SPECIAL ::!Sl)ilCEMEM
When looking wound for Dry Goods remember that we have 2,ooo yards of
Black-'aMl&oll
tmm
At 50, 7 5c.. Sl.OO, $3.0V$2;50 and $3.00,
Which," for varaa, cannot be beaten an j where. ; f
1 009 I5LACK A?fD COLORED AEX gILU SVRing AT
if
Tare stock of BLACK and COLORED CASHMERES and a full line of MOURNING GO0D3r W
einOMISSK'andCHtLPRENS' CLOAKS from $2.W to $ IS. 00. 500 LADIES' NEWMaBKETS,
5cs3U t'IhCCl.BS and VISlTESfrom $5,08 to $53.00. Large ttoclc of t
iBbete- m
tJcrte
mm
vm cold weather Rt extremely lew prices
Swing83 weaow we cau B1 -
Ag?ln we 'cordially ask you to examine oar Stock before
STYLISH
AND
GOOD
GOODS
At prices that cannot be beaten.
PREPARE
-FOR-
COS
s
-:-o:
An Elegint Stock
OILace Curtains by the yard, all graife?.' :
lac9 Curtains by the pair from $L?5 to $8 63. -Heavy
Tapestry C irtalns by the yard at 75c., $1.25 ,
and $2.00 per yard. ; ,
Velvet Tapestry Curtains, &3. - . -
ml
nwi raw
The most supurb Stock of Goods consisting of
BOOTS,
BOoTs,
BOOTS,
HATS,
HATS. .
HATS,
VALISES,"
VALISE3,
VALLSES,
GRIP
GttIK
GRIP
SACKS.
SAPKS,.
SACKS.
TRUNKS,
-TRUNKS,
TRUNKS,
SHOES,
SHOES,
SHOES,
Etc, Etc.. Etc,
UMBRELLAS.
ITMBRKLLAS.
. UMBRELLAS.
Ever oftei ed in the State, Is now ready for - show
f. and sale at our old and we l known store la the
First National Bank EulMlng, nearly opposite the
Central and Buford Hotels.
We respectfully invite buyers to examine for
themselves
mmmmh
Of Table Linens, white and colored, In all qualities
iSOcentaup." : ., ?
A BE4U riFUL
Uableaehed Cloth, very heavy weight, all linen, at
Scents per yard. . Ask to see my 26i41 inch I inen
Towels at 25 cents. - ,
CiBPETS.-RCGS, SHEETINGS, PILLOW CAS-
UWS. c, AT LOWEbT PRICES.
LADIES'
LADIES'
LADIES'
FINE DRESS BOOTS, .
FINE DR&S BOOT3, -FINE
DBES:. BOOTS,
MtSSKS KINK DHESa BO'TH,
MISSES' FINE DRESS BOOTS,
MISSES' FINK DRKSS BOOTS,
CHILDREN8' FINE B(K)TS aND BALS, t
CWILDRN.3' FINE BOOTS AND BALb,
CHILD HENS' FIN'f BOOTS AND BALS,
lis
HEELN
1TED8ED
Gents Fine" Silk Stiff and
Soft Hats.
ALMA POLISH and BUTTON'S
RAVEN GLOSS ' DRESSING for
Ladies' and Ohildrens' Shoes.
. "Truth, likjb thts sun, soirrmrss submits to
BB OBSCUSKD, BUT. IJKB TKK SUNV QNLTTOBA
IUU.' - ' . - -
Subscription to ihe Oboerrer.
DAILY EDITION.
Slngleoopy.. Scents.
By the week in the city......... 20
By the month 76
Three months $2. 00
Six months 4.00
One year:.........:.................... 8.00
Jgfrje (&Ufttil8tt (Ob&etmV. withstanding the ravages of the cot-
UV J 111 OVUI" VI VI 1 v3 KJVCIVXC CII1U
of unfavorable .weather: during ' the
months of August and September.
the cotton production for this coun
try for the present year ; will reach
6.500,000 bales . In 1791 we exported
about 190,000. pounds, and in; 1826.
which was. the fast year. the exporta-
tions were reckoned in pounds to
204.500,000. The year preceding our
civil war our exports of cotton reach
ed 3,126,867 bales, and the" year" im
mediately following tne close of the
i?ar(ib6p; 1,552 457. - .
Our largest export v was in 1883
namely, 4,626 808 bales in 1784 ten
bales: in 1883 more than four million
and a half of bales! ,s -
But cotton ? is nob by ? any mrans
your only interest or the only valua
ble Droduction of , the soil ot: the
South Sugar, rice and tobacco, and
corn and other cereals, and fruits in"
great variety are successfully; culti
vated, and are receiving more attend
tion than at any time in your history.
Since'1879 the South has added 11.-
000 miles to her railroad mileage, the
building of which, added to the ins
vestments in old roads and their jm
proveraent, foot up but little, if any.
short of $500,000,000., . , "
T lNCREASE IN OTHER PRODUCTS
Elaborate tables are given of the
- . - WEEKLY EDITION. .
Three months ............... 7. 60 cents.
Six months... ...... $1.00 -
One year 1.75 -
In clubs of five and over SI.50.
. rs ?ation Prom TTliege ISnli-'b
Subscriptions always payable in , advance, not
onir in name out in iacu . ....
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
:j -.' . -.'..--.':.'. ..,-......'..1. .-'. ,'- . v.." '-.- '.'
:. ' ,; . ...-...: ..:'.;-... ,v ' 1 . ".' ; -; " :;r '"
ofiaish closing out this-week and next if possible and in or
to do scrwill sell goods way down below, cost, viz:
kid gloves t ii mlv price. ' '
It&DU2 and CaiBlU Vrt IIOSaKIJV tlisamv
and COJ-OItEW SSf.KStlie same
DBESS GOOOS ihe samf,
As1j OlIIER GOOD ihe-same. :
iWe havA nn olfuvant. line
CHRISTMAS GOODS, . .
that can be bought for one-half what they will cost when wanted, and it would be a very good plan to
r-ase mem now and lay aside till wanted. , : -
5
V Y S 0 N
C A R T,
& JONES
H A G E. N.C., .
FINE
BUGGIKS;
-AND' .-.
1,
HARTONS.
LARGE
and;
Some Interesting Facts and Fig
ures About Cotton , and. Other
Products, and Industrial n-
terprises in the South. .
CJol. W. F. Switzler, chief of the
bureau of statistics of the United
States treasury, was present, by in
vitation at the opening of . the Cens
tenmal Fair or fcsouth Carolina, at
Charleston, Monday, and delivered
an address which is published in the
1N6WB ana uouner, irom wmcn we
clip the following interesting facts
and figures: 1 - '
WE CORDIALLY INVITE '
1 . n - -,- . - , . . . .
fill Vnsiios-s $i WnUipM ILairge
To call on us and,
Be
Cbnviiiceci.
that
We are selling cashmeres, all' leading shades,
wme, at
one
524 cents per vard.
'yard
comparative value of property in the
South in 1879-80 and 1884 85, which
show that.in 1880 the total assessed
valuesjn the South were $2,184.208. T
t tl will be pardoned for saying that 505, while in 1885 they were $3,076,
tno cultivation, manufacture and ex- aia.uD. snowins: an increase or. kwz.n
portation of cotton is one of the great .305.930. .South Carolina . advanced
parumuuuii iua,teriai luierests oi me
people of South Carolina. It is not
their only interest, but it is one to
which they have given much atten
tion, and in the rapidly developing
future will, if they . are wise, render
during the same period from $132,
237.986 to $158,703,000 of assessed
values. " .
Tne production of corn has in
creased from 334 000,000 .bushels in
1879 to 498.000 000 bushels is- 1885 a
We are selling black Gr Gr, Silks of b?st make at actual
cofrt priced . - , ;
We are , selling colored Dress Silks, in rich colors, at" 55
cents per yard. . r ' Jr'-'
TEJE3 COmriMG23EH TIHIiCT
1 Elegant
Yariety!
NOW ON HAND.
VCLAQl Trt RFT" ATtr,"R! Tn 'nfifPHTR RnnfrRmmr.T.v tSi PRTCK.AND QUALITY, .WITH THE
. Bi25T MANULaCTCliERS IN THE NORrn AND WEST. . ; -
fcalo bv A. in'irutnlifAon' A:'C!o..' f liarlott?. Hf. Cl, Van GIMcn &
' f OR DURAEIL1TY, STYLE AXD FINI3H, WE ARE UNSURPAS3EP.
' TYSON .& J OX EEC 'Oartha:
N.
0-
more, not only by improved process- gam of 165,000,000 bushels and pf
ea of culture, but by increasing the I oats from 42 000.000 bushels to about
acreage now devoted to cotton (above TO. 000.000 bushels, while of tobacco.
25.000) through the nubiugation of fruits and vegetables, the grasses, &c.
lajge forest wastes to the use of the the increase has been equally as sat
planter. ' ",. isfactory. In the raising of hogs and
mi . .... . - . . . 1 : i . ii
inai mimn is an interest or e-renr. live sluuk. cenerun v tue same won
value to them is attested bv the fact derf ul progress has been shown.
that there were exported from this In 1880 the total crop . values of the
citv alone during the last, fiscal vear Southern States amounted to $549.
340,000 bales of 158,500,000 pounds of 850,000, and In 1885 to $669,077,000,
this staple, worth in "spot cash" showing the remarkable' increase ot
more than $17,500,000. $119,227,000 -an increase of 12.68 per
It cannot be questioned, therefore, cent. ,
that even the history of the prod uc Inrl880 the value of live stock was
tion and exportation of this leading $326,378,414, and in 1885 it is $562,-
staple will be or enduring mterest to yib,3&8 an increase or iz 47 per
the people of this Commonwealth, cent
So believing."! am tempted to glance The cottom mills vhave increased
at it and to say that according to re- irom io to 666, ana tne numoer ot
liable history the first mention of cot spindles and looms, from 713,989 and
ton by any writer is by Herodotus 15, ozz, respectively, to i,4bU,oy7ana
We are. selling checked dressed goods boucle i'; effects at 25
cents. Diagobal matched dress goods at 25 cents. ; These
always sold, well' at ,40 and 50 cents t
about 450 years B C, and that "the
culture of cotton was first practiced
in India It is not known, however.
for history furnishes no means for
ascertaining v the , fact, when or by
what progressive stages of discoverv
and invention cotton was nrst utiliz
ed by man. There is no authentic
27,004 a gain of about 100 per cent.
Cotton seed oil mills that in 1880
numbered 40, with' a capital of
$3,504,500, now number 146, and their
capital is,$10,792. 450. ; '. , '
In 1880 the South made 397 301
tons of pig iron, in 1884 it made 657,
599 tons a gain, of 260,298: tons.
record of any cotton'being manufac- Three States, Virginia, Alabama and
tured in Europe before the tenth cen Tennessee, that in iu produped
tury. Before the discovery of the 178,00b tons ot pig iron, in iS4 pro
Mississippi River, and about the vear duced 481,744 : tons an increase of
1536", the cotton plant was found 303,738 tons, or 9,500 tons more than
growing in the country drained by the net increase in the United States,
that stream and m Texas, but the tne proauction in tne wnoie country
experiment of its culture was not en- outside x)f these three States being
tered upon in the United States bo- less in 1884 than in 1880. in, 1880
fore 1621. It was first valued as an 6,048,571 tons of coal were. mined in
ornamental plant and cultivated in the South, and in 1884 the output was
eardens or nurtured in boxes or nots 10,844,051 tons
It was not until alter the Kevolu- xne amount ot paospnate tock
tionarv war that cotton in the United mined ip South Carolina m 1880
States was cultivated with a view to was 190,000 tons and the capital in-
export, and one of Hhe interesting I vested in the business was $3,493,30Q,
facts connected with its early history wnne now inacapitai is over o.ouu,-.
nn this rinnrinfint in that tho firftt pan 000 and the amount of rock mined
ponation of cotton occurred from the
port of savannah, in 1784, lust one
year after the declaration of p'eace.
This export consisted of ten baes,
and we have the testimony of. authen
tic history for the statement that the
sailing vessel upon which these bales
were carried to the port of Liverpool
was detained in that port and the
captain of the. vessel arrested by the
municipal authorities on the charge
i largely over 400,000 tons. - -
This hurried' summary, imperfect
and impartial as it - necessarily is.
presents an encouraging view of the
recuperative energies of the Southern
people, desolated and, impoverished
as they were by the civil war, and
affords an earnest - that, unless re
tarded by unwise legislation at home
or at Washington, ihey. will not only
become self-sustaining but the ex-
of attempting a fraud upon the pub- porters of large amounts of raw ma
terial ana manufactured gooas to
other States, and to Mexico, Central
and South America and to Europe. ;
Col. S wilier then said that there
are many other small industries all
over the" South that even morestrik-
ingly exhibit the new spirit which
has come over that section; . A great
many local enterprises, such as
wagon, broom and lurmture factor
ies, fruit canneries, flour grist fnd
saw mills, planing mills.' wire, fac
tories, "potteries, marble and slate
works, have been established to man
ufacture articles heretofore brought
from the North -' V "
lie, the charge against him being that
it was impossible so large an amount
as ten. bales or cotton could be . pro
duced m the united States.
- THE PROGRESS OF A CENTURY.
Observe what we have accomplish
ed jn a century : ,10 bales exported
m 1784: 3,969,568 bales exported in
1885 ! ' Computing each of these bales
to be five feet in length, the number,
laid end to end, -would iorm a con
tinuous line nearly four thousand
miles- long, "Or from Philadelphia
across tne ocean to Antwerp: or from
jn e w x ore to- in e w urieans and re
turn, and would . cover an erea of
nearly 1,500 acres,
A year af ter.this initial export the
culture or snort staple cotton was
commenced in the United States, and
in 179& 1,000,000 pounds were export
ed Irom this city. Since that time-
as we learn from' the authority al
ready cited the use of cotton, which
previously had been limited , for the
most part to the hot climate where it
grew, has been marvelously extended.
so that at present it constitutes not
only the entire", clothing of a large
majority ot the human raceV but it
has become a part of the material in
which the people ot all lands and
languages are clothedexcepting, per
haps, the most, debased and savage
races ot mankind.
In reterence to the production of
raw cotton in the United atates from
1821, the first year in respect to whicli
there are official data," to 1884, and
also the exportation from 1791, Col
Switzler gave the following dnterest-
ing figures: -
The total ; production in 1821 - tva3
4.50.fJt.O bile-; in 1881,5,046.441. ' Our
r r- 1 ." ' 1 J v 1 " V 1 r ?-i y 4r t". re r-. -4 t ' : t U 1 ,-.
Salvation Oil, the.cetebrated American remeiy
for cuts, bfQlses, sprains, burns, scalds, clillbialns,
(S3.,cHn benaa or ail druggists, it Kii;s-pain
Tice twemy-nv6 cenis a Doitie.
Site gave Ijlm neckties as Is woman' won't;
- He, wiser, kinder, gave her SOfcODONT. "
Hie lost his necklles, but she Lever lest . ..
Her SOZODO!T twas worth tentlia'es Its cost. ;
It makes teeth wMte, t makes hre"ath sv eet
Boih bless It every time they meet. T' ' . r -
A. Fine Thing for the Tii. -
The fragrant OZODONT his taken a very prom
lnent place among ihe most approved dentifrices
of he day. It Is a very, popular article for, ttfe
tol!et, highly recommended Vy all who have used
It, as a terminer and r resener of ?he teeth, re
fresblng thi mouth, sweetening tha breath," and
arresting the prcgrdss of deccy. , ' 1
' - STOP XtlAT wr.&ii
By using Dr. -raster's Throat and Lung Balsam"
tue onJy cure or cousns, cuios, noarseuess and
sore throat, and all Jis?eases of the Throat and
Lungs. , Do not neglect a cougii. ?t ma? prove
fatal. Scores naid hundreds of pec pie-, owe ttefc.
to Dr. Crazier b Throat and. Lu::s Balsam,
and.no family w.li ever be witht-t It arteronee
nslnc it, and ocoverL-g its n'.arvelous powr. It
'.3 ' : '" '- t w t-r - 3 a L ' . t T.
13 CEQiHIiriEurGISSi WJZu:
Wo tre selling 500 yards of white shaker flannel at 57J
nts per yard. ' . r
We are sell ins: Towels at 20c . 25c, 334c;
which cannot be matched at thi mrices in
Retail Stores North
and '42c:
the 4 largest
QUILTS AN? DAMASKS at SPECIAL REDUCTIONS
lilnerf
TTn - -
awm,
IS OFFERING
A LOT OF FINE HATS and BONNETS;
W? i.:. ;:.., -i:.:
WDffMWSII & m
MCI,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED.
w
laufman
GO,
uuntttitt u'At. tiUiriU. - ; .
- B . i m i " . i mi Bk. ' b m i m r i m. I m w m im t m m f m mm H
luiayj-x JULjLLjr, uixl.i o r J Tk,L lOXllll VJ JJJUd ;-
! and
mm
7 we are onermg tne very nnest ot roreign and Ame::
manufacturtrs. -Our, stock is the 4arges, most varied and
best "yet sjiown, and represents all the choicest patterns and
latest , designs in v Mens' Youths', Boys' and Chile1 rehs'
Nothing. : . : .
Wortted Oark Screw assimere and Diagonal . Suits,
Sacks, Cutaways, Double and Single Breasted. t :
Children's Norfolk; Suits. ' ' ' . '
xjaui auu jl' uixj . xi.iuii uuuu Weal. . 'j
: Latest and correct styles of . Soft and Stiff.Hats' t
" These good'sihave been specially . manufactured for this
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