day evening. ' He and another gen
tleman were in a buggy coming to
town, when they were run into by a
man driving a nerd of cattle." The
horse became frightened, and shied,
upsetting the buggy, and throwing
Mr. Fincher into a ditch about four
feet deep. He fell on hi3 head and
shoulder, dislocating the latter, and
badly disfiguring the former. His
companion escaped unhurt. Char
lotte Chronicle.
Delegate J. L. Bryan, of Wilkes
county, created a sensation in tha
House today by loudly refusing to
occupy the seat which was assigned
to him between two colored members.
All other seats haviqg been taken no
other could be furnished him, and
he left the hall in disgust, and his
seat has been vacant all day. lie
openly declared that he will not oc
cupy that seat and will quit the
Legislature first. He is a well known
Regublican politician of Wilkes
county. Raleigh correspondent of
Richmond Times.
Not long ago the Legislature of a
Southern State was composed of
almost entirely new material. They
were men of good common sense
wise men if you please but they
were handling tools with which they
were not familiar, and they blurred
their work and cut their fingers.
Very few laws enacted by that Legis
lature stood the tests of the courts.
One of the evils of the times is too
mnch legislation. Laws ought not
to be changed for light and transient
causes. That State is most scure,
and the people most prosperous, that
has stood the test of time and with
which the citizens are familiar.
New Berne Journal.
As a specimen of his crop Mr. A.
L. Milligan, of Concord township,
has favored the Landmark with two
-hapely turnips, one weighing 41
and the other 6 lbs., which several
professional turnip-raisers have de
clared to be the largest and finest
they ever saw. The hog which
Jack Sprouse, colored, knocked ia
the head and stuck, and was prepar
ing to scald when it got up and ran
off, wa3 found on the premises of
Mr. J. P. Kestler, at Lestler's mill,
two miles from town, last week.
Jack brought it home, and at last
accounts it was still alive. On
the night of the 30th of December
the house of Mr. W. Y. Wooten, ia
Union Grove township, waa burned
with everything he had excepting
the clothing he had on. Mr. Wooten
was from home at the time, at the
house of Mr. J. N. Barnard, on the
North Yadkin. The origin of the
fire is unknown. Statesville Land
mark. PREVALENCE OF ILL-HEALTH.
Ill-health is a very matter-of-fact
affair it is no uncertain and problemat
ical condition. The necessity, at times,
for medical treatment is as evident and
pressing as any other necessity, and
it is for this reason that we would
earnestly caution our . readers against
the use of any but the most approved
remedies. Irreparable injury is often
done by placing confidence in medi
cines which, although new and preten
tious, are often worthless. It is tho
almost inevitable failure of these com
pounds that throws discredit upon phar
macy and medical science in general.
Physicians are now of the opinion that
m:ny diseases are the result of a morbid
condition of the blood, either through
inheritance or contagion, and that the
only rational and effective way of cur
ing these complaints is to produce a
radical change in the vital fluid. Tim
prevalence, for example, of scrofula U
the most prolific cause of consumption.
A specific that expels the hereditary
taint of scrofula from the blood is,
therefore, a preventive of consumption.
That Ayer's Sarsaparilla has repeated
ly proved itself such a specific is a
well-known fact that cannot be too fre
n'Uintly and urgently proclaimed.
A distinguished physician has re
e.;iily recorded his belief, founded
nil the most satisfactory and reliable
evidence, that "the faithful use of
Avar's Sarsaparilla will thoroughly
eradicate scrofula." He further asserts :
' I have used it as an alterative .md
!.:f d-purifier, and must say that I
aoufsily believe it to be the best blood-lisi-dicine
ever compounded." This tes
timony, which has been re-affirmed by
hundreds of others, should be sufficient
lo induce all who are of scrofulous habit
to resort, without delay, to the use of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
Another malady very prevalent in the
United States is catarrh. This is also a
blood disease, and one of the most stub
born with which physicians have to con
tend. "We have been repeatedly as
sured, however, that the persistent use
of Ayer's Sarsaparilla effectually ex
pels from the system this most dis
gusting and dangerous complaint. In
a word, the way to health is through
the purification of the blood which
nourishes the whole system. TryAysr'a
Sarsaparilla.