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Stye &jaxbte bBtma LOCAL INTKUJBEftCfc WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1881. SOCIETY . DIRECTORY. Phalahi LqdoI No! 81 i A. . ft A. M. Regular meeting every second and fourth Monday night. Kxcklsiob Lodox No. 261, A. F. ft 4. M. Beg uicir meeting every first ami third Tuesday nlgnu. Charlottk Chaftkb No. 89, R. A. M. Regular meeting every second and fourth Friday nights. Charlotte Comxamdabt No. 2, JL T. Regular meeting every first and third Thursdays. KZ. OIF H. Knights ot Honor. Regular meeting every second and fourth Thursdays. isz. oif dp. Knights of Pythias. Regular meeting nights first and tnlrd Wednesdays, 7 o'clock p. iu. atMa sonlc Temple Hall. I. O. O. IF". Charlotte Lodgjs No. 88. Meets every Mon day, night , M KCKLXKBTTHd DECLARATION LODG Na 9. Meets every Tuesday night. Dixiu Lodge No. 108. Meetstevery Thursday night. Catawba River Encampment Na 21. Meets First and third Thursday nights In each month. Index to New Advertisement. House painters wanted J. Gilmer Kerner. Attention, business men "Business." Secure bargains Hargraves ft Wilhelm. Plaevllle Academy held ft Anderson. HUnE PENCILING, THE YADKIN RIYER. ITS NAVIGATION AH ASSUBAHCJE. B-Messra. Smith & Forgey are hav ing erected at Pineville a Targe livery and sale stable. tW A case against J. M. Kendrick for selling spirits was dismissed yester day for lack of evidence. tW Burgess Nicholls, A. A. Gaston and A. R. Nisbet left last night for New York to lay in their fall goods. tST" Several people from the city went out last night to the entertain ment at Mr. Martin Alexander's for the Mecklenburg Riflemen. IW Mr. M. C. Quinn returned yes terday afternoon from a two weeks yachting tour on the Chesapeake bay, with friends from Baltimore. ST A team of mules was yesterday f lightened on the outskirts ot the city by some woman driving rapidly be hind. The mules ran away and one of them, a very valuable animal, had its thigh broken. J3" The mayor gave some boys who had been throwing stones through win dows the alternativeof fines or a thresh ings from their parents, yesterday morning. Another case of loud swear ing was fined $1.50 and costs. HSf Dr. McAden returns from the Bankers' convention in New York con vinced that the making of wood pulp is better for the South than the manu facture of cotton. It is unnecessary to say that he dined with Warner Miller. EST Little Katie, youngest daughter of Mr. George H. King, died at Cleave lanrt Snrintrs vesterdav. and will be buried this afternoon from the Episco pal church. See notice of invitation to friends and acquaintances of the fami ly published elsewhere. Z3T The first weekly meeting of the Literary Association of Tryon Street Methodist Episcopal church took place last night in the basement of that church. There was quite a full attend ance and the evening was much en joyed. "While a gentleman was visiting on Tryon street, last evening, a few blocks from the square, a regular gray 'possom put in an appearance on the niazza. His . 'Dossomship was prompt ly captured and put in a pen to fatten, and if nothing serious happens to him he will furnish a jolly feast some day before long. The postmaster here has received a letter from a colored man named Stephen Fletcher, now in Indian Terri tory, inquiring for one Gilly William son, his uncle, or any of his connec tions here. The writer left here in 1801. He was known before he left as Stephen Williamson, but took the name Fletcher from a man who bought him. jf One of the green-eyed provin cial newspapers published in a village not far from Charlotte, describes the cut of the Charlotte water works which appeared in Sunday's Observer; as looking "like a picture drawn by a dy ing man of what he saw during an at tack of delirium tremens, struck by lightning." It is unnecessary to state that that newspaper has no special artist. Wosl Hm Been and rkt Is Being Done to AccomplUn this Result Vbat 1 Promised, and How the Premises are to.be Made Good. ' ! ' ' On the 17th day of last May an arti cle was published in these columns un der the title of jthe??Oid Yadkin, in reference to the government work now in progress in regard to the navigation of the Yadkin River, between the rail road bridge on the North Carolina Railroad, which crosses that stream, fiv.e miles east of Salisbury, and Bean Shoals, 64 miles further up the river. Concluding the article, we said: "As the work goes forward The Observer will take pleasure in keeping its read ers informed of the progress, because it is a grand North Carolina enterprise, and The Observer is a North Caro lina newspaper." Furthering this idea an Observer representative on last Monday visited the scene of operations, with the view of taking a bird's eye view of the situa tion. Leaving Charlotte on the 6.10 a. m. fast mail train, The Observer representative was deposited at the Mount Vernon Hotel, in Salisbury, at 7.45. Mr. W. B. McNeely is the officer in charge ot the hotel, and to him we thus early tender our thanks for solid comforts- in the shape of a substantial breakfast. We commend the cuisine of this establishment to the traveling public, when business or pleasure carry them to Salisbury. A meeting of the board of directors of the Western North Carolina Rail road was in progress, but we concluded that as the ways of railroad men these days are among those things "which no fellow can find out," we would for the present look strictly after Uncle Sam s business up the Yadkin. Preliminary thereto we hunted up Capt. W. H. James, assistant engineer and officer in charge of the work, and one of the cleverest officials it has been our good fortune to meet, and were soon seated in a top buggy, behind a magnificent bay, on the way to the "water works." The parched up condi tion of the crops by the wayside forci bly reminded us that the present Ion g continued drought is not confined to Mecklenburg. at the river. six mile anve Dnngs nished to begin the work by the govern ment, but we should not forget to state that to the efforts of Mr. Frank Brown, much praise should be given, while the appropriations were successfully car- Tied through Congress by Senator .M. W Ransom, and Messrs. W. M. Rob-! bins and R F. Ar infield, members of the Lower House. ON THE FIELD AT LAST. The first appropriation was about to lapse into the Treasury from non use, when Capt. Chas. B. Phillips, whose headquarters were at Norfolk, Va, had his attention directed to the matter. Through his efforts Capt. W. H. James was placed on the spot as engineer in charge, and Mr. Frank Brown was di rected to assume charge of the work, which it was resolved should begin at once. In April last Capt. James took formal charge, and spent until the 6th of June in getting ready such appli ances and implements as seemed to be necessary. He purchased, or had made, on the spot: Three boats for living houses for the employees and engineers, 2 hoisting scows, provided with engines and steam rock drills, the engines were fur nished by Messrs. Beckett & McDowell, of this city, and are of the most ap proved pattern, 5 stone lighters, for transporting the stone after being raised, 1 batteau, 6 row boats, 2 steam and 100 hand drills, and 2 magneto electric batteries. Capt James employed : Mr. Frank Brown, superintendent, Mr. Reid Whit ford, assistant engineer, 2 captains of hoisters, 3 engineers, 2 blacksmiths, and 50 laborers, and shortly after the work began Mr. Garber, an experienced and competent blaster, was added to the working force. Thus manned and equipped, Capt. James, formally launch ed his first scow on the 6th of June, at a point on the river near and above the piers of the old road bridge, on the old public road leading from Salisbury to Lexington, and 500 yards above the present railroad bridge. When steam ers shall have been put on the river the authorities of the railroad contemplate the construction of a switch from the present line of the road to the steam boat landing. Col. Andrews thinks if the boats were to come down to the bridge that structure might sometimes be endangered by fire. how the work is done. STEAm SPINNING. A North Carolina Engineer. A gentleman who was in the city yes terday on his return from a visit to the western part of the State, said that he had Seen the most celebrated piece of railroad engineering both in this coun try and in Europe, hut that they were excelled by that of Maj. James Wilson, on the Western N. C. Railroad across the mountain. He was enthusiastic over Maj. Wilson's ability and thought that he would soon make his name famous in the world if he were engag ed on some of the great engineering undertakings of the time. A six mile drive brings us where the beautiful Yadkin wa3 spread out before us. We are at a point known in the neighborhood as Hanna's Ferry, six miles northeast from Salisbury and about five miles above where the gov ernment work of deepening the river was first commenced last April. The Yadkin is a historic stream. For many years during the settlement of this country it was the dividing line be tween the civilized and uncivilized por tions of the State. The country west of the river was inhabited by the Catawba and Cherokee Indians, and for many years it was the custom for the whites living eastward, at Salem, Hillsboro, and even further down the country to meet these Indians at the waterfords and crossings of the river and trade off their beads, cotton handkerchiefs-and pocket-knives for skins, pelts and turs. the river itself. 1 The river rises in Caldwell county, not far from the base of the Grand father Mountain, and flows hrst north east into Wilkes county, thence cen trally through that county, where it becomes the dividing line between Surry and Yadkin, Forsyth and Davie, Rowan and Davidson, Stanly and Montgomery, Anson and Richmond counties; when about the 35th parallel of latitude it passes into South Caro lina, and after having received the wa ters of several large tributaries it forms the Great Pee Dee and passes out into the Atlantic Ocean at Georgetown, S. C It has long been navigated as high up as Cheraw, in Chesterfield county, S. C, and this point has been designated as the head waters of navigation for fifty years at least. Above this place the bed of the river frequently tumbles over shoals which make it unnaviga ble until at a point in Stanley county, known as "The Narrows," it breaks through the Uwharrie hills, a small chain of mountains, in a seething, boil ine. foamine torrent, as if rejoicing in its ability to break through the barriers erected by nature to prevent its reach ing its destination the ocean. From "the Narrows" to the bridge f the North Carolina Railroad, which crosses the river just east of Salisbury, the stream in many places is deep and the shoals comparatively few, so that when the present project of rendering the river navigable between the bridge and Bean shoals has been accomplish ed, the work will probably be con tinued down to the northern edge of Stanly county. FORMER ATTEMPTS AT NAVIGATION. This is the third attempt that has been made to render this river naviga ble, both former efforts having failed for lack of money, but it is the first time that "Uncle Sam" has had a finger the pie, and the effort now oeing Nearly all the work done so far con sists in breaking up the huge blocks of granite found in the bed of the river and transporting the rocks out of the line of the proposed channel. Where the rocks are small the work is com paratively light, the laborers lifting them out of the water upon the trans port scows with ease, but at points im mense beds of granite bar the way to progress. These are broken into frag ments by nitro-glycerine or dynamite fired by an electro-magneto battery, and its philosophy and use seems to us to be near the very acme of scientific re search and invention. Holes are drilled into the rocks and cartridges of dyna mite are inserted, and then Mr. Garber, after fixing the fuse, sounds the note of warning, retires to the bank of the river, connects his wires with his bat tery, pushes down the handle, and tears a hole in the water and rocks with a noise that would make Bald Mountain echoes ashamed of themselves. There is nothing like one of these explosions except another one by the same plan and by the same battery. This is the work, all the balance is play, for there is nothing to do after the rock are bro ken to pieces, but to gather them up and take them out of the channel. When they are large the steam derrick tackles them with a nonchalance that is sublime, and it always wins. It is the same theory by which Gen. Newton blew up the rocks at Hell Gate, a few years ago, and the work is prosecuted by Capt. James Mercur, of the United States engineers, who succeeded to the work upon the death ot capt. rniiiips, and who was one of the government officers in charge of that famous work. THE WORK DONE. By pursuing this plan several shoals of rock have already been ditched and a channel 50 feet wide and 4 reet deep nas been opened for nearly five miles. About $14,000 only of the appropriation has been expended, and "much of this has necessarily been spent in the pur chase of tools, implements and appa ratus. There is still available $38,000 of the appropriation, and the work seems to be in hands, in the language of Oakes Ames, "where it will do the most good." What the , Chatlolte ' Cotton Mill ,'. Shows in Plain Firitres a to- the Adrantace of Steam Cotton Maka- , XactnrintT in Charlotte.-' . "We don't advertiseur business by making a big blow over it irj the papers that is as far as the profits are concern ed,' said Mr. D. W. Oates, of the Char lotte Cotton Mills! to an Observer rep resentative yesterday, who asked for some facts as to the comparative ad vantages of steam in : the manufacture of cotton , "But," continued Mr. Oates, I can give you our actual production as com pared with that of one of the most suc cessful water mills in the South that of the Messrs. Holt, of Alamance. I fjive the figures f this mill particular y because it works the same spindle as we do Sawyer's high speed spindle." The representative expressed his sat isfaction with anything Mr. Oates was willing to tell, the more readily as the most enterprising ideas f journalism would hardly demand a minute state ment of a business man's balance sheet So it being clearly understood that the gentleman was to tell nothing which he did not feel inclined to tell he pro ceodod. "We are now running 6,240 high speed Sawyer spindles 12 hours every day, except Saturday, when we run only 9 hours This is an average of 11 hours a day one hour and a half per day more than the Northern mills, while our operatives cost us no more than theirs. This gives us 14 per cent advan tage of them per week in time, and we have no reason to doubt that the advantage is equally great in pro duction. Our production is 12300 pounds of.No. 20 warp cotton per week, or 3i ounces per spindle. We have had no experience with spinning by water power: but our friends who have and who are operating similar machin ery on the same kind of yarn give their production at 28 ounces per spindle. I refer to the Messrs. Holt, as I have said, and every body knows the success with which they have met in cotton manufacturing. This is a difference of a little .over 11 per cent, and is equiva lent to 1,350 pounds per week with our number of spindles. In other words this 1,350 pounds represents an absolute cash gain of $40 per week on 6,240 spindles when work ed by steam. This gain is, we think, enough to cover the excess of the expenses of steam ; but besides that one of our biggest advantages over the water mills is our location in the city. In the first place by being right in the inside of a live cotton market, with our experience in hand ling the staple we are able to take ad vantage of the fluctuations of the market in buying. The many other ad- vantaces of beine in town it is unnec essary to state. But again, I suppose half the water mills in this section of the State have not nearly made full time this summer from the failure of the water. We are not subject to se rious interuption in our work from any cause whatever." "When you consider all these things then you think that steam is even bet ter than water i "No, we are not prepared to say that, as we know nothing ot water nuns Dy experience. But we are entirely well satisfied that steam cotton mills will oav handsomelv in the South ; and fur thermore, we do not reget that we have made the experiment in Charlotte. You can say to your readers that the Charlotte Steam Cotton Mill is a success." mmm 2 CAR LOADS IFresh Va. Meal 1 CAR LOAD Waverly Family Flour. 1 CAR LOAD MECKLENBURG CHOICE. 100 PACKAGES Mew Mackerel ALL SIZES AND NUMBERS. WE HA YE JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER CASE ovjaqKC 50 CENT CORSETS; hi y m Far superior m nt and quaBty to any Other ever snteodueod to tan tfVUMnxHnlStoBO. 4 ALSO, A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OT i '. Xaadies' Eninen la Tartoas styes eiexeeedtagli low prices. Look at our beautiful PRINTS, Just received, only ?c per yard. ' H. MORRIS & BRO. Iun2 r RODDIC n o wire jun iwmrai buuuiw ivi h iuvis i J-f Y1 t'P ' w -M-r-,-Tm a -r- rnwsn I . V . -5 Si v. T. "-r'PvV CHOICE STYLES. QUILTS Honey Comb QoUta, Morrimao, Bates, 80o SL00 1.25 FANS ! FANS CairApest line of Fans in the State. Palm Leaf Fans 2 for 5c CORSETS. The Daisy Corset, The Sylvia Corset, JulyEl 40c 75c Tbs cheapest Bite iysgTr Loom," 44, lie, umer namm iw wmwp proportion. , . V ;; l ;- TOWELS All prices and grades. - Verjf ehean, . Jtxa&toft WT 25c towels, . Thej ara.decUledjiiunlh. - HMDKERCHirB All strtes and nrlcea. from atttched 10c- beauUIu; w,' " fWwii; 1 n- -T 'i " . J'. Eureka Spool 811k, 10c a spool - Needles 6c paper. Coats cotton, 55c a dozen. tVSTBICTLl' CASH and ONE PRIGS. 'EODICX JIOD. Charlotte Fefflale Insttate. SESSION OPENS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMB1IS 7, '81. COBPS OF TEACHERS: Wh. R. ATKINSON, Principal, Latin, Hatbe maUcs, and Natural Sciences. Miss HELEN LONG, Principal of Preparatory Department. MBS. 8ALLIE CALDWELL WHITE", English Literature and History Miss LILLIB W LONG, Modern Languages. Miss MARY L. MATTOON, Elocution and Eng lish Branches. MUSIC DEPARTMENT. Phof. A. BTDIZ. LL. D., Director. ASSISTANTS MRS. B. L. DEWEY, MBS. WM. R. ATKINSON. Miss U. A. SAVAGE, Art Department. DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. FRESH MINERAL WATER oth Foreign and Domestic, JUST RECEIVED AT Dr.J.H.McAden's Drug Store ' ARATOQA V ICHY, From Saratoga Springs, N. Y. A new water re sembling the Imported Vichy. Recommended as an antacid; cures dyspepsia, aids diges tion, Is a powerful tonic and strong diuretic. Also, Hathorn Natural Mineral Water, Miss NANNIE TINSLEY, Intendant of Infirm- Recommended very highly as a cathartic and al- Masses & Syrups ANNA partment SUTTON, Head of Boarding De- Proceedings of the Inferior Court. The following eases were disposed of in the Inferior court yesterday: State vs. Ben Walker and Wm. Hen derson, colored, for stealing whiskey. Guilty. State vs. Lizzie Maddox for keeping a disorderly house. Not euilty. State vs. Mary Weddington for keep ing a disorderly house. Guilty. Lee Alexander, coloied, larceny. Guilty. State vs. S. J. Alexander, for assault and battery. Submitted. State vs. James Kershaw, larceny. Guilty. State vs. Ruf us Moore, colored, as sault w'ith deadly weapon. Guilty. State vs. W. J. Cherry, forcible tres pass. Not guilty. State vs. John Grey, colored, larceny. Guilty. No sentences were passed yesterday. Wheat, Corn and Tobacco Report. Washington, August 16. The fol lowing reports were issued at noon from the department of agriculture: The spring wheat returns of August 1 give the condition, or, spring -wneat ui 81 against 88 last yeaf and 81 in 187 at the same time compared with the crops of last year. There is reported a heavy decrease in the States of Iowa and Illi nois, a slight decrease in Minnesota and California, while in Wisconsin and all the New England States there is an increase. Reports from Dakota indi cate a fair-crop with a large increase in acreage. , , . The condition of tobacco at the date of the returns to this department was somewhat lower than at this time last vfiar. In the North and Middle Atlan tic States th6 crop was reported as bet ter than last year. In Kentucky, Ten nessee and Missouri it was suffering from drought -In Wisconsin it is re ported better than last year. The general average i condition of corn on August 1st is 77, a very con siderable decline since last month, when it stoojl at 90, In August, 1880, the condition was 98, whioh, however, was exceptionably high. The Atlantic coast States make a snowing somewhat better than the general average, except in South Carolina, where an excessive drought has 'cut the figures to.41. Louisiana and Texas are next in low est of the coast States, from the same cause, reporting 67 ana 46 respectively. Tennessee la lowest of the interior States, its average f ailing to 64. In the great corn growing region the highest reports are 95, in Wisconsin 92 and Ne braska and the lowest 94. in mad! nromises to culminate in success, It is perhaps now impossible to gather up any succmt account oi me iwu urst efforts to render the river navigable, and even their dates are unknown to The Obseryer, but it appears that at one time the faith of the people living along the banks of the. river grew so strong that a town, which was formal ly named "Clinton," was laid off and many town lots sold, at a point just above the place where the South Yad kin river enters the main stream. Upon the inception of the present effort, it is said that not a few venerable and gray bearded gentlemen have been looking over the books of the register of deeds of Davie county, with a view of ascer taining the status quo of deeds to town lots in Clinton, which sprung up, died anH nasaed awav without even taking on the form of life. At another time a Mr. Pearson, who seems to have been a pioneer of Bold Bad Ben Butler who attempted to cut the Dutch canal be low Richmond, Va., on the James river, made the effort to cut a canal around Bean shoals, with a view to opening up the river to navigation. Both of these efforts, while they failed, were yet fruitful in lessons of experi p.nrm. Thev directed nublic attention to the vast benefits to be derived m case of success, and they proved that the project was not only possible, but really easy to be accomplished by a systematic effort, backed by money. guided by skill and prosecuted with faith. THE PRESENT EFFORT. By authority of Congress a prelimi nary survey was made by United States engineers in 1878, and the work of mak ing the river navigable from the rail road bridge to Bean Shoals was estimat ed to cost 381,671.85, and in submitting the report of the survey Capt. Chas. B. Phillips, the engineer m charge said: "Iwould recommend , that the river from Salisbury to tne tool oi isean Shoals be improved by light draught steamers, since this improvement can ! be made with a navigation of 2f to 3 feet at low water without the aid of locks or dams. Until this part of the river is improved it wbuld not be ad visable to begin the improvement at pr above Bean Shoals." Based upon the feasibility of the report of .the ' engineer the Cwifljrosa pf the United States has made the following appropriations to carry oa the wort, yw: . July 1st, 18TO.V-. ; . . g Juue 14tb, 1880. J. 200 March 3rd, 1881; . i.-Vr - v 1Z0UU THE "WORK WELL IN HAND. The successful navigation of the Yadkin river, as now proposed, has been for years like a standing dream : repeated at intervals, but apparently never to be realized. The myth is fast passing away under the skill of the en gineers, and the applied labor of the mechanics and laborers, backed by the old flag and the requisite number and amount of appropriations. These are now about to accomplish the day-dream of years agone. Said Mr. Brown to The Observer, as a huge rock was lifted out of the water on to one of the lighter scows: "Have you faith in our work?" - , We confessed that our faith was not as sublime as it might be, yet we re membered that faith as large as a grain of mustard seed would remove moun tains, but we hadn t much confidence in the removal of these rocks by faith.; but when we saw the steam drills, the" immAtisfl ripxricks. the blocks and tackle, the big hawsers and'chains, the burnished steam engine, and saw these instrumentalities lift a 2-ton boulder out of the middle of the channel, we answered: "We have, if the appropri ations hold out." "The kind of kind of faith I have, said Brown, "is that these same instru mentalities have lifted out of this chan nel 354 cubic yards of stone since we began, and we are going ahead at the rate of 1,000 feet per month." This statement of f aqts assures suc cess, and this means that the Xadkin River Valley, for long years the Ca naan of North Carolina, is to be brought into communication witn me business commerce of the world by means of the successful navigation of this beautiful stream. The country to be immediately developed covers an area of 1950 square miles, and is known to be the garden spot of the btate. it, comprises one-half of Rowan county, all of Davie, and much of Davidson, Forsythe, Yadkin, Stokes and Surry counties. - - . - , MEMORANDA. ' "' ' This article has grown so long that we refrain from going into further de tails at present. : At some future time we shall possibly explore tne neia iur ther; and find out if we cap what these counties have produeed; whatthey are now producing and show ?tae) men )whd now haul cotton bales from Salisbury to Elkin how much ,theyr will be .bene fitted, v. We.xjannof .conclude; however, without tehderingour thanks'for cour tesies to Capt? James, Mrf Brown, Mr. Whitford and Mr; Garber. May they all livelong arid "prosper,.; ; ji; t,: .. Why we Are to Ilaye No Fair this Fall. To the Editor of The Observer; While I am delighted to see the suc cess of the Poplar Tent fair, I hope its exhibitions and attendance may con tinue to grow with each fair. I think an article in The obseever oi August llth did the officers of the Carolina Fair Association some injustice unin tentionally. It i3 well known that the fair grounds are owned by a stock com- Eany, and tbe controlling interest is eld by two parties, one of whom has for several years attended to the rent ing of the grounds. The first fair the present association neia in me iaii oi 1878, they put the grounds in such re pair as was necessary for holding an exhibition. After the fair was over and all debts Daid there was a balance left in the treasury. In the following spring the officers of the association rented the grounds to hold a fair in the fall of that year, 1879, for a cash rental and to do what repairing would be necessary. This was done, the exniDi tion held, and after all debts were paid it was found that the.balance from the nrficp.niner fair had increased. This be ing known, when the-officers of the as sociation tried to rent the grounds for the same purpose last fall they found that the party would not rent upon terms upon which we could have a fair and nav ftTnenses. so the treasurer was directed to put the funds at interest and not have any fair for 1880. Then last, snrinc thfl association tried to get the grounds and hold a fair, but for the same reason as the previous year they were compelled to hold over. These are the reasons why we have no fairs, not for want of enterprize, but from monopoly of the grounds. One Who Knows. ALL GRADES. A f ULL LINE OF Canned Goods. For forma, ete.. annlr for a catalogue to Rxv. Wm. R. ATKINSON, Principal. angll.tf Mt St Joseph's Female Academy HICKORY, CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C rrHT8 school, located near the town of Hickory. -L Catawba eountr. N. C. within a few minutes' walk ot the depot, and a few hours' travel by rail of the far-famed AshevlUe. is conducted by the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, who for nearly three quarters of this century, and until recently unaided, founded and directed aU the female Catholic literary Institutions in the Carollnas and Georgia. Hickory is a great neaim reson, naving in its vlclnltv the celebrated Catawba Springs. Malarial diseases and consumption are unxnown In this Immediate section, and visiting patients rapidly recover under the influence of its unsur- nassea climate, no unaue mnaence useu ou me rellslous DrinclDles of tbe dudIIs. but to Insure regularity all must conform to the general rules of the Institution. Tbe scholastic year of ten months consists of two sessions, each session payable In advance. Board, washing, fuel, light, tuition in Eng lish. Latin, needle work and domestic ecoHomy, per session, - $65.00 Entrance fee, ------ 5.00 Vacation In the academy, - 20.00 Music, painting, drawing, languages, etc., form moderate extra charges. Letters of Inquiry should be addressed to the SISTER SUPERIORESS, auefl.dtf Hickory, N. C. TRINITY HALL, BEVERLY, N. J. A thorough home school for girls. Varied ad vantages of the highest order. Fourteenth year begins September 15. For circular address Miss RACHELLE GIBBONS HUNT, aug7,deodfcw2mos Principal. teratlve and In all forms of dyspepsia. ALSO, g CASES CONGRESS WATER, 10 CASES ROCK BRIDGE ALUM, 10 CASES BUFFALO LITHIA. And a full supply of IMPORTED APOLLINARIS AND Hunyadi Janos Waters. THE GREAT EUROPEAN NOVELTY ! JJUNYADI JANOS. THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT. AS A CATHARTIC: Does: A wine glass full before breakfast The Lancet "Hunyadi Janos Baron Lleblg af firms that Its richness in aperient salts surpasses that of all ether known waters." j - . , . . The British Medical ornaZ-"gutyadf Jadot.- CUR COM MISSION house has large sup- ERSK'INE COLLEGE PLIES OK DUE WEST. SOUTH CAROLINA. One of tbe oldest Institutions in the State. . Total expenses for Tuition, Board-Books, etc., need not exceed SI 65. Preparatory Department In charge of a Tutor. Locality healthy; community moral and Intelligent. Opens first Monday In uctooer. aug28t W. M. GRUB, Pres't CABBAGE The most agreeable, safest and fciss&etfcactouft ararfent water." s ; ' V : J Prof. Virchou)t Berlin. "Invarfebly fcood: n prompt success: most valuable." - k Prof. Bamberger, Vienna. "I have prescribed these writers with remarkable success." Pro. Bcanxoni, Wurszburg. I prescribe none but this." Prof. Lander Brunton, M. D., F. R 8., London. "More pleasant than its rivals, and surpasses them In efficacy." Prof. Atken, JT. D., F. R. 8., Royal Military Hos pital, ruetiey. "rreierreo to ruima ana nea-rlchshaU." TOMATOES BlED. At Cleaveland 8prings, August 16th, Katie, youngest chUd of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. a King. Funeral service at the Episcopal church this af ternoon. The friends and acquaintances of the family are respectfully Invited to attend. NEALYALLTHE ILLS that afflict mankind can be Drevented and cured by keeping the sto mach, liver and kidneys in perfect workuig jroer. There Is no medicine known that will do this as quicKly and surely, without Interfering with your duties, as Parker's Ginger Tonic See advertise ment. aj - - LIEBIG CO'S COCA BEEF TONIC. Professor E. M. Hale, author materia medlca new remedies, Professor at Chicago Medical Col lege, recommends Coca for bad taste In the mouth, furred and coated tongue, dryness of the mnnth n wAkine. debility of tne dieestlve or gans, cone, lnenecuuu urging w biwi, u umu lency. "It is superior to any tonic I have used or nmsnribed." says Professor Hale. Beware of worthless imitations. , : BURNETTS CQCOAINE, For Premature Loss of Hair A Pnlladelphlan's Opinion. . OnAtearaBO my hair commenced falling out until I was almost bald. After using Cocoalne a few months, I have now a thick growth of new hair. ALEX. HENRY, No. 814 East Girard Ave, Burnett's Flavoring Extracts always standard. , POTATOES CANTALOUPES TORRENT. THAT Very desirable iron open front store house, 26x100 feet, with cellar, situated on earner of Trade and College streets. Charlotte. N. C, formerly occupied by Stenhouse, Maeaulay 4 Co., and now by J. b. spencer a. uo., win oe rented for one or more years from September 1 st, next. The location is probably the best in the city. For terms and particulars apply to a. n. Diuiiu cl vu. augl4,tf 109 Pearl Street, New York FOR RENT. THE store room In the Observer building next to W. N. Prattler's Is for rent after January 1st JNO. L. MOREHEAP it, dee 32 tt JOHN H. McADEN, Importing and Ilsienslng Pharmacist North Tryon St, CHARLOTTE, N. C DON'T GO TO SABATOGA When you can get water Just s fresh and spark ling as when It flows from the spring at Saratoga. We receive this water in large block tin reservoirs which we return as soon as emptied to be refilled again every week. J. H. Mo A DIN, Druggist and Chemist. Prescriptioni carefully prepared by experienced and1 competent druggists, day or night July28 msM. TTnrnin Seed! nniin tiatv mini JL fornip Seed! MOUNTAIN HOME FOR SALE WB.ARE S.TILL INRECEIPT OF AT HENDERSON VILLS, N. a a rnfl: T i VTIWH BOARDING HOUSE. corn IVI Main and Depot streets. HendersonvUle. N.C., 1b offered for sale to a bona fide purchaser on very tufimhli tanns., The house is pleasantly situated, and has nine teen rooms; and on the lot are all necessary out houses. M If desired. It wiu oe soia rarnisnea; irom mo cooking stove In the kitchen to the piano In the panar, or u win do son wunmitoBa. Pnnuunlnn rtven lBunedlatelv Address. lun4 b2tZXl - I Fresh Iks. THE PINEVILLE ACADEMY, ! Ill hi 1 1 mm i i n i wf v - The next session wHt. begin on the first Mondav In SeDtemfoer next 'minon per monin, jrnmary De partment S1.50: Hleher English. (2.00; Classics, $3,00. D. a ANDERSON. angl7,dlt,w2t Wanted House Painters. TVE HOUSE PAINTERS wanted Immediately. 32 CALL EARLY AND SECURE BARGAINS, CITY PROPERTY , . .FOB SALE. : A DESIRABLE residence, three blocks from the A PUt and on ) mrehaaer.' comfortable rooms, brick kitchen, fme-weU of wa ter, ete.. Tbe bouse is admirably adapted ior uie residence of a lawyes, doctor oi preacher, having . an aomiraDie aomj or war room, duiii ior me particulars, price, terms, NEW CROP TURNIP SEED. purpose. For rurtnar t ete.. apply at luiymutf . THI3 OFFICE. Total amount appropriated. . ..$52,000 K',.' The "sinews 6f war" were thus fur-1 Sold In fifty cents and dollar slses. rM Brack o$ Bala. l. The thing desired found at, last ' Ask. druggist for "Rough on Bats."- It clears oat rats, mios, roaches, files, bedbugs.; 15c -per box. r m . . i . . -r ! T.ntBICf CO'S Arnicattfd Extract Ht Witch Hazel "I consider theTDestii ,tu5 market",; says: Prof, John M. CarnochaJV.M. D. t "Ha3 produced far more Batiaiatwry xvbuicv m- nj wt ru other of the . inmerour-articles .to thqmaricet says Prof, Egbert Guernsey M. D.'iuiot af ford to be without yoar elegant and: thoroughly BaOsfiuprepaTattenf for riagft fay," Bays Twaw tr vr NnwinTir: Tt. Hondreds ef eoual- ly emphatic endorsements from leading physlf Clans oi new xotk uuy. iures piica, uciuununso, .tarrn, sau rneum, tneumausm, ana buccuvub F Apply to augl7,2t J. ftlLKKR KkBNSR. KernersviHe, M. C ;, AttentioB; Bnsinessleii,: ;.; a DOUBLE-ENTRY BOOK-KEEPER, with iff-. J teen years' experience as such In the nier rHi md manutaoturlns outness, now occuot- lnr a first-class position, is desirous of making aar "- t uki ..,.rr. - la to ret into a more haaithv loeaUtv. . Caa rive good references from present employers. Cor- rMmOWW uuvunui' ci,lm Hu iraiuroi. Those tnwaatotaa experienced busmess mana- .imiiM do well toaddMsa v "if3??;i f fT-"-, o 3n Plv BOSUOCSS; - .CejeCieerm Office, Charlotte, N.1 City Lot for Sale Cheap. i i rpHE Lot on the corner of Ninth street and the I wmh romiina Baiimiui. fronting 140 feet on Ninth street and 196 feet on the North CamliB BiiiwaH, either be sew as a wnow btuito , mtetwViotsof 70 by 186 feet Suitable either for building er factory parpoaea, PP ! f mt Ob M IM Ja aj AND: Peaches Peacnes iiMiLiij Yety Cheap! II t BED OB PURPLE TOP, i - . . WHITE FLAT DUTCH, LARGE WHITE NORFOLK, POMERANIAN VhITE GLOBE WHITS EGG, AMBER GLOBE, GOLDEN BALL, ' ; iYEtOWABEBfEjN ; , RUTABAGA, ' j tr.f. svr BLOOMSDALE 8WEDE OB YELLOW. LANDEETffi&If SEED ... : ABE AX. WAYS RELTART.E., .,u . k .1. .. :iffi 5s; i By the crate or pecfc at anglS , PERRY'S. lallie