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L O O -A. L, —We expect the mail to soon reach us on the train. —Mr. J. S. Bell will soon have his new store completed. —Capt. Blair and his family, -/of Wilkesboro, are now living at Elkin. —The street lamps have ar rived and will soon be giving light to the benighted ones. —Mr. R. L. Poindexter’s new engine has arrived and will soon be in place for work. —Mr. John S. Roth is to be as sociated Mr. R. L. Hubbard in the hardwai'e line. —Messrs. H. G. and R. M. Chatham recently sold a pair of match horses for $800. —A private telegraph line has been put up from Elkin Valley to the depot at Elkin. —Mr. H. G. Chatham spent' several days across the moun tains recently buying stock. —Mr. Paul Chatham, of Char lotte, spent a few days at his father’s during August. —Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Gwyn have spent some time during the summer on Mr. Gwyn’s Elk Creek valley farm. —Mr. C. H. Gwyn is putting ting up a building to be used by the commercial travelers in dis playing theiitgoods. —The lumber for our new par sonage is for the most part on the lot, and it is hoped that the work will be pushed rapidly. —Mr. R. L. Hubbard is now well established in his new store, and would be glad to have his friends call upon him. —If j’ou want to furnish your house cheap, go to the N. C. Fur niture Company’s store, Elkin, J. T. Sh-Qphcjrd is a^'cnt. Give him a call. See ad. in this issue. * —There are within the corpor ate limits of Jonesville three springs within a few feet of each other, and it is said that one is iron, one sulphur, and one free stone. —Mr. E. D. Harris, of Elkin, ran an excursion from Winston to W’ilkesboro and return on August 27th, and one from Wilkesboro to Winston and re turn the 28th. —Miss Annie Gwyn, daughter of R. R. Gwyn, is at this writing sick with typhoid fever, but is thought to be improving. We trust she will soon be restored to perfect health ugain. —The 3rd Quarterly Confer ence for this charge was held at Jonesville August 16thand 17th. Bro. Hoyle was there in his usual good trim. His sermons were very edifying. They show him to be a man of no ordinory pow er. He is in great favor with our people. —The whiskey seller is trying to establish himself in our quiet little town. We earnestlj" trust that our commissioners and peo ple will see to it that this de stroyer of peace be not permitted to enter. Why will anyone de sire to set up a business which only tends to degrade and de stroy' ? Cincinnati, O., Aug. 26,—For weeks, there Las been a great agitation over excluding married ■women from the position of teach ers in the public schools at Cin cinnati. Last niajht, the board after a heated debate decided by a vote of 12 to 11 to make ineligi ble women living with their hus bands. The good people in a certain village were horrified because the Methodist preacher went away without paying his debts; but they did not seem to think it a matter of any moment that they had failed to pay the preacher his salary. Here is a double wrong. The pi'eacher must learn to live on what he actually gets, be it much or little. He cannot afford to go in debt. It will be far better for him to prac tice even the hardest and bitter est self-denial rather than incur obligations that he may not be able to discharge. But, at the same time, we cannot see that there is any reason why a con gregation of confessedly Chris tian people should be guilty of the virtual dishonesty of with holding a part of the meager sal ary which they have agreed to give to the man who preaches them the gospel. A deficit of one hundred dollars would be a little thing if distributed among a hundred people; but it is a very serious matter when it is all saddled upon a pastor.—Nash ville Advocate. Why not an Inliclcl? “I once met a thoughtful scholar,” said Bishop Whipple, “who told me he had read every book he could which assailed the religion of Jesus Christ, and he said he should have become an inhdel but for three things: First, I am a man. I am going somewhere. To-night I am a day nearer the grave than I veas last night. I have read all such books can tell me. They shed not one solitary ray of hope or light upon the darkness. They shall not take away the guide and leave me stone-blind. Second, I had a mother. I saw her go down into the dark valley where I am going, and she leaned on an unseen arm as calmly as a child goes to sleep on its mother’s breast. I knew that was not a dream. Third, I have three motherless daughters. They know no protection but myself. I would rather kill them than leave them in this sinful world, if you blot out from it all the- teachings of the gospel.” For Klinme I One of our Louisiana corres pondents sends us an interesting letter in regard to the passage of the lottery bill through the Leg islature of the State. He says: “The saddest feature about the passage of the lottery bill is the fact that one Baptist minister, one Methodist Sunday school superintendent and one Farmers’ Union man, helped the measure. If either one of them had voted against the bill it would have failed.to pass ; for it just did get the two-thii'ds necessar3\ This' fact, however, is no reflection on the Baptist and Methodist churches or upon the Farmers’ Union, for all these bodies are prononnced enemies of the lot tery; and those men who voted for it can never again enjoy the confidence of their brethren.” This makes us sick. Before, however, any of our friends in the North begin to taunt us with the venality of Southern legisla tors we beg them to consider that every one of the fifteen Re publican members, led by a noto rious negro gambler, stood squarely to the lottery. We are all smutted by this dirty busi ness.—Nashville Advocate. after being a preacher of right eousness, Noah got drunk; how David, after making such a fine character, was guilty of adultery; how Solomon became an idolater, and Peter lied and cursed. Why, the divine truth of the Bible is seen in its fearless way of paint ing man as he is. When Crom well was having his portrait painted, and the artist, thinking to flatter the great man, omitted painting the big wart on his face. “Paint me just as I am,” said Cromwell, “wart and all.” There are a great many writers who paint the fair and beautiful features of their favorites, shad ing or omitting entirely the un comely. But when the Bible paints the history of its heroes, it paints them just as they are— wart and all. And this is no small evidence of its inspiration. —Rakish Christian Advocate. A Converti <l Atheist’!* Testimony. Mhegard, professor of philoso phy in the University of Copen hagen, has until recently been the apostle of atheism in his country. He has, says the Semeur Vaudois, just published a second edition of one of his works, and this is what he says in the introduction : “The expe rience of life, its sufferings and griefs, have shaken my soul, and have broken the foundations upon which I formerly thought I could build. Full of faith in the sufficiency of science, I thought to have found in it a sure refuge from all the contingencies of life. This illusion is vanished; when the tempest came which plunged me in sorrow, the moorings, the cable of science, broke like a thread. Then I seized upon that help which many before me have laid hold of. I sought and found peace in God. Since then I have certainly not abandoned science, but I have assigned it another place iuniy life.”—SandajrSchool Magazine. • Derrick Alexander, who was a slave of Mr. John E. Alexander, was in Charlotte from Cabarrus county the other day. Derrick is 73 years old, and is the father of 23 children, 14 of whom are living. He was married twice. There were eight twins born to him. His youngest child is 11 months old. His oldest twin daughter is the mother of six sets of twins. THE BEST INVESTMENT for tho Family, School, or Professional Library. f ummwceMi /tsflf i TrutliTul rictures. Skeptics object to the Bible be cause it boldly tells the truth about certain men. It tells how 3esi(ie5manyotlier valuable I'eaturesjitcomprises A Dictionary of the Language containing 118,000 Words and 3000 Engravings, A Dictionary of Biography giving facts abcut nearly 10,000 Noted Persoug. 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Tlie KewYork Tribnnesayst it is recognized as the most useful existing “word-book” of the Knglish language all over the world. Soid by al 1 Booksellers. Pamphlet free. 0 -®- C. MERRIAM& CO., Pub’re,Springfield^Mast Half a dozen names are men tioned in connection with the op position to Governor Gordon in the senatorial racc, and the indi cations now are that Georgia’s lamous fighter will h.ave on his hands the hardest political fight he has ever had. The Alliance will oppose him. Fivechildren of Concord,Tenn., were poisoned last Tuesday by- taking morphine for quinine. Two of them died, and the others cannot live. The medicine was bought from a drug store and was labeled “sulphate of quinine.” The mad dog excitement in Catawba countv continues. The Newton Enterprise of last week reported the death of two hoi’ses from hydrophobia. Mr. W. H. Overman, an old and highly esteemed citizen ot Salisbury, died in that place Sun day. Pie was the father of Hon. Lee S. Overman. Church Services. METHODIST. Eev. j. M. Dowkum, - Pa.stor. 1st Sunday, 2d Sunday. ^ 8d Sunday, 4th Sunday, PBAYEK-MEETINO. Elkin every “Wednesday niglit, and JoneSYille every Tliursday niglit. SUNDAy-SCHOOL. Elkin every Sunday at 10 A. m. A. G. Click, Superintendent. Jonesvillo every Sunday at 3 P. M, I. N. Vestal, Super intendent. Church announcements -will be in serted free of charge. MARKETS. Coj-rected Monthly. Bacon,c’ntry,hogr’d, per lb, Butter, “ • “ Lard, “ “ Corn, co^iTitry, Eye, “ “ Oats, “ “ Wheat “ “ Flour per sack of 98Ibs., Potatoes, Irish, per bus., Tallow, per lb., Leatbbb— Upper, per ft.. Sole and harness, per Ib., Beeswax, per Ib., Chickens, Eggs, Honey, per Ib., Feathers, Hides, Cotton Tarns and Carpet Warps per bunch of 5 lbs.. Sheeting, 4-4, per yard. Plaids, per yard. Wool, washed, iier lb.. *3 8@ 11 10@ 13 8@ 10 7n@ 65 70@ 7o 45@ .50 9O@1.O0 ■ 10@3.75 50@ 00 37® 45 20@ 80 ■" 20 20 10 12 50 4@ 8 85@1.00 e@ 7 .5® 6 5@ 53 THE I. C. FURIITORE CO., ELKIN, N. C., CAN SELL CHEAPJ Bed Steads, Mattresses, Baloy Carriages, Curtain Poles, Parlor Suits, Towel Racks, Bed Springs, Picttn*e Frames, Window Shades, Wall Paper, Stone Ware, Knives and Forks, Settees, Stands, Bureaus, Buckets, Cradles, Curtains, Chairs, Lounges, Lamps, Mirrors, Safes, Tables, Rockers, Wagons, Sewing Machines, and many other things. PIANOS. * ORGANS, AND SMALL INSTRUMENTS. N. G. FURNITURE COMPANY, J. T. SHEPHERD, Agent, Elkin, N. C.
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