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JUST INS By Express, a large and handsome lot of Ladies' and Misses' Plain and Braided Jersey Jackets, Irom $1.25 to $5,00. Black and White Canvass Belts.' . Large Stock of Trunks, Valises, Etc A Few pieces of Ginghams left at 8c. per yardr mer Dress goods cheaper than ever. Sum- CLOTHING AT A SACRIFICE. CALL A! SEE. suhtii mjir.iiiv. T O m MANUFACTURERS AS K. QAREY ti CO. 25 S. CHARLES STREET, BALTIMORE ,V MD. PURE OAK LEATHER BELTING. And Dealers In RUBBER BELTIXG, PACKI1VCVLHOSE, &c. ; ' COTTOX, WOOLEST nnd SAW MILL SUPPLIES, &c. Agents : Boston Belting Co.'s f : Rubber Beltinor lil' rH hovt's Leather Belt. HIH llt-HI. ifMfVernbKBeltTngr -if Joseph Noones Sons Koller blasher and Clearer Cloth. IT, K. Earle's Card Clothing, &c 4Di r J. Big lot Black All size?, from 82 to'42 bust measure, at 75 CENTS EACH. A beautiful Hemstitched Ladies Handkerchief Warranted Fast Colors, at 10o, OUR LINE OF Slioes Hats Trunks Aad Yalisos is, Complete. - -) Fine line of Trunks and Va lises for summer travel. GOOD GOODS a LOW PRICES. Orders by mail have prompt attention, V mm 0. -01- Will continue until the-entire stock is dis posed of. ALEXAMDER S: HARRIS. gftc GlinvloXtc Ob.rmrr. 'Teuth. like thb sdm,' sometimes submits to BB OBSCCfeED, ? BUT, LIKE THE SUN, ONLY TOR A TTJtK." Subscription I o the Observer. " DAILY EDITIO. Slnlecopy....... Scents By the week tn the city......... ... " 20 - ' By themonth. ................ 75 Three montbs " ""i2 00 61x months.... . ...... .."..M"" 4 f)0 ' One year aoo ' - WEEKLY EDITION. ' Three months . ;t . . ..... 50 cents. Six months.... ...$1.00 v v. One year.... .1.75 t , In clubs of five and over $1.50. o revition IVm Tlietse Rulet$ Subscriptions always payable. In advance, not only In name but in fact. . ViEWIIG.TnE SITUATION. A Blast From an 01l Xiiie Demo crat who Don't JLikc the Way the Machine is Run. To the Editor of The Obsebyeij - Washington, Sept. 3.- It is a well settled conviction in the common mind that political ; documents are not trust worthy. Such papers are looked upon as the work of kind or interested adyocates who have -an object in view and who do not scru pie to resort to the artifices of fraud to accomplish their purpose. ; It is true that in the main this' be lief is well founded. The conduct of the public press and the purely, par tisan character of what is -known as campaign literature affords strong grounds for such an opinion. And yet there is or must be either truth or falsehood in all statements relating to political matters as well as in all other statements, for " ' , . "Truth Is cathoU3,and Nature one." : The difficulty is to get rid of the false and get at the true. In no case is this an easy matter, and the labor is beset with serious difficulties in the investigation of matters connected with politics, and particularly so when we undertake to examine the record of an individual' with the view of finding out the motives and aims which have governed x and shaped his' public life. These diffi culties originate in two principal sources. The first is: The difficulty of getting at facts sufficient to lwar- rant -x just conclusion. The second is public prejudice. And it remains to be added in this connection 1 that even when the facts are sufficient and accepted, and when prejudice does not excite them, yet remains the necessary work of Mcomparing and balancing the facts and arriving at some eo"nclusiofr.,J' - It is hardly necessary to remark that the ordinary intellect is not qualified either by nature or training to perform this task. First, with re gard to getting at the facts, it will hardly be maintained to begin with, that, the mere official declarations of a public functionary, are in them selves any evidence of the true in tention or motive which lies behind them. From the earliest days of statecraft down to the present time? language has been most . frequently employed to conceal, thoughts. Xn trigue and politics have almost come to be synonomous words. And Mi chiavelli remains the ideal of the politician who possesses no other merit than that of success in pushing his own private fortune. Views and aims the most antagonistic are waged upon alleged grounds admitted to be alike valid. The devil himself would doubtless attempt to justify his avos cation if he had an opportunity to be heard, and "by their fruits you shall know them." You shall not know them by one declaration, but by all? and not by these alone, but by these taken together with and interpreted by their acts., This is the rule and measure to be applied in guaging the strength, essence, and the , contents of public men. -: Second, with , regard to public prejudice. The great mass of grown up men are like women and children, they have their likes and dislikes, These inclinations and antipathies originate in sentiment and not in reason,- and though born of mental imbecility, they are all powerful in their ' effects. They give rise to fanaticism, and out of this grows the fetichism or mansworship, and the idol of adoration is raised to the skies with as much unreason and super stitition as the object of; dislike is damned without evidence. ' Such is the construction of human nature. It is a waste of energy to become in-. J dignant over it, to rail at itor to try to change it. It flows out of the order of things as result of a law as inexorable as that under which foul gasses ascend from an open sewer. Schiller in his Joan of Arc, makes Talbot say that against" stupidity the Gods themselves 'fight in vain. -Remembering this we may well spare ourselves' the idle task of attempting to emplojf'reason with those creatures who are not able to preceive its light. But, there are these who enjoy this, light of reason and who are capable of determining whether a fact is established or not, and are al so capable of judging -and arriving at rational conclusions and firm facts. It is to them, and to them alone, that that this address, if it v may be so termed, . is written, The record of Mr.i Cleveland ; sofar, has been very unsatisfactory ' to the Democratic Earty, he has committed two ? grava hinders. - First, ' in - appointing as Secretary- of ; State, Bayard. His ptopeirplace was Senator from Dela ware. And the other in appointing Senator Lamar:;; Neither of these are fitted for the position, nor have either of them carried out the wishes of the Democratic party. .' Bayard was Vso glad- when the 7 Democratic .party came in power he came near losing his mind, and remarked to the writer, "we today reap the reward of pa tience and patriotism in-this peaceful transfer. :of- the executive power lo a Democ atic President. Lamar has done nothing for bis party;--all the thieves and courtesans still remain in office and the merito rious democrat, who voted and work ed for the party are left to starve. : Recognizing that Mr.: Tilden's life has been prolonged until the geueral judgment of our fellow-countrymen is invited to the wish that wrong were - righted in his person, for the Damocracp of the United States we offer , here to him in his with drawal from public cares, not only our respectful sympathy and esteem, but alsa that best ; hofnage of free men, the pledge of our devotion to tho principles and the cause now in separable in the history of this Res public from the labors and the name of this great man. With this statement of the hopes, principles and purposes of the Demo cratic party the great issue of re form &nd-change m administration is submitted to the people in calm con, fidence that the popular voice will pronounce m favor of newmen, : and new and more favorable conditions for the growth of industry, and the extension of trade, the t employment and due reward of labor and of capi tal and the general, welfare ; of the whole country. ' J. A. Sloan. '' -- . - . The South Increases Her Food . Product. In a series of articles by Mr. R H. Edmonds in the Chicago Current a gratifying exhibit is made of the progress of the South in the imports ant matter of diversifying its agricul tural productions. The gain in the production, for example, of corn be. tween 1875 and 1884 was, it is stated, 109,124,000 bushels; of oats, 29,399,500 bushels. 'The chief gains in the pro duction of corn have1 been in Virginia, North and South ' Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Ken tucky There are more surprises, however, in the statistics of the( oat crop in the South. Between 1875 and 1884 South Carolina . increased her oats product from 858,000 to 3,545,000 bushels; Florida from 123, 000 to 494,000 bushels; Alabama from 840,000 to 5,015,000 bushels; Missis sippi from 800,000 to 3,048,000 bushels ; Arkansas from 940,000 to 3,542,000 bushels ; Texas from 1,610,000 to 10, 527,000 bushels." The dependence ot the South upon the West. for food has beep 0, greatdrawback.-tp thew! prossli. perity ottnat section, the cultivation of cotton as the only crop being the vfcc? of '? the agricultural economy. The above figures would seem to show that the tendency in the - South at present is to become self-sustaining and independent. This view is con firmed by the fact that the gain in the production of the corn in 'the South in-the nine years under cons sideration was 33.6 per cent., or but 3 per cent, less than the; gain; in the rest of the Union. Her gain in oats was 85 per cent., that of the rest of the country being 62 per cent. In live stock the gains have been equally striking. In 1875 the South produced 5,193,300 sheep; in 1885 12,640,323. The number of hogs grown in 1875 was 10,035,300; in 1885 16,532 516. Of cows the increase was from 2 709,200 to 3,612,673; of oxen and other cattle from . 6.140,800 to 9,423,337. Summing up the in crease of all sorts of farm animals from 1875 to 1885 ,we find that the number grown in the former year was 27,608,105, in the latter 46,427,243, the increase in number being 18,819, 138 in value $195,000,000. Texas takes credit for most of the increase in the growth of sheep and for a con siderable part of the progress in other products, but a very decided increase in the number of hogs is to be, noted in all the cotton States. The fact that the Southern people possess great advantages for raising stock of all kinds is beginning to be apprecia ted. It is an attractive topic to spec ulate upon the probable consequences to the Northwest and West to be ex pected within the next 'thirty years from the disposition now shown to multiply the agricultural and manu facturing products ? of -the. South. With the South and Europe no longer their customers for wheat, corn and hog products, 1 the Northwest and West must cease to be as attractive as at present to immigrants. The South r may, herhaps, succeed, to their former prosperity. ATTENTION ! HOI JSEKEEEESS!! -:o:- Those who have followed up our advertisements arid called on us have found that we offered only desirable goods, ; and these at most remarkably low prices, . ' , . 1 " - ' . . : "... ;.'."-.. . i . ..... . .. .. - t - . . . f. j , : We Have Proven That We do not Adver- . " . . . - v. . ' - . . .: ' - . ' : ' t tise Imaginary Bargains. THIS WEEK SUAIX, BE A week of great offeringsl A week of genuine bargains!! Aweek never to be forgotten!!! . An iriiportant and profitable week Jor HOUSEKEEPERS The Improvemeut in Business. 'It is a mistake," says the Boston Commercial Bulletin,-"to supposethe recent reports of improvement iri'bu siness refer to the , future, and . are therefore mere matters ; of opinion. Clothing , manufacturers have been having so good a trade during the month of August that reduced stocks have compelled them to put in large and early orders for spring woolens; and an actual shortage of the' latter fabrics has been discovered, which has led to the placing of very large orders with the mills. Some .woolen mills have lately . taken - orders for goods sufficient to absorb their entire production for the next six months. Others have advanced their prices and will not show any more goods except at an increase of five cents per yard. There is no parallel between the present condition 'of business and thatjwhich succeeded the panic of 18737 - All of the elements are now at hand for a short cut back to prospers ity, and the improvement of the past few weeks has been of as substantial a character as a rise in! the price of poultry' when Thanksgiving Day ap proaches." : ' ; CARPETS CARPETS CARPETS CARPETS CARPET CARPETS CARPETS CARPETS CARPETS 91) Pieces BrnsseIvCarpat Are being offered this week only ,r an lengths from 6 to 60 yards at following rates: T HIS WEEK AT 55c. Per Yard, Formerly 70c. OOc 6 4t 72 l-2c 75c. 85c. Nottingham Lace Curtains. '- -v ""- ' ' . . ' 40 Pairs Creami 3 yards long, $1,40 a pair, formerly $2.00' - 25 32 4S : t; White, 3J I d5 2.40 3.60 (C 3.25: 5.0O m l oese inree I. 20 pieces Heayy Bleached 10 4 Sheeting 25c per yard, sold well at 32o. II; 10 dozen of 10 4 Honey iComb Spreads, 85c each, III, 600 yards of All Linen Crash, 8c per yard. $1.25 11c. We Do Not Hide the Bargains We Offer , v -1 " - h -. " : - . .v v " . Because they are cheap, the less we sell of them the better off - we are- To the contrary, we display them most conspic-, uously. aug30dtf GHARLOTTE, N. C. Our osii u -OF- nnnrtnimKBif (BtotiODpDDg -STILL CONTINUES. In order to make room for our Fall and Winter Stock, which Is dally arriving, i - ; -r--, :s we will offer this week at a great sacrlooe, v', 1 , :. ' . . . - . .... ... . . ' . . .. - 100 Men's Suits at S5 00 WORTH $10.00; $12.00 AND $13.50. -100 Boys' arid Children's Suits from $2.00 up. These are extraordinary bargains and cannot be gotten anywhere else for '. But they must be closed out. We dont Intend to carry any over, ment every season,- and. do not take cost into consideration. . An purchaser. . - , , We make a clean sween.of every gar early call will pay every economical W: KAUFMAM&00.
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