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m iiiii 'mm ii m wii muwm&0Gxx. THE STANDARD v TUBNoOUT : GOOD - JOB - WORK AT LIVING PRICES. VOL.IX--NO 2. CONCORD N. C, THURSDAY, J A'I TAR Y. 23 , 1896 WHOLE GIVE US A. -TRIAL NO. 355 orm'p.ttri nmi THE PEinS.CN 'BILL PASSED, The Hoim Cuaplaln Prayed for Cn ban Independence and Was Ap plmded liter Hn "Amen." Washikgtost, Jan. 17. After a debate continued almost uninter ruptedly over fre days the general pension appropriation bill, for the year ending Jur.e 30th, 1897, was passerby the House this afternoon, which IcuEuidjourned nntil Monday To-day's debate, waB conducted un der the five minute rnle, the bill be ing read bj parapraphs for amend ' ment. None that was material was adopfed. Mr. Bartlett, Democrat, of New York, enforcing hia announced policy of opposition to further er. tension of pension legislation by raising points of order against them By the same devie he succeeded in having struck out of the bill the provision reported by the committee that "daring the fiscal year it shall not be necessary for a widow, in es tablishing htr claim to a pension n.ider thft provision of the act of 1890," Improve that-she is without other means of support than her daily labor; provided, that before she shail be n titled to a pension under the provisions of said law she shall proye 'hat Her net income does not exceed $500." Mr. W A Stone, Eepublican, of Pennsylvania, in charge of the bill announced that its passage anti dated by fifty day the passage of a similar bill n either of the last two previous Cgieses. Among the miscellaneous bnsmees transacted was the paseage of a j j:nt resolution providing for the distri bution of undelivered seta of the Nayal Records of the vebillicn. A messige was leceived from the President asking prsipt -legislation to enable the Attorney General to UrogeWteitlgtttion in reference to the granting of patents to lauds ly ing within forfeited railroad grants. The cause of Cuban independence was the subject of Chaplain Con. deL8 prayer at the beginning of the session and his invocation that this goyernnient wonJd do what it could to aid in securing liberty to the Un bans, was followed by a waye of ap plause, probably the fiist time that , demonstration ever followed Go t'ntlor., sn. lb. & aaiuen- S Co, cigar manufact ured today. The business established nine years and Cigarette and To A stock comp.iuy HI II I nnilpr I hp $350,000; -noimial arrea wreeiie, uuuueci mi iuo receiver, sajs that the laiiure .was caused by the unsettled condition of commercial and poliiiat affairs in Cuba. The firm is la gely interested in contracts for tbe purchase and shipment of sugar from Cuba and the present disturbed condition has lead to heavy losses. None of the property of the firm has beet, de stroyed by insurgent?, but tbeir business has practically beea ruined because of war. A pauper 82 years old has been taKen from the county borne of Union to that of Stanly county, Bad dreams dis tress the man whose digestion is out of oraer. Constipation creates more dreams than are in the infer nal regions. People who are troubled with constipation sleep badly and restlessly. . Sometimes they can not sleep at all, and when they do sleep, the dreams come. It doesn't take so very long to -wear a man out with that sort of thing. He gets up in the morning feel ing worse than he Air nrll on ft. v.nt lefcUstless and without energy. .no or, tie is dizzv. hAS " Tiearfc. i nalcitatiofh. sees black spots be- Lhis eyes, has headache and is bilious. ense it IS to et a conuiuon 01 continue. Nine-tenuis or an t in the world cqmes from and neglect of it. - It is a 'thing to cure if yon go about it It's a bad thing and a serious thing i don't take the right medicine. Dr. . -v. . t. ii 7 j f I neasaiu reueis axe aesigneu lor of constipation. Tne " Pellets .sugar-coated granules. , one is iia catnaruc. iivery- them has a good have prevented than any other legists sell tbem, will not try to Je Medical Ad octor book ever man phiology KORNER WRITES. Poor Bob. He's got the women af icr him with theii prayers for his sonl's salva tion and you may depend up on it that before he turns his pink-crowied toes to the stars above he will have been converted iuto a Deliver in the same Supreme Being that has prompted the ecdeavorr-rs to set to work on. And were he only a Christian and work for God and his Master as -he has thedeyil and his followers Bob Ingersolls iniluence for good would ascomplish more within the short space . of twelve months than the exhortations and exhibitions of all the evangelists in the United States in twelye times that period, and tbe men and women who comprise the Christian Endeav or societies thronghout this country will not fall short in their share of glory, either, for having centered upon this man who has been so pow erful against the work of God, not only in these United States, but in every Christian land. The'Endeavors have got ajob on their hands, but with such encouraging intelligence as the public has received as a re sult of prayer within the pas few days, every Christian should aps peal to the Saviour that through Him Inger8oll may become "one among us, and believe." If he con fesses and goes into the Church, won't he leave host of poor fools who haye patronized after him and followed him into the very briDk of hell and damnation yet to be looked after. They don't want to be for- gotton rs you go a'omr. And thee, aside from tba', come ntarpr home. I baye always . "drilled "Boh" be cause he is one of the roost brilliant, brainy and expressive men of this great cation and has a practical knowledge of the world from an every day standpoint. .Religiously speaking,' we differ most powerfully. x Gee, whizz! Luin't Marion But ler g-nning no'orietj. IIn's mnch man in Washington, but like unto a howling purp that hasseen.a strange face in ould Lumaand Eits upon his tail for hours and hours, whining, only to heir the echo of his own pitiful moans from a distant wood. Bat the worst part is that the ODes who sent this great man to Wash ington always cry, "news from the senate and nothing done." How in the dnce do you expect to get any thing done when such fogies are put there to monopolize the valuable time of those who are far sighted and desire to do, or at least say some t hi; g. I am truly glad that I shook the capi'at!s dust from'off my feet before he got there, or I would have b en kidded to death. Bat then I can't say that I am glad I returned to Cabarrup, for I have recently been humiliated more than once by hav ing it intimated to me chat our rep resentative in the last Ipgislature figured conspicuou?ly in the echeme to work this humiliation upon the innocent people, That's nice, n jw ain't it. Democrats, to work. Let's have no more of it. Let's do the combine this year just vo show them a trick. Ic is a settled fact that the guberna'onal ticket will be of the Douglas? cat kinder mixed, I do declare eotm women be it all the politicians 1 ever saw. Thy get things m-xed up so bily. Along about Christmas times my wife was describing to the children how old Saint Nicholas would look and how surprisingly he would ap pear, and it was so h deously pic tured to the youngsters that iheir old dad has experienced the miser, able ordel of sleeping with them eyery night since If you have ever "carried the banner" npon a mill hoppfcr, you can slightly imagine what it is to stay with a host of kicking bucksoms. Shells to tell them abont the "new women" in the spring, fll be in or over the river. It won't matter then. "It Eeems to me tb.it. here, like other places, i here should be chris tian charity enough in the tcvn and community to have a relief fund for the poor, the sick and afflicted, and some Oue appointed to look after he condition of things in this re spect Winter ia now upon ua in fall blast and when the demand is m3de for - assistance in procuring these necessities essential to sweet existence, the oalance wi!l be found wanting. Let FomeNr)e take the matter in hand at once. . One peculiarity withome couttry people when they come to ton n court week" is that they will est rj. cdiphif "jyq ouy patent andas a prelinunHjy arrangement for my part of their entertainment I haye just measured out two bnsh els of pecs to be parched. My wife cajs they will make themselves Bick, but i'm not uneasy they are both Populista, aud anybody that can swallow Mr. Hileman for Governor of North Carolina can . swallow any thing and cot get sick. I refrain from sayinr that "they won't feel the effect." la almost every newspaper that is published appears a little verse that starts like this; "When baby cries we give it Castoria." Not so at my house, and just now it behooves me to perform that terrible paternal duty so, good bye. a orn er. Two ncallisal I he Home. Mrs. Polly Miller, an aged white woman died at the county home Thursday morning. Simon Harris, the unfortunate negro that lived on Mr, Shakess peare Harris' place who, while suf fering, soma spasmodic affection several weeks ago, fell in the fire and was eeycrely burned, a notice of which appeared in The Standard, died at the county home Wedness day nisht r.s a result of his fatal fall. The l.an Agniutit Meanles. 'We desire to call the attention of school teachers and committemen to the following section of the School Law of North Caro.ina. Let all who are interested in the matter read it and govern themselves ac cordingly, xc is a matter or im portance just now, and we feel that when the law is known, 'twill be pronipt.y acted upon. Section 13 of Chapter 214, Laws of 1S93, reads: "The school committees of public schools, superintendents of graded ecuooIs shall not allow any pupil to attend the school under then- conirol while any memoir :f the household to which said pppil belongs is sick of either email pox, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, el low feyer, typhus fever or th-jlera, or during a period of two weeks after the death, recovery cr removal of such sick person ; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required t: present to the teacher cf the aohocl the pupil desires to attend a certifi cate from ths attending phyaician, city health officer or county superin tendent of health of the facts neces iary to entitle him to admission in accordance with the above regula tions. A wilful fa'ilcre on the part of any school committee to perform the duly required in this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and npon conviction feba.l subject each and every member of tbe same to a -.... uae oi not less tnan one nor more than twenty-live dollars: Providtu, that the instrucMona in accordance with the provisions of t'-.ia itc ion g.ven to the teachers of tne schools within twenty-four hours aft.r the receipt of each and every notice enall be deemed performance ot duty on the part of the school committee. Any teacher of a publ:c school and any principal of a rriyate school lulling to carry out the nquireinents of this secMun shall be deemed guiily of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction eiiail be fined not ex thau one nor mure than twentvfive doliars. Morounton Herald. llu' .Mioriirainl Ills Account. In conyersaMon with a tand.vrd ri porter, Sheriff John A Sims dis closes the following fa;ts cone. rn- ing the collection of taxes for !at year :' "The total amount of State and county taxes for Cabarrus county amounts to between $29,000 and $30,000, outside of delinquent and special .taxep. 1 have receipts from the county treasurer for the sum cf $?1,$12 .85 school, county and road taxes, and from Sta'e Treasurer Worth receipts for. $7,591.12, mak ing a total of 28.723.97, leaving a balance due not exceeding $1,000." The Sheriff seems to be very much e!ated,oyer the success with which h has met in getting his taxes so n.'ar all in, the reason for which is probably due to the fact that farm era had more money las. year thas for seveial yearspreyiou8. . Ha also stated that e.ery practic ing pbysict m, lawyer and denti&t in the county bad paid the special tax that was imposed by the famous legiala'ure of 1895. Ia this, Ca barrus seems tc oe in advance of some adj lining counties. While to be Tried Jo JHnreta. j. ' . White, the Indian doctor, win is charged with committing rape on a young lady in, Stauly county and who was Bent 'to the jail here for fear of lynching, is to be ': f ried ' at VCT F-dgefTeJd, V I TOWN AND COUNTY Several, young men; from. the city attended,"an old time country dance'; iu No. 6 township Wednesday night. It was immensely enjoyed,i bo say the boys. There fire three means of attract ing prominence in New York. One is to get married, tbe second is to get divorced nd the third ia to get married again. Je3se Garmon, a good farmer of the Bost Mill section of this county, ha3 a performing Horse which gave free exhibition on Main street Wednesday afternoon. . ' At 8 o'clock Thursday morning at th? bride's ho.Tie in Salisbury, Mr Robert L Jaraea was mariied to Miss Ity M James. An elaborate weddin breakfast was seryed. South Carolina's general assembly met yesterday (Wednesday) and it ill be an important session, as the Legislators will have the task of ad justing the laws of the State to tae new constitution: Mr. II McNamara has tendered his resignation as an attache of the county chain gang to again become agent for the W'-bb Marble Works, of State8ville. He will continue with the gng for a week or ten days. Mr. ames B Denoon, superinten dent of the telephone exchange of Charlotte, and who superin ended the putiing in of our system last summer, died very suddenly at his home in Charlotte on Wednesday, lie was a highly esteemed citizen. Rey. B F Davis, of this city, de livered an execent lecture to the pupils and teachers ot lit. Arnojia Seminary on Tuesday Ligh on the euDjeci: "Some remarl:a concern g higher fema'e education, and a few suggestions to the pupils of the sonnniiiry." The lecture was highly sppieciated. All's well that ends well. Au gusta Seminary in Dayie county wag not burned, as the .Salisbury World reported on information it believed to le reliable. It waa an old free school house which burned. An at tempt, however, was rnada tc bu 'n, the Hedges' Business College. Mr. Dayis, who lost his min i during the excitement, has since found it. Some one ho has no loye for dog3 put out poison on Wednesday night, which was swallowed by the fine bird dogs of Messrs K O S filler and P C Page, two neighbors living on South Main street. Miller had sold hi3 dog for a large sum of money and was keeping hir-i until i8 v- er came to claim him. Page's .'..; ;vaa a pet. Both are dad as a insult of the do3e. Kin -ill Duffy, colored, wt nt hunt ing Friday. He cirried hia powder in a bottle iu his pocket. This" pocke nad a liuie in GrP"r ! can;e out of bottle. Found the hole in nis pocket nnd g;av;'ited into hia sock. Duffy held ha fool to tbe Qre to warm it. Po v.r cinght. Puff! Bang! Ouch! li.fiy Lobbies around with a stick. Ua'Jieif.-rJ-ton Democra. Representing as the Grm.d Lodg of Masons do, ten thousand of the best men in the State, this ancient tnd honorable body wields an in fluence for good second only to that of the church of God. It preceded any of the religioua denominations n caring for the orphans, and the Oxford Orphan Asylum is a monn' meat to their practical benevolence. May Masonry 'grow and expind in our borders. At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Rleigh Wednesday B N Duke, of Durham, who last year offered $5,000 for the erection of new buildings at the asylum, pro vided the Grand Lodge raised an equal amount, raised his condi'ional pift to $10,000,. aDd a committee, composed of W L Liddell, N M Lawrence, and N B Uroughton, was appMi ted to secure the needed-sum. " The Edgefield (S. C.) Chronicle has this to say about a Concord gen tleman : On Sunday last, in our town, we had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of a pious and pleasant "gentleman from Concord, N, C Mr. D R Hooyer. This gen tleman, who ia a traveling BafeBman for the shoe house of Riley Pebbles & Co., of Natiek, Mass., was resting in Edgefield from his week's labors, and seemed to be delighted, and quite at home In our Sunday, schools and churches. He has long been a Sun day School Superintendent, and hia fceart is evidently In the greatause. MrT-Ioover made many friends -in who in the future will alt d to welcome him. r Officer G W-Meat s spent Tbuis day in the business office, of ' the revenue department at Greensboro. The championship belt for fast running was awarded to one of our young clerks last Tuesday night, be haying made a half mile in 2.30. -..There is to be a wnlding at Alt. Pleasant real Boon. We have not seen any; cards to that effect, but Madame Kumor ha? it that well wait for the names. On North Ma'n street there were only eight gates swinging out oyer the sidewalk, so says one-.of the early users who ran against all of ihem before daylight, after the eleciric lights were out. . J P Sosf amon, of Mecklenburg, waa present at the connty alliance meeting at Poplar Tent to-day (Fri day) and deliyered -an appropriate address. A basket dinner - was seryed, S S Smyera and wife, of Newton came down the Western : last night and spent the night at Capt. J A Fisher's. The? will spend some time in Cabarrus with their son in law, u A Wisher, befor? "returning home. Salisbury World. Says the Salisbury Watchman "We learn that Congressman Shu ford is mitking an effort to secure a government building for Salisbury, The city 13 tn:t'??d to such a build ing, and let everybody pull for it." There wi:l be tiro eclipses of the sun this year oue February 13th, at 8:16 in the morning, and the other August 8th, at 1057 in the evening." Th.-re will also be two eclipses of the moon on February 2Sth and August 22nd. The little daughter of Dr. Mar- 1 rows, of .Burlington, accidently swallowed a screw Tuesday afternoon between 1 aud 2 o'clock, which lodged in her, t.hrou ard she stanglel to donili befeve it could be removed. Siv? was between one and two j ears of ag.. mra. J A 1! Wbit", whose illness was noted in Tun Standard sev eral days ago, died Thursday night at her home at Canuonville. The tuneral will be conducted from the !,i use tomorro.y morning at 9 0 clock by Rev. J R Moose, after which the remains will ba conyeyed to Boger's chapel burying ground in No. 9 township. Mr. J L Graham has traded his hor3e to Mr. M L Witherspoon for the building on the corner of the 8qnsre opposite the Haynes House, which Mr. Witherepoon so long used as a law office. Mr. Graham has had the house painted inside and out and expects to uae it for an office a soon as he gets license to practice law. Newton Enterprise. Mr. Alex Summit, an aged and honored citir.en of Newton, died Monday evening at the residence of Mr. L Q Yonnt. Mr. Summit was '84 years old and has been in failing health for some time. He has two d nigh I era living, Mra. J A Yount, of Conover, N. .0., and Mrs, Rey. G TC, Callahan, of Mt. Holly, N. C. His remains were laid to rest in Ne vton Cemetery Tuesday at 2 'c!ofk. Newton Enterprise. " A SPECIFIC FOB f La Grippe, for Colds, Coillis, AND LUNG TROUBLES, CHERRY PECTORAL "Tnro years ago, I liad the grippe, and it loft me with a cough which gave mo no rest night or day. My family physician prescribed for me, changing ho medicine as often as he found the things I had taken were not helping me, but, In. spite of his attendance, I got no better. . Finallj-, my husband, read Ins one day of a gentleman who had had the grippe and was cured by taking &.yer's" Cherry Pectoral, procured, for me', a bottle of tills medicine, and before ' I had taken ba'.f of it, I was cured. I have used the Pectoral for my children and in my family, whenever wo have needed it, and have found it a spocifio for colds, coughs, and lung troubles.' Emily 'Wood, North St., Elkton, Md. : Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Highest Honors at World's- Fair." fieaSte the Syiten wit) flyer's Srsaparina, llpilta ERSOLL CONVEHTED? CbrlMtlan Eadcavorera ThroaKhont the Country Vnit-1 In Pnyer lor Ml it Knlvatlon nnl Thoy are En eonrnpred. Has "Bob" Ingeiaoll be:n -con verted ? . , The Christian Eudeayorers, who are very nnmerou3 throughout the country, united some time ago in prayer for the conversion of the noted infidel. Word'now cornea from Kalanuzoo, a city of nearly 30,000 inhabitants in Michigan, that the prayers haye been answered. WOULD JOIN IF ALLOWED. There are twentv-three churches in Kalamazoo and over 12,000 per sons are on the rolls of those churches. Tbe colonel lectured there on "Lircoln" Friday nigh, and as Lincoln is a came dear to the hearts of that people the audience to hear what the great agnostic would say waa yery large, Many of his periods won their applause, but he electrified the auditors when he spoke of his yisit to the People's church in Kala mazoo and said ; "It ia the greatest thing ia your State, if not in the United States. If there were a similar church near my home, I would join Ik if the members would permit me." The People's church is not re garded as orthodox by members of the Catholic, Episcopal or evangelic cal churches, but it ia such a long step nearer the orthodox standpoint than Colonel Ingersoll's agnosticism that tbe declaration waa takeu to mean all that the hearers wished it to mean. Mies Carolina J Bartlett ia the pastor of the People's church, and in conversation with Col. Ingereoll said : "I beiieve in God and immortal ly and prayer, bnt I grant perfect freedom to every member of the church to believe what ia believable to him. If I could stand yonr praverlesaness, Colonel Ingersoll, could you not stand my prayer V " 'Yes.' he said, heartily ; 'if all chnrche3 were iike this free, always open and working to make people better every day I would neyer say one word against churches or rclig ion. 11 i nveu nere 1 wouid join thia church, if it would receive me, "I offered him tbe right tuna cf fellowship then and there. We would b8 very glad to haye Colonel Irger soli join our church. Even those who differ most widely from hi yiews would all be gladly true to our principle of open fellowship." I'olitics mill Crops in Jobnutoii. "Politically Johnston county is in twenty per cent better condition tnan it was at the last election," said County Commissioner J R Barnes, of Archer's Lodge, who waa ;in Raleigh yesterday. "The Populists were made very sick by the result of the last legislature, and some of the more intelligent ones are going to quit the party." Raleigh News and Observer, Cabanu, too, has many a sick one who yoted the Populist and fusion ticket at the last election that will not do so again. . . Had the Ear Ache. The Raleigh News and Observer of Wednesday produced this: During the Satterfield trial Mr. Smith, of Cabarrus, sat in the bar most of the time. He had the ear ache and had stuffed cotton in his ears. An old farmer who had been standing at the railing watching Mr. Smith, for some time, leaned oyer to one of the lawyer, just inside the bar and asked, pointing to Smith: "Ain't that man Judge Robinson?" "Yes, Bir; that's Judge Robinson," responded the truthful attorney. "I thought so," said . the farmer, "I heard about the way he wears cotton in his ears." A JLeg llroken. Annette Shnman, the co'ored woman who runs a restaurant on the corner of Main and Cor bin 8treeta, met with a peculiar experi ence Wednesday whil9 going to the chain gang qnartera where her bus band is cooking. She ' was in a wagon, incompany with two deaf mutes, Lillie Faggart and Eugene Sylvester, and waa driving a mule that had never been in harness be fore. When reaching the sand bar just across Big Cold water, the mule began rearing and pitching, and just b:fore the wagon turned over tne three, occupants jumpitl out, Annette breaking one leg. She "was dar" she thought, "and dar to. stay," as she couli jot tell th3 other wo what to do or that she was hurt. The two- mutes had considerable trouble in gettinanyone to aid the woman' Mr. M J Corl'. finally got woid and pe t for them. The mule and wagou belonged jto Mr. Will Highest of.aU in 'Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't STEADY GKOWTLI. The City of Floworn In Oooil Health, Happy and Prosperonw. Editorial Corrgpondcnce. The Southern ll.iiway has treated Concord betttr in the way of pass enger depot facilities and comforts vuau 11. una uiccuouuu, iJitXj iuc facts point to an early day when the company will erect a depot building commen8arate with Gre nboro's de manda and importance, No one here feels any interest, whatever, in the efforts of Judge Schenck to annul the lease of the North Carolina railroad.. It ia re garded here that he can not ac compliah anything with th-j late Cobb Bait, which has been brought in the Superior court. Ia the first place Cobb can not make a bond strong enough to maintain the suit; and, Becondly, the Judged friends regard it merely a bluff and a nice way to get out of .the fight he sprung and which he soon found offered him nothing but defeat. The Benbow ia not the Btnbow of old. It ia perhaps the most hand somely furnished hotel in the State. The office is particularly handsome. The whole building has undergone the influence of taste, enterprise and money. The Daily Record ia full of friends friends, who whack up the wherewithall that makes a paper glad its Hying. lam ia a nice one so yery .thoughtful and serene Reece is a jolly fellow that can write local matter, run the pres3 and en terta.n yisitorn all at once. There i3 not much between him and heaven not much hair, I mean. Outside of the click of type and the noise of the press aijd doings of the ehootiDg-stick, the office makes one think of a prayermeetiDg room. The reason of all thia good behavior "is the presence of a lady; and she's none of your new women, either. I couldn't find the Patriot man he has a new baby at home, a girl at that, and hence hia absence from the oihee. I Baw Mr. Uenry Wharton, the exeditor of the Patriot. He's run ni jg a book store and he can't run it away from a printing office, for h?'s next to one. He's gotten married, hence his quitti.g the newspaper. ureensooro naa a mignty poor street railway; it ia tame. The percentage of feniale8 in Greensboro over tbe male population is larger than any town in the Estate. But they are here in the Normal and Greensboro Female Colleges. -In both of these institutions Cabarrus county has representations. A young man of Greensboro, who tried to rob Concord of one of her ladies years ago, asked us if these ladies here in thi3 institutionf rom Cabarrus were picked out on account of what he called "charmingnesa " Inside of two weeks a train will run from Greensboro direct to Nor folk, via Kaleigb, Selma and Suffolk, The people here are already making acquintinces in that seaport town. Sued for 8200; L M Morrison, administrator of the estate of the late JencyGarmon was sued on Wednesday afternoon before Esquire W J Hill, for the sum of $200, by Bunyon T Greene, who holds a claim against the ebtate transfered to him by Henry Muse, a sonsinslaw of the late Mrs. Gar mon. Judgment was a,3ked to be postponed until later when the res suit w'll be made known. A Farmer's Queer Frcalc. Mr. Madison Honeycutt lives at Lock Hole Creek, in Stanly county One day last week, a horse died in his stable. The horse was 27 years old. The qaeer part "about it is, that the horse waa.put in the stable by Mr. Honeycutt 26J years ago, when the animal was 6 months oi1 and from that iime until it was car ried out dead, it had never left that stable. Never or ce did the horse get outside the walls of the stable, but was fed and watered in the stable and nevei Est its foot on ground outside, - Our informant vouches for this. He says Mr. Honevcutts only reason was .that he "never needed the hoi S3 and Lad n5 occasion to take it out.' Char lotte New. - - ... A Realistic Actress. Playwright Is her acting natural? Manager (enthusiastically) -Nac nra) ! Why, when she appeared as tbe dying mother last night, an in surance agent, who has her life in sured for $10,000 and who was in the audience, actually fainted ! WHAT TtIK LEAS1S I1D. Ihe "5orth ( nrollna Railroad Now Yields the Mate a Good IMvidcnd and Pays Taxes. (far Hon. Lee S Overman roturned. last night from Burlington, where the directors of the North Carolina Railroad mot Tue&da.vw The showing mado by this road during the past year is the best ever yet made. To beain with, a divi" dend of C per cent- the largest at any time in th history of the road, was declared, 3 per cent, payable February 10th and 3 per cent. Au gust 10th. The road is now for the first time. placed on the tax lists, the Southern paying on it State, county and town taxes To condense figures into a single statement this road in the hands of the Southern yields the State enough to pay the interest on the bonded debt and enough over if kept intact to pay the entire bond ed debt. Mr. Overman, aa well as others who are disposed to view the ques tion fairly, see in these figures jus, tification for the directors in mak' ing tte lease. It will now bo a roir ca of revenue from two directions to the State. Salisbury World. A Rlind Doctor and Horse Trader. There is a family in Montgomery county of which the f?-h.er.and mother are both blind. They haye always been blind and were some yenr3 ago married. They have several children who are not blind, nor ia their Eight the least impaired. The man and wife go from pV'ce place in that section of the country and give musical entertainments. which are said to be re name of the man is Page.v- 7 remarkable being, fs he prescribe and deals out medicine in different shaped bottles and boxes an trusts to his memory for the proper stuff when he has a call. It is said that he ia considered a good horse trader that he tva feel a horse and tell its color and its age. I nil'ornis Guaranteed. A very generouB gentleman of the city approached chief of the fire de partment J L Boger Wednesday "af ternoon to get figures on the cost of the uniforms for the Hose ar.u Jleel company, When told the complete outfit, as the farenen desired, would not cost more than $200 the gentle man 6aid for the men to order their suits and he wonld sec that the money waa raieed. Ttis is encour agement, and shows appreciation in the right way. The company will in a few days hegin their reel practices for the reel races at the meeting of the State Association in Salisbury ia August next. The tola Wave Iroiu the Sorlhwesf. -Paul, Minn., Jan. 15 Ttt and great frigid wave of the itf fees below Uio at coldest point this section. At many vomta in Mani toba it was 20 degrees below zero and at Helena it was 11 degrees be- low. The colJest point in Minne sota was St. Vincent where it was 12 degrees below. Weak, IrritabIe,Tired "I Was No Good on Earth." Dr. Miles' Nervine strengthens1 the weak, builds lip the broken down constitution, and permanently cures every kind of nervous disease.' "About one year a 30 lira afllietet? Creeping sensation i it y tt js, Sllaht vatmitaticti of tnu heart. Dittiractinrj eonfusioncf t he mind, Serioi: Ions or lapse cf memory. ' Weighted dotrn with care ami trvrry. X comiplctela lost ajipetite And felt nty vitality wearing out, J tea weak, irritable and tired, JSu tceight teas reduced to 1 GO Us.r. In fact J warn no good, on earth., A friend brought me Dr. Miles' book, "New and Start ling Facts," and I finally ,dcc'iie! to try a Dottle ox Da. Milks' Be oratlve Nervine. Before I had taken OD3 bottle I could sleep as well as a lO-yr.-old boy. My appetite returned greatly Increased. TFhen I had taken the tteth bottle Mm weight increased to Ii9 6a.. - The sensation inntylem was gone; . My nerve steadied om;7 t. lyf , . . JTy tnemory teas fv 7 rentored. Mybrainseemedcletz, rrthanerer m e amgooaasany non earin. , Mhr. Hues' Iletrtoratiiu Arrvine is ! ' A great medicine, I axsxtre you," 1 Augusta, Me. Walter li. Bcbbahk. Pr. Miles' Ncrricn la sold on a poRftlv " guarantee that th3 first bottle trill benenu AlldruftKisiseeUltatlU.o borloa for $5, or - ' It will be sent, prepaid, on ret-int of price 1 by the Dr. Allies Medical Uo iOitiiart ItU. ' Vk a t 1 ur. miles iervme " Restores Health ; Goodman Town and Country Journa'.