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JOHN D. BARRIER & SON,.
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Concord, N. C. .
CONCORD, DEO. 18US.
n.vjoK fakgeik.
Death hai drawn the pall oyer
this 'distinguished citizan. A bright
s.tar in the educational sky tas sunk
behiLd th3 brink of mortal life.
Thevoikmau die but the work
goes ou," is probably true of edu-
fetors above inosf. o her mm. Our
.subject entered i he Con federate s r
'vice and was made quar term lister
ssrgeant, then captain, collector of
. tares in the Charlotte district, then
major and collector of taxes for tie
sS-tate. When the war ended he as
sociated himself with Dr. J C C app,
jf Catawba College, till 1871, when
ilia health gve-way, and he had to
-abandon the'' school room, but his
"interest ' in the, eductioaal work
-liefer ib.tted. Tie -sfrve-d in b)tn
brafiches of tr:e btata legislature,
&n from 1384 10 1893 he served tne
"State i- superintendent of public
instruction in which tffice he left a
Sjoad record,
lie took a lively jnterest in po
liticalaffiirs, especially in the late
campaigu. ; While he was not in
arobust healtfi his death was quite
anespected and was a severe shock
to the community at Newton.
He was an unassuming character
of mocn real worth, commanding
the esteem and the respect of all.
He leaves a wife, but no children.
PASTEUR TItKATJIEXT FAIU
About a month ago eight bops in
Baltimore were bitten by ar -abid
iog. They were all treated at a
JPasteur hospital m New ' York.
Three haye died of hydrophobia
-amid indications of great agony.
'These three, however, were bitten
;&bout .the head while the others
s?ere bitten elsewhere and eeem to
be doing well. There seems nob to
Be the greatest comfort in the Pas
.teur discovery.
The Sunday Washington Times
tells of HarryjParker in his desperan
tion oyer the lac t that a girl he
loved could not love in return 80
silly a fellow as he, attempted to get
even with things by treating his in
.iier parts, so near the region of his
aia, with whiskey at first and then
srith two dunces of laudanum. The
-doctors used his stomach as a pump
ing tank and relieved him of the
laudanum and, it is to be hoped,
'Some of a -fool's love. In a few days
the youngster will be in trim for. a
new mash probably, and will be lets
,-aurprised at the good sense of a'girl
that rejects a simpleton.
Kentucky is getting an unenviable
reputation for mob1 law. Six or
seven in one week is rather strong
They go about it in a determined
but quiet way and ttLct their pur
pose. It is a dangerous way of reg
alating public affairs. Kentucky
needs to 'et settled down on the
right side of partisan lines to have
fewer provocations.
President Aldermui in an inter
view saj 8 the outlook for the btate
University is very bright. The
number of students enrolled is 540,
being more than in any year since
the war. He has no fear of legiala
tion this winter unfavorciUa to the
university.
The European powers have prac
tically agreed upon a method by
which to coerce the Turkish gov
ernment into certain reforms look
ing to tho better protection of the
Armenians. " This course might be
reasonably exp?ci-d and has come
to a Lead entirely too slowly for the
hnsty and impulsive, bat pome de
lay with.nduch diplomatic caution is
better than such course as miorht
hrve ra
sed a war tor:n in Europe.
Some'timerf it ' ms to weary
woinau UiaV bhu. must certainly
give up. Tne simplest and easiest
wirk bc m js a i almost iueur
uiountablt tak. Nervousness,
8ieeplesypes a; id pain harass her
and life stems Laidly worth'", the
living. j
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A special to the Charlotte Obser
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Harris8 caught Gre while she was
sitting near the fire Christmas morn
ing in her room at Z F Rush's, Jr.
Sue died before any one reached the
room. The body was horribly burned
frightful to behold. The deceased
was the widow of the late Jason
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