4 f V .-I . I f ' ' f t: - VOL. IX. LENOIR, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1883. 'NO. 1- O M'i ; T -J M . V I ' ' . IT TmiB Statcsville, W. Sept. 1, 1883. Our Fall and WINTER STOCK is now in store, ready for inspection, and we again take pleasure in invi ting the Merchants of Western North Carolina, and the Trade generally, to visit Us. Everything requsite to the full and complete outfit of the Retail Dealer may be had under our roof. A larger or more varied Stock of General Merchandise is not off e ed by any House in the South. Our traveling salesmen will be on the road during the season, ami we hope to receive your continued libercl orders through them. All orders by mail will be filled upon the same terms and receive the same attention as bupers in per son. We are, very truly yours, WALLACE BRON. We solicit your shipments of Dried Fruits, Blackberries and all kinds of country produce. Having the best facilities for conducting this branch of our business, we can as sure you of highest market prices at all times. DRUGS ! S. W. Hamilton, In calling the attention tention to many of those Patent Medicines so popular at tint age, now in stock, consisting of Barters 'rol Brown t!1 t:tA ov, (!nd T, ver Oil. Moller's Pure Cod Liver Oil, Warners Safe Kidney and Myer Cure, Pierce Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery, Parker rt- y. i- ? T ! - Dl.niimnf in QTlH N PlirfllClC umeer Tonic, Vr. V. u. ivoc s Cure, Colden's Liebigs Ext. 15eet, nop ""J Such others as are wanted not in my stockjlwili buy for par. ies who desire. ' A large and general variety of Drugs inown to the Profession; Mrs. Mary Gilmer Grier's Heal Hair Uestor specialty either in quantity or by, retail. A considerable variety of omers win db Kept as tne neceenKjf aiso now on nanu a iag 7 A t pVir Hardware, Table ana Pocket Cutlery, &c, than 1 have kept before. groceries in assormicm. - :T? , -ity and bought at lowest price,, and w, ' be M tb. lowest. Confectioneries in bkw.uh r..- canned fruits, &c. Tooacco gars, cigarettes, &c. Boot and Shoe department i , . j Baoes or coots, ana repaiuug ATl-LSni workmenemployed, an work done m good style. Any kina of material worked that is desired. The Drug business is a specialty, and although a large . j. . r Havp on hand a eeneral jiopornon oi my block i ui ugo. o" - assortment of General Merchandise. All kinds of country produce wanted such as grain of ail IiinU8, DaCOU, llOUr, Uieai, iww.cub, --" oo-' ; ' : Pretty general assortment of. rootsand herbs taken. A greater variety of goods i. . mm f ....... t wwn. uall ana see i or yourselves. i . --f -r v ' 4 ? '.:! - . " " " " ' ' " 11 " - - r n it- ir - i in ii i 1 1 1 i i ip i i -ii ii m in i r --- in ni-H n nu I " III i ' TTIISADDIE DRUisS ! ILenoir N, V. of the public generally to my d. would call specia1 at- uivei iuicuuv a Fluid Extracts on hand and Goods, Notions, f the best qua! uuiu is stUl kept open, both for -turn f oomo Vn other than kooq than at any other house ia I ; I CO OLE It A! PROF. DARBYS Prophylactic Fluid. Th moat Powerful Antiaeptio known. WILL PREVENT the CHOLERA. IT DESTROYS THE GERMS of DISEASE. It is fact established by Uclenoe that many diseases are introduced The moat powerful Am usepuc agent which chemistry has produced. or externally renders all it comes in contact with. aw use eitner internally by putt if action, which reproduce, itself and propagate, the disease In ever widening oircles. These d meases gener ate contagion and nil the air with diH ttrmu m pure, sweet and clean, uio production 01 aisease germs ceases and the pa tient recovers. WHEN USED ONTTT- CERS, SCALDS, BURNS, THAT DKKAD TEBKOB anmriiuaa anD tJUKKt IT 8TOP8 ALL PAIN. Asiaiic unolera. which la now devastating the Esit and advancing on its mission of death rapidly towards our shores. Other diseases of the same sort are 1IP THERIA, TTfrHOlD FKVEli, SCARLET FE VER, BMAIi, POX, YEIXOW FEVER. ERY SIPELAS, etc AU these geneate contagion. Oth er diseases Fever and Acrne. Malarial Pmr SWEETENS THE PARTS AND PROMOTES THE ' RAPID FORMATION OF HEALTHY FLESH. IT PURIFIES THE ATMOSPHERE. ITS EXPOSURE IN A SICK-ROOM. CELLAR, CLOSET OR STABLE purines the atmosphere and drives away the germs of disease and death. etc arise from contasrinn which comes from damp- TAKEN INTERN A T.r.T IT PURIFIES THE tions or nnoleanlinMM. rtw, unneaitny situa STOMACH, rfvincr it tnnn ALL THESE DISEAS ES CAN BE CURED ON and healthy vigor. It is thus that it cures Indiirafl. LY BY HTOVPING THE Uon and Dyspepsia. PRODUCTION OF DIS EASE OERMS AND DE BTROYINO THOSE AL READY PRODUCED. Ikuh these results are ACCOJlfLISHED by the use of Prof. Darby's preparation of Boraclc Acid and Chlorine, known as DARBY'S PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. . WHEN USED AS A LO TION It dHtrnva all Freckle and Blotch-pro-daclug gonns, leaving the skin clear, white and transparent at that of a ! little child. IT REN'DERS ALL IT COMES IN CON JTACT WITH PURE, AND H EALTHY. Bpaoe does not permit us to name many of the uses to which this great Germ-destroyer is applica ble. Ask your druggist for printed matter descrip tive of its usefulness, or addiees I J. H. ZEIL1N Ii CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA, 60 cents per Bottle. Pint Bottles, $.100 DR. STRONG'S PILLS! THE OLD, WELL TRIED, WONDERFUL HELTH RENEWING REMED1E8. STRONG'S SANTIVE PILLS for the liver. A speedy enre for Liver Complaiut, Regulating the Bowels, Purifying the Blood, Cleansing from Mala rial Taint. A perfect cure for Kick JleudacUe, Constipation acd Dyspepi-ia. ' STRONG'S PECTORAL PILLS insure healthy appetite, good digestion, regularity of the bowels. A sure remedy for Colds and Hhciunatisuj. A preci ous boon to delicate f emalt, soothing and bracing the nervous system, and giviug vigor ft health to eveiy noer of the body. Hold by druggists. For Pamphlets, etc. address C. E. Hull & Co., Box 600, New York City. a ttl Practical L!fe.?V,"fS .OO pp. Clear tTpe, flamtt binding- Mad lUaarratloBa. AGENTS WANTED. T& to ilbO oar JUonta. Fat Term, address J. C. McCURDY & Co.. Pbiladelpbim. Fa rJAVALpSATTLES. flew and graphic Pictorial History of the great Semfightsof the World. By Medical Director SHIPPEN. V. S. N. AddreM J. C. McCURDY CO.. ejacaestnut St., rniiaaeipnia, ra. 0. A. CILLEY, ATTORNEY AT LA?, LE50IB, S. 0 W. L. WAKEFIELD. A'lLLC. KEWLAXD. WAKEFIELP & NPWLAlD, Attorneys at law, LENOIR, N. C. JNO. T. PERKINS, Attorney at Law, MORGANTQN, N. 0, Will practice. In the BUto and Federal Courts. a. ipainbour, (QbADUaTX BaLTTMOKK DKNTaI, Cotjxqk. LENOIR, N. 0, ITfCses bo Impure material for Ailing teeth. Work as low as good work can be done. Pationta from a dStanoe may avoid delay by informing bim at what time they propose, coining. Coffey's Hotel, Mains street. Boon, t. J. COFFEY ft BKO.. Proprietors. Tbta trst-claas honse has rsoently bees ref armlshed with new and elegant furniture, beside the rooms are an ooBTeiueTi mu wiuuww w - . notbesoniMfledlntbeDUte. Attentive and polite servant always in attendance. 0ocd stables and hostler. Give us a call when yon are in Boone. Kates very awiww The Pioneer Library, IEKOIB, IS. U. books. Blon stores ox neiu auuwicugv wu tuwr Ulnlng reading within the reach of all. Tamanf MmberhlD: Life members. 125: for roe , ear, e-f ---rr" . , , .. an taoney reoeivea low uiBiuuvraauy v uiu auur ion 1 appliea to we parcusae oi ww wwii. C. A. CILLIT, President. 0. W. F. Biini, Treasurer. J. M. BPACTHOtJB. 8oretary. Lenoir, N. C Joly 23rd. 1883. My fa ally used the first Domestic Sewing Macblue brought to this coun try. For light running, good work and general satisfaction I don't think it has an equal. J. M. Sfainhour. We are Company's Agents for the celebrated light running Domestic Sewing Machine, the only machine that has the under-braiding attach ment. Call and see them. Needles and oil for all kinds of ' machines on hands ECHERD BROTHERS. Bryan Hotel, . TTita fuinsa still maintalnaita Mnnlillnn m.m a flraU class hotel: The proprietor most reepectf till y returns thank ta his friend and the pnblio generally for past favors, and will assure them that he will con tinue to wruur BvuronaRe or serving up us very beat the market afford. Atrial is all f aak. r- , w, ppt Tvanstwr. THE DOMESTIC -DEMON; OR, THAT GEM OF A JAKE. Yes, Edward was married. Lean ing back in his chair, he slowly puffed the meditative weed, closed his eyes, and(excuse the paradoxical metaphor) looked the fact fall in the face. Bachelorhood for him was a leaf turned over, a finished chapter closed and clasped. Smoking concerts, billiard handicaps, "the chimes at midnight," these, and other incidents of single life, were bat to him the recollections of an era past and gone. Romeo had settled down as a rate payer. Regret it? Not Romeo I mean Edwin. Looking back on the be nighted, buttonless phase of exis tence miscalled single blessedness; its cheerlessness, its atmosphere of stale tobacco, its seedy, sorrowful morings, and its sore faced landla dies, Edwin stretched out his feet in the slippers Angelina had warmed for him, and with a complacent yawn blessed his stars in general, and the aforesaid Angelina in particular. Angelina was his wife "Mrs. Ed win Honey dove, The Dovecot, Toot ing, S. W.," to quote her card. uThe dearest, cosiest, prettiest little wife in the world," said Edwin; and I quite agree with him, as I do with all my married friends who say the same. '1 hey had been married now some months, and never a frown had cast its cloud or a tear drop its rain to mar the sunshine of their matri monial bliss. Each was the object of the other's life; the truest happi1 ness of each was to make the other happy. Edwin's reverie ws inerrupted. A light tf p crossed the room behind him, a pair of soft white hands were clapped over his eyes, a low glad voice whispered, "Guess who it is?" Guess! as if nny hands were like hers! as if Love needed eyes to tell! Why, Love is alays blind! But it suited that obstinate Edwin to guess that it was Titania, the Fair Queen the Veius de Medici, transformed like Galatfea from stone, and a lot of other equally impossible persons; whereupon Angelina pun' ished his perversity with a kiss (which made him more revtise than ever), and whispered again, "It's me!" 'Shade of Lindley Murray, you don't say so!" ejaculated Edwin. "And what may ycur serene high- ' Alt WW . ness require! tier serene mgnness was by this tme on her throne J Edwin's knee. "I want to show you this treasure of a bonnet, Eddie dear" said Mrs. Houeydove, producing for her l-rd and master's inspection an article which, in un appreciative masculine eyes, might have beeen anylhing but a bonnet. "It's the very latest style. Jane helped me to make it up just like her own. She's so very clever quite a geniul'' MI don't, see that genius in the construction of her bonnets is an indispensable qualification for a maid of all woik," replied Edin. ' But Jane certainly is a smart girl. VN hat nice dark brown hair she's got." Whereupon Mrs. Honey dove remark ed that she didn't see that nice dark hair was an indispensable qualifica tion in a maid, of all-work, either Mrs, Honeydove's hair was of rather a blonde shade. "By the bye," said Edwin. 4 'Jane didn't come home till twelve last night, dear. What was the reason!" Oh, fhe quite explained it this morning. ; She went to oee her great aunt, who was taken suddenly ill She is the only great aunt the poor girl has got, and Jane is her only great neice." "When Edwin had departed for the eity, little Mrs. Honey 4oye stood before a mirror, with a slight shade of disappointment on her pretty dim. pled face! He used to admire my hair so much." she mused; 'and. when, soon, after we were engaged, he begged a lock of it, he said there was none like it in the world. Per haps, however, he would like it bet ter if it were a shade darker.' "ou pee the Honeydoves had so small a share of the troubles and anxieties of this world, that Angelina ' was pre pared to magnify, this one desider atum which she fancied her hug band's eyes had discovered in her. She turned from the mirror, feeling a silly woman, with a disappointed shadow still in her eyes and went into the cosy breakfast parlor to give some directions to Jane, the JemJof J a dwnesti she had rwently obtaiti As Mrs. Honey dove entered, she was surprised to behold Jane in the act of restoring a bottle to a email cabinet in which the Honeydoves kept their small stock ot spirits. If you please mum," explained Jane, "I was just takin' the liberty of usin! o' the least thimberful of rum for my 'air. It's such a capital thing for the 'ed mum make the 'airhever so much darker and shinier." Here was a discovery! Angelina, so far from administering the expec ted lecture to Abigail, thanked her for ber receipe with her sweetest smile, and her eyes aoon regained, their usual brightness. WelL I'm blessed!" soliloquized Jane when her mistress had gone up stairs to dress for shopping. "1 never did know sech a green 'un in all my born days; blest if she don't e waller anything you tells her." Jane had answered the Honeydoves' advertisement for a domestic some few weeks before the opening of this story. She had arrived with are markably favorable testimonial, which was not surprising, seeing that Jane had written it herself, though she had taken the liberty of appending some One else's name to it. After all what better authority could have been desired, assuming that the world in general follows the poet's dictum "Know thou thyself?" It was. of course, only a coinci dence that since Jane's arrival at the Dovecot provisions generally had gone up, while the glass and china of the establishment had literally gone down the latter fact was, of course, due to the extraordinary development of destructive proclivi ties in the eat, an animal which, strangely enough, since Jane's arrival, had acquired a most ravenous appetite, as testified by the shoulders of mutton and other articles which were frequently purloined by (as Jane alleged) that criminal pussy. Jane had only one great aunt, an invalid in a chronically critical condition ; but to make up for this iiiggardnesB of Fate in one direction, she had! a multiplcity of cousins of the masculine gender in the vaaious public services. A few evenings later Mr. Honey- dove observed with surprise that the bottles in his chiffonier cupboard showed signs of visitation. Strange! for Jane was such a. quite, steady looking girl, and wore a blue ribbon conspicuously on her breast, and had only a few nights ago applied for permission to attend a Band of Hope meeting. But, then, only Jane and Mrs. Honey dove, besides himself, had any means of access to the bottles ; and as for Angelia tippling perish the thought! and the thought perished accordingly. But one evening, on arriving from the city, Edwin in returnicg the kiss with hieh Angelina always greeting him was astonished, nay, staggered, by a powerful odor of rum which decidedly proceeded from Angelina, Could it be possible Jfo he, would never harbor so horrible a suspicion; and rum, of all liquors in the world! No, he would not believe his darling Angelina could so far descend from her pinn,ac Je of perfection, even on the evidence of his own eyes, and so far his nose was her only accuser. "Eddie, dear," said Mrs. Honey dove one morning, while buttoning up her husband's overcoat preparato ry to dispatching him to the city, "I shall go round to dear mamma's this morning, and if I am not at home by the time you return you may as well ome round for me, 1 wish dear mammy lived nearer, don't you Eddie?" And Mr. Honeydove an swered, "Quite so' adding motto voce nearer the North Pole," for like many other Benedicts, Edwin did not possess the Horatian regard for the mater jnHchra.fUia pntyV'iar, Mrs.. Honeydove duly went to vis it her mamma. Before doing so, however, she gave Jane permission to ran round for a few hours to that great aunt, whose immediately pres entmal&dy was, as Jane affirmed, an "ulster on her inside," " "Be sure and be back in time to get Mr. Honeydove's dinner ready.' These were Angelina's final direc tions, and Jane promised implicit compliance with them. Jane's regard for her great aunt was certainly extraordinary, in as much as she attired herself for the visit in the most suitable apparel she could select from her mistress' ward. : 'robe, and surveyed herself before the with ' considerable complacency. "How this sealskin do; . become my J figure!" she remarked to herself, or rather her reflection. No : wonder , Alfong takes me for a real ladyl" , . . '. It was close upon six when , Jans returned. Her master was .almost due. Hastily lighting the, kitchen fire, she proceeded up stairs . to, re , store her borrowed plumes. Horror! there was her master's knock. . Has tily throwing her mistress' jacket on a chair, she hurried down stairs and answered it. Edw in didn't feel particularly good tempered that evening. In the first place he thought Angelina . might content herself with less frequent visits to her mother ; secondly, cold mutton on a cold night was . not a feast calculated to make a man defy Kate to do the worst it might, and assure his gods he'd dined that night; and thirdly, on looking at the spirits he found that, like his own, they had fallen considerably. "I'll speak to her about it tonight," he' determined. "It cannot be true; but if it should, it is a curse best dealt with promptly." He went upstairs. Surely some thing must be wrong with Angelina! Tididess had hitherto been one of her leading characteristics, but to night her little dressing room was all in disorder. Here was that beau tiful sealskin jacket, his own Christ mas present to her last Christmas, and which she had declared should only be worn on state occasions, lying in a muddled ,heap mpon the floor. He took it up. What was that fluttering from the pocket to the ground A note! He opened it Ten thousand devils! He read: "Beautiful madame Love will be silent not no longer. He will not be quiet. My heart I must reliuve, or it will bust go bang! Up till now you have only given me short inter view, very few. Peut tire! you are belong to another; but I do not care, you must be iniue. Since the day I saw you in that happy omnibus . I have loved you. Today I shall you as usual at the end of the street. I shall give you this note before. I leave you. I ask you to be mine. Ely with me. Accept the assurance of my affection, the most perfect. Alphohbe." Edwin could not believe his senses What! Angelina false! He was los ing his senses or else it was some horrible dream. That she, the light of his life, his hop9. his joy, coul d have been holding clandestine assig nations with an infernal foreigner, whoti she met in an omnibus oh 1 he mus die, or smash something or somebody. Bnttat! There was An gelina's knock. Jane had opened the door. Angelina was coming up stairs. She stood before him . "Eddie, dear" "Avauntl" "Have what, deart" "Madame, henceforth we are stran gers! Go, traitress! go toyourom nibus your interesting stranger." "Mr. Honeydove," exclaimed the bewildered Angelina, are you mad, sir, or tipsy?" Tipsy! No, not I! Sober, mad am! sober! It is not I who empty the spirit bottles, who consume enough alchohol in a week to last a costomonger for a month. Away!" And Einn burst out of the room, leaving his wife in the preliniinary canter for hysteria. He rushed into the parlor Jane was there, busily intent on admiring internal nourish ment from the rum bottle. This caused Edwin to reflect a moment. Possibly it was not his wife who had paid such assiduous attention to the spirits. The detected Jane availed herself of her mistress' scream to beat a hasty retreat. r. i, . . Call me a cab, Jane, instantly!" exclaimed Mrs. Honeydove. , I'm g-g-going to m-m-mam-mama'&V Jane put on her bonnet and sallied out to oall a hansom. Edwin follow ed, endeavoring to intercept ' her. Who was that? - a man dashed towards Jane from the darkness and seized her hand, and knelt at her feet. . "Who the deuce are. you!" cried Edwin, collaring him and dragging him inside. "I sare? Je tuis Monsieur Fran rcais. I am call Alphonse Destrier. I adore zis lady I lof ber! She sail be mine she have say she rill. Let go of my collare!" v-- 1 "This lady?" said Edwin. bDo you mean Jane, our parlor maid?" and Jane interposed, Which he do.'- -"Yat your maid of te P&rlotf JoJ s, Milidetonntresr She ' have tell in she is grand lady! " I have follow her here. I vait till she come out ' You no tell me she is servant? Ven I meet her she hare on ae akin of ie seal and ze glove of kid." I A light dawned upon Edwin. That gem of a Jane had been weiring his wife's jacket The love letter was addressed to her. Monsiur," he said 'the object oi of your affections is our domestic She is yours; take" her." "No, 1 vill not lake her! She tell me von great big lie! I sail take my hook" And the enraged Alphonse suited the words to the action. "Jane we shan't require youre ser vices any longer. , You may take a month's wages instead of notice." Angelina, dearest forgive me," said Edwin, when he ' had told all to his wife. "I was distracted; I knew not what Iwas saying." And Mr. and Mrs. Houeydove were clasped in each other's arms. Theji Edwin became aware of that spiritu ous odor again. "Excuse me, Angel ina." be stammered, -but er have you er been taking anything to keep out the cold, you know?" , "I've been putting rum on my hair to make it dark. Yon admired Jane's which is a shade deeper than mine she gave: me the reciipe." "Dash Jane!" said Mr. Honeydove; only he used a stronger expression; and just then the young person in question entered to say good bye, with her boxes packed, and generally . heavy marching order. That Bight the Demon Domestic, as Edwin call ed her,' left The Dovecot, where hap piness ever afterwards reigned supreme. A Rr Affsrsg-artloii f Andotnl TatlBt. (remsboro Patriot. ! Fonr of the best story teller in toe State were tin town yesterday. Gen. Ireacb was here and held forth in front of ibe Central. Col. Ike Young tiaU been to the Buffalo L'tbia and was ia good trim. Pat Winston rented tlie front of Porter's drag store, and Col. Frank Suober. looking for all ibe world like an Episcopal bishop, made up the quartette. Wiuslou held his crowd well until the "grouping" of Leach, Sbober and Young wasdiscov . ered. Then followed a stampede for the corner of South Elm and West Market. Each yicd with the other iu telling the best story. Leach would occasionally interject a side remark about the Bourbon tendencies of the Democratic party, and more than once said lie woult take the second place on the national ticket with ''old man Tilden." As the crowd thinned and the story tellers began to drop ou Ike Young recalled a few politic ml reminiscences. He told a good story about the brick house old Alfred Dockerv built and bow he made the brick 'w!tb these yaller hands," and how, many vears afterwards, at the first Rtiical convention held in the Slate, the old man. when he saw the predominance of tbe colored brother In the convention, expressed himwlf as feeling1 Very squeamish" abont the Republican part'. With a twink le ia bis One gray eyes, tbe festive Isaao said there were others there who felt tbe same way. He quit off with a good one on District Attorney Boyd, but Its repetition was enjoined. He aaja ifc is not in his heart to abas Holden for bis recent political soov ersalt ' That ho was tbe' founder of both political parties, and tn his old age be ought to bo permitted to oxer -cise bia preference without question. "He met Bill Smith at the Buffalo Springs and they "made op." Young run Joe Turner for Congress sereral years ago, and that made Smith mad with him." For he had not epo. ken to bim for tears, until a ,few weeks ago they met. at the springs and 'buried tbe hatchet." Col Young is tbe. most companionable of men, barring his politios and rattlesnake breeches, lie, wears shaggy black eyebrows and a white imphrial, which gives bus tbe appearance of a martb net. : He is the most sucoessfol of all the Republican politicians and one of tbe best poker players In the govern ment service. He is popular with all factions, and bis official head sets squarely oh his shoulders. 7?, A Washington preacher, who is su ing for divoroa from his wife on the gronnd of ill treatment, says that she knocked bim down with a chair, poun ded him with a hickory cane, and bit Mm with sj heavy wUr PitthQy I " I , t , J ; 4 ! i I Ir ! l. in 8 -It Si! U n . t -I 4" u t 5 i r H "i if i.- i i ; t &i '4 i 9i I Ji 'if. ' t -1 m 3 m rA in I .'tl V 4 i 3 4 1 rmiU i't it,'' - . A.