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BY M. QUAD.
The clock had iust RtmV LMn!w,f 1
iuis. vi it u lid nrvnM nfr nvi
; - i i. .
raised up on her elbow, land a few see-
on as-later gave Mr. Gallup-; fc,
t 1:1 2 - ...11. . . . I
ViAflWw '
liea.II.jr
U'S iu noarsejy wmeperedj "Sam
uel Gallup, git up'n light the lamp and
call in the nayburs, fur I haven't over
half an,:houi to live' Mr. Gallup was
Wg on me broad of his
on the broad of his back. ith
hands elasped on the back of his neck. !
and his aWn wa honw anr mi,
The "diff" and thfi vilrt amnoari '
. . - 1 ;
him and he 6lowly assumed a sitting
position. "Yes, Samuel, the grimdes-
Gallup,! "and you may light both lamps
and a taller candle-to boot and then git
u ' m-i . . . , , . . " o1,
j - ...vw . .jv.11,1 . ,uuuuucti iti in .
Mrs. TTatkinsand Mrs. Johnson tn r.nm !
in-and see mo die. I was talkin' A ith
both of j'.em only yisterday about bein'
with me at the lastj and they said they'd
consider it a privilege." Mr. Gallup
was- sufficiently aroused to realize that
Mrs. Gallup was speaking also, that
she had prepared to die about once e ery
two weeks for : the. past fifteen years:
Kealizine all this, he dronned hark nn
the pilibw and five seconds later wail
sound asleep again. ". Yes,
I shall feoon flutter mv win era
Samuel.
with the i
other 'angels." : continued MrsL Galhin !
as her hea? also fell back anda lnmn I
rose in her throat. "I know I've said
so before, andijuthin' cum' of : it, but
this time I'm bound. to go. -I've had
the same warnin' that Mrs. Hastings
naa Detore the shadder of death fell noon
her. You remember that she dreamed
of lookin down the well and eeein her
own face in the water It wasen't two
days after that when she fell fiver the
cat, pitched down-stairs. I've Jiad that
very same dream, Samuel, and by next
Thursday night you'll be snoring' here
all alone and I'll be restin up in the
grave-yard.' ' ; Mr. Gallup didn't hear
er, , She knew he didn't, -but having
got started she fell to continue. .The
idea that he could slet'p and snore while
his only wife was dying touched her
heart, and before speaking again she
reached! over and got his nart of the
sheet and wiped her weeping eves and
nose on it. By and by she said: "Yes,
i Baw my lace down tne well, and as I
started back I herd a voice from behind
the smoke-house say in' ; 'Mrs.: Gallup,
git ready to flutter your wings and play
on the golden harp, fur your trials and
tnbulashuns m this - wicked world are
over!' Thaf s what the voice said,
Samuel, and I woke up with sich a start
that the bed. almost'fell down.l I never
had no wings and never played on any- ' 7 k m 7
thin' but a Jewsharp, but Vspose rut!? lt.ffe.
. i.-..fZ fCl at their wite' ends if the ad var
alon
Hain't you goin' to git up'n light the
lights and call in the navburs and make
fuss abot my dyin'?" This was a
direct question to Mr. Gallup and it was
accompanied by a number of vigorous
"di2SM which rolled hirn over on his
side, hut a sound between a sigh and a
grunt was the only response. ' Mrs.
Gallup sobbed and pulled her nose awhile
before going on: . "Very well, ; Samuel
very, well! ifit.be any . perticKier
trubble fur you to get up and ; see me
die, don't dotitl I never made you no
trubble, and I don't want to begin now
Some' wives would insist on makin'a
fuss over dyin', but 11m not one of that
sort. . I don't say that I wasn't taken
with, palpi tashnn of the he'art the day
after we was married, and that I'venad
asthma, plumbago, dizziness, earache,
liver complaint, chills, sore heel, lame
bak and several other things, but!
wan't to blame about it. Nobody never
herd me complain.s. I jusfshetmy teeth
and bore it.and many a night when you
thought I. was asleep and dreamin of
angels I've bin at the pint of death and
madeTio sigh. I don't want no praise
fur these things, Samuel; you needn't
ever say you appreciate em if you
don't want to. -, 1 '
Mr. Gallup might Have wanted to if
he had been awak j, but his slumbers
were so deep that nothing short of the
report of a pistol at bis ear would have
aroused him: Mrs. Gallup sobbed and
gasped and worked away at her nose
and eye? with all the heetlsbe cpuia get
hold of, and after a- time. broke out
anew.- -'j- : : ' VV, : ; . .- : j
1 know I've bin a good wne to you,
Samuel Gallup, and everybody knows
I've did my full duty.but I hain't goin'
to seek any praise fur it. IU leave yon
to think of it when you . and your wife
onm to "visit .niv grave.-,'' You 11 take a
second wife, of course, and it won't be
nothin' more'n good manners fur both
of yo' to cum up once in awhile and
gaze on 'my last restin-place. As you
gaze you'll remember how I used to
natch and-darn and dye and , cut over
and save- fur you.- Mebbe you'll ; even
remember how I plugged up the hole
in the bottom of the' cofiee-'pofc ' with a
stick and made it last a year longer,
and how keerfuLI have alms bm in
dealin' with tmpeddlers to put old shoes
in the rag-bag to make extra weight in
our favor. Yes, Samuel, you'll remem
her lots of things when I'm gone and
v-oii've cot a second wife slam-ban gin'
around and declarin', she'll buy three
hull pounds of sugar to once or git
divorce.' You'll remember, but it'll be
tod'late 1 - Samuel, don't you want to
wake nn and hold my hands 'while the
soecrit is leavin' this mortal clay?"
She didn't expect a reply to the ques
tion. She was so busy looking tor wore
bed-clothes to use for a Handkerchief
that she mizht not have heard Mr
Gallup had he answered. . She hadn t
had a "good cry" for as "much. as a
weekJ arid she gave herself up to grief
for five long minutes before her elbow
struck Mr. Gallup in the rih3, and $he
Srtld . . - "' . -
"I've been thinkin' it over, Samuel,
and you needu' t get up and go to any
ti-nKMo i T'H turn mv face to the wall
and nerish as cently. as I kin, and
won't dA no more kickin'' around than
T t'n hpln You!ll find me dead in the
in' hnt dnn't rush - around and
lame vour back." Bushin' ' around
t iir"nr' nft hiick to life. ? I have
hoi ro .hoir fnr the funeral all ar
ranged fur the last six months. Mrs,
Watkins has - promised to lend you
air Mrs. Johnson four,-Mrs. Williams
kavpb. an if Mrs Taylor hasn't got
ilti' hpo nn hand- and none of her
Hanfrhtfr3 are coing to have a birthday
party she'll furnish eight or nine,ithough
some of 'em hev broken backs,
kin scrape togethbr-ten qf ovr
You
find people who can't sit down
will
hev i
to stand up. 1 used to think
I'd;
like 1
to have you weeD at mv' funeral, hut i
I . . . . . 7 v- -
?ftv? banged my mind. That is, if
us
any pertickler trouble to - ween, dnn't. '
do it. It you could sqeeze a tear buter '
CJC miuuui, jsuaimn- your nacK it
miprht hftvTOoll Dlinnok Ut A..l I i
I O v. "fo lJ J UUL UUU L 1
yourself and git. all tuckered j out. I
You'll want all your strength to !look
after a secqnd wife. I've known dym'
. wives, to say they'd cum back and" I bust
r in D
ag'in. but I shan't do it. . T allna! smM
ui iu a uecent lasmoa, ana I'm
-k '
gom to stick to it. I will now ! turn
over and die. Good-bye Samuel. Don't
forgit to feed the hoes and milki the
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a hole in thA Ivitinm
and when
that pail
with !
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Hot Springs, Ark., has been selected
as. the place and October 31as the
date
But
of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons ' mill.
the State of Arkansas will underta
Ke to
see that the fight isu't pulled pff within
ner ooraers
-Amelia Hives Chandler, the author-
es8 nas been granted a divorce from
er husband on the ground of incom-
patibility; - We
are not surprised
that
the
tQe author of
"The Quick and
Head" should be divorced.
Prof. Srafth having declined
chajr of English- in Daridson Col
the
ege,
the trustees Tuesday i elected
rof.
Ihos. Y. Harrison, Ph.D., to the
tion. Harrison 'has for two yedlrs.
posi-
peen
connected with Clemson College. - S
C.
He has accepted.
Bev. WH. Brvart.. colored.
who
last week discovered a changed switch
on . the railroad at Salisburv and
re-
ported it to the road authorities
just
in time to prevent an accident, has peen
given for his services a free pass
over
the Southern system for five vearsv
occieiary uarusie is sun m OOUDt as
i . i t . . i
to.whether he will again speak in Kec
tucky during the State campaign, with
the chances against his doing so, Mt he;
has accepted an invitation to delivbr a
financial speech before the Boston
Ee-
form Club at its annual banquet to
be
given on Saturday next.
The Tngher price of cotton may not
continue; it may go down; pernaps ivill,
noboby knows. But we feel sorry for
our free silver friends while it last?. It
has already knocked the spots oui ".of
their argument and they must be yery
miserable. They would brighten ud
in and be
vance should
be maintained. These bright autumn
days of bounding blood and bounding
prices are the winter of the calamity
howler's discontent. H&is ett tled to
the sympathy of his friends and j the
prayers of the church. iiharlotte Ob
server. - : - T ,- -, ' ' !
The approaching reappearance! of
Fayes Comet, with M. Flammaricjm's
suggestion that it may possibly this time
graze the earth, if not actually sinash it,
ba3 beervrecehtly a matter of some con
cern to persons unprepared for a sudden
transition to aqother mode of existence.
The intense and almost unprecedented
heat of the past month in thi3 country
and in Europe has been connected in
some minds With the comet's advent.
Fir?t discovered in 1842, it has since
been obseryed regularly every seven and
ahalf years, and hitherto at a safe dis
tance; ' but this time there . is danger,
according to the susceptible persons re
ferred to, of our getting mixed up with
its fiery tail, if we escape the impact; of
its rapibly advancing head.
It is reported that Secretary Carlisle L
has about made up his mind to recom
mend in his annual report to Congress
tnat $1 a barrel be added to the tax on
beer, which, it U estimated, would add
$32,000,000 a year to the receipts of Ihe
government. ; Whether the Bepublicans
would accept this recommendation if it
be made wUI depend upon whether, the
high-tariff -or-but Bepublicans con trbl
th House. If that faction gets on top
the country will be in for another tariff
agitation. Mr. Beed. 'who will rule the
House with a rod of iron", only hepding
when he . thinks he can improve j his
chances for The presidential nominatijon,
is credited with' not wishing to touch
the, tariff the coming session of Con
gress. ', "
What the Negro Can Io.
-- . . . .--1
The Jacksonville Times Union s4ys
A great deal has been said ahout
the opportunities of- the- negro in the
South. Yesterday the Times-Union
announced the death of .Benjamin
Biley at St. Augustine, and the fact
that he'ef property to .hia heira valtied
at $100,000.' This money was made,
not inherited. It represented the Sav
ings of one of the negro race bprn
irr the South and livinsr in the South
till the time of his death. Does jnct
the fact that .this man ; succeeded, so
well show that ' the negro is -. (not
hindered in the South in the accumula
tion of property ?"
" They Were Printers.
Whitelaw Eeid on.ee set type.
Horace Greely for many years wor
ied
lit the case. . i
Amos S. Gumming, who succeeded
Sunset Cox in Congress, . began life as a
printer.
Joel Chandler Hams, the most pop
ular Southern author, was atone time
a iournevman printer. ..
- W D. Howells, one of the leading
novelists Q.f the day, was a printer n
his father's country office when a boy
Care For IlefttlaelK-.
: As a remedy for all forms of Headache
Electric Bitters has proved to be 'the
yery best It eftecta a permanent cure
jn the moit dreadei habitual . sick
headaches vield to its influence. jWe
nrffeallwho are afflicted to procare
bottle, and give.tbis rtfmedy a fair trial
In cases of habitual constipation Elec
trio Bitters cures by giving the needed
tone to the bowels, and few cases long
resist the use of this medicine. Try ft
pnee. Iiargc bottles only Fifty cents at
P." B. Fetzer's Di n tere. f
N.r.v see that your blood . is pure
hpnUh follows the use of Hood's
I Sarsaparilla which is tqe one great bliod
puriaer.
CONCORD, N, 0., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1895.
BOLTON ON FUSION.
The Republican State Chairman Defines
His Position.
The- Charlotte Observer contains a
letter from A. E. Holton to Hon; Eich
mond Pearson, -relative to fusion ber
tween , the BepubUcan and Populist
parties. Mr. Holton "is chairman of
the BepubUcan State-Executive Com
mittee, and his position is . interesting
on that account. It appears below:
Yadkixville, N. C, Oct. 3. 1895.
Hon. Richmond Pearson.Asheville, N.C:
received, asking my views as to the
best line of campaign for next year.
i ill ri , i , i r . - i t m rvi Arm r. n mm a n
correc.tIy I defined my position to you
ia&i winter and nave had no occasion
to change,: but concede you theright to
doubt where you would find me in these
days when expediency seems to govern
the action of so many. I stand now
where I did during the last campaign,
believing that co-operation as we then
called it, was absolutely necessary : to
worEf out needed reforms in our State
politics and that nnher the Bepublicans
or Populists were sacrificing their party
principles by nniting to over fhrow a
system of fraudulent elections, and re
store to the people local self-goverment.
In order to hold this I- think the Be
publicans of thestate are willing and
anxious to co-operate next year with
those who agree with us on State issues.
"I favored, as "you know, the Legis
lature submitting to the people at our
next election an amendment to the con
stitution; such a one as would have
guaranteed a.n honest election and thus
formed a nucleus for co-operation on
State politics next year, and as the cul
mination of fusion; thereby engrafting
in our constitution a permanent safe
guard to the ballot. I believe our Pop
ulist friends are in accord with us on
the issue we won last year, and are
anxious to hold what we gained. . If
they . so desire, the great majority of
the Bepublicansn the State are willing
to divide the State offices and co-operate
on the; local tickets as we did in the
last election. I cannot agree with you
that it is good policy to undertake to
mix the electoral ticket. In fact, I do
not believe the Topulista would consent
to it, if the resolutions adopted at the
silver convention on the 25th of Sep
tember embodied the policy to be pursued-
by the Populisti', who were in
control of that convention. Under
these resolutions neither Beed, McKin
ley nor Allison 45ould hope to get their
I support, for even five electors, and it
would be folly for us to talk about vot
ing for Populist electors when they de
clare they will not support our part of
the ticket, for rio one expects the Na.,
tional Bepublican platform to declare"
for the free andunlimited coinage of
silver independent 1 of international
agreement, or to nominate $ free silver
candidate for' the Presidency. The par
ty will declare for bi-metalism and jnean
what it says, and when restored to pow
er, as it certainly will be next year, enact
legislation favorable to silver, and at the
same time keep the two metals equal in
purchasing power; then with renewed
prosperity all classes, will he satisfied.
I have too much confidence in the po
litical convictions of the rank and file
of both the Bepublicans and Populists
of this State to think they would tolerate
a fusion on the electorial ticket, thereby
subjecting themselves to the severest
criticism of sacrificing their principles
and self-respect. :
We cannot afford i to condemn -the
policy of the National Republican party
solely to effect fusion, nor can a Eepub
Jican advocate " the Populist doctrine
and hope to retain the confidence of
his party. He will either have to aban-
'don his position or fall in line with the
populists. The sooner our people real
ize, this the better for themselves and
the party.
Nor do I believe our Populist friends
will demand that we ;cu,t loose, from, our
national organization as a condition for
co-operation an State issues. t they
should we have but one course to pur
sue. . 4- ' . -'".;-
Trnsting that you will give the sub
ject due consideration and agree with
me, lam. Your truly,
; A. E. Homos
Mr. Lacy to Reslffn-
Raleigh Press Visitor. :: - " "
Mr. B. B. Lacy j has j prepared for
publication an interesting card Concern
ing his trip to and impressions of the
National Convention of statisticians,
held recently in Minneapolis. At the
end of the card he states that he Will
notj be Commissioner of Ihor Statistics
after the expiration Of his term-
The term does not expire until Jan
uary a year from now, put a reporter
learns on excellent authority that Mr
Lacy will resign his position after the
first of next January. The people of
the State will be sorry to hear of this
fact. Mr. Lacy has made an excellent
official and ha3 brought the Bureau to
the front as an agency for the advance
ment of North Carolina's nanufactur-
inar and labor interests.
He will leave the-office with the good
will of all men and all parties. -
1 A'Ciar Vostillm aBride. ;
- Kincstos, ' N. .Y., Oct. 1. Frank
Parks, of Oeonta, is -an inveterate smo
ker, and when he proposed marriage to
Jennie Titus of that place she accepted
him on condition that he. would give up
the use of tobacco.. While, on their way
to a clergyman on Sunday for the pur
pose of being married Miss Titus dis
covered a cigar in Parka.' pocke.. She
promptly dismissed him and returned
home alone, saying tha$ ghe. wished
nothing to do with a man who, was un-
ahle to Keep his word. , ,
Tlie Discovery Save Uli Lil.
Mr, G. Cailouette, Drnggist, Beavers
ville, I1L. says : "To Dr. King's New
Discoyery I owe my life. Was taken
with La Gripp3 and tried all the physi
cians f 01 raises about, but of no avail
and was given up and told I coul4 not
live. . Haying Dr. King's 5ew L&scqy
ery in my store I sent or ft bottle and
began it use and from the first dose be-,
gan to get better, and after; using three
bottles was up and about again- " It i
worth its weight m gold. We wofl't
keep store or house without it." Get a
free trial at Fetzer's Drug Store,
j t.INCOIiN'S HESITANCY TO MARKT,
'.'Letters from Lincoln to his' closest
friend, Joshua Fry Speed, subsequent
to tha latter's marriage, betray an anx
ious and impatient desire to learn if
marriage is a pathway of flowers and
sunlight, nhd not of darkness and pain
the two had morbidly feared it to be
John Gilmer Speed presents these hith
erto unpublished letters bearing Upon
Lincoln's Hesitancy to Marry," in
the ' Pctober Ladies' Home Journal.
In one Lincoln says: '
"I cannot: be. told - how .it how
thrills me with joy to hear you say you
are 'far happier than you ever expected
to beif . That much I know is enough.
I know! you too well .to suppose your
expectations were not, at least some
times? extravagant, and if ; tlie reality
exceeds them all, I say, enough, dear
Lord-'I am not going beyond Ihe
truth when I tell you that the short
space it took toe to read your last letter
gave tne more pleasure than the sum
total of all I have enjoyed since the fa
taLfirst of January, 1841. Since then,
it seems to me, I should have Jbeen en
tirely happy , but for . the never-absent
idea that there is otie (referring to Miss
Mary Todd) who is Still unhappy, whom
Ihave contributed to make so. Thatstill
kills my soul. I cannot but reproach
myself for even wishing to be happy
while "she is otherwise. She accompa
nied a large -party iti the railroad cars
to Jacksonville last Monday, and on
her return spoke so that I heard of it,
of having enjoyed the trip exceedingly.
God be praised for that. One thing 1
can tell you which I know you will be
glad to hear, ; and that is that"! have
seen Mary and scrutinized her f eelings
as well as I could, and am fully con
vinces! she is far happier now than she
has been for the last fifteen months
past." i-; .. . ".
Eight months af ter Speed had mart
ried Mr. Lincoln wrote him : i "
. But I want to ask a closesquestion:
'Are you, now in feehng as well as judg
ment glad that you are married as you,
are?' - : From anybody ' but me this
wohld be an impudent question not to
be tolerated, but I know you will par
don it in me. Please answer it quickly,
as I aim impatient to know."
Mrj Lincoln's object in asking this
"close question" is manifest. Mr.
Spee4 gave the answer quickly and sat
isfactorily, and on the fourth of Novem
ber (1842), one month exactly after the
question had been submitted. Mr. Lin
coln was married. ! '
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t The. Cotton Crop.
The Memphis Scimitar says : " The
cotton crop of 1884V0O, was, in round
figures, 10,000.000 bales, worth $25
&fe31j of 500 pounds, or $250i000,000
in the aggregate. The crop of 1895-96
promises to be: about 7,000,000 bales,
worth! at present over $40 per bale of
500 pfcunds, or something in excess of
$280,000,000. i The aggregate value will
probably be at least $300,000,000, even
if prices go no higher. Putting the cost
of picking, baling,"' ginning, etc., at
$10 per bale, the crop of last season
would net the producers about $150, 000,
000, and the present crop $300,000,000.
This would give a clear gain of $80,000,-
000 over last year, and as the advance
in the markets comes before the ship
ping season is fairly opened, these addi
tional millions would go into the pock
ets of the people who made the cotton.
Besides, it should be remembered that
this crop was made cheaper than any
other on record, j Consequently the fig
ures do, not represenjftH the difference
in tne pronts ot production in favor 01
the present as compared with the jrnst.
And when one; takes into account the
bountiful crops of corn, peas, potatoes
and forage crops and the large increase
tn the amount of home-made meat in
sight,! it becomes apparent that the
Lord has been good to the iouth tru3
year.'": : y. -x . v;-: - -.
Mr. Bandall,' who was Mr. Harrison's
Marshal for the-District of Columbia,
and who is his close personal and polity
cat friend, says iur. llamson would ac
cept another nomination if it were ten
dered him. Mr. Bandal says paradoxi
cally of one of the most popular Demo
crats -in Indiana : "The Democratic
friends of Governor : Matthews are not
backward in putting him to the front
as a presidential candidate. There is
no doubt that State pride would help
him wonderfully in Indiana were he. to
Iget . the nommatyin, but there is-not
muchs likelihood of; that. Everybody
concedes that he is an estimable gentle
man about whom only good can be
snokeh. : He has scarcely enough of
national reputation,: however, to lead
his party in 189G." j If the friends ot
Gov. Matthews can get all the Indiana
Bepublicans to talk that way about him
when .they are : outside their State . he
will soon be enjoying the biggest sort
of a boom. The lack of national repu
tation counts for little. How much na
tional! reputation did Graver Cleveland
have in 1884. when he heat" the widest
known i man of that day James GT.
Blaine? ;
In the election of last November Maj
J.C.' GrBlack, Democrat, defeated Tom
Watson, the noted Populist, for "Con
gress n the Augusta, Ga. , district. The
Populists howled - "fraud!" and in
weak effort to satisfy them Maj: Black
consented to-have the election over. It
was held Wednesday and, as our dis
patches ci Thursday announced, Black
was elected again.' ; It turns out that
hismajority1 is 1,664. Watson's vote
fell off over 100 in hia, own county
Black! and the other Democrat,- after
the worry a,nd expense of thS second
election, are just where they were after
the first and Watson . and 'the Popu
lists have come out at the same . hole
they went m and are no better con
tented. The second " election was
silly attempt . to please them, but if, as
the Atlanta Journal says, the result of
the election is "a death-blow tQ Popu
lism in the diitrct which has been its
Qeorgia stronghpld," it was not, after
all, held in vain. Charlotte Observer.
Big5 Tom Wilson, the famous , hun
ter, tells the Asheville Citizen ihat de
spite protests that have been made, des
ecration of. thex monument to Prof.
Eli8ha Mitchell goes l on -imreatrained.
The work of the vandals is done mostly
he says, by those going up on the north
1 . . . .,. - . - - . . ..
side of the mountain. . -
GEN. WILLIAM MAHOSE.
i Whenever a man who is or has been
prominent becomes ill or dies the coun
try is at once flooded with misstatements
concerning hia ; life. The case of (ex
Senator MAhone, of Virginia, is the la
test striking : instance. From the time
he was stricken downwith paralysis the
misstatement , mill j has been steadily
grinding. One prominent newspaper
writer stated over 1 his own signature
that General Mahone and his family
were blue-blooded, F. F.V.r aristocrats,
and so long as he remained in the Dem
ocratic party he was rich and prosper
ous in business, idolized for his war, re
cord, and his family the pets of the
highest society, but that after he became
a Bepublican he and his family Were
socially ostracised, and his business dis
criminated against until he was grad
ually driven to bankruptcy. About the
only true thing in the "whole article is
what is said of his war record. 1 The
people of Southampton county, Virginia,
where Gen. ; Mahone was born, and
where he has relatives now living, would
smile at his being called an aristocrat,
and old citizens of Petersburg: where he
has lived since the war would, do like
wise upon being told that the Mahones
ever were social pets. Mahone was pie -v.:nn
1 tt- . . .
uuiu. aab waija civil engineer
and helped to build-"the Norfolk and
Petersburg railroad; which was a part
of the A. M. O. system, of which' he be,
came president after the war, at a salary
ot $25,000 a.year. He came out of the
war poor, as he entered it, but his jaw
record made him a railroad president
and the boss of the Democratic , party
of Virginia, which position he main
tained until forbearance ceased to be a
virtue. . About the time his control of
the Democratic party was broken j he
also lost his railroad job. Then his or
ganization of the readjuster party, his
nop to the Bepublicans and his term in
the Senatej v He Was accredited with
being a rich man and "was a lavish liver
and a daring speculator, but since j he
left the Senate he has been known sim
ply as a lobbyist. . His bankruptcy was
the result of bad investments, some
of which were shared by Democrats, in
stead of their driving him to bankruptcy.
in Petersburg the social status of the
Mahones is as good as it ever was. Gen. 1
Mahone was ia great soldier an4 a
brainy man, but when that much is
said it is best to stop.
EvU Effects of Ig-norlnc Principle.
; j.ne snver democrats 01 iNortn uaroi-
iua who were betrayed into going into a
convention with populists and republic
ans will long regret their folly. At the
last moment ex-Senator Jaryis, -Mr: S.
A, Ashe and other leaders refused to be
drawn into the trap, and it is well that
they did, for they could not have escaped
the fate of their brethren who were- less
prudent and who were consequently
absorbed by Senator Marion Butler
and the other representatives of the
populist party.; The democratic party
of North' Carolina is in a badly
demoraliled condition, and it- has
been going from bad to worse ever since
it defeat last November by the allied
populist and republicans. Beason may
resume ; its sway some day, and with
new leaders and steady adherence to the
principles of true democracy the party
may recover lost ground and re-establish
itself in the confidence of the people;
But as long a? it tries to oatdo the pop
ulists in advocating financial legtsla-i
tion utterly opposed to democratic theory
and practice its restoration to power will
be a matter of little concern to - those
democrats in other States who believe
in strict adherence to principle even at
the cost of defeat. - . '
Fifteen Dollars a Bale Extra.
. The Savannah News says: "With
regard to the cotton crop, a portion of
an interview with an average farmer
will serve to illustrate how that has
been made. 'I began work last spring,'
said he, 'and made my crop with the
view to selling my cotton at 4J cents on
the farm. That is all I expected, and
aud all of my arrangements were made
tol that end. As things look now I shall
sell it for 8 J cents, and maybe more.
That means I' will get about $20 .a
bale more for it than I calculated upon.
My crop will turn out about" ninety
bales You will sse, therefore, that I will
get some $1,800 more than I had any
idea of while tha crop was being planted
and cultvatedj . The best part of it is
that the $1,800 extra which the farnier
will get will be all his own rnoney". He
is not in debt. There is . no incum
brance on those ninety bales of cotton.
He made them them at hard-pan prices.
and upon his own resources. It would
probably be not amiss to say that nirie-
tenthsof the number of Georgia farmers
have made this season s crop upon" toe
very basis that the farmer quoted made
his crop," ;
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i ' Local Optlon Prlnclple Sound. -
f : ' . - ... - i .
j LoxDON, Oct. 4. Mr. Gladstone has
written a letter to the ; temper 'nee con
gress, mwiuctt ne says: " While pro
foundly sensible of the immense impor
tance of the liquor question, I cannot
pretend that I have mastered its difficult
ies. I see it clearly m certain of its
aspects, but as a whole it baffles me, - I
have no doubt that the local option prin
ciple is sound, but they must be of very
sanguine temperament who believe that
it is sufficient to dispose of the entire
question. The method of the sale of
liquor for public account, ' which "exists
in parts of Scandinavia, presents great
advantages, and if adped here ought to
be adopted in its best; form. The plan
of free trade, with strict police supervi
sision and adequate taxation, was un
fortunately refused a fair trial in tJreat
Britain. Of the scheme of mere limit
ation by reducing the number of Jicen
ses, I have a poor opiaion,"
I ' Hood's Completely Cured. , I
BoxoBEL, V.-C. Sapt 22, 1865. My
little boy six years old was a great suf
ferer with catarrh. Medicines he took
from physician! did not help. him, "and
be began nsing Hood's Sarsaparilla.
We have given him three bottles of this
medicine and it has effected a complete
cure and we are very grateful for this
blessing. Mas. Bv L- Teasteb.
r - ;;.;: ;.. ' : . :. ;d; ,;
1 The faculty andstudents of Davidson
College have decided to attend the Al
lan ta Exposition in a body,
Humber 16.
I HiShest of all in Leavening Power.Latest TJ. S. Gov't Report ,
A DEADLY .WEAPON.
- Agamemnon JVIontgomer wa sixteen
sixteen summers, the novelist would
say, had rolled above his sunny head.
But there were late falls and some
winters. Now the final crushing blow
0had come. Beatrice Argonaut had
trampled the affections of a true man
under foot Hah! Her cruel note
gleamed at him even now from Its lo
cation upon the back doorstep, where
he had laid It! " - ,
She had painted a black veil across
: the sky of his young ambitions man
hood; she had .blotted out the great
. light which led his yearning soul out-
i ward and upward and onward to 'the
realms of ineffable delight; she had
aye, Beatrice Argomaunt, had snapped
.ihe silken, cord which bound a soaring
ambition to the realms of finite pos
sibility. His heart, his" name, his all
spumed! - - .
. Frantically snatching a leaf from an
old passbook, he scrawled upon it these
tragic words:
"Woman! The die Is casted! The
axe has failedl The dark cloud of re
lentless fate- has. clouded the cloud?
cloudiness of my mental sky still
cloudier! 'Sorrer comes apace! Hope
dies! Oh, death, where Is .thy 6tlnri
Good-by ferever Don't, look for my
body for you will never know where
I sleep. Good-by, good-ty. -
"Agamemnon."
Tie note was found by the frantic"
mother of the sorrow-stricken nxa as
she was going out of the back .oor
to empty a bucket of ashes he had
promised to empty day before yester
day. Oh, the agony of the hours that
ensued! The creek was dragged, the
well sounded,, the ' haymow searched
and the-church bells rung. When hu
man hands .and brains seemed power
less to devise further means of ad
vancing the search there was a wild
cry from the top of the woodshed.
Wildly the friends and neighbors
rushed thither, aad there, pale, cold,
stark and seemingly stiff, lay all that
remained of, the man whose life had
been rendered al a blank.- '
In his erstwhile Strong right hand
was clutched. the' fatal weapon, while
jburht matches and other, surroundings
told how the weapon had got In its
work.
Beatrice was called In to face the.
result of her heartless work. She
viewed the still form unmoved. There
were signs of returning animation,"
but she was firm, .
"This is your work, base, heartless
creature!" cried the frantic mother.
"Mine?'.' retorted she, coldly. "Why
did the poor fool attempt to smoke half
a dozen of them without stopping?"
Poor Agamemnon recovered, but he
began his seventeenth year in the
blankness of utter despair. Cleveland
Plaindealer.
1 J Mr, Cawher's Pind. ,
1 "There is no Ingenuity I admire so
much as that of the men who get up
cyclopaedias," saidMr. Cawker to his
his wife.
"Why?" .
"Because it is the most ingeniously
Ingenious ingenity extant, that's why
I'll illustrate. I wanted a little infor
mation on the planet Jupiter, I went
downstairs fo the library, and in my
simplicity took out the book which,
according to the inscriptions oh the
back contained the "J's. 3' is the
first letter in tho word 'Jupiter, you
understand." - .
Mrs. " Cawker nodded.
"Well, I carried - the book upstairs
and settled myself to. absorb useful in
formation about Jupiter. Opening the
book, I tracked along alphabetically
until. I came to where Jupiter ought
to be and what do you suppose I
found?". ..
"I 'can't imagine."
"Just this 'Jupiter, see Planetary
System.' There comes in the; ingen
uity of the cyclopaedia men First,
they never put the information you
want under the head yoirwould na
turally look for it to he under, and
then they carefully nut the article to
which they refer you in another vol
ume -entirely. To do this unerringly
requires a great mind, madam."
And Mr." Cawker stalked oft down
stairs to pursue his hunt for informa
tion about Jupiter. Harper's Maga
zine. : ' - -
The Lexington Dispatch say3 David
son county commissioners Tuesday
allowed all the claims of the. State wit
nesses in the Sbemwell-Payne case, bui
did not allow any of the claims of tht
defendant's witnesses.
if.
WKW EGO LATO R
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clatqb. the "Krtra op Livee Medi
cines V That is what our readers
want, and nothing- but that. It is the
-same old friend to which the old folks
pifined their faith and were never dis
appointed. r But another good recom
mendation for it is, that it is betteb
than Pills, never gripes, "never weak
ens, but works in such an easy and
natural way, just like nature itaelfj that
relief comes quick and sure, and one
feels new all over. It never fails.
Everybody needs take a liver remedy,
and everyone should 1 take . only Sim
mons Laver Regulator. - .
Be sure you get it. The Bed Z
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is prepared to" turn out every va
riety of Printing in ; first-class
Style. No botch-work turned
out from this office. . We. dupli
cate the prices of any legilirr ate
establishment. -
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offer their professional services it, the"
citizens of Concord and yicinity". ' All
calls promptly attended day or nigkf;
Ufhce and residence on Ea st Depot
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over Johnson's Drns Store.
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CONCORD, N. Q
As, partners, wilhwactico law in Cabar-
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Superior and Supreme Courts of the
State and in the Federal Courts, Office
'n Depot Street. ,
Jft Ji RISON fl. CALDWELL. -
j ' Attorney at La w,
f! r CONCOBD, N. C .
Office in Morris
building, orpoeite
Julv 4 tf
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used. when desired. Sixteen years' ex
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rier's store.
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Offers his professional services to tl e
people of Concord and vicinity. : Offi e
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left at Mrs. Dr, Henderson's.
Office Hours, 7 to 8 a. m., 1 to 2, tnd
7 to 8 p. m. Telephone call, No. 67.
Sept. 20.'94. ly. '
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- ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN,
Offers his professsonal services to the
citizens of Concord, and vicinity ii tl e
treatment of acute and chronic dipcapfp,
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