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, 1 ' - sit tftrjntri&f. . ;T jf "Ujri'f 7 Vol. : XI. CHARLOTTIg g QnBgO A YJULY 16 , 1874. III 111 '111 III I The Charlotte ObsYer. .JONES & Jfl!anLifiTDN,'ioFSiETOBs. )rti.8fring' Building,', Trade Street.. BATES 8CjBMT10I. DjiI v One year. In ajvivf &.V.v....r..$7 00 six months, in advance... .w.w.,Ji..v., 3 50 Throe-Jfonthsftradxance....-. ...... 1 75 One month, in dTanQp?"....:."..;r.r...-' 60 .Vecfcly, one year ..:;T.....V 2.00 ir Subscribers will please look out for he cross mark on their papers. They are ihus notified that their term of subscrip tion has expired ; and are respectfully re quested to renew at once. RATES OP ADVERTISING. One Square one time $1 00 " two days 1 60 " " three davs 2 00 " " four days 2 50 " " five days 3 00 one week 3 50 two weeks 5 00 (1 " j three weeks 50 " one month "8 00 Contract Advertisements taken at proporionately low rates. Five Squares estimated at a quarter-column, and ten squares as a half-column. 11 AKLOTTE W Alt I4KTS. Corrected Daily.' Cottou Market. Chabltte, N. C. July 15, 1874. Inferior Ordinary Good Ordinary, Strict Good Ordinary,.. Low Middling, Marke, very dvll. .9 111 12 14 14J 15 Country Produce Buying lintc.) Bacwi Hams, per 1T Sides, " Shoulders, " Hog Round, Heefwtr lliUler Choice, 13 a 14 11 9 a 10 11 a Hi 25 25 1 50 a 2.00 2 00 1 40 1 2. 124 Hrnndi Apple, Peach, On White, " Mixed, Jfygs, per dozen, Flour Family, " Extra, " Super, Fruit Dried Apples, " " Peaches, " " Blackberritv , Fowls Chickens, spring. " Turkeys, per pr, DucKs, Hides Dry, Lard rJ iml. 4 .00 ! 3 75 3 25 201) 2.25 1 .i 20 7" a 1 00 2 a 30 13 7 12 a 13 l 15 55 GO a 80 (57 I' to Uusht-I) 1.25 1 10 50 $1 " rO!HI!:,l Mea' White, OatsUi-.uk. White, Onions, Peas Pure cav " Mixed, Potato? Irish, " Sweet, Tallow, Wheat Red, per bush. 10 1.30 1.40 White, Wool Tub washed, " Unwashed 40a 50 30 a 40 Post-Office Directory. The following statement of the hours for the opening and closing of mails, is furnished us by the post master, Robt. E. McDonald, Esq. : OPENS. 8 A. M. 7j P. M. 8J A. M. 101 A.M. 51 P. M. 7 P. M. North Mail, South Mail, Air-Line Mail, Statesville Mail, Lincolnton Mail, 6 P. M. 9 P. M. 9 P. M. 21 P. M. 7 P. M. 71 A. M. Wadesboro Mail, Seattle's Ford Mail arrives Mondays and leaves Tuesdays. Robt. E. McDonald, P. M. CITY INTELLIGENCE. The Observer Is the only paper pub lished in the State West of Raleigh which gives the latest telegraphic dis patches every morning. Business men will please make a note of (his. " Free from that venality which cor rupts the conscience or that pity which corrupts ju8tIce.,, A Tribute of Gratitude As an evi dence of appreciation on tire part of the late Wilmington excursionists towards Captain Sprinkle, conductor on the W, C fe A R R, they haye presented him with a check for $50 or a suit of clothing. The following correspondi'iic explains itself: Charlotte, N. C, July 1st, 1874. Capt. W. J. Sprinkle: ' Dear Sir: We have the honor and pleas ure to inform you that on the 22nd of June the excursion party, irom Charlotte to Wil mington, held a meeting on the train and passed the untnimous resolution that, as a slight token of appreciation for your devot ed, untiring and most praise-worthy con duct on the whole trip toward us, shielding and comforting the party, that you be re quested to accept from the party a suit of clothes to cost f50, and it is made our duty as their committee to request you to go to some merchant tailor of your own choice and have the suit made, and either yourself or have the tailor draw at sight on J G Har ris, the Chairman of our committee, for the amount. Yours very truly, J G Hakkis, Wm Wilson, fCom. J M Wbight, J Ptjbcell House, Wilmington, N C, July 11th, '74 Maj. J. G. Harris, Chair'n of Com.., ) Char- htte, N. C: Dear Sir : Yours of the 1st is to hand, and in reply you will allow me to express my extreme and sincere ' thanks to your company, through you and your commit tee, for the manifestations that they, as a "Ody, have desired to lavish upon one so unworthy as myself, , I accept the proffered oner with untold . gratitude, and trust in uod that it may be my humble lot to serve you and each of you on some future occa sion. Wishing you and all of your party long and prosperous lives, and hoping that may be spared to be among you on the wh proximo 1 to cast my suffrage, for those t your choice, I am, Very respectfully, - v ' . l i. v i. - ' W J Spkinkle. , Republican Meeting We learu that a meeting of Republicans was held in this city a few nighta ago to try to come to a eonclu sion aboutvho to vote for for" county 'offi cers and particularly for Sheriff. I HVe Jeani farther there was a great deal of diversion of "entimentand that nothing -definite was fixed upon by those present. LOCAL DOTS. Pleasant evenings for riding and driving out. i - IHT .in A water-melon, decent in . size, fcan be bought for fifty cents. ' u 1 1 ' K stiff and continuetl breeze, rendered las night delightfully pleasanfc A ' .1 i See advertisement of Col S L Fremont, Superintendent Carolina Central Raflroad ' ; Touch lightly upon the cucumhers. They are plenty and cheap and dangerously cranipy. Yesterday was just such a -day la me a fellow feel like saying something unpleas ant to evcrj'body he met. Graham street, oyer in Smithville, is be ing improved. That is a beautiful and de lightful part of Charlotte. Ice in abundance now, and our people are wondering how they ever managed to get along without an ice machine. It will be seen by his appointments, pub lished in another column, that Hon Thos S Ashe will speak in this city on Saturday, the 18th inst. The Raleigh Crescent puts down the sitting capacity of the Charlotte Opera House, at six hundred. It will scat a thousand per sons comfortably. Our base ball club ouget to be better or ganized. It received a challenge not long since, and could not accept on account of its lack of organization. That friendly, social beast, the musquito, has appeared in battalions too numerous to mention, and in consequence, profanity and wakefulness are on the increase. We understand thaWiIajor Lee, indepen dent candidate for Solicitor, is doing here lean work in the Western part of the dis trict. He is said to he strong in Rutherford and Clcaveland. Ain't it mixed ? Mr A C Chnlnifrs, the cpntlv-mnn who h:nl Ins pocket-book, ciiiitiiining $230, sto li ti fi. m him in the North ririlina trnin ye-tenlay morning, has not yd recovered it. Ho has no doubt it i in i lie jsseiin f one of the two tram hand. We learn privately, that the bent gam nf baseball ever played in the State, was play ed a few days a'o, at Enfield, by the WH-on and Enfield Clubs, The first naind ciub won the game by eight run?, tin- .-.re standing, Wilson 22, Enfield 14. Mr John McConnell's card excited consi i erablc comment on the streets yesterday. We haye heard that his son, Mr Smash Mc Connell, will shortly take the stump und present his father's claims, but we do not know certainly that this is true. X At half past one o'clock this morning the cry of fixe was heard on the streets. It was however soon discovered, that the alarm was caused by the burning of a wooden building on the outskirts of the city, but we are unable to gather any further particular?. The advertisers in this issue of the Daily Observer are informed that the circulation this morning is nearly five times as great as when the new proprietors took charge of this journal on the 1st day of April. It is, perhaps, larger this morning than any daily in the State. We commenced some time ago to write up the business men of our city. Bear with us, gentlemen ; we are an institution here and expect to have plenty of both time and space to continue it after a while, but just now we are so crowded with other matter that it is impossible to do it. We learn that, at the tax-gathering at Brawley's Store in Iredell county on Tues day, fourteen candidates foi different offices were present, and there were about fourteen people there who were not candidates. About four of the patriots have been nomi nated. Verily, modesty is at a discount. - -., - The N. C. Beneficial Association. A statement in our local columns yesterday morning in regard to the N C Beneficial As sociation, referring to it as "the tiger," makes it necessary that we should refer t it again. This Association is a regularly char tered corporation, and, so far as we know, does a legitimate business under its charter. Its business is conducted on the regular lot tery plan, where the purchasers of tickets take a fair chance to win or lose. It is hard ly necessary for us to say that we do not endorse it, or any other lottery scheme, but there are many who do, and our object in calling attention to it is that the Associa tion shall stand fairly before the public up on whatever merit it possesses. Besides pay ing five per cent of all gross profits into the common school fund, as we said before it is regularly chartered, and has paid the license tax. . The Dullness A dullness almost under cedented, is now observable on every hand. The farmers, are all at' home hard at work, and the streets wear the real "Summer sea son" look. Tradesmen are not rushed to1 death by customers, and the lawyer's after-: noon snooze is rarely bxoken by the abrupt entrance of clients. Railroad agents and their clerk sit about and play backgammon or drafts, and t'bo cotton weighers and their cierkjs hejp the railroad men do nothing. The policemen walk their beats with an air which' seems' to say atidv dnr f occupation, too, is gone" while abundant lime is left the Mayor and Magistrates, to post up on mysterious portions of the criminal and civ il law. 'The doctors are nearly as idle as the balance, and their horses arid buggies stand in the stables . wjitinut qps called into re quisition. .To crow:;the; whole, a rowd sits continually in and in front of tha ho tels, waiting, as a friend at our elbow sug gests, for some one to come along arid ask, "Whaflljoatakej ? But this ataie.f Ujiiugss to sbe expected at this season. It its al ways so. 6uf little city, which ialches aH her.proportton, pf business, wherr any is going oh.does not ex,- pect enti'rVejxwnptionfr dullness reigns supreme everywhere, and we can congratulay (?) Ourselves .--that, though business it rather dnll,sUll there are plenty of candidates, whose merits and demerits have to be canvassed, and the discussion of these will keep us from perishing of ennui. Itailroad Accidents. By reference to our telegraphic columns it will be seen that two accidents ocenrred yesterday morning on the Air-Line R R which resulted fatal 4U one person and is likely to cause the death of others. ' Dick Chatham," who is I well known here, was the engineer who was scaided by the accident to the train left Charjotteyesterday morniug. Tx-CollectIug Yesterday. Sheriff Alexander returned last evening from Paw Creek, where he had been to collect the taxes. . Capt Waring and Mr Reid made Hes, and the SherlftTemiuded the peo speecHes, pie that he was a candidate. He says Paw Creek is all right for an increased majority i tip's year, j Herdid not see nor hear of a man in the township who will vote for any - of the bolters. - Personal. We had the pleasure of a call yesterday from Col Pool, Conservative can didate for Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, Col Pool has been in Lincoln, Cleaye land and Rutherford counties since he pass ed through here last week. At each place where he spoke lie was greeted by large au diences, and reports his prospects good in each of the counties named. Rev J B Bobbitt, editor of the Raleigh Christian Advocate, arrived in this city yes terday morning with his family. Capt Woodson, of the Raleigh News, who has been in the West canvassing for his pa per, passed through yesterday going east ward. Col Hoke and J L Carson, 1-sq. were both in Charlotte yesterday. Col S L Fremont and Col W W Ames, of the Carolina Central Railway, registered last evening at the Central. Shooting Affray. On Tuesday J night two negroes, John Lat i nn-r and Ben Iloyle, became involved in a difih-ulty in Schetick's bar-room, on the corner of Tr.ide street and Cemetery Avenue. The diihYuli y originat ed in John. ftl:iy fully tlimwilv' an aiile core , at the. other man. who thereupon jeikd his chair from under him and. allowed him to ' sit up ni the floor. Then a fight tonkpls-.ee, : during which one kimcked l-mr or live teeth out of the mouth of the others Ben i then r.n our. o-U,ed U John. win. drew ; a ii.-.t..i andtirni in him when in front of ' tUe resiileiire i f M .':.,- 1 ;iVldson. Tile shot Wi s, however, without i ffect. t lioih of i lit- pui;ies were arraigned before j the Mayor yes'erday morning. Ben was j bound over to Court, and John was fined j $10 and also bound oyer. j The Opera House. The (Charlotte Ope : ra House was lighted up and thrown open last night, and was visited by a number of ladies and gentlemen. The lights are well arranged, and the house presented a really beautiful appearance. The work is of the most tasteful character, and the building is a credit to the citv. The seats ore nice and ! comfortable, the painting and frescoing is excellent, and the general appearance is u;i ! exceptionable. Some of the scenery has been ! put up and only a few finishing touches re ! main to be put on the interior to complete j the work. In this work the architect, Mr George Welch, has shown himself the mas j ter of his profession, and much could be said, in praise of the manner in which Mr J Ritchie Lawrence, did his part of the work. The community should thank those public-spirited gentlemen, Messrj Carson aad Sanders, for building an opera house of which Charlotte has a right to be proud. The Cotton Interest in Charlotte. He who would write on a subject so volu minous as the one we have chosen, must pos sess!a fertile imagination and a ready pen. It Was paid before the war that cotton was '"king " If it was king then, it is certainly not jess so now. Here in Charlotte the cotton-interest is justly superior to all others. The rapid growth of our city since the war is owing greatly to the fostering of this ele ment of our wealth, and it is fact a which is noteil with no less complacency by our own people, than with congratulation and sur prise by the surrounding country, particu larly that part .of which, Charlotte may be considered the commercial metropolis. This includes a scope of country covering fourteen counties in North Carolina, and eleven in Soutjh Carolina. The railroad interest of Charlotte has been greatly enlarged within the past few years, and her increase is largely owing to her eotton interest. Step by step, under this influence, our city has advanced at a rapid rate, until she has reached the ex alted position of being the first cotton mar ket jn the State. This is no idle or persump tivecboast, and one of which every citizen of Charlotte is Justly proud, and to sustain which ;we offer as satisfactory evidence the offioial report of the city officials, whose bu siness it is, under our municipal regula tions, to attend to this matter alone ' Itris pleasant for us to contemplate' that no cityin the domain of the "Old North State" has "grown with a steadier growth to that power and usefulness whih always converts welj ordered cities into fortresses of State strength. Fostered by our cotton industries, we iave been able to build up such railroad facilities as to take a place in the front ra,nk in commerce among the cities of the South. itujated in thjserAtre ot. ulpghly intelligent and thrifty population, our city has always been intimately connected with agriculture, as the principal mart of our great staple cotin and; when W future years we shall be aU'','conTe'ein(Q: a manufacturing town, as I will niost assuredly be done, we may justly look forward to a brighter career of prosperity than, has eTer dawned upon us. The cotton interesl aiwaypi'has, and always wllf underlie the great pillars of our success, and that we have prospered ; that the Jarmers have been encouraged iV double duty, by the hxihx prices4 of - tHeir staple Yn this market -y that upon .the, whoe we have a cheerfulejk rospect, 'find & still more hopeful outlook for the future is owingVm'thV main, ito the fact that this1 industry has been; encouraged and sustained .by energy perseverance aud pck oii j tfie part of hath producers; arid buyers of the, staplejfwhich has made us what we are Every industry has, its history, and it is to that silent record of fact which w would nowr rfurn. About a quarter of a eenturjH gvyMH iru iuuvmivu mwu wlUlin Ul6 memory of many rh65?riU read these lines, jhe -'cotton tradewasfirBt" commenced in Chariot teytp trt tliaf whatever cotton was prod wed ,in the .country, which was not consumed immediately through the aid of the old-fashioned cards, wheel and loom was forced to seek a market ei'her in Charleston, Jlli6'" , few. Qfc3fri&Yn$h? article as a matter of specula lion, when some tims in the 'year 1850,' the.'raOioad leading from Charlotte to Columbia was completed, and for tive'flrsl! time intheislory of our city, be ;kad an outletrr-a: highway to the sea, and thence to! the commerce of the world. "A little later, anrTthftron chain which con nects us with Norfolk was completed, and a stimulus given to the cotton trade which no other advantage could have conferred. Sit uated at the terminus of both roads, compe tition between them at once enabled the cot ton dealers to pay the very highest prices. Since that time, railroads have been added to railroads, until we have five centering at this point, while a sixth, which promises to be one of our mrin arteries, rapidly nearing completion, will soon be able to bear our great staple to the markets of Liverpool through our own gateway to the sea, and that, too, we trust, in American bottouis. We may be pardoned for alluding cursorily to our rail roads. We haye the Piedmont Air Line, the great short route between New Orleans and New York, which penetrates some of the richest sections of country tributary to our market. Over this road our market has received a very large amount of cotton, notwithstand ing it is a comparatively new road, and that it has various markets along its line, which have been the recipient of a considerable amount of the staple grown in the country through which it passes. Little by little the market facilities of Charlotte are over-reaching all others, and their trade is beuinning to crowd into our market. The Atlantic, Tennessee .v Ohio Railroad, aline terminating at present at Statesville, and which, upon its completion, was consid ered, and generally ternud, our chicken or ! P",v(" rUild. has for the past year or two poured an immense quantity of cotton into our market, and the rich sigricultural region of upjor Mecklenburg, Iredell, and even the counties beyond, hp ve been brought to real ize the immense profits to be made by a care ful and judic'ous cultivation of cotton, in connection with other crop3. The uppersection of the Carolina Central railway this istheroad which is striving to connect the two completed ends, and open up our outlet to Wilmington a road now running to within two or three miles of Shelby, penetrating not only a good grain, but excellent cotton growing country, and the receipts over this line are probably larger than by any other line As an evidence of the stimulus given to the production of cot ton, we may mention that before the war cotton growing was almost entirety unknown to the farmers of that section, and now the report goes that cotton is the main article produced. The Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta rail road is not. only now one of our means of outlet, but over it large quantities of the sta ple are thrown into our market. Thousands upon -thousands of bales are annually car ried over it to the seaports of Charleston and Savannah, as well as to Wilmington, via the Atlantic Coast Line. The North Carolina Railroad, which has its termini at this point and at Goldsboro, furnishes us in. this direction with an outlet through Newberne, connecting at Raleigh with the Raleigh and Gastor., and at Wei don with the Seaboard and Roanoake roads, lets us through the break-waters "at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., while the Richmond & Danville railroad, at Greensboro, oyer the Piedmont road, puts us in a direct line of trade and travel with Richmond, Baltimore, New York, the Northern markets, as well as the commercial marts of the world. These are some of the facilities which we enjoy, and which have been mainly built up by the trade in our staple, and we may here he' pardoned for again referring to the his tory of the trade. In 1855 the receipts of this maket vere less than 3,000 bales. The trade gradually became of more and more importance until 1860, when the sales reached about 12,000 bales. The lour years of the war (in this as in nearly all our other . industries) paralized all this interest, except to furnish such or ders as were needed for home consumption or for those speculators who had more Con federate money than they knew what to do with, and the market gradually weaked until it almost cease to exist. With the crop of 1866, business in this line was again resumed, with about the same amount on the market as in 186012,000 bales since which time it has increased an nually until the present year from Septera beOst, .1863, to September 1st, 1874, the actual sales here have been, with a few hun dred bales still to come in, in the neighbor hood of 40,000 bales. Here then are actual figures which show a marvelous increase in the trade, and when ever all these facts ''become known, it cannot fail to add much more to-the amount now handled throughout th 9 cotton districts of North and South Carolina, which are natu rally tributary to Charlotte, and many other points still more remote. To thus , be able :Q- build tip! and handle this vast trade, speaks volumes in praise of the enterprise andj Jiberal jcharacter of Our cotton mer chants, who haye, so far, done all in their power to adyance the interests of the trade. This fact alone, if we needed any further assurances; has - given J them V name and character second to nq other market in our country; and the past high character of these cotton dealers may be taken as an au gury of the future, prospects of the trade, and bespeak for jhem the attention of dis tricts more remote, who are strangers to us commercially now, but whose trade, when brougbt into its proper Channel, will add ma terially ro the advancement a.nd prosperity j of this community In stating that the cotton sales of Char lotte reach forty thousand bales, we must not be understood to include all the colton which passes through the city, but which is not sold here. At the seaports we believe all the cotton is counted as . " handled," whether it undergoes a sale or not. If we were to estimate in this style, our cotton men tell us that the figures would approxi mate seventy-five thousand bales. We are satisfied on this score, when we can claim an increase of three hundred per cent since the war. - . We do not consider it out of place to intro duce just here, the names of the men to whom Charlotte and the surrounding com munity are so justly indebted for the high position she occupies to-day, in the cotton market. .. '.., r ' ; ; , , Among the cotton .btjye'rs, those hienVwl make a business ol it, are Sanders & Black- wood, Stenhouse, Macaulay & Co., Gates Bros. W H H Houston & Co, J Y Bryce, Waters & Marse, Grier & Alexander. The following also deal in cotton, but not so exclusively as those mentioned above Burwell, Grier fe Co, R M Miller & Son's J S Williamson & Co, W J Black," McLaughlin & Son, Burroughs & Springs and McMurray & Davis. We have said this much in regard tog. the cotton interest, but we have said little as yet of the true reason why the increase has been regular and steady.' We can do that in a few words, and in a manner 60 conclusive that the key to our success no longer re mains a matter of inquiry. Our cotton men, claim, as can be shown by their books, that they pay nearer up to the New York prices, than can be obtained by the planter at any point South i.f Ma son's & Dixon's line. As an evidence of this, on yes terday, cotton was worth iu New York City 16 and a half cents. Cotton sold on this market at 15 and a half cents. the cost of ti asportation is $3.75 per bale, which is about three fourths of a cent per pound. This would leave the profit at one fourth ot a cent per pound, and out of this commission and sale charges mast be paid, which are equal to 3 fourth cents per pound, there' y showing that our figures here, are even better than the prices seeured in New York. Now, the principal reason why we are able to give sellers this advantage is, that our market is generally supplied with factory orders, to such an extent that this can near ly always be done. For fear some doubting Thomas may be disposed to think we are claiming too much on tin score, we may very properly, as an evidence that we are correct, introduce the mines of some of our domestic factories who buy cotton here: Tate's Manufactory, Woo I Lawn, Mc-' Donald's Manufactory, Concord, Line, berger's Manufactory. Pin Hook E M Hoits' Sons Manufactory, . (iralwiu, Ala mance :uunty, Powell's Cottou Mihe, Cataw ba Station, W Turner & Sons, Tunnrsburg.T 11 (i iither, Garribaldi, F & H Fries, Salem, S3 S Walker, Agent for Franklin Manufac turing Company, W H Hill, Morrison, Gaither & Co," Eagle Mills, R indleman Man ufacturing Company, Brower & Bros., Mt. Airy, Cedar Falls Mills, to which we may add orders 011 hand nearly all of the time for thousands of bales ,of cotton for the cot ton mills of the North, a As another feather in our cap, we may state that at a recent meeting of our cotton men, a committee was appointed to wait on the Board of Aldermen of the city, and pe tition in behalf of the cotton interest, that an additional platform be erected, for the reception of cotton which was sadly needed, and which, we are glad to state, was granted by a unanimous vote. In addition to those already in existence, the platform now about to be erected, is to be equally as large if not larger than the present accommodaa tions. The city has made provisions for ad ditional weighers and assistants, that were needed, and who have been elected, and now fill the places, thereby showing that the buyers of cotton are alive to the interest of our market, and that nothing in their power to make this the cotton market of the State, shall be overlooked. In conclusion, it will probably be well to mention that our classes of cotton are regarded as equal to any up land cottons, that are received in the Northern cities. Buyers say that our cottons are generally cleaner and handled better than other large markets. Our staple for all grades ars said te be as long, and by reference to account sales, that can be exhibited from any good cotton house here, it will be seen that there are better sales made of our-cottons than any other uplands. Buyers inform us that their mode of buying now is different from what it was before the war. All cottons are now bought by classification, thereby giving the producer a full valuation for all classes. If the reader has followed us attentively up to this point, he will have realized that ours is a subject of vast and growing impor tance to us alL The object of all human life is human happiness. If through the doors of the cotton culture and traffic, we can the more easily reach that goal, let it grow and expand until it shall become what it ought to be. Let our fields whiten under the Influences of the autumnal sun with the fleecy staple, with the hope that under and by its influence the day is not for distant when the whirring of spindles , in our midst, will build up this interest to such an extent that we can clothe the world, with the products of our own labors. ; 'Grange Meetings.-? We have been reqaested to announce that Hon. T A. Thompson, Lecturer of the Nation al Grangero'f the FatrOns'df Husband ry will address the people, in the in terest of this order at the following jti m es and places : ! ''BiackByilfeTitbnafiOIKr ; i-r. . Morzanlott'FHday; July 21th H ; Lenoir Tuesday July, 28th. , , iJLTailors'villtfThTjreday Wilkhnro FridaY Jul V 31st. , . ' StatesviUs Sfttijrdfty August, IsU Tickets ! Tickets I JY? arc Prepar ed to print tickets tojprder, . in any quantity, at the following low rates : , Congressional or Judicial Tickets, $1 per thousand up to 3,000; for every additional thousand 50 cts. County Tickets, $3 per thousand, up to 3,000 for every additional thousand, $1.50. Cash must accompany all orders. ' tcOMjrUKICATKD. ' Home-made Billings. - Independent kandidates az original things, are independent of white fokes, and . depen dant on the niggers, mostly-; 1 When yeou see a Demikrat so consenshus that he cant go the nominee, you kin safely sware that that man-iz fixin to swaller a niggeiv-or words to that effeckt. ' When yeou hear a good Dermic fat say he's tired of korivensions, he means he's tir ed of that sort that wont nominate him. On ly he dont jist say so. When yeou hear a man sayin a konyen sion waz packt and he went stand it, he means it wazn't packt biz way. A good and true Demikrat iz a man who iz oppozed to all konvensions that nominate the other feller, abuses hiz own party and leaves it in serche of wool. N.. B. He iz generaly shure to find it before he's done. Thatsso.. A mule ajnt full blooded. No more is a independent kandidate. : If yeou will lift hiz shirt yeou will diskiver a stripe down his bak bone and rings round hiz 4egs. P. S. Them rings looks like Radikal kin fokes. I dont like to hear a man say that both parties arekorrupt. No doubt he iz rite so far az he deskribes hiz own feelings, but let him stop thare. Yeou watch that man, and towards August yeou'll smell wool. I dont love to see a good Demikrat kortin Radikals. This thing ov kortin iz always a sign that sumbody iz willin, and when itz between independents and niggers, both sides iz generally willin. P S. Thares sum about here even ankshus. When you hear a independent abusin rings, yeou bet him $5 he's got em round hiz fore legs. If yeou win it send me the monev. - - . ANNOUNCEMENT. The many-friends oC, Wm. P. Little, an nounce him as a candidate for Sheriff of Mecklenburg county, subjeot only to the yote of the people, at the election in August next. And if elected, he will not ask for any relief from the County Commissioners on account of delinquent thx pavers. May 21th, 1874. ANNOUNCEMENT. I announce myself an independent candi date for the office of Sheriff of Mecklenburg :eon,nty, at tbar.electignjn August. W H II HOUSTON. May 15, PEOPLE'S CANDIDATE. WE ARE AUTHORIZED to announce M Dr. M. M. Orr, as the peoples candidate for the Senate, to be voted lor at the coming election in August next te MANY VOTERS. ANNOUNCEMENT. I announce myself an independent farm ers' candidate for Congress, from the Sixth Congressional District, knowing no party and acknowledging no affiliation with any party. yE. C. Davidson. A National Certificate. Among the medicinal successes of modern times, Hostetterte Stomach Bitters has been one of the most remarkable Its popularity! is unprecedented, but cannot be called aston ishing, inasmuch as no man of common sense is astonished that the most effective and wholesome tonic and alterative science has ever brought to the rescue of the sick, or offered as a safeguard against disease, should be In all but universal use. If ever a propri etary medicine received a spontaneous na tional certificate, Hostetter's Bitters is that medicine. Medical men approve and pres cribe it, wherever it has fair play, it takes the place of the adulterated stimulants which have so long disgraced the dispensary and the hospital, and prominent members of every prolession and calllDg, have testified in the most emphatic language to Its cura tive and protective properties. During a triumphant career of nearly a quarter of a centrry, hundreds of nostrums have been started in opposition to the great tonic, with the hope of attracting a portion of the patronage bestowed upon Ft. Not one of these preparations has had any perma nent success. Many have gone-to the limbo of things despised; others are tottering to their fall. Neither fiery astringents nor sour scouring mixtures-have been accepted oy a wiae-awaKe puDiic, as an equivalent ior this genial vegetable restorative; and as lone as Hostetter's Bitters prevent and cure dyspepsia, biliousness, nervous ' diseases, constipation, fever and ague, rheumatism and general debility, and these empirical preparations ao not, me lnen specinc wm dc in the ascendant. Truth is mighty, and will prevail. July9-f9tl6, New 'Advertisements. Short, Cheap Ani Pleasant Route TO WILMINGTON. Carolina Central Railway, Charlotte, N C, Ju U 15th, 18T4. 1"ASSENGERS leave Charlotte in the af r tArnnnn bv Staae or Hack, and reach Wilmington the next evening at 5:46. 44 u..cloniT anil I It hv Kjli lwa . tlCKetS $10, return tickets $13, good until Nov 15th. About July 30th, there will be only 84 miles of Btageing, and by August 15th, only 21 muesDy stage or aw. g l FREMONT, July 61 2te Chief Engineer ana upw Aemocrai ana noinx wpj w IXOTJR ! FLOUR ! ! AB Load Coice St Louis Flour. BU aWEIiIi. GRIER & CO. OFFICIAL DBAIICSS . , OF IB . , 5 N. G. Beneficial Association. ' 1 AKtxm-kv July 13, 1874. Class 43, drawn at 12 M.-5, 69, 64, 24, 56, 54. 10 65, 18,7; 15. 31, 60, S3. . . CiAta 44, drawn- at 5 P.t M 16, 62, 23, 34, 1, 73, 18, 2, 66, 7, 8, 26. . . Clara 45.cdrawn at 9 P. M.-19, 30, 4, 10, ' ----'i u Commissioner. ,vew Gloucester Maclterel,; ?tU8T iVedVi4ndiMitiel,dltee I. . -tram t.Vi FUhprtf.- ' i v Alo, North Carolina Roe-Herring li agDor retail. I, hav JiJ' in pacK d ana Prido f Davie" North uaroiin iiisxuietti,,wri . "--w t which la not excelled by any -in our market for PURITY and FLAVOR, JL.lLi ' Julyl6t. ? 1 i:.kj.v HA bjaiiii. N o 1 1 c 0 '' i 0 ' i h e r a d e . WutrkJ - T?ROM this day, we will fler greater ln JD duoements to those, .who purchase to sell again, than any other house in the. city. Wholesale Prices t Cakes Bread, pfes and Molasses Cakes, per hundred. .... 60cts SagarCakes , : t V ' W ct Current Cake, 14 pieces for 1.00 Bponge C&k,(ijed14 piece for ; 1.00 Ginger Cakes, Si Jot , - 1.00 Pies.l4for , ' 60 Molasses Pound bk, IS rov . :v .' 60 Bread, ordinary. Loaf. SB Loaves fof 1.00 ki C SllOLTON A CO. July 16 tf.. r Ml :v t Trade Street. Cigars! ' Cigars It JUST received at J L Brothers ds Co's, a choice lot of Cigars those who indulge, . come before they are erone, as they are a sample lot. . J L BEOTHERS A CO. Jel6 tf THOS 8 ASHE, the Democratic Conserv ative Candidate -for Congress, will ad dress his elaw,-ciUzena ,at the following times and Dtaces'C. .. . Charlotte, Saturday, .': , ' July 18th. Dallas, Monday,"? j " 20th. Newton, Tmto?S ; ' 21st. Sherrill's Stores-Wednesday, " 22nd. Lincolnton,, Tbursday, ,; ,f: " 23rd Beattie's Ford, Friday, , - : , " 24th. Alexandriana, Satiirday.T. . " 25th. Ful woods' StorerMonday, ' " 27th. Monroe, Toesday V- 28th Banoom's Store, Wednesday,. -3 v " 29th . Big l ick, Stanley Co., .Thftrsdayi" 30th. Bethel, Cabarrus Co., Friday.; Vv-" 31st. Albemarle, Saturday,- .?. Aug- Is, Mt. Giiead, Montgomery Jloridoy' 3ra ; july 16 tf. " B. ittllt DIVISION, TRANSPORTATION. OKFJCE, CQMPAN V, . SHOPS,? N; C, t -hrt ( 111. ' July 13111, 18T4. TO THK P0BLIC. TRAVELERS and tlie.publjo geherally are hereby notified that SUNDAY PAS SENGER TRAINS HAVE BEEN DISCON TINUKD between Company Shops and Goldsboro. . ' ' W II GREEN, jelG 0t ; f-Master Transportation. .. . mm -j., .,h , ;i Iust foe,SoJV;j,-. AAA LBS boneless 'cauyassed Dried , U U U Beef, a J; less thai), half ptst to the packer, at 11 M AHLL1SK & BOS S Jtily 16 St.r' i'ti IvairdrciIiTurriilKSeeds WE haye recejye ajltheqstdesirahle " varieties 'ofhpse ; lustlyoelebrated seed, which are offered a"- the lowest market prices by , w k BURWEO & CO, : ,y U " " Druggists. Springs' Corner, Charlotte, N.i C. july 16 tf.,,V .iHTi. 4 tmi. For Sale. T'HAT house and lot on Corner of Cemete ry. Avenue and Sixth street, opposite F A McNinch's- For price, terms, Ac., ap ply to A H Creswell, Charlotte. N C, or the subscriber, at Black s Station. S C. ' '! July 13 2w. ' o If W OHiBORNE. Notice, r.'i ;'?m;' -? , jut. if. JW, McMUBBAY.. Registrar for Ward No. 2. Charlotte: will be lound At the store of McMurray fe JJavis, irom the . hours of 10 a ra, to 3 p m, for the purpose of registering all persons entitled to vote. In. the ensuing election, who have notprevlously registered. july4te. - '-''-.' fj---- , .-Land THE undersigned, as' agents for RA David con, offer For sale .that, splendid tract of land, containing five hundred acres; more or lesa, situated on the Carolina Central Railroad, 14 miles' North of Charlotte. The jwelling luraBe.is Only a mile from, Tucka- geg aepoy- un viie piemisea is urn ciuks dwelllng house, barn and other, necessary out-buildings. About seventy acres of first class bottom lands, on Crowder'a Cteek, one half 01 inewuoiB iracx w m onginai iimDer, balance in a high state of cultivation. On the plantation are tenanfhouse,- all new, put up since the war. ' First clasa orchard on the place. Title indUpntable. .Terms 115.00 per acre, a- ivOT.UtLi.-tti.m t,k : i&;;.fn4Agents. "Touched Bottom atlat.w . : . V '. ' . . " - I N order to close out all stjles.qf, Rummer t ;:i r ;t -t i h uooas. we nave maut? m . T 1 . 1 . m. reduction in' all the following lines of Goods; viz : MuslfnsFTench. Calicos Percales, Batiste Cloths, a Cbambras. " Ginghams, colored Lawns, Brass Cloths; and all goods 'pertain- iiig to'tliai'dcpartrnent 'inusi and-.will be soH.i Call Boooyhefore ihe? ?lo a of the Many, goodsin the Notion 1 and Fancy Goods DepartnienlTsuch as , Ribbons, Col lars, Cuffai ieque rTmmingf ft&Vill be J 'ri'if-;frfaftiA.:(i soldaargataunprices A handsomeTlot Trench, Scotch, and American Cassimeres," Genta an Boys Clothing tfM))Wli g f- to cloae, at prices that cannot fait Ui Induce a rebaMT iMcMURBAX BAVIS. ! i&tt .i.v mt t i c,-h i ; july l&'-tf tfTt? i- v It X Gallman will open senoox ai ner re M Wenw, TOrnerBdTtfctrta, Mon- $100 $3.00 S4.00 Intermediate, TiiRIlS, per scholastic month ; - Primarv Denartnient.' 'i .1 ! t ' rt . ' 1 r .
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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