rn mm 1 -: 4 m' 'V ill liner JLJL H J V QTTTHP T A TT T) A ATno A ATT A nr x UNDERWEAR INCLUDED IN THIS SALE. U and Underwear at 1 ! fin TnmTTB " flin , trices that -v f II ... leu T71 TX Suits s nne jjress Business Suits, Frocks In every Stylo of Goods ; Worsted, Cassiniers, Tweeds. Cheviots, &c , &c JUST SEE WHAT THIS" MEANS: V. 25.00 Suits, 1-4 off now 1-20.00 " T-4 " 15.00 " 1-4 " 12.50 1-4 " 10.00 " 1-4 " -?;5D - "1-4 a 18.75 15.00 11.25 9,38 - 9.50 i 5.68 DISCOUNT, OR 1-4 FROM Regular Selling Prices. All Winter Urfcfcrwear AT 1-4 OFF SHIRTS AND DRAWERS. IT WILL PAY YOU To Replenish Your Stock. All Goods Sold at These Pri ce's will ho for IKS'. NICE ROUGH WE HAVE ALSO ABOUT FIFTY AND READY CHILDREN SHORT PANTS Age, 6 to 16 years. Have. one Vio and tliree of a kind, "broken lots." You can now iret one of these Suits at 25 Per Cent'Discourit or 1-4 off. SUITS get $8 50 Suits, 1-4 off now 7.50 ' ' 6 50 ' " 5.00 " " 4.00 " 1-4 tt ii $6.28 5.63 .4.88 3.7S 3.00 Have only a few left and first comes will get the 750 pairs Men's and Boy's Extra Pants, 1-4 off. v. We don't intend to arry over one dollars worth of Winter Goods if prices have anything to do with it. Hence this ejfbrmous cut. uome m ana igi us snow you wiiat we wiu ao, M liR.OVVN 23Ej31GBF2S5 1ST O Caroina Watchman. . CITY AND, COUNTY, Rowan and ml th3 5 News ia i Vicinity. THURSDAY, FEB 2. 1S(J3. MEETI3G CALLED. All the 'securities on the note due for thv Watchman audits outfit are rcque t eJ to meet in' the Watchman office Tues day Feb.' 7th; .-"Let all interested' attend. Tiie lpcul editor makes this announce ment o;i proper authority.-. 152 students are enrolled at-DIvidson College. A. new fouce is to 'be erected around the com t house and jail. Say ! How do- you I ke fhe print of 4be Watchman this-Aveek? Tiie McGibenv Family will exhibit at Meroney's Hall Friday night. Iii the white Graded School at States ville there are 575 pupils. . ' Mr. W. A. Flies is cfecting a new res i lence on his lot hijEast 'Salisbury. Tiiere 1 was a large crowd ot Country people iti town last Saturday. Mr. W. C. Fesperman, of Zeb, dieil January 17th. aged about 55 years. The Alabama Senate'lias refused to vote a pension to Mrs. Jefferson Davis. The Washington ball wss held at the St James Hotel Wednesday .evening. St, Yalehtinewith his "purty picturs" will come along the 14th cfjhis month. Mrs. Patsy Meroney. of Linertv, Davie ominiv rlVftil rppft-ittv at the ureat asre off .- .j! fc ) o 'jl years. " The inauguration of . President Cleve land, it is said, will be imposing. 20,00o soldiers will be iu line. Mess. Frazier and Chcely will put a iiftw ifntU oProods in tlie storeroom re cently vacated by I. Bluraeuthal. The Hawiian Islands want.tobe an nexed to the United States- The gov- . t unint there is ovevthovrn. Mrs. J. L." Lindtsav, ot South River, kfor sometime . died ; last Tuesday 7. olclock n. m. Ex Governor Thomas M. llolt will de liver the liferary address at the com weuctnieut of DavicW College next Juno, ' - " ! The work ef remoddling the Boyden old hotel property is bein .vigorously pushed. Proprietor McCandless is de termined to make a daisy out of this hor til, and will have it complete as car y ca j possible. , : Mr. T. W. Earnhart is still confined to his room by sickness. In. .his absence Mr. S. J. Swicegood is atteudin to his store. Editor J. D. Bivins of the Stanly News made the Watchman a pleasant call last Monday, lie was returning from a trip to Charlotte. Some leeks atJT. F. Young's store re minded us of IloJy Writ where it, says the captive Jews longed for the leeks and onions iu Egypt. ; Mrs. A. A Smith, near Cleveland, Ro wan c.rmnty, mother of F. S. Smith and Mrs. Luther Brown, of Concord, died Wednesday niht from pneumonia. Mr. L Blumcnthal will not we learn move to New York nshas been stated. He only closed out his goods and he will remain in Salisbury. Messrs Hutchinson & E.trnhardr,cabi neUworkmen, repairers, jiainters, etc., are in the Core building on Fisher street, Mr. G. V. Farmer, a clever citizen and a firs:-eliiS3 painter of this city, left last Thuisday for Savannah, Ga., where le has secured a good position. The family of Mr. Farmer will follow him srou. The firm of Whitlock & Wright4 shoe dealers in this city, sold a pair of shots Jast week to a lady at Chapel Hill. A long distance to command trade, but good goods, and right prices never fails to tell the tale. , M. E. Blnlock and, son, of Norwood, was inrthe city luesday. M. K. Blalock is one of Stanly county's most progres sive citizens. Among other enterprises ho is manager of the roller flouring mills of that place. The weather has been verv plesant this week notwithstanding some fellow has predicted another, big snow the bijrsrest of the season. We hone this pro phet will move to a coldiclimate and take the snow with him. Mountain wagous loaded with apples cabbage and eegs, were on the street here last week. We'll waer a uickle that the hardy mountaineer is the hap piest man in America. What, with his cabbage and apples, his beef and pork, his milk and honey, does he care for the cold formalities of conventional life The trnth is "be boards at home and lives at the same place. M. S. Brown, clothier, fcas a large and atti active a l. in this week's Watchmanr Mr. Brown is an energetic business man and carries a full line of ready made clothing. He has determided to cU r out his winter stock and now olfers spe cial barsrains to' purchasers. Read his ad carefully then go and m;ike your pur chase and save money. Dont Take It for Granted. Merchants and business men (oo often take it for granted that they will be found out without telling the the public what they have to sell. Don't take too much for granted. Bitter tell the people you tre in business tor their trade and not set around waiting for some one to come in. Burlington News. near Main street. Mr. Eli Rotan, who lives beyond Sho ber's bridge, is in a critical state of health and it is not expected that lie can survive but n short w hile. I .vd Schumati, a ciliz.u of Tennessee, murcifd his lw hihlren and then kill u I himself Jan". 30 h. was financially e.abai r.issed, and -it" isthought he was insane. - Wednesday, wss ground hog day. If be ci-awleu out and then returned to r s lole, the knowing ones declare that six week's more of seve:e weather will fol ow. . .. Rogers Clothing Co. has a, new ad. in thi week's Watchman. . Look it up and peruse it. This firm carries a slashing stockof ready, made goods and will give you bargains. - Yesterday (Wednesday )vas warm at d delightful as pleasant as a bine bird-in the month of May, but some fellow, of course, pronounced it onJy a "weather breeder". " . Mai: W. M. Robbins, ot Statesville, was in the city last Monday night on hi way to. Washington. Maj. Robbins Well deserves the appointment of Miuister to Mexico. V lpnrn hnt. Sir N. K -lc nil( tes'. lias ordered a $600.00 omnibus to be rca dy for his new and magnificent hotel ! when it is'completcdv An omnibus is a -jrehice that Salisuury h?s long needed. ' Mr. W. P. Stallings, the veteran auc-tici;nj-, k netted down scveraljots ol to bacco this weekat the FarmerSvWa-re house. The prices were good and the farmers went home with smiles on their faces. . j. . ; ...... Mr. T. F. Young, a merchant of this city bought last year over $1100, wrorth (f butter from one man. The man who Slid the butter is Mr. J. M. Harrison, of Mill Bridge, one of Rowan county's most progressive farmers and stock raisers. John W. White, daughter of Mr. R Tlnee men w re fiozen to death near New Bern, a few nights ago. They spent the night on a capsized boat. Another of the purty attempted to swim ashore and was drowned. Two others were rescued nfter being exposed fifteen hours. or Charlotte, J. Holmes, of Mrs. N. C, this city, died last Saturday G o'clock, a, m. Her burial occurred Sunday follow ing. Mrs. White was a highlv esteemed lady and had hosts of friends iu Salisbury her old .home. Mr. -Willis Parncll, for some months past as compositer in this office has retired Mr. Parnell is a clever voting ruan,,aud the Watjchraan extends to him its best wishes. Mr. O. P. Stallings, an expert printer of long experience is now formanizing the Watchman ofiice. Ms. Julius Earnhardt, that clever mer chant who does a lively trade on Inuiss street, has a quantity of mighty pretty white corn "for sale. Earnhardt can fur nish the corn and Marable, next door- bolow keeps pork, so if you want "hog and 'hominy," these gentlemen can sup ply you. Fatal shooting affair at China Grove: Thursday evening of last week J. W bechler was shot and killed by a pistol in the hands of J. V. Bolin.- Both men were drinking and it is said that an old gruuge exisieu oeiween mem, njowever proof was lacking that BoUn shot on pur p se. Coroner E. Rose Dorsett held an inquest over the dead body and the jury Aftr Kearinj the evidence returned their verdict: "That Jacob W. Sechler came ...- - - to hi3 death accidently by a pistol idiot fron tlxc hands of James W. Bolin,." " lELKGR Al'IilC BEE VI TIES i Waverly, Kan. Two masked rob bers en ten d the baiili here -md cover ing the cashiers proceeded to help themelve-. A depositor gave the alarm and the robbers were captured by a posse, but not until a citizen was killed. Begun. A' fire which broke out .... i i ii i yesteid.it uttHrnoon in tne cellars or lie new Central Market here was not .-.ubdued until G oV.qck this morning. fhe structure was cotun'etely guttea. Loss SOUpA'Oannrks ($500,000.) AuGUSTAi O .0 i application of II. King and others, Judge H. O. ltoney, of Richmond county Superior Court appointed J. Averill, of South Carolina temporary recpifenVF the ljorg a por tion of the Port Royal and Augusta railroad. Paris. At a medium ol the senator belonging to the Democratic section of the left, it was resolved to lequest'M. Bourgeois, minister of justice, to cause a search to he made of the nsidences of Audiie and DeLahaye with a vte'.v of finding lists of the persons compro mised bv ihe Panama scandal. New York. S. B. Dale, nTw presi dent oE the Piovisiun-.J government of Hawaii, is "a son of the late American missionaries to Hawaii, is a gradu de of William College and has been second If you are ever hit by a bolt of lightning you nee 1 not be surprised if you are killed, for a Germin pcienlist who has leen experimentitiK says a holt of lightning strikes with a force of 3,500,000 volts, equal to the concen trated energy ot 3.2S4,182 horses or mules. Imagine that many mules amalgamated into one, and tlv t one planting his heels with th afo:esa;d energy on one poor mortal, and think where and with what celerity be would land in the kingdom come. ton Star. -Wilming- Buda Pestii, Jan., 28 Fifty-seven men caught in a coal mine at Tokand Gran, yesterday, escaped by way of a long unused shaft. There are seventy three nienstiH in the mine. They are beyond all doubt de.vl, as tlie whole interior of the mine is a roaring furnace, and it would have been im possible for them to have found shel ter from the flames. Two of the vol unteer reserves lost their dives. Alto gether about one hunureji men hare perished in the disaster. WLca Baby wss sick, we gave her C&storla. When she was a Child, she cried for CastorUk Wbes. toie oecamo Mlsa rhc clunr to Castor!, Wt?a she had Children, she garetnem Csstona, Wer arc still at our old stanh on "Main street, where we hnve a select stock of Watches, Clock Spectacles, and all kinds of Tint Jewelry on hand at the loWu prices. Watch repairing a specialty. All work guranteed 12monU J. iu H. HORAE, TTTT1 A XT CI A U I fx I 1 1 I I 1 vv m r Pi r i i i i i n u jlx La 1 4 ' Some journalist having started the report that a Missouri girl kneads lr;ad with her "loves on, an rstn-mrd cross-roads contemporary rises to re mark so do we. We also need it wilh our shoes on, with our panfr im, and with all our clothes on. We need it d(g-goned bad, but if our delinquints wtniH pay up, we could buy bread enough to run a baker shop. Concord Standard. , . . In Fine Clothing Valises, &c , &c. Overcoats, Hats, We are ShirtsV Trunk. Maybe, if we did not have so many good "North Carolinians building up other States, the fields here would blos som , as the ros s maybe if the "dis persed abroad" had been more patient, to nfi!iz3 the advantages of their jWn State it would be farther on in pro cress and process of material d ment. Certain it inai. euons If Oi l associate justice of the supreme cmirt-j afc jlom wnich fc.jiey hyeso b Hawaii. He is a selioiany man oi K-i prettiest "l)ur-in.hand,, evcr slimvif iu iell rv. ClKice fur 2f cts. of acVnowlcdged judicial Kbility. LakeWood, N. J. Mr. Cleveland left here for New York early this morn He wH it return till late to ni'dit. as he has conMerable business to dispose of. He will meet several ly put forth to build thamselve up in a new and untried country would have accomplished much in placing hriU atrolina in the van of the common wealths of the Union where she be- in the diversity of soil ana in 1 r n V5 Hdant'abilitv to the growth of all kind western politicians, who wireo Uitu j ur nVOducU m the snlubnty ot cuiU'; last nirht they would be in New lork I nn ; its fortunate geographic pi to-day. The political conference of leaders here Monday may be postponed ,!.. .1.1 v CvXTx--( lllorifl Itl-iii'iu t funeral. - : . . - i . . . ....i.ii... it. lion,- th:s btate is no yiuhmic...m ... the most favored position of the West or the Golden Coist.-Char. Observer. OUP COME AND SEE US IN elegant new quarters. Next door to & Wright. "You'll to couui on. EOGEUS Clothing He SAU3BUBr,N C ; - .FINE ttOTHlii;