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mi Stje Ijarlotte bserocr. niSTiOy RATES; . m v"- i ;:t-?v't' in advance $8 00 M f 00 r..r- w a oo 75 H f'v r KDirioir: .(- vv-"" '"nfv " udvanct 32 00 ; ;(l v -"""tV- pot-7aul, 2 10 v,r Mimtht ' 1 00 . r- 1 i rtu KMiuctinifiajor Clubs. tmr- gtfolt and Sab grttxtitig. 0 r THE OBSERVER JOB DEPARTMENT Has been thoroughly supplied with erery needed want, and with the latest styles of Type, and every manner of Job Prtnttn can bow be done with neatness, dispatch and cheapness. We can furn ish at short notice, BLANKS, BILL-HEADS. LETTER-HEADS, CARDS. TAGS, RECEIPTS, POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, HANDBILLS, PAMPHLETS. CrRCULARS,CHECKS, C. .:! ; - i v: si is:!! VOL. XXIII. CHARLOTTE, N. 0., FEgDAY, MARCH 12, 1880. NO. 3,443. Ovu. (Scrcrds. MARCH 11TH, 1880. WK ABE NOW BECEIYINO A BEAUTIKUL STOCK OF spbing goods. AVk Have Just Opened a Full Line of WOOL BUNTINGS, BLACK AND ALL SHADES, r ichusfor the Neck, LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, TABLE LINENS and OIL CLOTHS, TABLE NAPKINS, PRINTS, PIQUES, Etc., Etc., Etc. Call and see us, and we will show you some pretty goods. ALEXANDER & -HARRIS. mar. 11: $oots autl Allocs. SPRING STOCK 1880. PLETED ! u OUR SPRING STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND TRUNK Is now Complete. We arejdetermlnea to sustain our former reputation for selling THE BEST BRANDS Of goods, which everyj sensible person' knows is the cheapest In the end. Please call and see us before buying. tW We will deal fairly and hon estly with you. PEG RAM Jt CO. Har;h 11, 1880. ffeiiiooiat and Home copy. L. MEL'S Boot Sttoe. HAT AND TRUNK , ESTABLISHMENT, TRYON STREET, Xext Door to Dr. J. II. McAden's. - - j :o :.;.-r-: If shoes you wish to buy, Call at Aslel's store and try His boots and shoes how well they fit; Also, hats and trunks, so cheap for cash. RlS prices are exceedingly low; Cash salea, small promts lls motto) Remember, when you wish to trafle. That money saved Is money made. By purchasing at Ariel's store You save full ten per cent, or more. Prove the fact; you'll find In time More truth than poetry in my rhj me; So go and try him without fall. h' s-raving connected myself with the above "ouse, I am sure that my old friends and custom ZtJ?n tetter suited and for less money than a ny other house in the city. 8. FR ANKENTH AL. . , auiorw, Njj Af.i J "iZ v -- practice; titiiftf&Jid THI ij EYE, E AE I THKOlay OFVICE WITH DRS. JONES 4 GRAHAM. Feb. 3-aiwAwSia.- - - .. UO, D. GRAHAM, JN the state and United States Courts. Collecr sira;!2n8;Home and Foreign. oUdttd. Ab Wnsatton 8urvej8' &c- nsned for com" S, BVEIITT, SURGEON JDENTIST, J . rE?Entairoional services to the ettl om?? 'of Charlotte and surrounding country. ,. jHon Tryon street, opp. Ellas 4 Cohen. ?V13 (SC0(l5t &l0ttoU0, kt "Itrto SEASON! JJST RECEIVED, A COMPLETE LINE OF WOOL BUNTING, In all Desirable Shades. FRENCH BUNTING, In Black, the Handsomest ever Brought to this Market A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF Hamburgh Edgings In Entirely New Designs with Insertlngs to Match. A LARGE LOT OF SPRING PRINTS, In New and Desirable Effects, Just Opened and Ready for Inspection. Respectfully, T. L. SEIGLE & CO. feb. 21. llXXsctllnntoxxs. IRON BITTERS, A Great Tonic. IRON BlTTERS, A Sure Appetizer. IRON BITTERS, A Com pie t Strengthener. Highly recommended to the public for all dis eases req ui ri n g a certai n and efficient TOXIC; especially in Indiges tion, Jtympepaia, Intermittent fr, if ant of Apr petite, 1,088 of Strength, iMck of Energy, etc. It en riches the blood, strengthens the mus cles, and gives new life to the nerves. To the aged, ladies, and chil dren requiring recuper ation, this valuable remedy can not be too highly recommended. It nets like a charm on the digestive organs. A teaspoonful before meals will remove all dyspeptic symptoms. TRY IT, Sold by all Druggists, THE BEOWN CHEMICAL CO, BALTIMORE, Md. IRON BITTERS, A Valuable Medicine. IRON BITTERS Jiot Sold ii Beverage. IRON BITTERS, For Delicate Female. Nov. 15 d-w Pkbkt, Houston County, Ga. We hive known "Swift's Syphilitic Specific" tested in hundreds of obstinate cases of Syphilis, Mercurial Rheumatism, Scrofula, etc , and testis fy'tnat it made the most perfect and permanent oures In every oaae. Hugh l. Dknnakd, Gen. Em Wahrkn, Sam. D. Killen, J. w. Wimbkklt, Judge Co. Court. Dr J C. Gilbert, Drug"t. J.L.Wabren, of firm of J. W. Mann, J. W. Latbrep 4 Co., County Treasurer, Savannah, Ga., Wm. D. Piebce, Sheriff, Ed. Jackson, C C. Duncan, Dep't Cl'k. Sup'r Ct Day 4 Gordon, WVL BRTJN80N. We are personally acquainted with the gentle men whose signatures appear to the above certifi cates. They are citizens of said county, of the highest respectability and character. A. 6, GILES, Ordinary, Houston Co., Ga. D. H. CULLER. Clerk Superior Court, Houston County, Ga. I am personally acquainted with the proprietor, and also with many of the gentlemen whose slg natures appear to the foregoing certificates. They are men of high character and standing. A. H. COLQUITT, Governor of Georgia. Prepared only by the SWT SP.ECTFIO COM, PANT, Atlanta, Ga. Ipld by V. C. SMITH and L. R. WBISTON 4 CO. feb. 26-d4w.lm. TPni Bitters invariably remedy yellowness" of tief compleWn wluieSi of the eyes, pains in the right side and under the right shoulder Wade, f ur-f red tODgue, high colored urine, nausea, vertigo, dyspepsia, constipation, heaviness of the bead, rental despondency, and every otnei manlfesta Ban or accompaniment of a dlsor dered condition Of the liver. The stomach, bowels and kidneys also experience their regulating and topic tnfla- '"ior sale by 411 Druggists and Dealers generally. P. LASNE, From VTCgMia CXUCg MARlUt, TrrCDER and STL 2 VKB P LATHS- Trade Street, opposite First Presbyterian Church, Nat Gra Store. Every kind of re pal m made at once at half prtce and warranted one year. Every kind of Jewelry or Bronze Gliding, Coloring, Stiver-Plating and Gal vuaizlng made at short notice and equally as good as new. Work done for the trade at low prices. . tW Apprentice wanted, with premium and good Repaired work uncalled for will be sold at the " expiration ox twelve monuis ior uuai uj. loana. septlS "Can't Get Anything to Do." "Work? If you can't eet a dollar take a half: if I you can't get that take a quarter." Gov. Wie. Man alive, here! don't sit moping, There is work enough to do. If you can't "getintqtmsiness," Get an axe there's wood to hew. If you can't be banker, broker. Well, be something else; that's all, If you cannot write or lecture, Here's a wedge and there's a maul. If you cannot preach a sermon, Try and live one, which U best, You will find no scripture warrant For your "mute Inglorious rest." If you have not learned to labor, Educate yourself that's all; Take a spade and go to ditching, Better this than nothing at all. Learn to earn your bread by labor, If you never have before; "I can't find anything to do!" Pray do not say it any more. OBSERVATIONS. Patrick having been told that Dr. Peters had found an asteroid, remarked: "Bedad, he may have his asteroid, but as for meself ol prefer a horse ter roide." Home Sentinel. Put away his crack-brain puzzle. He has climbed the asylum stair; Numbers 13, 15, 14 Turned his head and sent.hlm there. "You promised to pay that bill yesterday," said an angry creditor to a debtor. "Yes," calmly re plied the other, "but to err is human, to forget divine; and 1 forgot It." "Sally," said a fellow to a girt who had red hair, "keep away from me. or you'll set me on fire." No danger of that," replied the girl; "you are too green to burn." American Puncfu He went to inquire after the health of the young damsel who lias charge of his neighbor's dairy, and when he asked "How's' the milk maid?" they slammed the door in his face and told him to go and ask the cows who manufactured the article. What is a kiss? A touch of the Hp, A union of souls A time to skip, for the old man is coming. The male hornet does not sting. He is the pimp that waits until the female hornet has got In her work, and then chases you through a swamp, over briers, and into a field where there is a mad bull. At dinner she had a doctor at either hand, one of whom remarked that they were well served, since they had a duck between them. "Yes," she broke In her wit is of the sort that comes In flashes "and I am between two quacks." Then silence fell. Boston Transcript. There is no truth in the report that Miss Anthony passed herself off on Boston people for Mrs. Lang try. Boston people are not blamed fools. Boston Poft. Maybe they are not; but those who have never beeu outside of Boston might naturally take Miss Anthony for a great beauty. Courier-Journal. Commerce and Capacities of the Poit of Wilmington. W. A. Hearne in Raleigh Observer. The facts and figures herewith pre sented give some idea of the commer cial importance of the port of Wil mington, which, it may be safely as sumed, are not familiar to the people of North Carolina or the country gener ally : FOIl THE YEAR 1S79. Arrivals of vessels over sixty tons 586 Aggregate tonnage of same,. . 21S.320 Arrivals of vessels under sixty tons... G43 Aggregate tonnage of same. . 10,280 Arrivals of mail steamers 313 Arrivals of passeng'r steam'rs 3G5 Arrivals of tug boats, about. . 1,400 Valua of outward cargoes.. ..$11,344,138 Valae of inward cargoes 6,850,000 COMPARATIVE FOREIGN TRADE, 1878. TONNAGE. Wilmington 97,$t Richmond 15,760 Norfolk and Portsmouth 79,508 Mobile 80,845 Galveston . , , 82,298 Charleston . 135,349 Savannah 166,429 COMPARATIVE FOREIGN TRADE, 1S79. TONNAGE. Wilmington. 104,337 Richmond 48,655 Norfolk and Portsmouth 92,338 Charleston 143,000 Savannah 185,940 Since the results of the work of im proving the bar and river began to be apparent, the commerce of Wilmington has steadily improved, and especially with reference to direct foreign trade; and even through the years of depres sion since 1873, this improvement has been constantly going on to swell the volume of Wilmington's commerce. Wilmington is the eighth Atlantic port in magnitude of foreign trade, and out side of the cotton season, the first south of Baltimore. This Congressional District. Wadesbora Htra'd. It is time we were thinking of some suitable person in this congressional district to place in nomination for Congress. Of course our friend Steele can't expect a renomination, as his friends insisted at the convention in Wadesboro that Mr. Ashe should not hold the place for a third term, and further, as we are "kinder"' opposed to "third terras.'' We - are told by the peo ple of the western part or the district that they are entitled to name the man from their section ; and we are some what inclined to think that they have a right to expect the candidate to be chosen from among them. We would like to select the man from Anson. We have a man here who would be a pow er in the House a man would do him self and his people honor Bennett, But then we are willing tp take our turn, We have had the man from our section since the "unpleasantness," and are now willing to let Mecklenburg or some of the ether western counties sead one of their sons. We shall, how everJniRti-an . hnvtng a. full saying which one of the sons we prefer. - -' Winston's Growth. Winston Sentlne'. Ejght years ago, in Eebruary, the firsfepound Of tobacco was sold in Win ston, rinder file management of Maj. T. J. Brown, who was first to undertake the venture. The sale-room was an old frame stable, on the Miller lot, just below the jail. The sales for one week alone, in the same month, this year, amounted to 60,000 pounds. What a difference this short period of time has made. And to think, alao, that at that .tlrae there was not a single to bacco factory, and at present sixteen, Is it surprising when we exclaim "How rapidly we grow V" Mr. linen's Income Tax. The experts employed at New York and in the Northwest collecting evi dence in the case . of the government against Samuel J. Tilden for alleged failure to pay his income tax, have final- ly completed their labors, and have ' re ported the evidence to E, Pi Webster, the special aren't of the commissioner 61 interoal revenue, . (Jen. Green B. laum. .'.illei .case will be entered on the. April calendar of the United States. Circuit Court for the district f $fewi York far triatf . . , ,NfW frriI Hred. , , ArL aiIta". l Mafcti 9. The Supreme Court to-day.- refused a new trial : tor Maftf Hrll: convicted of the murder of Join Simmons, the ; alleged seducer of Hil&iwife Hill was sentenced to hard FAMLUE'S STRIDES. Report of a Member of the Herald Kc lief Comuditee Scenes of Abject misery an4 Sickening: Squalor "Feed Them Till Summer.'' By Cable to the NewTork Herald. To the Donors tf the Herald Relief Fund : I have made my first visit to the suf fering countiespf Ireland, and hasten to make my report of what I have seen and done. It i3asy to understand the causes of the .gresent poverty. The people have htt$ three bad erops in suc cession; things have been growing worse and worse. until the almost utter failure of the csops last year brought them to the verge of starvation. They have nothing to. plant a want which the British government will supply by the loan of seedt potatoes on Yery easy terms. They having nothing to eat, a want which you have yourself so gener ously helped to supply by gifts which I am sure you will supplement by other gifts when you know what is the real state of the case. In order to under stand for myself .the condition of affairs I spent a few dajs under the leadership of Colonel King-Harman, covering about thirty squarre miles on the first day and over forty on the second. I visited a large number of small set tlements on the west bank of the Shan non, in the counties of Roscommon and Sligo. For about ten hours each day I rode and walked, entering alto gether about a hundred wretched hov els, which this afflicted people delusive ly call their homes, and where from morning till night they encounter the dread monotony of want and misery. vv nne iuiiy prepared to meet more or less distress everywhere, knowing through former visits something of the chronic state of poverty in which the people live, I was not prepared, nor could anything 1 have ever before seen in any degree prepare me, for the scenes of abject misery and sickening squalor which I found at every turn. The people did not know of my coming, and could not prepare for any dramatic dis play of wretchedness and want;. Unawares I searched every corner of scores of houses for any means of sub sistence, and came back at night with an aching heart, l had seen what it would do you all good to see. Even af ter hearing it I am sure vou will in crease your gifts, generous as they have been, until this great chasm of distress can be bridged over. When I tell you tnat i nave seen men utterly break down when I slipped a paltry shilling into their hands, and women clutch a loaf of bread as though they were afraid that some one would suddenly appear to take it rrom tuem, you can faintly imagine what I have experi enced in the last few days. The friend who accompanied me observed that I felt a large lump in my throat all the time. I could find-no fitting language in which to express my sorrow and my sympathy. The first case I remember was that of an old woman who sat on the mud dy threshold of her hut as we went by, lilting up ner lianas as it in supplica tion, and crying ".Nothing has passed my lips for twenty-four hours." I nev er knew the value of a loaf of bread till that moment. When we gave her half a loaf she took it with the eagerness of a ramisnea aog. tone temblea with age and weakness, and hunger had reduced her to the likeness of a skeleton. There was a glare in her eye that told of fam ine. She stood in the middle of the road and thanked God that Americans had not forgotten Ireland. It was hours before I could get away from that haunting, haggard face. Nor shall I soon forget the sight which I saw in another hut. The mother of seven children was holding the youngest, a girl of a few months, in frantic embrace, moaning as she rocked to and fro. She looked up with startled gaze as we entered the door, which we could only do by bending, and gave a low cry as though in very terror. Alter a lew minutes she was reassured, for she thought me an agent or tne landlord sent to evict her. Then she told me she had nothing to eat for many dayg except a poor dole of Indian meal which a relief committee gave her, and for which she was thankful enough. She added that being half starved herself it was impossible to supply milk for her babe. She would be compelled to see it die by inches in her arms. But for the meal which the relief committee supplied, the family would have literally had nothing to eat. But I cannot recite all the individ ual instances. Let me give you a sample of what I saw in many scores of huts, and in a few which are thatched and of stone, and stand on the edge of a bog which affords them peat for fuel. They con tain three small rooms. One is the room where the household lives. Through a small hole in its roof the kitchen smoke is generally forced to escape. There is almost a peat famine this year on' account of the wet weath er. The only fuel consists of a bunch of green twigs. Another room is for the cow if they are. happy enough to possess one, which is very rarely the case. The cow is part of the family and always goes in and out through the front door. In the third room, which is perhaps eight or nine feet square, the family sleeps. They have one bed, with two thin, worn-out blankets, and here four of a household of nine must sleep, not lengthwise, but crosswise, covering themselves as best they can. The rest pile up a small bundle of straw in the corner and sleep on it. Pressed by hun ger, they have eaten all their store or potatoes. The only food in the whole house is a few pounds of Indian meal, which they mix with water, and make into a stirabout. This is all they have nnd all they will have until the autumn. Avhat wonder, tnen, tnat they snouid be disheartened and discouraged ? I have asked again and again what part of their wretchedness is due to intemperance. I am assured that it is caused solely by the utter fail ure of the crops, And with all this poverty the majority of the Irish are cheerful. The people are enduring the great stress of suffering with a pluck . T 1 J 1 a 1 1 ana courage wnicu are trmy aumirauie. It is my hope and prayer that the American people will not feel that enough has been already done. Pinched as the Irish are to-day their condition is one of happiness in com parison with that in which they will find themselves in the course of a few weeks. ' From the early part of April until the first crop is reaped that will be the season of their real trouble, of their actual struggle for existence. Feed them until the middle of the summer and the blessings of the whole of Ireland will rest on your gen erous hearts. The committee have money, but It Is not enough to last un til the end of the famine. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands are keep In s soul and body together . by your bounty and generosity. For the sake of eharitv make one more effort. Give your committee the means of warding off the otherwise inevitable horror or starvation. I shall visit Mayo and Donegal next week, and will make another report. Geobge Hepwobth. GREAT CLOSING SALE OF WINTER CLOTHING TO MAKE ROOM FOR SPRING STOCK. 400 Fine all Wool Cass. Pants Reduced from $7.50, 5, 6 & 7 TO ONE UNIFORM PRICE, $3.50. Other lines in heavy fabrics, also, February 28. CLOSING GREAT ATTRACTIONS IN FINE SUITS. WE WILL SELL TO-DAY A SUIT WORTH, $25.00 FOR $20.00 20.00 FOR 10.50 15.00 FOR 12.50 As our Stock consists mostly of fine Goods, and principally of our own manufacture, it is to the advantage of every purchaser, and a satisfaction to know, that if he buys a suit now that it will look as well the next season as this. We don't throw out any baits to the public with a mere small article, but fair treatment to all, and polite attention shown to every customer. WE SELL ONLY FIRST-CLASS GOODS, Notwithstanding the great advance of all Goods we wil.l sell now at REDUCED PRICES, as we don't intend to carry our Stock over to the next season, but will keep fresh and new styles at all times and each season. IW We solicit a call from everybody, and everybody is invited. Respectfully, 1. BERWANGER BRO., Fine Clothiers and Tailors. N. B. We are in receipt of Spring Samples for Spring and Summer Clothing to be made to order. JUST RECEIVED A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF ORIENTAL DRESS GOODS, Lace Striped Buntings, Ruchings, Jet Fringes, LACE TIES, FICHUS, f Ladies' and Children's Straw Mats, QBonnets FEATHERS, TIPS IN March 1. 1851. TO Twenty-Nine Years Experience has Enabled the T3 TLa H C? O TO PURCHASE THIS SPRING THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF Dry G-oods, Notions, &dg.,. Ever offered to their customers. Nearly all bought before the recent advance learn our prices. mar.a. Clothing and Gentlemen's Fnrnisliing Goods And to make room for them, we will sell our present stock without regard to cost. DON'T BUY UNTIL YOU SEE THE REAL BARGAINS THAT WE mar. 8. SOITIFK & GrRIER, GB0CEBS AND COpDSSION MMIAOT& ONE OF THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTED STOCKS OF STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES IN THE STATE. Close and AGENTS 121 PLANTER'S FAVORITE SB -LONG'S' Sillo Chemical Fertilizers, ,1 knor, to ned further comrrW. Call for U book with Usttmo-tfalsfa.ai all wettou. ftao 'Innta f iTMLINa B fflffa u ol I tr, nnt and best. ChemUtB f national repuUUon f Attention of phyrtetam tailed to ft 90t s&M wr au will be sold at a SACRIFICE. invite prompt attention. Very respectfully, E. SALE OF FALL AND V v ALL THE SPRING AND SUMMER SHADES. at WITTKOWSKY & BARUCH'S. THE TRADE. Respectfully, WE INTEND TO LAY IN A SPLENDID STOCK OF W. Prompt Trade Specially Invited. roormmaa n ss rroi. iwro:is, or. iniaurain. mra , - waaing grocer, i 5 The opportunity is rare, and we D. LATTA & BRO. WINTER CDIlcottlbflnn F5 1880. .Old House of 3HI IE3 3" in prices. Don't buy nnUlyou see and ARE OFFERING OUR CUSTOMERS KAUFMAN & CO. ji -lr I: a '! II' 1' 'h mi!; l :( i ; ; i r v i !i ?, . :- 1 h hi Ji'. r i i.; 'I it :l 1 i !jf: f. i Pi ( i I i , "T r It ;:rt.i 1 . r i r 1 i l. ! h l 1
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