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II t - - r i ; 1 . . . - - - - ," - - - - - ' : ' .!.;'-.' .. . . .. ' MaaanaMannnaaanBnananaMSMnnnnnBaMnMBWaWBM ' 111 . '," , . ""T .. I Xxvw LJO ' ' ' ' - - '"'' H.-Hrw j or : Of a J -n ;v.tl.:won j oK Joiw yjMJW .r L3! nsja ' ' t ,t- .;.-. " ') j j Q ( ; ; Y0L- VIIL , " '. liEKofNt'8 0 WEDNESDAY;' JANUARY ! I Q 1883. V-JTT V' ! 7y;! M v' " X0 17' 9 Z3 ( : O.M.ROYSTER & CO'S DRUG The . largest Hickory. Don't fail OLD JOHN UNLAID IK THB BiG C9HG0S OF g TSMBS aAKD THE ONLY ONE SUITABLE TO THE SEASON! iDinTiMiiis ' .OLD FOLKS, Come along and help the little ones enjoy the eport. ' : THE MENAGERIE DEPARTMENT iTO MPEMTE. Onr "Kickiso MDin docs the thing to perfection. . You ought to see him mete the fire fly. Ccmend eee the "Slkpikg Beatjtt." Hurry up, the performance has already begun, end v?ill continue until the close of Christmas Day, -without fail. SANTA CLAXJS - -DR. E. H.BOBBITT & CO. - 'Fields'; Old Stand, NETT STORE ! BIT WEEN THE CENTRAL HOTEL AND THE JO?IE MOU8K. HA.S JUST 0)N81STINO Line of . ..o r 1VSV.YH. JEAIHB. . . n ATA tJH10l, Z1jAXIXUo, """VvVtfrB'TTn AND POMEBTIC, fl7 - DIES' BOOTB w?S'?n,-.i.T. thFmst cofpevT ALWATS BE PAID FOB ALL KINDS or uwvi, the pat, we hope to merit a onage in the future, by Low iyy-.xp.rii noNunENTS. nEADSToiiE stock of OUKISTMAS GOODS Ever brought to to call and see them ROBINSON THE SHADE. VJ WHO LOVEFUN, CLOWN. - RINGMASTEES. Hickory, N. C. NEW GOODS! mm EECE1VED A- IVew - (Woods! OF A BEAtmrUL Fall and Winter Prints, Jot . .wi itrtrAR TJT.EACHED AMD USBLEACH il"1""':".'. (IV A LAilO' HATS AND fl. unvti" WOOL AND VVR H AT8 KINDS. COw scan, ciacto Trice and J Fair Dealing. O. B. Webb. & 3MRBLE FURNITURE nd t the lowert prcc . OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Metropolitan Newspaper ', C7iqyges. John Kelly's name to go up as iiftf-1 tor of the StarXA new Publisher' for the World --77e true reason of Mr. Connerys retirement from the management of the Herald. Mr. Bennett's Cable Scheme. Pi ofits of the Liquor trade. A ' ' & ; . . V;' FTt7de' departure-- -Souvenirs of America. Niw Yokk Jan. 6, 1882. Correnpondenoe of The Topic. . With the first ; of the year there mil be some important - changes ln? the management of several leading4 metropolitan journals. First of all Mr. John Kelly's name mil be print ed on the editorial page of the Stat as editor. Mr. Kelly mil not mite'' much. He is more of a man of action than words, but he believes that the value of the property of the paper, of which he is the principal owner will be enhanced. At the same time he will be able to .direct all the machinery of his party " as vigorously as before, and should he? I fall out with the Governor or with the Mayor, he will be able to criticise and attack them from behind the shield 6f his paper, and while able to inflict serious wounds remain invul nerable tinder the concealing aid of the editorial "we." Anybody who believes that Mr. Kelly is losing his grip on affairs, and that Tammany Hall has seen its best days, will find himself sadly mistaken. His hand has not yet lost its cunning nor his arm its strength. Young Mr. England, I am informed is to retire from the business manag ership and publishership of the World on the 1st proximo. Mr. Speed the present managing editor of the paper, is to take hold of the fortunes of the paper besides retain ing his present position. The W oriel has been making frantic efforts right along to "boom itself up," but some how its efforts do not seem to be productive of the desired results. It panders to the society world but only amuses by its erudite profundity on matters of etiquette and its inti mate familiarity with the family tree of every visiting foreign nobleman. Its turf department however is ad mirably managed by a man of great experience and knowledge of that important branch of sporting litera ture. The World in summer is the vade mecum of every racing man. Considerable interest has been aroused not alone in journalistic but in wider circles by the announcement that Mr- Connery had resigned the managing editorship of the Herald, on account of ill health, and that Mr. Flynn, the managing editor of Mr. Bennett's evening paper, the Telegrum had succeeded him. Mr. Flynn is a good news . man. ; He is not strictly speaking a cultured per son as Mr. Connery is. .The refine ments of thought, manner and action aie wanting in him. He came into the Herald establishment as an office boy and worked his way up. His mind however is vigorous, active and enterprising, and although he has the reputation of being excitable and rather a strong master of strong language, yet he is very popular among the journalistic fraternity at large, and that after all is one of the main naftessities for a man in his position, since it reduces the danger of being "beaten" on an important piece of news, almost to a minimum. I am informed however by some one in a position to know that, Mr.' Cdn-f norr'a vatirpment means - no 'more than a six month's leave ef absence. As everybody knows Mr. Bennett; is actively engaged in the formation of a new cable line, to break up the monopoly of the Western Union. Now Mr. Bennett has for years rarely taken any new step without consult ing Mr. Connery, and in this cable scheme , which is the most gigantic undertaking he has as yet started on he means to have Mr. Connery's assistance. Mr. Connery . goes ta Europe shortly and then will start on his new field of , JaboyvJ ? ) The amount of money spent , at drinking bars in this city is simply enormous, and I will give you an instance :which will-gite yotf eac as to its extend Thejrrtoi; of two of the richest bar rooms down town, places which do simplyavdaj trade and cater omy to me custom habit for someVears of distributing the entire; gross receipts on the day before Christmas to his" employees., There are thirty .two of them- He commenced in, 1 When the receipts footed up $1,183.99. ' fTiie next year they rose to 2,62.6oC ' In'1! 880 tiiey. amounted to $3,375 1 5. Last year . i they jumped, up to $5,163 39, and: Jhiyear, they reached jthe snug sum ; oi $5,856.87. Those amounts include 'the . rjroceeds . of sales , of cigars,,: drinks and Jiquor ,byfi the. bottle, which is always heayyjt immediately, . bef orpthe holiday,. When pne, thinks that the bulk of this ampunt.-, comes in in ,.th shape, -of sums ranging fQm, fifen to forty wents for drinks, , an, idea of the enormous amount of; tippling can be formed. : , , pf courjse the proprietor of this .piacedoes not take, in nearly $6,000 every day. It is safe to take off 60 per cent, for the extra trade brought by people anxious to swell the re ceipts of the employees. But even at this the average receipts at each place are $l,00p a day, whichis not a bad . business. Besides this there are at . least a. score, of, drinking, places in town, where the daily receipts vary from $400 to $1,000 a day. Delmonico's down town estab- . lishnient on some days takes .. in as much as $1,500 over the bar. This place is a perfect thermometer of the state of the money market. "When times are dulL the .brokers are dull and poor and have little money to spend. . But, when they are excited, and "the boys" make money, no thing is too good for them, and Pelmoni- - co invariably gets the cream of their good fortune. The Astor House averages 700 a day year in and year out and does the best bar trade of any hotel in the city. At last ho has left us, the apostle of festlieticism. Oscar Wilde came like a lion and went like a lamb, but he carried away with him to his home across the Atlantic, enough pleasant reminiscences of his sojourn in this country in the shape of Amer ican dollars. His year's visit cost this benighted country about $40,000 AGKICUlTUIlAIi L,rus. Southern World. We know that there is a deep seat ed prejudice against "book-farming" as it is called, and yet we would call the special attention of our agricul tural readers to the succinct report of the Central Farmers' Club of De- Kilb county Georgia. The members are all farmers and discuss matters in a friendly and colloquial way, each giving his views freely and fully for the benefit of ail. It is not '"book farming" in the slightest degree. It 'is the result of the brain and brawn of farmers ; the result of their expe rience' told by themselves in a plain unvarnished way. ' That these clubs are beneficial can not be doubted. Look at the -practi- , , cal results in DeKalb county as evidenced by well authenticated re ports. What has been done in that "county can be done in every county in the South. Let our farmers then form Agricultural Clubs in "every county, have meetings regularly, discuss questions of practical inter est, bring out the experience of members and the results achieved by them: ' An agricultural journal is valuable as' it is suggestive ; it fur nishes the precept, the farmers sup ply the example.' Farmers should not hide their light under a bushel 1ul should have their county ciub where tbey can meet together and exchange views and compare notes as to the success of experiments and improved methods. What, we need "tixi the. 'yiews ?md experiences of practical farmers and hot mere theo- ry ; fact and not fancy. VA IABI.E SlCKSTIO. Mr. Win. Crankshaw, who has had largo experience in cotton milling in England and in India, in a letter "to the Ralei gh Observer- makes some feuggestions which are i worthy v the consideration of any. one contemplat ing embarking in cotton manufactur. ing in the South. Mr. Caankshawis satisfied England has nothing to fear itymN;Englanc, competition in cotton manufacture, but he is confi dent that she will have more to fear from the Southern States if they will h iniutrfre : build .bqttejj jTnills than have hitherto been built in North Carolina. He says the machinery should be such as will turn off: th greatest quantity of of work at ; the looms in a one story mill V Mri Crankshaw says", are well knqwn to allpractical men. ' Areally successful , cotton mill is based upon te follow ing conditions, viis'First, cheap labor which does not mean low-priced labor .but labor which residtfl in cheapne ss' ' Secondly, having the mill so planned, as to admit of machinery . beingf . so arranged as to secure the maximum of labor saving and the minimum , of expense in working. Thirdly, in the gene;ral arrangements of the. nail!,., its hours of working, and itsf gehcral econpmy, Lastly, in - .efficient, ' "practical management, noi merely superintended by one who may have a knowledge of machiuexj'-, or by one who has the theory of spinning and weaving, but neither of whom know anything of the innumerable details ; of the business. Mills of 15,000 or .20,000 spindles are more economical-; ly worked than mills of 5,000 spin dles, the latter, to use a sporting phrase, being heavily handicajped with president, superintendent, card-' er, spinner, machinist, clerks,- &e. BKATHVO THE 8TA51AKI) Oil. COM- PAH Y. ' - Cincinnati Eaquirr. The Standard Oil Companjr lias lately been beaten by Mike Keating, 16 years oM, a wesseoger boy of ttie estrn Unioi Teleyraph Company at Oit City. Mik'; ha been in Ue employ ot the Uleg'apb1 company since bo was old enough to carry 'despatch.! es. and nearly all of this time h has been in the Oil Exchange at Oil City, carrying messages to and froai the brokers. Tho large operators in pe troleum send their despatches in ci pher. The boy had carried eo many messages sent , by the Standard from its headquarters at Cleveland that he had unravelled the mystic characters, and could read them like a printed page. Just prior to the recent extra ordinary advance is tho petroleum market, when the price jumped in a few days froai fifty cents to $1,35. Ksating carried slumber of telegrams to the standard's brokers ordering . them to buy large bloteka of oil. The monopoly had laid its plans to boom the market, and the Oil City brokers weiO ordered to buy everything. Buy balf a million barrels," "Buy a million barrels." "Bur two million barrels,' were the way these orders came in. iney were riddles to all but the brokers who received them. and Mike Keating who delivered them. Keating knw something extraordi nary was soon to happen. 1 he mar ket, vrhich had been like a stagnant pool for a year, was already creeping ap th? scale. Orders for immense blocks of oil ware still 'coming frm the Standar Fs headquarters. There was no time tt lose. But what could a boy do without a dollar in. hi pock et? Keatisg went to one of the lar gest operators on lUc floor ot the Exchange, outside of the Standard's agents, and told him he had 'a "point-, er." The broker laughed 'at him. The boy's earnestness 'finally commanded attention, and the broker agreed 'to hit proposition, winch was that the broker should furnish money for a "deal," if he waa satisfied with the information, and divide the profits equally. Then the messenger told the. broker what he had, and of the tele grams he had been carrying from the Standard's" Cleveland office. The next message that fell into the boy's hands was carried secretly to the bro ker and translated. It was an order to bay everything that was offered. Tho broker probably swallowed to keep his heart down.'. Any way, he went back to the Exchange and be gan to buy. He saw the standard's agents rbuy ing right and left, ana was satisfied a big deal was fn progress. He took everything he could get until he had a round million barrets. The market was alreudy jumping fast j and his million barrels had been secured at an average co3t of soventy two cents. lie was loaded to the guards. Orders to buy and orders to sell were pouring In from every; quarter, and the excitement was becoming intense. , The market was still bounding op ward, with the usual ' fluctuations. Every time the prico advanced a cent or aecanea a cent tuu urotter saw a profit or a loss of $10,000. He kept his head, however, and when lue mar ket scored above 80 cents he began to to unload. ' The Standard i men wire on hand to take evesy thing., and he got rm oi an . nis on at .an average price of 80 cents a barrel. , ll boug-'a at 72,, and - his poflt He had were therefore eight cents a barrel oe $80, 000 in all. He diTided eqaallj frith Blike Keating, ' the messenger bor who' had unravelled the Standard's cipher' accord! ns 'to agreement." It 'is well enough to remember that oil toadied $1.35 ' during this ten days spurt, rnrtA if 111. VvvlrAf liorl ' Tilrl An u ntil the top wes reached the profiLs of the ' two would ' have been' $630,r 000. i.: It ges without ay ing that the Standard Oil Company has a;newAci4 pher arid ne messenger boy is put, o, a job. Beu Kntlcr's Rivals. SaaFmnciBooPoeU. : . j. ,. i-jf, j'i The just, auhieted triumph" of ' iferi Butler, and the clever ' devices i with which he neutralized the' effects of the splits in his own ranks, recall an in cidentof the generals early career, and' which it interesting ae showing; that even in his youth Ben displayed those strategic abilities which have since done so sauch for his military nod political career. It appears that young Butler was much enamoree of a pretty girl who lived on a farm about six milts from that f the Butler family. iu the western part ef Massachusetts. The country beauty was a coquette, however, and kept quite a large train of admirers in suspense, each rival doing his best U gain (be advantage of the others. At last matters were brought to a olimax, and the damsel appointed a certain night when she would render her final decision as to which suitor shs preferred. It goes without saying that they were all better looking than Ben, but the latter determined the inside of his Lead a gainst the ntside of hie opponents. The nearest way to the fair flirt's house and the one taken by all her eager suitors, was over a bridge formed by a single and somewhat slippery log' placed across a deep brook in the rear of the bouse. Young Butler repaired to this bridge an hour earlier than the accustomed "courtin time," carrying a pale of lard, with which he carefully annointed the log by the Mellow moon light, bf.ckiag himself across it astrad die. As ha afterward sat with his sweet heart waiting for the other suit ors to appear.a loud splash cine from the directioa of the brook. " Ben's game eye twinkled, and in imagina tion he coull see one ot his gorgeous ly gotten-up fellow-candidates' climb ing up the opposite bank with his teeth chattering and heading for home across lets, but the conspirator looked as Innocent as a cat in the dairy and said nothing. Pretty soo there came another souse and after awhile still another. The beauty began to show signs of pique at the negligence of her other admirers, a circumstance that Ben did not fail to turn to ; lit own profit. Pretty soon came a tremend ous double splash. -Dear me," said he: 'how the tish are jumping to-night 1"? The upshot ef it was that when the' future governor rose to go the slighted beauty :ave liim Irer hand. Scaling the bargain with an old fashioned husking bee kiss, Butler left his pr'ze in such a state of exaltation that he forgot all about the greased log, arid the first thing he knew both his heels hit him in the back of the head aod he took a header down below just as his victims had done. He climbed up the alreody well clawed bank, and made the six miles home ut'.ering Kerneyisms at 1 every step. He was taken with chills'and fever as a consequence, and when he got well he found his fiaicee had eloped with a hired man. Ben tells Ibis . as the narrowest escape of hie life. Last Year's Railway Conatt action. The Railway Age publishes a table showing that the number of miles of main track laid 'during the year 1882 was 10.821, on 316 lines, in forty 'four Stales and Territories. Full returns will probably make the grand total 11,000 miles which is 1,500; miles more than was constructed in 1881 the banner railroid building year up to that tim!. The number ot miles constructed in the States mcnttoastl below is as follows : 'Iowa.' 953 ; Tex as, 817 ; New York, 752; Ohi 555 ; Arkansas, 529 ; Indiana,' 520; Colora do, 500 : Dakota Territorj48CrV'Penn' sylvania, 4G4. aud Minnesota, 444. Of the 316 roads noted,Ji40 are still incomplote. '; ' The capital '' Invested during the year is estimated at $270,' .- . ' ' !i "'9 f.f.n ' " OOU.uuu, exclusive oi the amounts ex pended in the preparation of the road beds ' oa which tracks are not yet laid- '::.5-1 L iU IIXCKOBTO CHALLENGE. "lltA carious relio of Andrew Jackson has T just found lis way into print through. jthel( Kow Tork Ledger, to i which paper it was sent by a grand-,, daughter of Jackson's antagonist. It Is related in Farton's Life of Jackson that when Old Hickory was Young ; Hickory, : just twenty oney ears of age, he fought the first duel of his life with Col. WaightsUll Avery, a distie guished member of the bar of North CaroHaAij Young Jackson had a .CTimlnal case: j before the . court at -Jonesboro, in which be was . deeply interested. Colonel Avery being conn eel on the -other side. In the course of the triar Avery was severe in his cocamenls upon some of the legal positions taken by the younger lawyer, 4 and used language which he after. 5 wards admitted was too personal and sarcastic. ' On the second morning of thettial, Jackson, acutely mortified by the repetition of the offense, tore a blank leaf from a law book, wrote a chal lenge upon it and gave it to his an tagonist with his own bands. This challenge, now before us, yellow with its ninety four years, is the relic to which we alluie. We copy from the original:, . V- , . , -August 12. 1788. 'Sir: When a mans feelings & charector are injured be ought to seek ' speedy redress You ree'd a few lines from me yesterday, & undoubtedly jou . understand me. My cbarcctur yon ; hev injured ; and further you have Insulted me in the presence of a court and a large audience I therefore call upon you as a gentleman to give me satisfaction for the same ; and I further call apn you to give me an answer immediately! without. Equivo cation and I hope yon can do withLt r. dinner until the business is done ; for it is consistent with the charector of a gentleman whan he injures a man to make immediate reparation ; therefore . I hope you will not fail in roeetii m A fttta Jan f KArM .. m . T T V. V & ft Andw. Jackson. - ..r 'it ' a ' ' i ' -"'") "P. S. This eve ning after court adjourned." The duel was hot fought before dinner as the impetuous young advo cate desired since Colouel Avery could not immediately "find a friend It occurred just after sunset. Fort u. nately neither of the combatants was hit, and they left the ground vefy good friends.' Wanted 3 Htm f Tak nt Hxerrlse. Mew York Sn. . . i Scene: Office of a pompous doctor who knows it all. Enter 0 tired man who drops into a.feat and sayshat he wants treatment. The doctorpiits on bis eye-glasses, looks at his tongue feels of his pulsej sounds his chest, and then draws up to his full-. height and says : j Same old . story,- my friend. Men can't live without fresh air. . No use trying it. ; I could make mysdf a corpse, like you arc doing by decree, if I sat down in my office and didn't stir. You must have fresh air; yeu must take long walks, and brace up by staying out doors. Now, I could make a drug store but of you, and you would think I was a smart man but my advice to you is to walk, walk, walk." . PatienU-But, Doctcr . j . . DoctorThafs i right. Argue the:. question. That's my reward, jOf course you know all about my bust ness. Now, will you take my advice? Take lung walks every day, eeveral .t j . . " j . vimes a uay, ana gel your Dlooil in circulation. i , ;. j Patient I . do walk, Doctor. i , Doctor- OI course you do walk. know that ; but walk more. Walk ten limes as much as you do now. That will cure yoaX . .Patient But my business- Doctor Of course, j our business prevents it. Change your bulsiness, so that you will have to walk moire. What is y our business? Patient I am a. letter carrier. , . Doctor; (paralyzed) ily friend r- rait me to once more examine your k tongue. , I , , How She Saved Hen Darlino. "1 shall not feel j so nervous' again about baby s teething." . writes a grar. fal mother. "We almost lont mir dar ling from cholera Infantum, but Icipjlyv heard of PafkVs ;Gi ger Tnij tin time.'' 'A few spoonfuls soon " cured baby, and 'as occasional doso - keeps 09 In good healtU." DwokliQ Mother. 'j- V ! f t 1 i .1 j.' w 1. i . ' ii.f : 1 mi i-V . 1.- i . II , I m ;3'r:- in -I ' r V Hp ''. r t. f & i '' tj . Mi ' " i ' t i .1 4 i T ITrr
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