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VOLUME XXXIV.
CHARLOTTE, N. C THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1885.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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In
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BLEACHED AND RED DAMASKS,
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Silk and Alpaca Umbrellas
Gents' Scarfs, Gents' Jewelry, Gents' Kidg, ladies' Kids, Far Caps, Vas
lises, New Markets, Russian Circulars, Lace and Turcoman Curtains, &c,
and 500 other things tiiat you want.
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j To Prof. T J. Mitchell and his efficient corps
f co- piators in the Charlotte City Graded
School the e lines, which on'y as. ire to tre rank
of an aid to the memory in carrying names and
dates are respectlully inscribed, j
One thousand slsrty-slx from Hastings plain,
Our Norman William conquering, came to reign
When one and twenty years their course have sped
A second William bal', surnauied tne Ked.
Ntxt thirteen years, that century complete.
Fine scholar Hal as King we then mast greet,
Thirty-five years he writes himself a King
Then Stephen, and Matilda too, we sing
And now, eleven hundred and fifty-four,
The House of Normandy we see no more ;
But on our English throne in atate we set
A second Hal, surmmed Plantagenet.
Thirty-five years he proudly ear- the sprig,
And then tor him the narrow grave we dig.
The funeral o'er. b"hold a martla train!
Our war-horse Dick comes thundering on the plain
Ten years hat'j he, as lion bold to roam,
Bringlng from Holy Land fresh laurels home.
While next the earih its orbit swift rolls on,
A freeman's chart we w ench from tyrant John
At Runnymead, if you would know the place,
Twewe r undrea and fift en. the lear of grace.
And then when two more years have spent his
strength.
To Hal, the Tn'rd, we homage pay at length ,
For six and fifty years he holds the place,
With scar ce a reyai deed his name to grace.
Next, Longshanks Ed. ascends the throne;
T--e W lsti and Scots and French bis valor own.
Thbty-nve years were his the power to wield,
And then to Ed., first Prince of Wales, to yield.
A scorti of years was Wales' Prince our Kin.
And then for Ed the Third .our welcomes ring.
Sfach praise for Mty years his sword has won.
while orecy and retiers attest his son.
His erandson Rich as Kins we next nroclaim :
for two and twenty years thus call his name.
To cousin Hal th - crown he then resigns,
As to the deed his trembling name he signs.
Then fourteen Tears was Bollnsbrook our Chief.
'Who burnt en's bodies for their souls' belief.
Then Fifth King Hal does to the throne succeed,
The fight at Agineourt his bravest deed,
Bis nine years passed, another Hal we own,
Thirty nine years an infant, never grown
Then, two and twenty years Fourth Edward see,
Till we arrive at fourteen and eghty three.
ifth Edward then w have; that selfsame year
Succeeded by Richard his murderer.
Two years, and then doth he on Bosworth's field
To Tudor Hal bis life and sceptre yield.
In four and twenty yea. shis race is run;
Then comes old Bluebeard Hal, his worthy son.
One score and fourteen, forbearance passed,
Kind Providence removes tne wretch at last.
Then Ed the Sixth, our youthlul King, Is crowned;
In six years more bis death our dirges sound. ,
And then five years we grudge t bloody May,
Who her i.wn people burnt and lost Calais
And tben the arts of peace our untry bless
For five and forty years under Queen Bess.
Then Scotland's monarch James we make our own;
For two a?.d twenty ye -ra he holds the throne.
Then Charles the First, in times much out of
joint,
As King we next with sacred -il anoint.
After a storm of four and twenty years
Over h!s head ess corpse we shed our tears,
Four years in Parliament's Council of State
Next do our modern saints tfceir plans relate.
Bold Cromwell thence five years our rights projects
Wherever an Englishman his eye detects
Poor Diek, his son, next seven years is tried ;
No longer could the land the dunce abide.
Next thirteen yesrs our Parliament debates
Twixt rights divine of gKings and rights of States.
'Tis six een sixty then, when we restore
The Stua.ts to their rotal rights of yore
By crowning Charles' son a Cbarles again
Twe: ty-five years, in spite of plots, to reign.
A Second James to him succeeds, in fine ;
In three years then we end the Stuart line.
Will. Prlnoe of Orange, then to role we call,
For five wad twenty years much loved by all.
Twelve years Quen Anne is our cboice,
While peace and liberty our hearts rejoice.
Then thirteen years to George the First we give,
wnne oy tne law notn iur g and suojects live.,
To Second tteorge the years are thirty-three,
Who Caesar's time corrects by his decree.
Then George the l hird d-h re7gn for sixty years,
And with America provokes two wars ;
To freedom in the first the child attains,
And in the next her sailors' right maintains .
Fourth George hath then of years a half a score,
While English people are oppressed no more.
As seven years in course next swiftly fly,
On Will the Fourth the British hearts rely.
Since then, wherever an Anglo-Saxon's seen,
Is heard the piayer : "God save Victoria Queen."
E. L REESLER
Having bought the remainder of Alexander & Hakeis'
stock of Dry Goods, with the view of continuing the busi
ness, we are determined to close out the same at once, and
at prices much less than New York wholesale cost. Our
stock shall be replenished at once, but the old goods must go.
E. L. KFESLER &
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WE CLAIM TO BE ABLE TO COMPETE SUCCESSFULLY. IN PBICE AND QUALITY, WITH TEE
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For afe by A. C. Hutchison & Co.. C Imrlott, TV. d Tan Gilder? &
Brown, AJn IUe, N. C. W. SntitftdeaJ, Salisbury, W. C.
FOB DURABILITY, STYLE AND FINISH, WE ABE UNSURPASSED.
TYSON & JONES, Carthage, N. C-
THE 3IECKLESBIRG J Alt.
What a Writer with "Charity" in
Him says About it.
To the Editor of The Obsebveb.
Our eounty jail is a shame and a
reproach to the civilization and hu-
nsianiiy or. vnanoiie ana mecKiens
burg county. It has been termed a
death trap, -because of the deaths
that have occurred within its walls,
from either cold, heat or imperfect
ventilation. I know most of the peos
pie confined there are ignorant
whites and blacks, of low instincts
and coarse passions. They have
neither money nor friends, and even
if innocent must await their trial in
a prison that cannot be warmed. But
even if guilty, is it just or humane
that they should be exposed to the
rigors of the winter or the stifling
heat of the summer? The jail is badly
ventilated, and it is,said that some of
the prisoners have become frost-bitten
this winter, as there is no way of
properly heating the cells. The
Bible teaches charity. Preachers and
laymen of a particular church or
denomination practice it with
those who agree with them in doc
trine and help support them. But
what will be their response, when all
of us shall meet in the dreaded here
after, and the poor and ignorant of
this world, guilty of some petty
offence, shall say "I was in prison
and ye visited me not," neither cared
ye whether I died or not, or suffered
unduly, or was broken in health or
maimed for life. "A- merciful man
is merciful even unto his beasts"
Should we ndt be even so tomenwitii
souls ? Charity. -
STOP THAT COUGH
By using Dr. Krazler's Throat and Long Balsam -the
only cure tor coughs, colds, hoarseness ami
sore throat, and all diseases of the Threat and
Lungs. Do not neglect a cough. It may prove
fatal. Scores and hundreds of people owe their
lives to Dr. Frozier s Throat and Lurk Balsam,
and no family will ever be without it after once
using it, and discovering its marvelous power. It
Is put up in large family bottles, and sold for the
small price of 60 ceuts a bottle. Sold by T. C
Smith & Co. febSMeod&wXj
Some Sledarc-Hammer Blows hy
the Kentuchy Senator.
In the Senate on Monday Senator
Beck called up the resolution hereto
ore offered by him, directing the
committee on finance to inquire
whether the officials of the United
States has complied with the laws
requiring that the coin paid for du
ties on imported goods should be set
apart as a special fund and applied
to the payment of interest on United
States bonds, etc. Senator Beck
spoke at considerable length on his
resolution. The laws of the land, he
said, were equally binding on the
highest executive officer and humbl
est citizen. Yet the laws to which
his resolution referred had not been
for many years complied with by the
Treasury officials. No more states-
manlike message had ever emanated
from the Executive Mansion, in
Beck's opinion, than President Cleve
land's first message, but he (Senator
Beck) did not agree with the position
of that message regarding silver.
Three-fourths of our business troubles
arose fromi the fact that the laws of
the United States were not carried
out by our execu ive officers. A
combination of bankers and bond
holders, and their well paid press,
were opposed to silver, and their
present crusade against that metal
was another evidence of the audacity
of organizations of wealth organiza
tions which had always secured
whatever they had demanded. As
to the question of paying the bonds
otherwise than in gold, Senator Beck
quoted an opinion given in 1868-by
Senator Sherman, the present pre
siding officer of the Senate, to the ef
feet that bondholders should take
payment for money advanced in the
same medium in which they had ad
vanced money. That opinion was
as sound now as in 1868. There was
not an obligation existing in this
country, national or municipal, that
could not lawfully be paid in gold or
silver coin of the United States. An
examination of our trade and corn-
prison of the exports and imports of
this time with those of 1870 showed
that asifver dollar now bought 20
per cent, more than it did in 1870.
Yet our Treasury officials told us
that grave trouble were apprehended
by them if the present condition of
things should last much longer. The
falsity of this clamor could be readi
ly proved by an impartial examina
tion of the figures given out by the
Treasury officials themselves, and we
were quite as capable, Senator Beck
thought, of coming to a conclusion
from the figures gien, as were those
officials. The example of England
was held up to us by those officials,
notwithstanding the fact that the
workingmen of England were paid
their wages in silver coin, without
regard to the bullion value of the
metal. Why, too, had not France
been troubled by its large amount
of silver coin? The reason was to be
found in the fact that the public func
tionaries of France supported the
silver coinage of their country, as
ours did not. The bondholders of the
United States controlled enormous
amounts of money, and the best tal
ent of the press, and having now cap
tured the executive branch of the
Government, they were , clamoring
for gold and gold alone in the settle
ment of their claims. How was the
surplus silver to go out of the Treas
ury if the Secretary of the Treasury
would not call in the bonds that
ought to be called in and pay out the
silver? The people and their Repre
sentatives, however, supported sik
ver. No executive officer should be
allowed to disregard the law. He
(Beck) was not making a war on the
bondholders or bonds, but he would
if he could, take from the bonds their
political power, and their influence
on the currency, as shown when they
2 Jl T- I . 1-Tt -
receivea rresiaenc Jiayes veto on a
memorable occasion. Beck disclaim
ed any personal interest in silver,
saying he had never in his life owned
a share of stock in a silver mine.
IMPORT!!
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NOTICE
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Bear in mind that a Dress or anj
other useful wearing apparrel is a de
sirable and al7ay acceptable pres
ent; in order to lighten the expense)
and show our appreciation for your
worthy patronage we have carefully
gone through our stocks and marked
goods down, assuring the fact that
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most Economical Expectations.
COMPLETE DRESS PATTERNS
Including Linings, Buttons, etc.,
OF Black Silk for $29.00 well worth $42X0
OF
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25 00 " 4 35.00
21 00 ' 28.00
15.00 u l 1900
11.00, 15.00 up to 20.00 and 30.00.
OF black drees goods for 2.50, 3 50, 4.00, 5.00, 7.00, up to
15.00 and 20.00.
OF colored dress goods for 2.00, 2 50 3 50, 4 00, 5.00, up
to 15.00 and 18.00. '
By the Box, 6 pair in a box, at 95c, 1.25, 1.50, 2.0.0,
2.50, 2 75, up to 6 00 and 8.00.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
H. S- Colored Bordered at 6c, 10c, 12 Jc, 15c. and 20c. Vf
H. 8. Embroidered at 25c, 30 35c, 50c, 75c. and $ L00
BLANKETS.
Of these we have a remarkably fine Jine, California
white blankets with blue and pink Japanese and Grecian
borders at $9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 15.00 atvd 18 M
2 A splendid line of Wool Blankets at 2.25, 2 1L -8 00
450, 5.00, 7.00 and 8.00 ?
Baby Blankets, Comforts & Lap Hobes.
Children's fancy cloaks, Children's hood. T
Ladies' shawls, fancy bureau scarfs, fancy splashers aa
scarfs, wool and damask table covers, embroidered piano
covers,
1 Ulevm
Are also desirable.
For Housekeepers,
Lace curtains per pair at 1.25, 1.50, 2.25, 3.00 up to 7 00
75 Tapestry mats at 65c. worth $1.00 .
125 Velvet mats at 90c. worth 1.50
WITTk(WSKI & BARUCI,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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Artificial Pupils for the Ej e.
Cincinnati Enquirer
A doctor of Cincinnati has per
formed two operations on a patient's
eyes that are considered marvelous
by those who have a knowledge of
the subject. The patient's name is
Mary Margaret Reardon. She is 11
years old, and has been almost total
ly blind since birth, being afflicted
with what is known as congenital
cataracts. The centre of each pupil
had a cataract, and, as her mother
said, she could not distinguish a
horse or a cow from a train of cars.
Tuesday last the doctor made an op
eration on the left eye. He did not
attempt to remove the cataract, but
made an incision in the lower part of
the eye and formed a new pupil. He
then bandaged -the eye, and found
later that it had entirely healed up
without inflammation. He therefore
repeated the operation onthe left eye.
The little girl, who had a fine, intelli
gent face and pretty golden hair, was
startled when the bandage was re
moved Saturday morning from the
first eye operated on, and declared
that things looked strange to her.
She took no ac aesthetic while the op
eration was performed, and never
flinched or cried. By the operation
two artificial pupils for eye are
formed.
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fronting on South Trvon strept.. anininino
the property of J. H Carson. Shade toes on lots.
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