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Concord.' N. O.
m ncement of the Christian era, the
number of blades, of course being
1895. . Blades., ..iiisextedjye.at.a
time at the lapse of qvery five years.
Syeaborg, near Helsingf ors, on the
Gulf of Finland, has just celebrated
the fortieth anniversary of its sue
cessfal resistance to the bombard
ment of the British, fleet during the
Crimean war.
CONCORD, SJPr. 5, 1895.
Til; SOUTH AND THE NEGBO.
The following card appears in
Tuesday's New York Sun:
' M U Payne, who was appointed
Secretary of the Interior by Jeffer
son Davis, but who never served,
died in Iowa Monday. He left $20,-
000 to the Southern Methodist
church.
A novel is about to be issued with
the original title, "The Leg Pul
lers." It ought to hare a good run,
aud probably will be bound in calf m
It is estimated that 104 persons in
this country haye perished by mob
violence since March 1st, last.
Health is the soul that animates
To the "Editor of the Son : Sir- j J5" f ;f
When v is the north recognized the
The San Francisco Star speakea of
Justice Walter j Clark, of the.Sa
preme court of North Carolina, as
haying "acquired a national reputa
tion outside his -profession by his
articles on a postal telegraph," ana
remarked further that "North Caro
lina lawyers and jurists have always
borne a high reputation for ability
and integrity."
-negro iu wa that the Atlanta Ex
position directors have done ?
At the regular meeting of the di
rectors last week, bv a unanimous
vote, an invitation was extended to
the n-egrd liberator and leader,
Booker T Washington, of Tuskeegee,
Alabama, to deliver a formal address
at the opening of the exposition
Sept. 10. Atlantan.
AtliiH'.a, Ga., August 30.
This is only one evidence of the
consiuu.Uion the negro has re
ceiied from the exposition manr
One of the great buildings has
beeh set apart for the negro exhibits
and Uii'v. race has shown considers
able pvide and enterprise in
'prepare to make there; a
showiDg of its progress and achieve
ments Hundreds of negroes have
been en-ployed oa the buildings and
grounds of the exposition and haye
received the same wages as white
men w ho did similar work. Jn any
northern city negroes would have
had no chance for such employment.
They k.ve better chances of success
and far more opportunities for
profitable employment in the south
than they can find in the north
Xegroes who have lived in both sec
lions realize the difference, At
Jauta Journal.
chuse.tts jfgivejQ an increase 55 i v-
204 potation o wtiftQ u tyfc
53,200, waJn the,iciU(S, apd tjbe
whole 270,000 was in towns within
ten miles of Boston.
I ; There is a fortune of $100,000
wa ting for Parker Valentine, form
erly of Indiana, but he is afraid to
come out and. get it, b cause he, kills
ed a man porae ytars aeo in Minne
sola, and he is afraid to take the
cnancea of a trial for murder.
Every politician who goes to
Europe is interviewed three times en
the safety of American institutions
once as he starts, once in foreign
capital and once a3 I e lands again
on home soil. It's his way of say
ing; You cau't loe me.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says that
"watering place life is teaching our
wives to be happy without their bus
bands" Does this mean that the
New Woman has taken the place of
the old man iD the, old woman's af
fections ? If it does, we are pre
pared to enlist in another crusade.
Cleveland has not asked for a
third nomination and the Demo
cratic party has never imngined
itself offering it to him And that's
how much there is m third term
talk.
UOSI'S A&D DO's FOB THE BABY.
Do keep your baby clean.
Do give him pure air at all times.
Do let him have a few spoonfuls
of water several times a day.
Do not let everyone kiss him.
Do not let anyone jostle and shake
and tickle him. .
Do not keep him so warm that he
cannot sleep. Babies, as a rule, are
. buodled up too, much.
Do not neglect him, and then,
"when he cries for some needed at
v tenticn, say that he is a "cross, bad
tempered little nuisance." A healthy
baW seldom cries when his wants
aie pioperly filled, and a sickly one
certain !y .has a perfect right to
make life a burden to those. who
allowed it to become so. - ' :
Now; follow this prescription,
. EdiLoi Clark, ol the Landmark and
you'll raise your child in fine shape.
, Some men are too close-fisted even
to pay compliments.
Perhaps the mo3t wonderful specU
men of cutler's, crait in the world is
the knife to be seen in the show.,
rooms of Joseph Rodgers & Son's,
Sheffield, England. This extra-
Electricians say that there is no
safer place during a thunder storm
than a trolley car. This is undoubt
edly true. : The, wires and car poles
make the best kind of lightning
rods. Although the country is
pretty well run over with electrie
cars now, we haye yet to hear of a
case wheret any passenger has been
injured by lightning,
Bernhardt is out against knicker
bockers for cyclists of her sex, and
she bases her objections wholly on
moral grounds. She says that she
has seen too much in America and
in England of the result of giving
indiscriminate liberty to girls who
wish, to see French madiens subject
to similar influences. :0y
When Baby was sick, we gare her Castoria.
JHien she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
Whan she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
NOT A SICK DAY
For Oyer Thirty Years!
KESULT of usnra
AVER'S PILLS
What is without doubt the small?
est clock in the world was lately on
exhibition in the shop window of a
Goettinjer jewejen , The dial meas
ures less than onethird of an inch
in diameter, and the weight which
furnishes the motive' power is sus
pended from a human hair.
,
'Ayer's Cathartic Pills for over thirty
years have kept me in good health,
ever having had a sick day in all that
time. Before I was twenty I suffered
almost continually as a result of con
' stlpation from dyspepsia, headaches,
neuralgia, or boils and other eruptive
Useasef . "When I became convinced
It is said that the State's stock in
the North Carolina Railway has in
creased in yaluerfrom $3,000,000 to
$3,450,003, and -in private. stock
from $1,00.0,0Q0 to $1,150,000 J since
the fix tension of the lease.
Death has put an end to the Williams-Settle
contest. The death of
Capt, Williams, of Oxford, brings a
surprise to the people; he was i not
thought to have serious ailment up
to a few days ago. -
It is claimed that the shipment of
horse meat from this coun try, is j in
j uring the meat busine&s abroad ,
and therefore Secretary Morton has
ordered that meat for shipment be
inspected, and, that horsemeat shall
be so marked as to show what it is
without biting.
Boston claims to be the "hub,"
and we expect she is. According to
a late census the State of Massac
m w- Ml
is '
m
that nine-tenths of my troubles were
caused by constipation, I began the use
of Ayerfa Pills, with the most satisfac
tory results, never having a single
attack that did not readily yield to this
temedy. My wife, who had been an
Invalid for years, also began to use
Ayer's Pills, and her health was quickly
restored. With my cliildren I had no
ticed that nearly all their ailments were
preceded by constipation, and I soon
had the pleasure 6f knowing that with
children as with parents, Ayer's Pills,
if taken in season, avert all danger of
sickness." H. Wkttstkin, Byron, 111.
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