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- Subscription to the OhcrTer: j the church so && i to-1 eliminate th8
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v.- At a meeting:ofr the TenqeeseeCon
f ererice bf the: - Method ist: Church
out-plumbia Te'nn.V last week
j; the matter of . changing , the name of
i 5 cents.
75 ; - ,
In Hayerlocks and Plain Circulars from-$ll00to $3 00.
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From $1 50tdl$7 50;
DAILY EDITION:
4 By the week to the dty.xvivjj
Jar inemontB.i......,,. t.,.- ' .-..i: .
Three months. . .. ; ; 5 00
Six months,... v..,..vv. .. a.:. .... - 4.00-:
One year..,. .,..;. ..-..-....f, 8.00 .-.
WEEKLY EDITION.
Six months.. ....41.00
pne year,,....;. L75.1
t uiciuos or nve ana over $i.3u. ,". :
Wo Deviation From These llHles
wiuv in name dui m.iacu ; ,
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RUB BER SHOES, FOOT HOLDS, &c;
U m brel las, &c.
.MA
Was pronounced by visitors at the opening to fce
unusually attractive, all being charmed with the
handsome display of Silks, .Velvets, .fine Brass
Goods, Ladies' and Childrans? Wraps. . : . i
f No lady should purchase a SiiS or Velvet before
seeing my Stock. ,:
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No lady can afford to purchase a JlanneL Cash
mere or Jersey Cloth before examining my prices'
xtemem-Der
raps
Thati have the greatest variety bl (
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TO. be, found In any house. In. the city, and at
1 " "prices that no one will complain at . ; ;
; lease of 22-inch Cashmere, with aU wool filling, to
, 5 ; be sold at 10 cents per yard.
t'H j
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mg uarseives
The Most Attractive Stock
Ever Offered in the State, i
price fjve ixktsf.
tii i ii ii 1 1 1 1 ii i ii rr'i in ii n i iiBwiipwumii nwin mil "'jjJl
BLOWESG UP-'FLOOD KOCIt.
: JFIood CRock, which'was 'blown; ; up"
Saturday was about 1,200 by,625 feet
inSUrface, dimenfiing Ar ftrt,jfimal
island was built? boutr the7 highest
portion,, of the rock and within rXits
limits shafts .were -jsunk and gaK
lenes were carried from the latter lt
the desired direction through solid
rocK ana tojsne ?propertdistances.
Afford South by; usingthe plain1 term
.Methodist-Episcopal Church1 caoie up
unexpectedly ; and i failed, after ; a !
sharp and short: debate, by a vote if
17 to 25,(Br eliyX'B; cFerrin,
n Woents. 1 prs ;Y6ung, ,WmV. Green; and others'.
debating the 'question f torn'; their
standpoints, all of whom were in the
main opposed to the, change.; It was
then.; submitted whether. Vttoo.iiame
should ' be 3 so 5 ichanged i:,as itoread
"Methodist Episcopal ? Church"; of.
America. 'V' JChis' also met 'with ' fe
pulse, ,and so far as tbia ,conf erence is
concerned this question ianow at rest.
and Jwill be. sb reported at ;the-Rieh-
jxiayj next. ; - acnconrerence .must
iact on the -questiohi andfthe geoeral
NWWW'l
Great care was taken in. cu
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Is now being received and placed jta position for
show and sale at our old and well-
the First National Bank building, on West Tryon
street, nearly . opposite the Central andBuford
Hotels. ' "'. .
the
gall ?ries to carry them a afe dis-
4-rnny. IMAM- U J C 'lit. i-ir . T
laauc iium duo ucu Ui. : tlltJ - rivtJi py,
jthat there should be no flooding of
me eiuavawons py me 4 preaKing. in
of the rocky roof. There n were,:i of
Course, :
were important in ,'. Character, V and
powerful i putnps l took i care of the
water which found its way; into the
excavations. v: The greatest deptlx at
tained was sixty-four 'feet by I the
main shaft, and the, average" gallery
floor was about fifty . feet deep. It
was the intention" tb give a clear
depth of twentysix feet of water
over aU the points of rocks compos
ing that portion of the river bed
which Has been operated upon. From
the main galler ies of ; the 'excavation
ran tunnels in eyery direction. ' The
length of the galleries and tunnels were
nearly four miles, and - the thickness
of the shell of r6cks6paratmg;them
from the body of ; water " overhead
varied frorn ten.to twenty-four - feet.
Ifour hundred aiid sixty seven rock
columns, eacn aoouu - niceen:. ieei
square, supported this roof5 . In these
pillars and the roof 13,286 holes three
inches in diameter had' been drilled
to an averageTdepth of nine feet. Irj
the piUars.these holes Were five feet
and in : the roof four feet apart? 'They
were charged with "rackarpek" and
dynamite (No. 1) cartridges in" the
of
the former.tp one Volumes of the iaW
ter.Tbe total weight of these .Cart
ridges was"afeut 283,000 pounds, or
conference will decide according to
maiority
The Temperance Movement.
To-the Editor oThk OBsasBVEB.f1 . f
It is a- cheering prbspeet to human
hearts all, at least, vhicdesrve
the name of humanto see the vast
progress which has-been made hi the
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Call and Examrne
For yourselves. Orders by Express or Man prompt
ly attended to. - .
ALMATOL1SH and BUTTON'S RA
VEN GLOSS for Ladies Finei Shoes
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And Dealers In RUBBER BSLTTVG. PACKlNGL HOSE, &c
Vernon Belting.?
febston Betting Co.'s
sebK fNooTies Sdn9 '
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5 ni feoicCbtWng&Ci
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1 ..Wc are Agents for Mkin Wool Yarn and .Blankets. -,V
anrfi-.; .ffi filter:: --.:5-ni rif lfa-i;. ,-rti',.-t.' w
in .round;-figures, over ; 140 tons.
of potash withihi
lite moisfe thrown sur and has;
per cent of the strength oti.p ? 1
dynamite. ' JlUjcpiuc'tl
the exploding battery -was made with;
the dynamite, cartridges,! and.the.
ccussioncauseibl ihe. explosion
of. the latter fired, the'karockl -
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THE FRENCH SITUATION.
f In the newspapers' it is stated that
put of a total votbf 7,506;006 'in Fthe
recent election1 in France 3,w)o;000
were cast for the;: Monarchists candid
dates; pfaidws; Stripeis4'liJ f j )
This is a formidable minority with
which thp French Republic is threat:
ened;? - - ; e:
But it is assarted that a greatmany
RepubiieastiihekCohsrTv
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litical -airsf - x&
And-that a veryrsmaii minor;:
W of the;Frefichaatiofi fat6raTesto-
ration of mbnancallmperial in-
This may be true Jbut small fee
tipns .havejrequently play edimporfct
ant parts in French politics rln the
heights of their terrible prestige the
Jacobins represented ' an 'extremely.
small portionof Jthe French nation,
. Yet they, absolutely controlled f its
aescimes tor a naiueraiue; .tujuu. i
tions tsf France: ihvtheir struggle for
power, noiwivnsittu.iug ueu: uu
morical . weakness among the
CHANGESIiGr HE CHUJBCBt"
-It was in; 1844 we, believe, that the
Episcopal Church South seceded from
the regularwgahizatibn of thb church
and under thename of the Methodist
Episropalf Church, South, r: asserted
jurisdiction over the; rBtHblud9;
edl(neiSbuthe 'war
e'tfcgaatip'The s6itim1sts
say. tne world is growing wiser and
betterevery day : the pessimists sav.
oh , the other hand,1 that our- down
ward course is becoming so ; rapid
tnat unless great cnanes are made,
It is Jtriie T7a entertained ? a multitude ot people yestoruay
and- added "all in our power, to their amusement.: Rarely
are
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Which they never will jforffet,, we' have1 concluded to fiiiiie-
These; we know, will attract1 the- Ladies :
like those of the v Ichthyosauri - and
Plesiosauri which geologists - tell us
about. V Truth, generally lies between
tne twp extremes, ana ; Ueorge ; Eliot
used tb say neither optimists nor
pessimists were rigni;j fana icanea
nerselt. a "meleorist."' ;- - ;
"The. question is ; sometimes asked,
Why are drunkards - more numer
ous ixK proportion to the x population
than in former days Vr 1 The answer
is that intoxicating drinks' are nroba-
mymanuiaciurea in - larger quanu
wes man ever. oeiore. xne lntroauc-
tion 0t steam;: oxc.y the; various S and
many improvements in; machinery.
enable the manufacturers to flood the
world with this pernicious destroyer
of soul and body r In past ages men
lived more "in the; open air,- slept
sounder, were less nervous ; and - the
demand, for stimulants : and opiates
General irhilip St. George Cocke
used to say that "tobacco and liquor
were the twin demons of ci vilization. V
He oueht' td' haveihcluded oDium-
and madela tritf'bf the three destroy
ers of neart ana. Dram. v.Tnere is no-doubt-that'
suicide, insanity H and
crim& are on the increase; This state
of thirigs "-is largely , due to : the", in
creased production and consumption
Of alcohol in its different forms. O l
Frbm' VBlackwood'si Magazines of
Juhef 1880, We Copy the following: -
"ouieiae nas Deen increasing ail over
Europe Iduring; the last t jiundred
yearsj: Vith strangely augmenting-
speed. S Exact returns are not attain
able 'from evert country,1 but' the in
f ormsttioh - is : not sufllciently -com-
Europeans'2 are1 'howi' killings them
selves at an ainlal j average : rate of
ene in five thousahd, atid that conse
quehtly a total of; somewhere: about
60,000 are dying bys their own, hand
eacn ' year - on ine jonunenc , ana m
the---Britisa'-!-Jjsie8u.w&'4n&T-tra8t
M. Maurice Block, who is mbputethe
safest3 statistician Of our: timeB;;the
Danes kill themselves the most, and f
the Jrortugueser tne-leasv tne::aniers
Once' betweeh"thesewtwo sextreme
fechiflg.the3 ,sCarcely icridible' pro
portion or thirty-nve to one;3 cftip. f-
The- JJanes arinK - strong aicononc
liquors, ' while soUthernyEurope is sat-
lsiied with the lighter, proaucuon of
their vineyards. ; - "An article" has been
going the round -of the papers headed
r'Drinking Danes," sho wing :i tbel
bad"preemmeMce-ox -tne jjanes
in this ihatter3 eifr-otherraces".
ItsftAisOems d::k to inotet''p their
mostharacterteticL;yioe, fpr-they are
".."23-inch hlack gros grain Silusrextra heavy-at 1.32 j, was
considered cheap at $2.00 per yard. ..There 'is d limited
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: full: line of Silk "Velvets r in black, fawn brbwnS seal
brown, myrtle green, navy blue, garnat and cardinal, Worth
$1:25;, this: week 92J cents, - .- -':: :
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THIRD OFFER..
; ;A magnificent assortment of richtcblored-amd'blaelCv'Brbba'
ded ?ilk -Yelvets, worth $3.00 per yard -"this week 61.65;
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;Y:-;;-;r: .; y fou rt h.-;;offe RiV. .
: The best yalue Ladies' solid colored Cotton Hbset25
centsr They ai e regular made, good i weight and -- haTO no
equal ai; oo cents a pair. . - - - -: - - : - -
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lieparffiiit.
V T ememoer, au oi aoove rnces ior xnis w eeK uniyf
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Take spirits away-? from, them -land
they woula prppaplyi De : Qneuor tne
most-thriftv nations in-the .world.' ' 3.
vAibaotxwntdiiNgree that jnfcenK-
nessris oncreasme'-in Jj'rance .mDro
portion as .wme is peasmg to oe; tne
nationai:oeverage.T nejureuice vi
the grape is -becoming a-thing 1 6 the
past;, xne juice . os ; au-iruius, - n , is
saidf-haa aJfeendentoJyerconie the
appet&e-Tr, alrnhoj And phflan
tbropists would do much good: by
opening the new ehterprise-Qfi form,
ink orgahizations' for the r purpose of
providing? cheap fruits for the poor
e t' bo Y8 have access to asmuehxruit
as they want,B:ahi the-:chkrm 5f
whiskey and tobacco would probably,
be-materially. lessenedii 3 cii
As Dr. Ticknor's pitiablesoMr toper:
complains r?'--'-r v-vy. -;; .
Twas irrt-6f trtdt.eii IE iras ywii? Y; C
came-Endtthcidihtsl&jlte
,; Of late there has been . a disposition
t amopg some of the members of that
cmircnfBome soutn ana some norwi,
They kept itsilavor Irojri iny torxg-ffeT. 1 "
its iragrance irom myHwaia,- -,. j-. v-- 4 a
I lived on salt my father's Iau;'i ir ":
. .And lol tWs yale of pain!" Y; ; .
. Children have the iindeteriorated
palates of our first parents and have
as insatiable' a craving for fruits as
old drunkards have for liquor, une
is the Craving of innocence, the other
Br DrrFrazler Magf-Oint3Bentr-area as If by
MaMc ttmoles.tjlacJt heads et aria, blotches and
eruptions on the face, leatlng. the sfcln clear and
beaoHfaL - Also core Itch, salt rheum, soro iu
niM. sore Bos. and old, obstinate ulcers. "Sold by
to abolish the dividing-line. . : ; soidtrr r;ctftitt & co. 7 t&Maio&w
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rY -3Vc are Offering the very i finest of Foreign! and 'Amerieai? y
manufacturers,--.Btuua. i tuc. largesc, iaosc yarieai unu
best yet shownj and represents all the choicest patterns and f
latest Y designs; : in Mens', Youth3V Boysr - 'and CllilieIls,
Clothing. .f:cz-T:r;-.-; .V " y Vv": " -v'.
v:!Wor8ted Cork Screw Gassimere . and ;Diagonai Suits.
j Sacks,, Cutaways, Double and Single Breasted. - : ' l" '
:I:Plain and Fancy K!nit Underwear. ; .IL
Ijatest and correct styles of Soft and Stiff Hats,
Thesel good's have 'been specially -manufactured for thb
seasbn's-trade. An early visit of inspection witt inTirc to ozr
customers a cnoice 01 selection ana correct nc ;
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