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TOWN 11 AT.
Oar Reporter's Street Work nt Xew
of the County '
Be careful to write it right.
R A Brown is having auction to
day. .
tocK;;arish ha8 his " cottage on
Depot;rt.raearly completed.
:Mr fa'm$irjk O W Brown spent
New Year;.t'fealisbury.
TnlpS-son of Rev Shaw, of
Beth pagei-vy sick. .
We cart , make Concord boom, if
we only set our heads to it.
The calendars are in it. They
will be on duty for some time.
W O Boshamer cleaned up Main
itreet f or the dirt and trash. It was
a good investment. ' '
R II Griffin has gone to Stanly.
He is the assignee of Mr E0rd, cf
Big Lick.; J
. Senator Vance attended the Bill
Nye banquet at Asheville, on Tues
day night.
The first of the year the Phan-tasm-.i
Company at the Opeia House,
Saturday night. '
Mr and Mrs David Bostian, who
lire on East Depot street, are quite
sick with the grip.
Married on the 24th of December,
Mr W B J.Bost and Mrs M M Pen
idnger, of No. G. '
" A reception will be given tonight
. in jG reensboro, by Mr and Mrs E P
Wharton, ; complimentary to . Miss
Fannie Fisher J' ' - . ;
Ouilfo'rd county fui-nishes hitie
more cmvicts to the' penitentiary.
They v.-ere taken to Raleigh Wednes
day. Rjv. , Paul Birringer will preach
in the Reformed church next Sun
day at 11 a m. He has accepted the
call to this charge for 1892.-:
" 0 II Walker, of No. '8, was the
first man to . have us write a' receipt,
Jan. .1st 1SD, and he paid before
it was due. . .v
J W EGrd, of Big Lick,' and who
lost Lis store by fire some time ago,
, was forced to make' an assignment,
his creditors pressing him. This is
to be regretted, as Mr E was a clever
man, and suffered a big los3 by fire.
The Standard joins his many
friends and admirers in the pleasure
of seeing Dr. Bays, pastor of the
Central M E church oa the streets
again. He. has had a very severe
attack of the grip.- '
Clem- Dowd, of Charlotte, an ex
Congressman of the shoe striDg dis
trict entertained the following news
, paper men," on the 31st: J P Strong
of the Democrat; J B Sherrill, edi
tor of the Concord Times: Jerome
Dowd, editor of the Mecklenburg
Times, and Messrs. St. Clair, ;Dowd
and Newell, of The Chronicle. .
The Phantasma Novelty Company
will appear in the Opera House,
Saturday night. Of the' company
there are many complimentaay
notices by reliable papers, See this :
Mr. . George Sun, proprietor and
manager of "Sun's New Phantasma
and Refined Novelty Compan (
delighted the good sized audience at
our Opera House last night wilh
hi3 phenomenal feat3 of "juggling.
He is certainly a wonder and the
audience made known their appre
ciation of his art by loud cheers.
V
election of Officers.
; The annual meeti
0 A takes place toni
officers will be elected. Jt is ear
estly desired that every taember be
present. . Gentlenjeji, eee " that you
attend. ? C
!.V c3VCIt- Airy: in Ashes'.
aiffht,'at wmcR-v '' '
, 1, TliJLlE 'RIDGE IWX AKD XIXE
Emanelpatlon Dy.""
This day is 29 -years - old. The
colored people are. celebrating it Jn
grand style. The order was good
and no one can deny that the colored
people have a right to enjoy the day.
The programme in the;' court house
was an interesting' one
This I Xecessary, '
To make the New Year a happy
one to ourselves and others, says an
exchange, we must close the gates
on prejudice, envy, jealousy, malice,
evil thinking and evil speaking, and
let nothing but'grapiouB dispositions
enter the portals of Sthe new year.
Let us dispense bur happiness. The
grandest of all arts is the art of do-
ing'good. ;
Eleven Tears' Nerviee. .
Rev W A Lutz, who has served
the Lutheran churches at EnoeliN
ville and Trinity,:' iiir Cabarrus, for
eleven yeari, has v closed his work
there. A friend of his and congre
gation furnish the following statis
tics : '
Preached at St Enoch, 379 ser
mons ; at Trintity,- 303 sermons ;
at funerals, 99. sermons. Baptized
at Si Enoch, 21 f; - at Trinity, 128.
Received, into St.. Fnoch, 210; at
Trinity. 12G. He administered the
communion 99 timdug. bis pas
torate.' I Rev. Lu tz: .resigned r only at
a pressing call to. Winston.
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IlXlt l'OlA'A'i lX.
A Moanlfilu in Jiipiui llpn Into
Hole. .
the average good combination, enj
. -i r il . ''t- k i it....-'!
tne roau. ana one oi me uest.i,
ever visited our city. Blade. 'To
ledo, 0. '
Mr. flgachi, director of. the Gifu
Observutory, 'Japan has been exam
ining rthe district wjiere the recent
earthquakes in Japan were most se
vere. ! At this pla0'gome years ago,
holes appeared in.the- ground to
which, no bottom could :- bo found,
and it wa3 believeJf;-;that they com
mun'cated with ihtmense cavities
far below. Mr. Igachi" new believes
the earthquake1 was caused bv- the
Fugiva Mountain slipping into, these
cavern3. In district' Ono .'an im
mense landslide took; place, damag
ing the Mano River. ' A lake is now
formed which is already fifty-feet
deep. Another large Jake is being
formed in the came way by the
Ashiba River at Nagoya. A curi
ous fact is an anonymous writer sent
a letter to the Cabinent, some time
ago, saying a ' dreadful calamity
would take . placo October 28th.
This was the very day of the earth
quake. , -
Some time ago Dolph Litaker, of
No. 4, accidentally shot himself.
The physicians failed to get the ball,
by probing. On last Tuesday Tom
Litaker, brother of Dolph, succeed
ed in getting the ball, it having
shown itself on the opposite side
from where it penetrated.
Rev. R. G. Pearson writes a long
letter to the Asheviile Citizen from
Burdighera, Italy, under date of
December 3d, and winds up by quo
ting a few lines about "Home, Sweet
Home.',
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Thi3 edition ha3 much to say
about onions. Bob Burdette said
the most of it and that's right.
Ononsiye popular with. the masses,
therefore the Standard writes about
onions, or employs writers.
IirVXES? IIOI SKS Bl'RXED.
The L sjf
ver 100,000 The Work
Muny Other
Kekiilldiny to
of ai J, "('ary-
Special tyofyt Standard j
. 1 Mt. Airy, N. 0., Jan. 1, 1892. .
At 2 o'clock - this morning, fire
bells rang in the New Year.
The magnificent Blue Ridge Inn,
containing one hundred rooms, the
tobacco and cigar factory of Armfield
& Co., offices of the. Granite.
City Land and- Improvement Co.,
stores of Byuutn & Co, J D. Smith,
W E Merrit , J V Mitchell, -Robins
& Co., Walli & Long with Mt.
Airy Hotel were all totally destroyed
by fire ; others badly damaged were :
Worth & Joy.e, J R Paddison, Yad
kin Valley News, J W Pitcher, R
L Mooro & Bro., li A Loten. Loss
one bundled thousand.
The'property was mostly covered
by insurance. The fire is thought to
be the work of an incendiary. . This
does not down Mt Airy : Telegrams
have gone out for 100 masons to re
place buildings. G. R. P.
The Blue Rrdge Inn was the mag
nificent hoel, kept by Capt. J W
Clarke, formerly of the - St. Cloud.
The dispatch to the Standard does
not state whether any one was hurt,
but it is reasonable to suppose that
no oue perished in the flames.
- The rotal Tel-seih.
. . Why should not -the government
control the telegraph ? v
Because the telegraph is a luxury,
not a necessity, and 'even at half the
existing rates, would be of no'- value
direct ly to' 60,000,000. out of 05,000,
000 people.
L'et every farmer ask himself what
difference it would nv.ik to him if
messages could be sent at half the
present prices. ' .
' .But ihe English government has
control of the telegraph, and has re
duced the ratos.' Rates in Great
Britain' are. oh short distances, and
are somewhat loAver than short dis
tance rates in America. If for in
stance 'the telegraph system of
American were compared to a stretch
of territory around New York as
large as Great Britain, short distance
messages here would be a3 cheap as
in England. But in Europe, if a
message is sent from .Geneva to
London about as far as from New
York to Pitsburgh; the ra'es are
higher than they would be in Amer-
1 a for twice the 'distance. . So ..the
advantage of governmenttl control
is purely imaginary. In America
with a population of 65,000,000 per
son?, the number of messages is only
59,000,000, or less than one message
to each inhabitant. , As most of the
business is mercantile or speculative
manifestly the price concerns only a
small number of persons, why th?n
should the people who do not nse
the telegrepb, and would not even
if the message were only , ten cents,
be taxed in order that the specula
tors in Chicago and New York, the
gamblers and sporting men may
have lower rates for telegrams ? .For
a tax would be necesary to cover a
deficit. In England there is every
year a deficit of a million or more in
that thickly populated country.
Here the deficit would be far greater
and the benefits would accrue to
classes abundantly able to pay for
their own messages.
Let the people control these rob
bing schemes. V - ...-
JOIIX C. IAVIS,
Onions.
The Wilmington Swindler,
v -Examination. !
Waive
Old people well know the value
of onion poultices for many pur-
Hundreds of people gathered at hlt . or boi1
the court house at Wilmington ere often gpplied in cases of
Tuesday, to hear another case against croup or sore throat, being put on as
John C. Davis, the lawyer, on . the aa "."Id be" borne. In the
charge of obtaining money under i latt d'ase or a threatened attack
false pretences. Davis was cool and ,? dlPhlh they, are often used,
shook hands with several people. ,but.f.an7 claim that they are more
Some marks of care were - visible raPld m ,ac lon if Pounded UP 5
however. The Star says that Col. ! f"drillf 1 at once' Iq n in1
T; W. Strange, his counsel, said that,-.1!? ,r &T08 tumor, they
the- defence would not longer ask , U nave wP,d tSect in eith form,
the detention of the court,'but would : mS it to "a head" as quickly as
waive an examination. Davis was ! almost an rernedJr kuown and al"
required to give a bond of $750 for his Ts" WILUyHl Pa,n- -ven pnysi
appearance on ' the- first Monday in :clan8 rommend the onion poultice
January, in the criminal court.
I I a. L
failed to'mvfi.- hnnl nml m rPflnm.llueuumuc lrd'm ana a rew
i to the feet in cases of fever and
ns of
the juice of an onion dropped iu the
the insertion of the warm
"i ited to jail. ' The charge in this i
PAiPi Wfl'? bv Afrs "R. LT. Vnntiinfr fnr i
false pretences ; but there is another I ?ea,or ?re of the roasted onion
by her for-perjury, and there are 13 a fav,onte remed for obstinate
others by Mrs Dixon, a widow, for i"!lSeJ of ea!,achti and nralgia of
false pretences, fowy and perjury, j he facp-? Etmg of raw onion ia
the sailor's favorite cure or preven-
c "TTLEPKOi s or : ,-v J tl ve of . scnrvv. Those who can
Tnr, riteh Tnrieiiiinc anj oilier Tar j digest them often find the eating of
' Vroilu't' raw onions at supper gives a night
The revenue collector has a re of sound sletp incase of insomnia,
port from deputy collector Jones, of ana WIlere raw onions are not easily
the capture of two one horse wagons,
ahorse and a mule and three bar
rels of moonshine whiskey near
Southern Pines, Moore county.
What will be the wages paid farm
labor next year is now the chief
topic of conversation' in Edgecombe,
the northerner eays.'; -The opinion
is .that there will be a' general rev
duction of about one duMar per
month.
The editor of the late Lincoln
Plow, Forge and Grip overhei'.rdJ
some fellows whispering together,
one night, as 'follows: '"Carolina
Central pay train dark night."
He got on his hore and rode twenty
miles before daybreak to inform the
Superintendent of the " Carolina
Central railroad that a conspiracy
had been formed to rob his pay
train. The Superintendent said he
had no pay train.
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. Rnnliiii and Sio-u!u( Ion.
iny one wlio has critically noticed
even a few of the statements made
by the national banks of the coun
try, under the late call of the comp
troller of the currency, must have
observed how small a ratio their cir
culation bore to their capital. This
i3 in part attributable to the scarcity
of government boud3 as security for
their notes, and in part to the great
er profit in dealings that do ' not
require so much. of , their own money.
The great growth of speculation
in the country also requires for its
use much of the money formerly
devoted to legitimate commerce .and
business purposes. ' It is therefore
deceptive to make comparisons of
the amount of money "per capita"
in circulation at other periods and at
present - Thev gigantic game of
speculation in stocks and in the
futures of produce is one of late but
rapid growth, and requiies much of
the money in circulation.
The rapid contraction of the cir
culation of the national"' banks re
duced from over hree hundred
millions a few yea A a'go to less thun
half that amount now affords suffi
cient proof that that r jstemls no?.' a
partial and ij fat jjpproflching a
total failure in what has, been re
garded its chief exeelh jocepthe fur
nishing to the people' a l.tra volume
of reliably sound currency. Atl-nta,
Journal. i ' , - 1
digested boiled onions have a similar
effect. They quicken the action of
the kidneys, and even severe cases of
gravel have been cured by a regular
habit of eating raw onions. For
stomach worms in children they are
better thau most of the advertised
remedies. - - "
:'"". nisiiKSH LOCALS. '
Insiirant-e. '
I am prepared to furnish Insur
ance in the United States Mutual
accident association of ' Xew York
City, the largest .'aid best.
... J. L. 1ogeu, agent.
Xollre.
All persons indebted to the. firm of
Morrison, Lent & (Jiilon are respect
fully requested' to (nil at once and
settle their accounts, as we nnust
have a settlement.
D Pi. Moriusox,
A. E. Lentz,
October 0. M. M. (Iillox.
Necl Wheat Tor Sale.
Call at Ciu!e & Correll'3, in t! e
Allison building, fur seed wheat.
Come early, as th4 supply is limited.
They have my Fiilosfer, Fultz and
White wheat for sale.
Jxo. P. Allisox.
Beck's Meat Market has on hand
every day, fresh beef, pork, goase
and sausage in all styles. Give me
a call. Fked Deck.
14: tf.
For Kale.
For cash or on time, one Jersey
bull, three work oxen, ten beef cat
tle, three mules, one improved mow-'
ing machine and one" improved
wheat drill. Call on,
W, C. COLEMAJf.
14 tf. .
, For sale, a fine Italian harp,' in
excellent condition, lately re mod
died ; the one, the Concord Stiing
Band ha3 been using. For prices
and other information apply at this
office. dec 7 91 d 2 w.
Waxt.sd Four thousand coiui
cf four foot pine and oak wood de
livered at Odell Manufacturing Co. 'a
cotton miPs. , '
itively
I'Ihiiu for Kie.
An excellent piano, comi
new, for sale. Applv to
V M. Smith.
au. 2Ltf. .
.Morehouse fo
to luive
oilers
I a 111 be zlzd
the storehouse and lot now uc
oy Dr. Johnson.
for
upied
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