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Carolina Watchman. LOC A.L. Tl,e subscription rates of The Carolina Watchman are 1 year, paM In advance, , - - . $1.50 payment delayed 3 months - 2.00 THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1890. Chamber ot commerce to-night. Call meeting of Chamber of Commerce to-night. John Allen Brown is trying to sell coal. Great Scott J Remember Chamber of Commerce meeting to-night. Mrs. R. M. Payne, of Winston, is yis iUnj; Mrs. C. B. B.irker. The glorious fourth passed without 00y unusoal demonstration here. The meloth crop is said to be good aud Sambo is at home for awhile. Blowing Rock is not so well patronized this reason, by Salisbury as formerly. Mi -. R. J Holmes, Ernest, and Miss N'pllv arc visiting relatives in Asheville. We published elsewhere the story of wi A, Wil bora's drift in the wrong di ruction. It is a pitiable case. Owing to the absence of Rev, Mr, GutiM-ie in the mountains, there will be ho services at the Methodist church next Sunday. Stajesville voted on Mondayfbr water works. If she is so fortunate as to get a system equal to ours, satisfaction is guar anteed ahead. J Liberty street extension in East Salis bury is being rapidly completed and the bridge over the creek at the end of Park street is under contract. The men in. this county, outside oflhe Republieau party, who oppose the re election of Senator Vance to the Senate wou't amount tot "bakers dozen." - Two railroad negroes were landed in jail Tuesday evening, charged with tak ing liberties with an eleven year old white girl, a few miles east of town. Mr. G. F. Ivey is in town selling the Peopled typewriter, a very simple, dur able and first class machine. Any per son need in a oue will do well to see him In the Bjar Poplar section of the county there has b-jeu no raiu tor many weeks. 1 u less it comes very soon the corn crop, especially, will be a complete failure. I he writer 111 Charlotte Chronicle can earn money by showing a lower deat rate in any other town of five thousaud inhabitants in North Carolina than Sal isbury. The Rev. F. J. Murdoch sent in his ' - . 1 . ,1 . . resiguaiion as a meinour 01 me commit tee or the Salisbury Uradeu rscnool on Monday last. The Board of Education has not yet accepted it. Mr. Wiuthrop Scribner and a Mr. Blackburn, of Eldorado, Wisconsin,' paid a. flying visit to the McL'ubbins & Harri- , situ mil! in this f.uii.tv Inst. TilPaHnv Mith a view of purchasing. , There are hardly enough Republicans here to get up an opinion when anything happens in the ranks of that party; So, we don't know how they feel about the rejection of Eaves for collector. We-are authorized to ay that the satement that the anual sermon for the regiment of veterans wi'l be on the third Sunday in July is not correct. It will not be until August or September. Stolen From Mr. J. K. Burke's stables in Salisbury, on the uight of the 7th, a small bay horse. It was the prop erty of Mrs. Jane Sloan, of Mill Bridge. A reward is advertised in this paper. There is a slang term, now almost obsolete, which fits in so well when men tion is made of the hot weather that we naturally full in line and employ it, say ing, it is hot "and don't yon forget it." The filter didn't filt. Our water works people hooked it on Tuesday and banged away to the tune of one hundred and forty pounds pressure to the square inch, when the roof blew out and Jet things down, easy, or otherwise. Perhaps she aint a water filter, after all. Try her on ginger ale. The members of the Woman's Mission ary society of the North Carolina Con ference Avho are now rcsitfing in the bounds of the Western North Carolina Conference will meet in the Methodist church at this place on the 6th and 7th of August lor the nurDose of organizing a like society fpr the latter conference. About twenty-five delegates are expected from Greensboro, Asheville, Charlotte, Concord and other places, whose lot has fallen in the new conference. Col. Sumner's Vacancy. Ambrose Stewart, Esq., has been duly elected to a term of his own on the Board of Commissioners of Rowan, for this reason it is only right aud proper that, he should be given the vacancy and be al lowed to enter upon his duties at once. To put in another man would be to com plicate matters in an en tirely unneces sary manner. The Salisbury Cotton Mills. This company has declared a i semi annual dividend of 6 per cent., and is -about to issue $17,000 of new stock, at 1105 per share, which has been assigned to t lipoid stockholders. The m( will be filled with machiuery this fell. The tire plant will then consist offiOO looms ai'd 8,500 spindles. Nothing reliable an be learned about the reserve fund ; out. two persons know how much or how Hlf it is, und none but a director will e permitted to know. Phenominal Facundity,or a Monumental liar. Steel township asserts a title to a wo man who at the ago of thirty has borne, at single births, sixteen children to one husband, all of who are living, lusty specimens of ebony humanity, while the old pair ore left in an unbattered and hopeful condition. A friend relates the above and either he was frisking with us a thing he has never been known to do has been frisked with a thing not likely to occur since he was Census Enumerator or Lelse it is a square thins. Sewerage and Streets. The R. & 8. A couple of letters from Roanoke and Southern people, received in Salisbury tins week, relate that the horseback engineer began work on Monday morn ing last. He will ride the four routes, beginning eastmost and working west. His first trip will be south by High Point and back by Thomasville. He will then go south by Salisbury and Lexington, returning by Shelby, Statesville" and Mocksville. He, we are told, may be expected in Salisbury in about two weeks. In the meantime and until his report is in and acted upon, Lexington engineers (sic) will go on telling each other of the "dread hills of Rowan." ACTION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AN ELECTION DEMANDED. President Theo. F. Kluttz called the Chamber together in its new quarters on Thursday night lost, and, after the re ports of several committees were passed upon , the question of sewerage and streets was taken up. Under discussion it de veloped that it was the unanimous sense of the meeting that something should be promptly done. After a deliberation over several plans of getting at the subject, it was finally unanimously ordered that the Road and Street and Sewerage Committees of the Chamber of Commerce be appointed to meet with the Commissioners of Salis bury and ask for an election providing for the issuiug of $100,000 in bonds, a sum sufficient for all present demands. It was further ordered that these Com mittees prepare a paper, in the form of a petition, copies of which to be left, at four or more public places for signatures, to the end that the committees have appro priate credentials, in the matter of pub lic opinion. SEWERAGE AMD STREETS. Several years ago the Board of Com missioners of Salisbury provided tne town with a splendid system of water works. The action was wisely taken, viewed in anv light ; still it has brought with it a kindred necessity sewerage. Already the livery stables, bar rooms, and drug stores are pouring their water into our streets where the Commissioners are unable to provide for it. so that it runs or stops and festers as it pleases was handed in by Jas. C. McKenxie. Ill Added to tftis tne cess-pool system lor health was its occasion. Col. Sumner commodes and closets is rapidly growing came to saiisoury in tne morning to attend the session of the Board, but was taken suddenly and violently ill of his malady while in the First National Bank, from whence his resignation was written. His symptoms improving in the after noon, ne was driven home, Through reluctance to accept it. his associates, W. L. Kluttz in the chair, laid the matter of resignation over until the August session. Because of Col. Sumner's resignation Rowan gives up perhaps the most reli giously inflexible, and yet the most watchful, careful, discerning presiding officer that ever wielded the gavel of her Board, it t nere ever was a position or a measure which T. J. Sumner feared, the record and rtie memory of it alike have perished. CoL Sumner Resigns. Col. T. J. Sumner gave the Board of Commissioners, together with the spec tators around, an absolute surprise on Monday last. Immediately upon the organisation of the Board, the writ ten resignation of the Iron Chairman The House Builders. W. L. Rankin's handsome residence is now sufficiency advanced to display the exceedingly ornamental nature of his designs. The remodeling of the great old Boy den mansion has reached a point at which can be seen a model of a type of southern hemes. When the roomy piazzas arc added, an ideal of comfort will be realized. M. S. and T. B. Brown, with the fam ily, are at home again in a completed structure, commodious, tasteful and com' fortable. dpt. Charles Price's plans are in the hands of an architect, and from them it is nine to nothing will evolve a creation second to nothing in Salisbury. W. H. Overman has engaged to pay handsomely for handsome plans to an other architect and will build to them on his Iunis street residence lot. Edwin Shaver's Iunis street residence is nearing completion. Its double, full length halls, ten rooms, basement, bath rooms, closets and stairways make it difficult to surpass. The First National Bank building, ornate in its pressed brick, iron and stone, is about to rise on its foundation. The newly completed Frye residence is bv far the handsomest structure on east Main street completed. Wm. Smithdeal's gradual changes and additions have wrought out for him a great house, handsome in exterior and full of solid comfort. The McCanless-McCubbins building on west Main is of an approved type. Sheriff at Twenty-Two. j THE NEW SHERIFF OF ROWAN. By the grace of the Board of Commis sioners, W. W. Krider is hoav Sheriff of the county of Rowan, elected in regular session on Monday last to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of C. C. Krider, his father. The choice was a peculiarly appropri ate one, inasmuch as by close and systematic-attention to duty for more than a year post, W.-W. Krider has shown him self in every way capable of discharging the duties of the unexpired term, thus adding unquestionable capability to the question of a right to any emoluments which might accrue from a term to which the late C. C. Krider was elected by the people of Rowan. Moreover, his candidacy had the en dorsement of all the candidates for dem ocratic nomination, except one, the sanction of a majority of the Justices of the Peace, and of scores of prominent citizens of county and town, all of whom combined to acknowledge the justice of his cause. And so, from all causes and for all pur poses, Wood W. Krider is now Sheriff at the age of twenty-two, being thusun qestiouably, the youngest officer of this dignity in the State, and perhaps in the Union. in popularity, regardless of the fact that in discharging such into permanent pits there is great danger of contaminating and poisoning our present subterraneous supply of drinking water, by infiltration on its way to our wells. Again the open ditch system, by which our streets are exclusively drained, are a constant source of perplexity to the Commission ers, and of damage and sickness, or threats of damage and sickness to private citizens. Each ditch doing its best, in the event of a heavy rain, to flood side walks, tear up streets, deluge private property, and finally leaving a part of its contents behind to evaporate from low places and contaminate the air which we breathe. Upon the subject of streets here again we have a crying necessity. With ten or more miles of streets to keep in repair and an entirely inadequate fund for the purpose, the town government is eter nally confronted with a solutionless problem. A complaining citizen says that the streets are i ndecen tly shabby .The reply is, of course thev are, and of course they always have been and will be und the preseut method of tinkering with mud holes as they develop: a load of stone operating to stop one mud hole and make two others, one on either side, and a rocky hump between. Iu a few days we will be the best sit uated town in North Carolina for McAuatn work, commanding lower rates for transportation for the cheapest and best stone to be had anywhere. So that we have every reason to believe that we can put dowii from one aud a hal to two miles of road to any other town 's one with the same amount of money Then with the heavy traffic streets off our hands we could gradually extend our work along other streets. With Main aud Inniss, and a part of Ellis, Bank, Council Lee aud Horah streets so arranged, lighter work could be rapidly extended along the others. APPROPRIATENESS OF THE PETITIONS. In our account of the Chamber of Com mcrce's action, its provisions for petitions was mentioned. This is as it should be, since the board is but a representation of the extended citizenship of Salisbury, with a deputed authority. The commis sioners do not attempt to originate but to represent the wish of the people, so far as the want becomes known to them. For that reason it is not only befitting but necessary that the Commissioners come, in some way, to understand that it is the wish of the people before an elec tion is ordered. It is the earnest wish of the Watch man to see at an early day a competent 1 1 1 A 1 engineer overlooking worn upon tne lines above treated. Roaming Into the Sunset. THE LAST OF THE CHRONICLE'S MAN. Like a drifting, fast diminishing shad ow, darkly limned against the twilight's filmy grey,-a night-hawk rode on into the gold fields of the sun." Overhead, floating or tossing, heeling or swiftly tracing his darker circles in the sun-bright air, a purple martin careened on watchet wing and anon flashed a blade-like course in arrowy pursuit of some devoted ephemeron. Their molten refulgence gathered from empyrean fires the golden fleece clouds flocked to the wake of the westering sun, as it dropped to "heave its broad shoulder over the edge of the world." (Keats.) In sombre silhouette a giant oak, stag headed witness of the cycling ages, upshot a li egoless crest to blot the darkling Orient, while far up in the lilac midway a broad -winged bird, a common buzzard bird, swept on in coiling flight toward the gold shot, crimson -barred lazuli of the north. Away to the south feathery, nitid nimbi piled and billowed as the foamy wind tossed, spindrift, the sea-lace of the sun -splashed south, (after Crad dock), and the broad bird floated wide. Among the longer shadows of a deep dipped woodland glen a sylvan lakelet lay like rippled silver, lending flush for flash in reflex of the1 flying light, while the common broad bird wheeled him on. All slumbrous in the hallowed peace, soft cushioned where frondous ferns and lush cat-tails near rimmed the burnished wave, the Chronicle's reporter, Triton after minnows, gathered him in a ptcr- rodactylic worm, spat on the hook and aconically piscafied once more, while the angurous booming of a dull brown, pollen laden be droned upon the stilly air and the broad bird swept him near. Unconscious all, xntenta he cum omnia soul, preudere-fish the Chronicle man angled on and the broad bird circled nigh, a dull flame starting from his gnolish eye. Like bolted death, the broad bird swept his murderous wav. Alack, alas, eheu ! and hint- illae lacrv- mae and a hole in the Chronicle's staff. All comfortless the Watchman man stood, until he remembered "his loss is our eternal gain," and that such squirrel rood as farnassus, Olympus, &c, would be no more used on earth. Monroe and the R. & S. The Monroe Enquirer evidently thinks the Watchman a bit of an Oliver Twist, because we were not yet fully and finally convinced that the road would come to Monroe. Iu explanation we will cbsdrve that Salisbury has had assurances along the same line and eminating from simi lar sources, still we want the old Indian sign of rain. When we see it falling, then we can tell you all about it. At the same time there is nothing to prevent the belief that it will go to both places. The Enquirer says. Our authority for the "rumor" that the road would come to Monroe was simply this: A citizen of Monroe, whose veracity is as good as any man's in the State, told us that while iu company with a citizen of Durham he met on the train one of the directors of the road, return ing from the meeting referred to, who learn iug that he was from Monroe; told him of his own accord that the road was coming to Monroe; and the impression made upon the mind of the gentleman was that the matter was decided iu the meeting referred to. In addition to the above we have later i nformation, the source of which we are not at libcr.y to disclose, which leaves no doubt in our mind that the present intention of the management of tne road is to brin.i it to Monroe; and we feel equally sure that nothing is likely to happen to divert it from that pin pose. Since the above was written we have been told by a gentleman a minister of the gospel, in high standing wherever he is kuewn that while on the tratn be tween Greensboro and Danville a few days ago, he overheard a conversation between two gentlemen evidently rail road men, to the e fleet that the road would be extended to Monroe at once. He bad a short conversation with one of the gentlemen, who told him that there was no doubt that the road would come to Monroe. Does the Watchman want anything more? As far as we are concerned we would be glad for the road to come by Salis eury. but our opinion is that it will be extended to Monroe from Winston by the most direct route posssible to be secured. 8. A. StTsTw. R. OUR OLD FRIEND AGAIN. The Sout hport Leader has something to say of our old friend again this week. The Cape Fear & Cincinnati or the South Atlantic & Northwestern may or may not be built, but it is a fact that they are keeping up a clatter down there that will end either in a railroad or smoke. The following is the leader's article: In an interview with Mr. E; B. Stevens, who is largely interested in the South Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad, and who has just returned from New York City, where he was engaged in the affairs of the railroad. Mr. Stevens savs the S. A. & N. W. K. R. for some months past has received the attention of English capitalists, its various prospects are rec ognized by the Englishmen, but the par ties who are interested on this side wish to retain the control of the railroad and not let others control absolutely a rail road which has such immense possibili ties. At present a syndicate in Paris are interested in the construction of this grand trunk line across North Carolina llf!iL f 1 A v unin a iew weeks most important re sults may be looked for in connection with this road. Below may be found an extract from a letter written by Mr. Geo. B. Morton, of the Cape Fear Cincinnati Railroad, dated Baltimore, June 30, 1890. The letter will be of interest to the readers of the Leader: "Since seeing your last, I was taken suddenly ill iu Boston, and had to be brought home quite ill, aud to-day is the first I have been out again. I am anxious to be about, as I have a great deal before ine now. All our finuueial matters are signed for, and just as quick as I can arrange a lot of detail here. I shall leave for Sout hport, there to take up ray headquarters and begin opera tions. I have this day notified our new resident encineer. a native North Caro linian, to report to Baltimore for inst rue- tions, and before many days you shall see old Southport torn up and the sound of the trip hammer on our new wharves, etc." BOYDBN & QUINN. "J2 , fl BPtK KT'. -J-rri r -. McCOKMICK MOWER. " 1 ft . - V ' mb- m. . DAISY BKAPKIj . S3 McCOKMICK SELF BINDER. HAY RAKE. itf pUTTOUCmigER m. mJmm H irtwi -r am IMPROVED HELLER DRILL. Perfect MowiBg MACHINE KNIFE GRINDER. 1 Welsh lot 18 ! -r-n be carried Into the field and attached to Mow ng Machine Whe. I. Send for PeacriptiVfi CM ifM. Apenu wanted in very foui- y. JUL ALLEN CO., 189 Ycter St, NlwYnfc Tit yjSj H-9---HM----------. I f33Efl 1 TlH52wTMS mmf mm mm EAGLE COTTON GIN. WEELL ALL OF THE GOODS ILLUSTRATED. 110 YE. CALL AT OUR STORE AND EXAMINE SAMPLES ON EXHIBITION. ALL KIDS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, COTTON, GRAIN, FER TILIZERS, BUGGIES, CARTS, CARRIAGES AND WAGONS. WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE SIMON PURE L1ME. ! LOW PRICES RULE WITH US. Ilepectfully, BOYDEN & QUIIST. OUR GREAT UNLO A mm- m m mwlrmmm m B I W JreS Is A Fuss on the Carpet. Constantinople, July 6. It n re ported that Montenegrins have crossed thef ron tier in large numbers, and have been victorious in several en counters with the Turks. They now threaten the town of Ipex. Dead in the Water. GEORGE A. THOMASON'S SUDDEN DEATH. A seining party on Thuesday afternoon was suddenly broken up and consterna tion spread among the fisherman by a sad and remarkable occurance. George A. Thomason, together with several others, had been seining in Grant's Creek, near town since morning and at five o'clock was still fishing when Mr. Thomason remarked that there was "no use to try in this hole." Said he, "it is too deep. I am standing on a log aud the water is up to my armpits." Theu he suddenly began to sink and though instantly carried out by his anx ious friends, life was found to be extinct. The deceased had been suffering from a threat of a heart trouble fo r years past and life went out of him but as he had long feared it would, without a warning and at once. George A. Thomason has not lived in vain. He wasoue of the best farmers in Rowan, because one of the thriftiest, and his life and success arc oue long lettsou on industry and brain farming. He was a consistent christian and a God tearing man, aud fortunate indeed would be the commuuity that had many such for its citizens. A JUNE SACRIFICE SALE ! A good second hand Domestic sewing machine for sale cheap. Enquire at this office. 20 PERCENT-DISCOUNT With a determined view of reducing our Stock we shall offer some of the most stupendous bargains ever offered in Salisbury. To us it will be a profit-losing sale. To vou, who will take advantage of this sale, We propose to give every one 20 per cent, discount on every article bought. ON ALL CLOTHING, SHOES, II ATS, SHIRTS it will be one entirely of gain. 20 PER CENT. DI COLLARS, CUFFS & UNDERWEAR, HAND- r.TT7or.c. TiATcmv Tirnxrirs v a USES AND UMBRELLAS. WE PROPOSE TO REDUCE OUR STOCK BY SEPTEMBER 1t, AND OFFER AN IN DUCEMENT TO EVERY ONE WHO WANTS A NICE SUIT, PAIR OF SHOES OR ANY ARTICLE IN OUR LINE. ON AND AFTER JULY 1st WE PROPOSE TO DO arm tfTf ,V lSAll -m-TT .-r . r-.-w.-Pi-oTT nsroo r vr i ii w r - This is Positive, and no Deviation from this Rule. No Goods will be Charged to Any One. M. S, 8R0WN JUNE 25, 1890.
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