North Carolina Newspapers

jQ J v n 1CQ1 utti.ii min. If jou have knowlege let others light their candles by it. The average of human life has in creased 5 per cent in the last twenty five years. During his present term of office as justice of the peace 'Squire Jacob Riser, of Gaston, N. C, has married 172 couples. It is too bad. South Carolina has raised the biggest cormcrop of its life. The Dispry law prevents consumpt; le r06uc seen in liw of the ,nody. His the Republiear8 Populists by fte Observer is printing these Ita Uttt Jyriirt become . to poetry so late in the ana so tar aneaa or. spring. nThA the maturation is eisewnerer Every man that went to church Sunday for the good of it, was bene fitted. The ladies that went to see some new clothes, were not disap pointed. The Treasury Department is hav in? difficulty in filling all orders for pennies for the Christmas trade. Most of the orders ceme from New York, where odd figures, such as 39 cents, 49 cents, etc., asked for goods cause this species of small change to be in great! demand. The country is becoming bo econo mical that there were $16,415,000 less of property consumed by fire in the first eleven months of the year than in the first eleyen of last year. WDoke, Jr., is an- BtupE -O ,uP Uncle John White, - aiheas, Galloway county, Ky., who is more than a hundred years old, is looking for his seventh wife. B1IHOROCS. "Bilker seems to be unusually hard op." "He ia." "What's the matter ?" "Let his wife come down town the other day "just to see the Christmas windows.'" Chicago Record. TJppen A. Gumming "The fact sir, worutn need more exercise. I'm going to give my wife a Christd mas present of a foot-ball." Tellus Y.Knott "I'm not My wife does enough kicking already" Chicago Tribune. PWbj do they call the t up in the galleries the Twc d a fight vsr her out had ney 3 r iida 4 M. y oetry r . hem I went rr.;; o tor a ten t 1 e Yi : Zcral J., "John were all those those living pictures er nude ?" "I I think one of them had a cola on her lungs. Maria." New Yerk Recorder. Ragolet "Say Nevvy, dis paper says de Czar has an incum of $25 -000 a day. Wish we was Czar, eh, Nevvy?" Nevawork "Naw. Jist think of de work we'd have dogin' the incum tax man "Springfield Union. Teacher. "In which of his battles was General Custer killed ?" Numbskull (after reflection). "I believe it was in bis last." The Waterbury. She, "Just think. Cousin .Fritz while coming home from the club last night fell into the water." He. "Great heavens ! I hope he didn't drown." She. "Ha couldn't drown. He was so full he couldn't swallow any water." Texas Sif tings. "I hear Maud has been making a show of herself thisjweek." "How's that?" "She's got a job as a living pic ture." Albany Argus. "Alas !" exclaimed Fogg, striking his empty pocketbook, "would that a man were like pie-crust; then tne r he is the richer he would oston Transcript. "Good gracious ! how did ever come to take to such a that?' "I understood she met him dry goods emporium on day," "What difference does that Oohn. Oh, a woman will take "anything then." Detroit Free Press. A man and iis wife having both been tarred and feathered in New York, it is hard to tell now which one "rules the roost." Chicago Post. Mrs. Kneryz rang the bell for the domestic "Norab," she said, when the kitchen-lady appeared, "I'll feed the canary myself after this. The doctor says I must take more exer "iM nrfazn Tribune. Lottie. "Before Ethel married that young literary man she told me one day that her nnion with him was going to raise her to a higher life," Tottie. "And did it ?" Lottie. "Yes ; they are living in an attic now." Somerville Journal. "Well, old man, how's business ?" Booming," said tha manufacturer of sporting goods. "I have just re ceived an order for 4,000,000 pairs of sprinting shoes from the Chinese army." Indianapolis Journal. Roatn Carolina Mutton Heads. The bill reducing the salaries of state officers and the per diem of legislators which passed the Sooth Carolina house last week, should be killed in the senate oi vetoed by the governor. It is a penny wue, pound foolish bill an effort to save at the spiggot regardless of what is wasted at the bung. The governor's salary is cut to $2,200, the chief jus- ced from $4,000 to $2,000, ,y of legislators is cut o $3 per day while the lleage is reduced one-half. This sort of retrenchment is mere grand stund play. It may impress the ignorant and niggardly, .but in-, ligeat people will despise it. If the bill passes the senate Governor Evans should promptly veto it. The state of South Carolina needs her best talent in her public offices, and it is unjust and dishonest to require fjrjstsclass men to put in their best wrk on. starvation salaries. tf-tb.e South Carolina statesme: are fn earnest in Btheir economical crusade they should go gunning for bigger game, and not waste their time in earing a few thousand dol lars by cutting down salaries which were low enough before they touched 'them. This proposed res trenchment is not economy; it is all sham and pretense, worthy only of demagogues Let this policy prevail, and South Carolina will be forced to select her public servants from the rank of thirdsrate men who are not able to earn even moderate salaries, or else they will have, to be rich men who do not seed compensation for their services. Either of these extremes would be prejudicial to the best in terests of the State. onomy, without reason or com- Bense, is not ecocomy, but folly. Atlanta Constitution. ar loos Teacher Arrested, v. rion i a n Norfolk county, was ted in tnia city .for tor small white boy with ho because he fail A I: 1 THE FEDERATION OF LABOR. Exciting Discussion Jon Important Questions at the Denver meetlnc Denver, Col., Dec. 14. The ses sions of" the Federation of Labor were exciting today. David Holmes, M. P., listened all day to the de bate and stated that he was greatly: impressed with the ability of the delegates on the floor and with the order that prevailed. "My personal opinion is," said he, "teat the whole discussion is wrong and will tend to disrupt our labor movement. . You cannot stand with politics in ',tbe trades unions ; you must keep that question oat en tirely." John Burns was not present, havs inggone to Colorado Springs for the day. The main work of the day was the consideration of the platform as adopted last year by the Chicago Convention to be approved this year. The preamble was cut away and the planks amended slightly in some cases were adopted as follows : 1. Compulsory education. 2. Direct legislation by the use of the referendum. 3. A legal work day of not more than eight hours. 4. Sanitary inspection of works shop, mine and home 5. Liability of employers for ins jury to health, body or life. G. The abolition of the contract system in all public work. 7. The abolition of the sweating system. 8. The mnnicipal ownership of street cars and gas and electric plants. The nationalizition of telegraphs, telephones, railroads and mines. The tenth plank declares for the collective ownership by the people of all means of production and dis tnbution. It aroused intense interest and was the cause of an acrimonious de bate. ROBBED OF $1,000. II ivrrt Lurk of a Mecklenburg County merchant. Mr. Frank Abernathy, who keeps a store one mile from Matthews tation, wa3 robbed of $1,000 ' fefit ni?;ht Mr. Abernathy is a farmer and merchant. Recently, he sold his farm and yesterday he was p $000 of the purchase money. y"Xast night after shutting the dorsto his store he got out thewLt bag in which he kept his money. He al ready had $500 to add to the $500' paid him that day. He put it all toi gether, a glittering pile of gold and silver coin, counted it over to make sure of it It was all there, $1,000 in cash. Then he placed it in the shot bag, put the bag in a cigar box and secreted the treasure under other boxes in his store. He had no safe. Then he retired to his room adjoining the store and went to bed. He slept undisturbed, and open, ing the store this morning, hej was paralyzed almost at the sight of an open window. He lmrried to the place where he had secreted his money and fcia worst fears were realized. The money had been stolen. Mr. Abernathy has no clew what, ever to the perpetrators of the thiet It is quite probable that as he was counting over his cash a greedy eye was upon him and after he bad re tired, it was an easy matter to break open a window, slip in and get the money from its hiding place. Con siderable sympathy is expressed for Mr. Abernathy. Detectives are at work on the case. Charlotte News. A Negro Shot in Self Defense Sear Buntersvllle. There was an affray on the plan tation of Mr. John Cathey, who lives near Huntersville, on Monday, . Bill Gibson is a tenant on the place and he and Mr. Cathey had some diffi culty over the division of the crop of Gibson, On the day named Gibson got in to a dispute with Henry Cathey, a son of Mr. Cathey. The former was drinking, and he advanced upon the yonng man with a rock in one hand and a knife in the other. Young Cathey thereupon drew his pistol and shot Gibson tivice in the leg. It was an actor self defense, and the younng man, who is steady and of excellent reputation, has the sympathy aud backing of the neigh borhood. Charlotte Observer. For Over 'Fifty Tears Mrs. WinBlow's Sooth;og Syrup has been ysed for over fifty years by millions of mothers for theirjchildren ?e teething, with perfect success. Boothes the child, oftens the s, allays all pain, cures wind and is the best remedy for rhoea. It will relieve the poor b sufferer immediately. Sold by Wiats in) every part of the T wen tv five cents a bottle. We and ask for -Mrs. Winslow's '-;-.!lpdjke no other ,$tri EMPLOYES DEMAND CON TRACTS. The Company So Far Will Nt Grant Them-Order :Iea In Charlotte Say It .Looks as if a Strike Were Impending; The Chiefs Sum inoned to Washington Ar " thur Already There. AH is not well with the Southern. Rumors of a strike come rumb ling along with the rush of holiday transit and business on the road. With the former management all order men had contracts with the road, duly signed, and which bound both parties. The new manage ment, it is said, refused to contract, and trouble is about to be precipi tated When the road went into the hands of a receiver, the conductors, engineers and firemen had the in fracts which had previously existed between them and the Richmond & Danville renewed. When Drexel & Morgan took charge of the road, things continued under the contract system until the present time. The company now refuses to grant the men any con tracts at all, but has taken off the 10 per cent reduction. The order men are not satisfied unless the road grant the contracts. They demand of the company contracts. "That," says a prominent order man yester day, "is all we ask. We did not ask for our wages to be put back." A delegation ot Charlotte order men, consisting of Engineer John Fetzer, Conductor Tom Morris and Fireman Tom McAlister were summoned to Washington Sunday night. "The chiefs of the tnree order;, the Obs seryer learns, were summoned to Washington, were to have met there yesterday. Last night the Observer wired its Washington correspondent to send all the facts obtainable and received the following: A THREATENING SITUATION. The Disagreements Are Radical The Grounds of Difference. Washington,' Dec. 17. The dele gates to the Southern Railway con- fsrence'ece very shutsmouthed to night. The most that can be learn Led from any source is that the men will strike, as they threaten to do, unless tteir demands are complied with. ?hese demands are about as follows : They want uniformity of wages.a3 heretofore stated, but fur Vikir Aian this insist npon labor con tracts between tha railroad and its employes. The new contract which Vice President Baldwin rejects is a restoration of the pay rate in use be fore the late horizontal cut of 10 per cent. An ultimatum will be sent to the conference either tomorrow or next day. The Railway Union leaders are congregating here. E M Sargeant, chiet of the order of United Fires men, and E E Clarke, grand chief of the order of Railway'Conductrs, are already conferring with the delegates of the employes of South em Railway. It is said that the railway officials will agree to make the schedule uniform but not to re store the rates before the cut. This does not satisfy the employes. The railway officials continue to state their disbelief in a strike. A Conference to Be? Held To-Day Chief Arthur Ron-Committal. Washington, Dec. 17. At four hotels where railroad men usually stay, all is as quiet as the grave tonight No officials of the South' era Railway have put in their api pearance. The conductors, when I called, had gone to bed and refused to be aroused. I think reliance can be placed in the statements Bent in my early dispatch tonight All that can be added is the fact that Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers, has arrived and is registered at the St. James. He told me a few moments ago, in at oending the stairs to his room, that a conference would take place to' morrow between the parties to the dispute at some hour after half past 10 in the morning. He did net think, pending that conference, that it would be proper to say anything. When asked if he woald state what the propositions were which would come before that conference, he res plied that, that wonld be inadmis sible. He was perfectly polite. He was determined not to commit him self and he was suffered to escape without further questions. GOING TO THE EXTREME Employes of the Southern Bailway Determine That Old; Wages Knst Be Paid. Washington, Dec. 17. A delega tion representing the employes of the Southern Raiiroad Company held a conference in Washington to-day with the chiefs of the various rail road trainmen's unions, Cnief Ars tnur, of the locomotiye enrj--. Brewn, of the trainmen, and Chief Clar.-, of th conductors. The meeting was the outgrowth of s reduction in salaries made by the receivers Of the Richmond & Dan ville Railroad Company prior to the reorgan-'zation under the name of the Southern Railway. Unlike the usual custom of paying salaries in accord ance with the rates fixed by the rails road companies, the Richmond & Danville road made an agreement with the employes as to the wages to be paid and a formal contract was drawn. When the receivers reduced all salaries, the trainmen accepted the cut realizing that it was neces sary on account of the financial cone dition of the road. The reorganizas tion, however, caused a demand on their part that the contract with the Richmond & Danville should be kept by a restoration of the old order of things, but a repetition of the de mand, has not been successful and the conference which began to-day was decide n to devise means for dealing with the matter. To-day's session was brief. Abso lute secrecy was enjoined on all who participated, and nothing was given out for publication. Chief Arthur, when questioned by a Southern As sociated Press Reporter, waa very reticent, but after Borne pressing he said: " There was nothing whateyer done. We merely had a friendly chat over the business which brings us here." This seems to be the status of affairs. Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock the most important confer ence will be held and it is expected that definite action will be taken . The representatives of the men whose salaries were reduced are ap parently in favor of going to the extreme of a strike. WHITECAPS IN GEORGIA. Government Officials, Preachers, Doe- tors and Lawyers Implicated. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 14 A sensa tion was created in the United States court here today by C F Ogles, a witness in some whitecap cases. Ogles is an old and substantial farms er from Whitefield county. He gave the names of fifty men whom he de clared he knew to be members of the band, as he had seen them at meet ings which he had attended. He also stated that he knew fron con versa tions with Paul Trammel!, internal revenue collector for Georgia, that he was a member. Mr. Starr, State Senator from that section, and a large number of others were impli cated by Ogles. A Methodist and a Baptist preacher, doctors, lawyers and the very wealthiest men of that section are whitecaps, so Ogles swore, He state ! that he joined because it was safer to be on the insiae than on the outside of the organization. Paul Trammel laughed when he was told of the testimony, he said it was well known that he was trying to break up the whitecaps. Thirty cases on trial now for whitecapping. It is said that there are 900 men or ganized in Whitefield, Murray and Gordon counties. They are all sworn to secrecy. Beautiful Gold Fish at Fetser's Drag Store. We have a large stock of beautiful goods suitable for holiday presents, by far the h&adsomest line and largest assortment of beautifnl pieces at moderate cost, that we have ever before offered. If yea want to buy a present at all, be sure to Bee our stock before buying. We offer the following inducements to purchasers of our goods. Don't iau 10 taxe advantage or at: ne will give you a card and piinch a number on the card for everji ten cents you spend with us for tese goods, and on the 25th day of De cember, at 10 o'clock, a. m., send in your cards and we will count tha numbers and the person holding the highest number we will present a four-gallon Glass Fifh Giobe, with four beautiful Gold Fish. To the person holding the Beoond high' est number a two gallon Fish GLbe with two Gold Fish. To the third highest number four Gold Fish without globe, and to the fourth highest cumber two Gold Fish without globe. Hemember, this is open to all and every ten cents counts one number. Call at once and get a card, at Fet zer's Drug Store. St Kotlce stockholders Meeting. The first annual meeting of the Stockholders of the G W Patterson Manufacturing Company will be held at the Company's office in No. 2 township, Cabarrus county, on Tuesday the 8th day of Janaary, 1895, at 11 o'clock. R. KlNDllT, dl3 lw. President Just Wanted to Die- Muince, Ind., Dec. 18. Edgar Waltz registered at the Hotel Kirby Saturday night This afternoon the door of his room! was broken open and his dead bodV was found, also a bottle of morphinVand a note which reads: "I administered poison with my own hands. Came to this city to months ago from VPelando, Fk. '"own aad lad plenty .of LIME AN" CEMEMT. W eare Sole SELLING Agents ia this market lor tne Casson Lime Co's. v hi M I AN CEMENT When in the market we would be pleased to have your orders. 0RANG3 Will have a big lot of FLORIDA ORANGES for the Christmas T R A D E G. W. PATTERSON Wholesale ard Retail Grocer, CONCORD, N. C. THRILLING' EXPERIENCE !! A YOUNG WAR IPREVENTEDI A crowd of eager people were surging into Smithdeal & Morris' Hardware to see their fall stock of guns. Each man proceeded to arm him self with a deadly weapon, bat as the guns were un loaded several accidents were avoided. In the house of this firm your life is caiefnlly guarded, (no loaded guns unchained) and in the purchase of their goods, vour money goes inr ther than in any other Hard ware store in the State. If you don't believe it, come and see our stock of HARDWARE, SADDLES. STOVES ;,:oils,! MANY LIVES SAVED! PJ NT M Njnery, A rURAL I M ESI M unit and Ide lowest k also have I'm and a Jow fTanff i X THE LOWE CO C OUST COIR ID: UST. C. We have juat got in from Ranse, Hempstone & Cc, big Notion House of Baltirr ore their line of HOY MMK which is very handsome, and vehave priced the line at the regular wholesale price. This is a good op portnnity to buy some handsome CHRISTMAS PRESENTS in the way of SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, WINDSOR TIES, MUFFLERS. GLCVE3,VETC. We have cut the price on onr entire'stock of Black Dress Goods to cost. We want to close out every piece we have by the first of January. We have made reduction on a great many lines to close them out by the first. New lot of thatj 3c GINGHAMS, 3c PLAIDS, Blc) OUTEKGand 65c WHITE IBLANKETS. The balance of our LADIES' - CLOAKS will now go at a big reduction. We don't want to have a single one left on the first- Bigline of ChLildrens' Knit Socks from 10c up. Ladies' Rubber Shoes from 25cup. Men's Rubber Shoes from 40c up. Several "WHITE" Sewing Machines willJbe;soldjat cost. YORKB S-WADSWORhTH )hohsale and THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTED STOCK IN THE STATE No house in North Carolina can'possibly make lower prices on Shelf Goods, Agricultural Implements of the latest makes, Buggies, Wagons, Hacks, Mowers. Guanos and Acids. Try their Prices and Quality They've got the Stuff Yorke & Wadswor RAW MATERIAL CHEAP AT THE Fenix Flour Mills. We are now selling FLOURJcheaper than it has ever been sold in Concord, especially when the quality of the goods is taken into consideration. We have juflt mailed to our customers, quotations which are extremely low. Wheat and corn always in demand at highest market prices. We fill orders promptly and.lnrnish price list on application Connerd. N. C. G. T CBOWELLProprietor. Dealer in cooking and heating stoves and manufacture of tinware! roofing, gutting and a!, kinds of sheet irou works. I am making a line of good tinware at TARIFF PRICES. Lard cans 25 and 60ots each. Repairing done at short notice. I am still manufactur ing saddles and harness and keep in stock a full line of Collars, St pads, bridles, etc . - . . W. J. ijtlLL. ZAmiM Wt.Qiail& CONCOED MARKETS. COTTON MAEKET. r . I i n Va-ji . Good middling. 5 Middlings Low middling i 62 Stains Ai w4 75 PRODUCE KAEKKT. Corrected bv C. W Swink. Bacon - 10 Sugarcured name 11 to 14 Bulk meats, Bides 8 to 9 Beeswax . Butter 15 Ghicker.4 ...10 to 12 Corn 42 Eggs 15 Lard 8 to 11 Flour (North Carolina ...1.75 Meal 55 Oats 40 Tallow : 3to4 Ho tie e T RapcnlHtf, Boats! Over . sers aad Baatf Haads. Whereas, complaint hap been made to the Board tbat the Super, visors. Overseers and Road Hands, of the several Townships of the County have in some instances neg looted their duty, notice is hereby given to all such persona who neg feet their road duty will be proscut ed. By Boaxd or Gommishonebs. lyOOli Oat! A cold wave is ooming ana ;if yon want to keep warm, buy vonr coal of Brown & Simmons ; they have the oet in the market. -Leave your oruert,at Kimmons store and they'" " M filed jrcaijpi'. We ale. i , t: 1m t;- ""ostant1-. "r.ej pjoXh efJ nto aiie."