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TZI'l ft - n)i I i i vi w Jir sX a! -1xsX O VOLUME XXXIV. CHARLOTTE, N. 0., TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1885. PRICE FIVE CM II in MR if -TO THE PUBLIC- Tlie Largest and. JVCost Complete Stock of GroocLs That we have ever had, consisting of Dry Goods. Clothlne, Hats, Caps, Bwts and Shoes. Onr Drets Goods stock comprises Silk Warp and Wool Henriettas, Camels Hatr Clorn. Tricots, Jacauard Flannels, comriifir Cloths, etc. Our stock of Black and ColoredSUks and Sarahs Is our special. If you want a Black or Colored Silk Dress don't fall to see ours before buying. Nice line Bugle Trimmings, Beaded Fronts etc. Laage stock Ladles' Wraps, embracing Newmarkets, Circulars, Vlsltes, etc. JHafikete Man nel's. Itad erwear "TRUTH. USS THB oUH. SOMZT13S2S SUBMITS TO mr OBS0DTCED, BUT, lies TKK SUN, ONLY TOK A TTJLK. - Subscription to the Observer. - DULY EDITION. Stagiecopy..... Scents. By the week in the city 20 By the month. 75 Thifee months.... $2.00 Six months. 4.00 une jear .. 8.00 WEEKLY EDITION. Three months 60 cents. Six months. $1.00 ; One year............................... 1.75 In clubs of five and over $1.50, Xo Ifeviation Front. These 32wle Subscriptions always payable In advance, not only in name but In fact. : - ! , TaWe Damasks, Napkins, etc Big stock Men's, Boys and Children's Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Caps etc AdUiD 82-inch Satteens at 61 cents per yard. Extra Size Canvas Belts. TRUNKS, VALISES, ETC, Look at our new Bustles. Come and see our stock, we will show it to you with pleasure. Special atten tion to orders. IllQEIf ES & ILBXASBEK. 25 S. CHARLES STREET, BALTIMORE, f5D. MANUFACTURERS Ilugo's One Superstition. Londcrn Dily f ews. Dr. Johnson has his Boswell and Victor1 Hugo hashis Bichard Lesclide. M Leselidev who has just published a jrolume of Fropos de Table ' of the great French poet, was for many years the daily companion of the autaor of "Lea Chatiments," and he tells us, amone. many other things, that Victor Hugo confessed to the possession of only one '. superstition. Nothing could induce him to form one of thirteen at table. Whenever a thirteenth arrived at the last mo ment it was M. Leclide's business to pick. up his hat and depart. The vi tality- of this hoary superstition, whicn no doubt originally grew out of the story of the Last Supper and of the tragic events which so quickly followed it, is remarkable. Any one who takes the trouble to refer to the accepted' tables may; see for himself what Is really the expectation of hu man life. It will be found that, in order to obtain a mathematical prob- smart twitch of the tail. ability that 1 out of a given 13 healthy persons will expire during I the following 12 months, the average age of the 13 muse, in the default of the presence of one or two on the verge of centenarianism, be very great indeed, it must, m ta&t, De ubout 88 years, and it is scarcely nec ossarv to say that iu practice the united years of a festive party of 13 never amount to the requisite 1,144. The annual rate of mortality among Hov tlie Salmons Jump, London Globe. - i Professor A. Landmark, chief dir ector of the Norwegian Fisheries, has published some interesting . particu lars of his studies of the caDacity of salmon to jump waterfalls, t He is of the opinion that the jump depends as mucn on the height of the fall as the currents below it. If there be a deep pool right under the fall, where the water is comparatively quiet, a sai mon may jump sixteen feet perpen dicularly, but such jumps are rare, and he can only state with certainty that it has taken place at the Helle fps, in the Drama river, at Hacgsend, Shere two great masts have been aced across the river for the study of the habits of the salmon, so that eacact measurements may be effected. The height of the water ip. the river of course varies, but it is as a rule, when the salmon is running up stream, sixteen feet below . these masts. The distance between the two is three, and. one-half feet, and the professor states that he has seen sal inon jump ? from the river below across both masts. As another ex ample of hjgh jumping, he mentions spme instances of Carratunk water- mll,; Reumbec, i in North America, where jumps of twelve feet have been recorded. Professor Landmark further states that when -a salmon iUmDS a fall nearlv nemendicular in shape it is sometimes able to remain in the fall, even if the jump is a foot or two short of the actual height. This, he says, has been proved by an Overwhelming quantity of evidence. Jhe fish may then be seen to stand for a minute or two a foot or so below tjhe edge of the fall in the same spot ih a trembline motion, when, with the rest of the 'fall is cleared. But only fish which strike the fall straight with the shout are able to remain m the fall lpg mass or water, it it is struct obliquely the fish is carried back into the stream below. This Professor Landmark believes to be the explana tion of salmon passing: tails with a clear descent of sixteen feet. The prof essor believes that this is the ex treme jump a salmon is capable of, and points out that, of course, not all feat. And Dealers in RUBBER BELTING, PACKING, HOSE, &c. COTTOX, WOOIiEN aiul SAW MIM, SUPPLIES, &e. Agents : Boston Belting Co.' s i Rnhkof Rcklinrr S?1V it . i.i i . noyrs Leather veil. Mt. Vernon Belting. II Joseph Noones' Sons Si Roller Slasher and . Clearer Cloth. K. Earle's Card Clothing, &c males and females of all ages is only I are capable of performing this 1 in 41. and 41, therefore, instead of 13, should be held to be the unlucky number. This has been demonstrat ed over and over again'; yet the num ber 18 still remains ominous to thous ands of excellent people in all. classes of life. In Paris there are streets' in which 12 bis does duty instead of 13, and the householders" who thus in geriuously sought to circumvent fate f. Enter one of the government of fices, says "Carp," of the Cleveland Leader, and you will see pale faced clerks, men and women, bending over desks writing and figuring away their lives in order to obtain that nwnnTnTTT a ty iy CLOTHING ROOM Is presided over by an experienced man, with hi Competent , assistants, it is . the pride of our house, being --eapplied with first-class goods and governed tvith a thorough system. , PROFESSIONAL MEN, . LABORING MEN, BUSINESS MEN, RAILROAD MEN, STOUT AND SMALL MEN, THIN AND TALL MEN, Head Tliese Facts ! Our assortment of Men's, Boys' and Youths' JSufits for this season shows the best styles from the best Merchant Taiior designs, thorough workmanship excellent Qiotbs perfect fit and MODERATE PRICES. Gtentlemen who wish to dress with taste and save money, will llnU them selves well repaid by purchasing in this department. ii li U WANTED. -t-J-t- Excellinff Ourse The most Attractive Stoclc Ever Offered in ilie tate, of Boots, lioes. ats whinh sustains their lives. A Wash- would not tor tne worldiet toe proper fntnn clerk seldom frets more than number be painted upon their doors. t,his and under the civil servioe res csorae years ago jrrmce lNapoieow irieu to laugh his countrymen out or tne superstitution, but his errorts did not benefit his cause, for, with character istic perversity, he used to invite twelve friends to carouse with him on Good Friday, whereby he gravely scandalized right-feeling people, whatever their theological views In ! America similar but less aggressive attempts have been made to correct popular error, and numerous Thir teen Uluos nave been estaoiisnea, tne members pledging themselves to dine thirteen at table on every opportune tv. in H'rance, too, tnere is a mir- teen Club, the headquarters of which . J i - TH - EL are at Senlis; and even here in Jiing- eauai those of a Cabinet Minister. It land there is a little oterie of 13 men yAvt not he lone, however, before who dine together monthly at a house thev find thev are fiehtiner the wind numbered 13 and pay 13s. each for mnis and in the same old grind of their dinner and 13d. each to the cod vine- other men's writings, of waiters. Yet still the superstition is dead books, where thev have not the Ji 11 TT1 1 - - - . as nveiy as oi yore an over Europe opportunity of the exercise of an A A a -m. a Anl ; vmKrt Klvr , ir T1T1 111 . T i il " 1 11 auu auiciiua, au-i vivwamj onemai inoueni. meir Drains wui All Clothing offered by us is made under our own supervision; we can therefore guarantee every garment to be thoroughly made. We have am Droved our svstem of cutting to such an extent that a poor fitting earment is entirely, out of the question. We have carried but few; goods tram last year, and are therefore able to offer you an entirely complete line of ner - 1 . I - W , ' " . rorm scneme tne government cierK is goods. v Decoming more ana more a maenme and less and less an active, thinking, growing man. As l stand here on this marble pavement nd think of the lives that will be eaten up, of the enterprise shrivelled into dolessness, and of the manliness wasted in this building in time to come, it makes me shudder. Young men will come in here full of hope and courage, full of brains and energy. When they enter a thousand dollars or more a year will seem good pay to them, and they will work With a will, ; hop ing to rise tnrougn tne various branches until their earnings will We Have the Nobbiest Goods in the land .'V-'.: i:.:-: :.i---r ' T. and Quote the Lowest Prices f 11 WE I0 NOT WANT YOUB PAXItOIVAOE SERVE IX. UNLESS 5tE DE MAILORDERS SOIICXTJBI, Trunks A few good hands that can do good work wanted. None but the best need apply. ' Call at my store at 4 p. m., Saturday, the 19th. -. Respectfully, T. IL. SIBIKSILi. VALiSES, UMBRELLAS, ETC., continve to flourish and to make peo- Dle uncomfortable until the end of time. There are, in an liKennooa, men and women who are even now undergoing, twelve months' vague uneasiness because the present year of grace, 1885, happens to be a mul tiple of that unlucky number, 16. in Ex-Senator's Misfortunes. A di8oatch from Clearfield, Pa., to the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette i T-rr & , - TTT 11 - savs : "tion.i w m. jBl. w aiiace. ot Clearfield, whose son died on Monday morning from the effects of a fall a few days previous, is indeed an un fortunate man. i A man of high liter- arv attainments, and one of the most Aminpint attorrievs in the State, he Vioa 'n.mnaoAf1 A fortune of 1.000.000. t!n II r ri ri H va m mol and is nossessed-of one of the most Is now being received and placed in position for snow and sale at onr old and well-known stand In the First National Bank building, on West Tryon street, nearly ODDOslte tne Central and Buford Hotels. waste away for lack of use, and the lazy hours from 9 o'clock till 4 will eat up their energy; until some day in the future they will wake to the fact that they have been swallowed up by the great monster cannibal, called the government, which noti Only eats up men's bodies but their souls as well. At this time some of them may attempt to cut themselves loose, but their efforts will be as fu tile as those of the Laocoon. The snakes of habit and dolessness have wound themselves about their palsied frames and they will wait until at last death will come to . take away what it thinks to be of so little value as to be hardly worth the taking. This will be the case supposing civil reform prevails. If it fails Jthe gov ernment clerk's position will be all bound to be de- CHARLOTTE, N. C. Our GfflK 0 t ?! u . . h :, -OF- mnDDDDDCBIF .CDQctDttDoflDQ Tor yourselves. Orders by Express or Man prompt ly attended to. all his wealth cannot recompense Six vears ago Mrs. Wa'lace, who had al wavs been the gayest of the t?v and leader oi iasnionaoie socieiy in aristocratic old Clearfield, sudden ly became demented and was placed in a private asylum at Media, Pa., for treatment, - since men ail recoi- lpntion of her oast happy life has vAnished and he recognizes none oi her old friends, not even her hus hand. In another asylum in the same bwn is confined- a son, aged about do vears, whose life has been blighted through the carelessness of a nurse 1 iim fi foil firm fior Qtrnfl HAVE A MAGNIFICENT : STOCK OF DRESS lTTiiZ- in thft worsft. H is bound to Clearfield county; yet the iron hand pendent on his superiors at best, and of domestic misfortune seems to be the iacfc Gf civil service rule makes i tightening its grasp upon him, grad- him au the more of a sycophant or a ually robbing him of prizes for whic h toady. There is no worse employer than the government, ana 1 wouia rather work for a Scrooge than for i Uncle Sam. STILL CONTINUES.- In order to make room for our Fall and Winter Stock, which Is dally arriving, . we will offer tins week at a great sacrifice, ( 100 Men's Suits ,at $5.0 Alexander & Harris Horse versus Mule. New York Star. A pale faced, - impulsive looking young man, wno was seated on a i Fourth Avenue car, near the ' door. vesterdav - morning, was observed frequently to take out his watch and bite his hps impatiently.- When the car stopped at the Cooper Union, the pale faced young man again took out i his watch and said : ' 'Conductor, this car is very slow this morning." "Is it?" replied the official. 'We 'J GOODS, BLEACHED AND BROWN SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS, - loss of his promising " son .Bishop, a always-stay here to let the horses young man or nne eaucauou ; auu urin&. it you was a norse, i guess I rare business quaiincations. un last i you d want a drink too, with a heavy Saturday he fell from the steps of his load behind you." . . father's office, striking his head on I jv Biit Tm not a horse," retorted the i the curbstone, from the etrects or young man in a loud tone. WORTH $10.00, 112.00 AND $13.50. 100 Boys' and Children's Suits from $2.00 up. Tnes are extraordinary bargains and cannot be gotten anywhere else tor v . ' - Prints Coreets: Tale Linens, .Towels Napkins, Hoslenr: and ? gloves, lbbonsandkerchiefs, which he died as above stated. " At 1 , : VNo, he ain't a horse," added a man SwsWrtsforGents,.Gente-LacUea' nf hia AfxAth tbo vounff man UTiWnlat.fm. 'hnt. nArino hr fK t maBt aiMPd rat. We dent Intend to carry any over, we mases .oT,tor hamkl ssid not take cost into consideration. An . early - ceil purchaser. - . . vry noi "A p;,. ,"r rom Lai. Kmoroiaenes. inaeea anyinme waniea in ue ury uooas une. .tVvvnr G lseaoalto any In the city. Our Silks In Black and Coined wiU be owva Vi -a. i lil At o rha AovHAat nAas1llA Hwa rt a owk Ma fUimtrattr miiHii iin t:i rneu uui av uxv viwuvju yvoaiuw wluio as vw w wpawvo j SSTS kSISSl Ask forElkln Wool Yarn and Blankets. We are the agents." sold way going was cashier in a hank in Clearfield He was 25 years'of age.', rook out for the adTertlsement of Gulnn's Pio neer Blood nenewer, snoniy to appear. gepidti size of his ears, he'd make an elegant rnuie," juveryoody smiled and toe young I man proceeded, to rumoie his watch chain. s .- . . C ;5 UtUI iil U VUv A MMMMMit TAXI'S JL mmM.MJ UU A VUUiiiJut
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