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A BURGLARY.
A Mn Fannd la. a Boom at Caoibii
Ylilc-ne Makes His Escape ana
Evades the Searchers Thing In the
Boom Scattered.
Rev. J S Dunn informs us of a
burglary at Cannonvill Friday
nigbt about three o'clock. Mrs.
Nesbit awoke and heard some one
in her room. When the thief in
the room found that-sho had ded
ucted that some one else was in
the room, he mado a-dashing
effort to escape and ran almost
against Mrs Nesbit as he ran
out of the room. : The alarm iras
giyen and the night thief was
chased about the' adjoining house.
While the seyeral persons "were
running around the houses with
their weapons the - thief in order
to evade them, Hook his position
only a short distance 'from the
crowd as if he was a sentinel, too.
It was afterwards found that this
person was unknown to all of
them and was without a doubt
the person wanted; and Rey.
Dunn himself was near enough to
have held him up with his own
weapon, had he not thought it
was his neigbor.
Things in the room were
scauerea sonsiaeraoiy. It is
thought that there were two of
the burglars, and the one that was
in the house was a white man.
Aoether Firm Contrlsntes to the
FnndL
The fund for the transportation
of our indigent fioldiers to Char
leston now amounts to $45.14.
Messrs. 1 fF Day vault & Bro.
have contributed five dollars to
the fund, which pays for still an
other old soldier to see the city of
Charleston where so many of our
soldiers were quartered.
With the Churches Tomorrow.
Sunday school tomorrow at
Trinity Reformed church. There
will be no other services as the
pastor, itev. j jn Jb'aust is
attending Classis. 5
The usual services will be held
.at the First Presbyterian chiurcH
tomorrow by the pastor, Rey. W
U Alexander.
Regular services both tomorrow
morning and night at Epworth
Methodist church by the pastor,
Kev. T W Smith.
Regular services will , be held
at Central Methodist church both
tomorrow morning and night by
the pastor, Rev. J E Thompson.
Rev. J Simpson will fill the pul
pit at the Baptist church tomor
row morning and tqraorrow night
in the absence of tne pastor, Rev,
B Lacy Hoge. : I
Rey. J C Davis, Rector of Alf
Saints .Episcopal church, will
conduct services tomorrow morn
ing. Sunday sohool 10 o'clock a. m.
A Call Meetinff. 1
There will be a call meeting 6f the
etockholdera of the Cabarrus Couni
J Building. Loan and'Savings Ai
iociatiou in the court house Tuesday
evening Maylthe 9th at 8 o'clock,
hy order of the President
L D Coltrane, Sec. and Treas.
WK Odell, Pres.
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THE PYTHIAN DINNER.
k J,,y Aamly-Beantlf Jl Deeera-
loqnence and Wit. !
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The 6th anniveraary of P? thian-
ism in OoEcord was celebrated Fris
day night, and was a most brilliant
ffir. Castle Hall . was just com
fortkbly jfilled with the j gay and
sprightly jto the number of about 160
members J and guests, embracing
much of ; the elite and elect of the
town The hall was tastefully dee
OL"a Via 1 ine Pythian colors
and
the gracefully manipulated
bun
Ing gave a charkning sffett.
The helmet, shield and! arms of the
Knight were displayed, too, on the
walla with initial mottoes!
After all had mingled in pleasant
converse in Castle Hall till there
might have been seen just a bit of
AjMMA.r.. m.1 si - .
uuruBring me cnier Knignt on
that! memorable- night called the
group into line of march for the
Oaton hall, where again a scene of
beauty burst upon tho eye and rich
delicacies set the palatal nerves in a
quiver, f
All were seated closely but not at
all too much so for one so lucky as
the writer, and soon were helped to
ice cream and sherbets, your choice
if it included both or a second
round, j The table was! well furs
nished with stands of choicest cakes,
oranges,' bananas, eta, (we can't re
member, just now what the eto.
stands for.)
t . ti
When all had feasted to tke full,
that stately knight, the toast mass
ter. Mr. B Harris, arraved in ful
dress suit and, looking his best
which is eajing morel than our
words indicate, for for the last few
years he is literally a walking in
j amotion against batchelorhood and
a shining confirmatien of Solomon's
f J It i
wisdom when he said that "He that
findeth a wife fineth a good thing,"
rose ana made an address in
language well chosen, chaste and
lofty, with a toueh of humor in
which he said this was neither
Perry Belmont $10 dinner nor a
William JenningsBryan$l dinner but
was free as the advocates of 16 to
could demand. Whatever be the
leanings of indiyiduals to the great
political theories he could see from
the emp!y plates before him that the
audience disagreed with Mr. Bryan
on the one point at least. Those
present seemed unanimous for ex
pansion .
He then introdnced Mr. Jas . C
Fink, who , responded to the toast,
"The Conoord Lodge." This was
masterful effort indeed and you'd be
surprised that he would be
allowed to tell so many secrets . He
told of j the Pythian goat, - described
his horns, his beard and bristles, his
eleven foot - and his enthusiasm in
the performance of his particular
part of the initiation He had him
landing his most emphatio butt end
about the centre of a fellows spinal
calumn. He depicted him carrying
the victim up the mountain crags,
doWn j the precipices (beyond and
through the mirey bogs, all .hissing
with 1 fiery j serpents and made
hideous with the echoes 'from the
deep, dark abjesea of jmytsical re
gions. Suddsnly he had this Pyth
iansteed bursting forth into the clear
opsn fields "of rglorio6i itnighlhoo'd :
It was' trnly grapkio aadrand, af-
ferding the keenest delight, especial
ly to those vercsd rin fseoret order
CONCORD, N. C, SATCJRDA MA15
derly upon the memories of two of
the deceased members.
Rev. Alexander responded to the
toast "Pythian Sisters," The speaker
was especially happy in his vein:
We can't reproduce his witticisms bu t
will compare it tp the expert stage
driver of long ago that would flour
ish the tongue of his lash loftily
and gracefully.. You watched it's
curves admiringly and knew not
where it waf going to descend. In
this case Messrs Ohal White, Frank
Smith and Charles Harrii in turn
each had a welt raised;
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The speaker cam down from his
vein of humor- and paid the most
beautiful tributes to his subject, j
Professor Petty thee responded io
the toast "The Future at Pythian
ism," Reader you've sat tind watch
ed the shadows pn a sunncy when
nimbus clouds swpptj ovf ih fiA
This, in short, deccribco the vision
of this son ef a prophet as he sees
Pjthianism spriirig frcm Meine
to Texas, from te Atlantic to the
racinc, ever the CT'.of Mexi
co, across the up, vv6r Aibionfc
hills, aoross the ilhirpl aeep.
ing the continents of Earope and
Asia.
Mr. LD Dural, being called, said
ne naa . been informed before hand
that be would be expected to make
an impromptu speech . It was the
height of his ambition to make an
after dinner speech on some grand
occasion like that, he said, and raise
great applause. The jolly audience
came to time and the speaker could
just barely tell that he had lately
watched the destiny of his friend.
Chauncey M Depew who was made
u. a. senator on account of his rec
ord for after dinner speeches and he
concluded that he would take warn
ing noflr as ne resumed his Beat.
Mr. J DLentz had declined several
hours previous to make a a im
promptu speech and electrified the
audience in telling how he would
not make a speech .
Oar article is too long already but
the solos of Mies Castor 3d Miss
Caldwell, as announced, were the
spice of ithe occasion and'were round
:
ly cheered for their excellence.
Long live the Pythians and many
be the annual dinners if this writer
is to be honored with a plate.
Tbe Crops Catch nis Eye.
iiir, duna xi. -Liong, our
county surveyor, who left our
county some days ago to visit his
son at Arnold, writes to us about
the crops as follows : "The fann
ers are about even this year in
their farm work.' Cotton and corn
is taking the day now. Some cot
ton and corn is rip along the rpad
between here and Concord. My
;
attention has been on the wheat
all along the road. The wheat
crop is promising. About the Ca
barrus and Mecklenburg line
the crop is fine, j The finest that I
have seen anywhere is on Mr.
Everhardt's farm here. Mr.
Hinkle also has a fine field here.
' 1 - - i ' m I e
'.'11 '" " 1 .:
TTia AHfiiAnk belifiTfi that rhAnmat isrm
was the wort oc a demon within a man.
Any one who has had an attack of scia-
tiA nr inflammatorv : rhenmafism will
enough to warrant the belief. It haa
Pain Balm wduJd cait out demons, but
it will cure rheumatism, and hundreds
bear testimony to the truth of thia
statement One appiicatibn relieves the
Pain and thia auiek relief which it
Rffords is aloha worth many times itl
cost. or Biue dv u. inarsn uo.
6, 1899
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Mrs. Joe Person left this mora
1D .
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Barringer
returned from Charlotte yesterday
evening.
Mr. 0 L Smith, of A Charlotte,
came over Inst night to attend the
reception of the Pythians. j j I
Mrs. Elam King went to Chart
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loi.e mm morning tp visit at
Mr;
R M White's.
Mrs. M 6 Deaton went o;Char
lott? this corning to spendj several
days with her son, Mr. Jas. Deaton.
-Mies Grace Fisher went" to! Sal
isbury this morning to spend a few
days with her friend. Miss Haden.
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Mr. Edward Hill returned
! borne this morning from Salisbury.
i he other members of the play did
not; return.
Miss Pearl Brown wen
up
to
Salisbury this moraine- t
nd several days with her friend.
Miss Pearl Thompson.
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Misses-Bessie Sims and Mary
Skinner went to Harrisbuig this
morning to spend Sunday with
Misses Mary and Lila Stafford. ,
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--Miss Ida Blume returned home
yesterday evening to spend a few
days. She will yery probably re
turn to Elizabeth next Tuesday.
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Rev. B Lacy Hoge ' and wife
will go to Charlotte to-night to
spend two weeks. Rev. 'Hoge goes
to assist Rev. L R Pruett in a series
of meetings. "
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Mr. W A Foil, of Charlotte, and
his friend, Mr. Hazelv Grayj passed
through here today on their way to
Mr. FoiPs former home near Mt.
Pleasant. 1 " ! I '1
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