LEXIXCTON AID DAVIDSON COUNTY. ALBEUARU AND STANLY COUNTY. NE6R0 SHOOTS WHITE DAN. 800ST OR UOYE. NEWSPAPER MEN AND THEIR1W0RK. ROWAMCASEDiSPOSEOjjOF - Citfefcifrv Uolnlnflr In Walra nn tMt llftlffh bors. Found In Cane Brake. Leilngtos Dispctolu Nov. 24. There will be a re-sale of the Oneida chair property on the 22nd of December, according to an an nounoement in this issue. The bidding will start at $3,767.50. ; Silver Hil.towm hip evidently believes in eood roads. Last Thursday when the special tax election was held. nroDosing 20 cents on the noil, tbe folks voted 65 for the tax and only two - votes were cast against it. The total registration was 95. Last night Dr. L. S. Fox, of Salisbury president of the 18th district, I. O. O. F. delivered an address to the local lodge of Odd Fellows, following which a ban quet was held at the Harkey cafe. Dr. Fox will deliver an address to Odd Fellows to morrow at Smith Grove, Davie county. Wednesday Deput Collector Da vis, of Statesville, andPoliceman W F. Thomason, of this place, went don into Siver Hill town ship on a hunt for a blockade still, and fomnd the remains of one. The still, a copper one, had been removed, but there were 800 gallons of beor and some tubs and other things, all of which waB de stroyed. The man suspected waB not arrested . It is said that he is an old offender and has been do ing considerable business of late. One day last week Frank Whis enhunt, of Conrad Hill, lost a horse at the Hedrick livery stables here as a result of a kick which "the black stallion, owned by Mr. Hedrick, landed on one of the horse's fore legs. The stallion was hitched at the front of the ; stable and Mr. Whisenhunt drove ud behind it within reaching dis tance The stallion kicked and at the first blow the horse's leg pop- . nad and hn want dnwm Shorviinff it was necessary. Mr. Hedrick offered Mr, Whisenhunt a horse or ne l j. 1 iv $zt in money, uu me uuer was refused and lawyers consulted. A Supreme court decision of in terest here was handed down in the case of the oounty commis sioners vs. T. S. F. Dorsrtt, ex sheriff, and bondsmen, last weekA in which the court declared that the bondsmen were liable for equal amounts instead of the amounts they justified . for. Ac cording to this decisaiou, H. Clay Orubb, who signed up for $15,000, and wha was represented by Wal ler & Walser, is no more liable - than any other bondsman, and shares in the payment with the men who signed for $1,000. This point in law had never been de cided in this state, it is said, and there was difference of opinion as to whether a man should pay as much as he justified for on a bond, o equally with other bondsmen. While returning home from court on Tuesday of last week, Julius Hedge, who lives on route 1, Enterprise, had an experience that he is likely to remember a mighty long-time. His horse went mad and had a fit. Not knowing at first what was the matter, he worked with tbe animal, and af ter while it seemed all right again, and Mr. Hedge drove on ; but soon the horse had another fit and then it became apparent that it had dydrophobia, so it was shot. Meanwhile it tried to bite' Mr. Hedge and did seize his arm, but luckily the skin was not broken. Sbme months ago many horses and cattle were bitten in Mr. Hedge's sectio i by a mad dog and it is suoDOsed this horse waB bit- ten then. O. E. MiMer. civil engineer of Salisbury, has been employed by Lexington board of road trustees to do the engineering for the ma oadam roads for which bonds to the amount of $100,000 have been voted. Mr. Miller is a very com peteat engineer, widely known ov er the state, and the opinion is that the trustees could not have done better in selecting an en gineer. Mr. Miller will begin work within two weeks. If the county wishes a map, he will be Sunday Train on the Yadkla. Stanly's Floe Uap by C. E. Killer, of Salisbury. Stanly Enterprise, November 85th, -, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Peeler re turned Tuesday from their Wed ing tour and are boarding with Mrs. I. B. Miller. Miss Sarah W. Staples was the guest from Saturday until Mon day of her friend and former class mate, Miss Emma Brown, of Sal is bury. - Tho reputation of our Contrac tor L. A. Moody is not local alone. He is now building a hfodsome residence in Salisbury for Dr. R. V. Brawley, his second contract in that town. ; A Sunday train will be put on the Yadkin road beginning next Sunday. This action it a result of a delegation; from Albemarle and other points Which, waited up on President FiDley in Salisbury on Wednesday of last week. Jacob Earnhardt, of Richfield, died Tuesday afternoon. He suf fered from fever and other trou bles . He was about "70 years of age, and a prominent citisen of the county. He was the father of J. D. Earnhardt, postmaster at Richfield. Mrs. E. C. Led better died Tues day at the home of her mother, Mrs. Weddington Burleyson, 5 miles west of Albemarle. Her re mains were interred in Canton church cemetery. The infant child of James Fesperman, of Efird Hill, was buried there at the same time. A negro man by the name of Robt. Tatum was killed Friday at the M. C. Reynolds camp just north of town It is said that he got too near the point of explo sion when a blast was sent off, thinking the fuse had . gone out; after being lighted. He was with the original force from Roanoke. - Col, O. H. P. Connell, chief engineer of the Southbound Rail road, states that rails will be laid on the new road by the first of August. The Southbound will in all probability be operating trains in September or October of next year. The new Stanly county map has been published and the first ship ment is now onHhe way and will be delivered as soon as possible. The map is a beauty and not only shows every home in the county with the name of the owner, also every road, creek, bridge, church, school house, etc., in the county ; but in addition shows a beautiful picture of Whitney, also a picture of some of Stanly's largest ootton mills. The map also gives some useful information about the county. This is ' the most com plete and attractive map in the state and Stanly has reason to be proud of it. in position to make one at the same time and at perhaps a sav ing to the county. The trustees have nothing to do immediately about the bonds, but it will not be a great while before arrange ments for marketing them will be made and advertisement for bids fur road construction published . Monday morning about 10 o'clock the dead body of Fred Suggs, tne untortunate young man who had been missing from the cjunty home for several days, was found by Abe Black, in a cane brake some distance below Crotts bridge on Abbotts creek. Readers of The Dispatch will remember that mention and advertisement of his disappearance was made last week. The young man bad been in the county home seven or eight months. He was the son of C. r. Suggs, of Thomasville township' He was mentally unsound and was subject to fits. . It was thought that after he had wandered away from the home, be had suffered an attack and had died in the woods somewhere, and this theory proved correct. However, the coroner. Dr. J. W. Peacock was notified. He, knowing the. circumstances. stated that no inquest was neces sary, and none was held. The body was decomposed slightly, was buried at the county home Monday afternoon. There was not a sign of any struggle around it, and it was lying facedown ward with the hands folded across tne cnest as straight as if some one had laid it out. SontfibMBB Railroad Employe; Dangerously - Wounded Saturday Nlgnt. , Saturday night about 11:45 Sam Peters, a white man employ ed by the Hurcell , Construction Company on the Southbound" railroad as a dinkey engineer, was dangerously shot by apaegro man, and since his been lying in a very precarious condition at his home in the western part of town Walt Parker, a Lexington negro, has been arrested, charged with the shooting. . J The trouble ooourred below the depot, Jn a section where negroes live, ln the "hall," a negro joint below the depot,' theie had been a dance Saturday night, as usual. Chief Hay worth and Offi- oer Thomason made it a rule to close this up befoie midnight Sat urday nights, and had lust empti ed it, and were standing in the street when the shooting occured. They saw the flashes of pistols anoT two balls whistled over their heads?' They ran to the scene as fast as possible and found Peters, with hit companion, J, R. Robin son. Tne negroes bad tied. The officers at once carried the wounded man to the office of Dr. Buchanan, where bis wounds were dressed and he was carried- home. The men stated that- the negro, with a colored companion, had met them, and asked of thewhits men; "What do you want?" It is said that Peters replied, - If I wanted anything I would ask for it. " It is futher stated that Rob inson said, 'Shoot the ," and the negro fired, first at Robinson, missing, and then at Peters, hitt ing him in the right breast, the ball penetrating his lung and lodg ing in .his back. Peters then returned the fire, shooting four or five times, but hitting no one. ThiiIs one rumor of what occur red. There are many and the facts are hard to get. The truth oftfie mlfctfeTvefyl the fact that the negroes resented the presence of white men in that part of town. It is said Peters was drinking. Monday the police arrested Parker and lodged him in jail . They believe they have the right man. Peters is from Chester, S. C. He has a wife and child here. His father is here with him and everything is being done to save him. The chief danger, it seems, is that pneumonia may develop. If he escapes this it is likely that he will recover. Last night the mayor gave Park er a hearing and the evidence was considered strong enough to jartify holding him, according to the opinion of the police, but the mayor reserved his opiuion and will announce it at 10 o'clock to morrow, at which time Parker will either be released or Bent up to superior court. Lexington Dis patch. Editor Sell's Picture. We notice that Editor Sell, of The Cooleemee Journal, is filling part of bis editorial space with a photograph of a nice table, be hind which is seated something resembling a man who has treed a tiger or a squirrel. When the picture first appeared, we took it for our triend Sell, but when he kept it dished out to us every week, we decided that it was an advertisement for the Salisbury fair, setting forth one of the won ders to be seen there. But not s . For behold the fair came and went and still the apparition appears before us every week. We tried running a photograph of our ink waster once upon a time, but it wouldn't work. If Editor Sell would have waited until April he would have conferred a favor up on the tillers of the soil.- Davie Record. Kills Her Foe Of 20: Years. "The most merciless enemy I had for 20 years," declares Mrs. James Duncan, of Haynesville, Me., "waB Dyspepsia. I suffered intensely after eating or drinking and could scarcely sleep. After many remedies had failed and sev eral doctors gave me up, I tried Electric Bitters, which cured me completely. Now I can eat any thing. . I am 70 years old and am overjoyed to get my health and strength back again." For Indi gestion, Loss of Appetite, Kidney Trouble, Lame Back, Female Complaints, it's unequaled . Only F0o at all druggists. Acci- r iwt. T KasaatSclool Concord Tiiaes, IftHMSMas. W. W. Crowell, ot chfield, is fVisiting.. hir ' son-jn-iaw, Walter Ritchie? Mr Crowe iajB2; years of ae, and-only a,jwjmonths.ago had his arm torn 6ff 5f: a saw Rev. W. B: Shinnprho'is a son of J L. Shinn, orgeville, joined the Methodist'fOonf erence atJHickory last week, and wilt be given- an appointment for next year. He has ':. bein ; teachicg school lor a year' "ani half at Nebo. . -.--1 "" Nelson Stirewalt: j the negro who shot and killed John1 Wilson near Harrisburg ten dsy8 ago, was given a preUminary (hearing here last Saturday feeiJ C A; Pitts . He had A rrney "and was committed tpsJU without bail. -- .. - S. Joe Deal, h&ip" "even miles northeast .of ;Mo; resville, last Thursday killed -a pig 8 months and 8 dayWld; weighed 802 pounds.. It waa jcl ; the O . X 0 ."stock, and MriUte thinks it; jaBta little ahead olrlanything in this line he has heard of - Jnst before the opening of the Western North Carolina - Confer ence at Hickory Monday morning; a message was received from Borr dera, Texas, saying that Rev. H, L. Atkins, formerly', pastor of First Methodist ehulch. of Palis bury, was in ar dymg-xondition and could live but a f&wiiours. The public school At rKsnnap- olis began its session' pnthe 15th inst. in the beautiful . new brick school house, with nearly 200 pupUs There were 8i:pnpilB in the first grade. Thre;.are four teachers, namely CI f)ll Caldwell : prinoipal ; Misses 01 e Ccokr Mag gie Efird and, MagosetkETho atndcW'MW&t,rm be necessary to have a fifth teach er. The installation of Rev . L. D. Miller as pastor of St. Martin's and Mt Gilead Lutheran churches will take place on the first Sunday in December. Rev. W. JBoger, president of the Tennesee Synod, will dr liver the charge to the peo ple, and Rev. J. K. Ruth, of Hiokory will deliver the charge to the pastor. Dinner will be served on the grounds, and there will be both morning and afternoon ser vices. Mr. and Mrs . Claude C. Ram say, of Seattle, spent Tuesday in the city with Mr. aud Mrs. Jno. P. Allison. Mr. Ransay is a mem ber of the firm of C. C. Ramsay & Co., insurance and-real estate agents at Seattle. He was rear ed in Salisbury, and is a brother of Jas. H. Ramsay, postmas ter of Salisbury. Mr. Ramsay has been living in Seattle about 15 years, and has done Well there. Last Saturday afternoon about 4 o'clock, as J Archie Cannon was out in his automobile, he started up tbe road leading to Sunderland Hill, when he met Levi Blackwelder coming down the hill in a buggy. The hone began to shy, and Mr. Cannon stopped his madhine. The horse then got quiet, and Mr. Blackwel der requested Mr. Cannon to go on by. Just, as he got opposite, the horse began to plunge and fell over on the machine. He got his leg caught as the auto was going between the fender and the ma chine, and had his leg broken. Although it was in no way Mr. Cannon's fault, he paid Mr. Blackwelder $75 for the horse, which had to be killed. A Scalded Boj's Shrieks horrified his grandmother, Mrs. Maria Taylor, of Nebo, Ky., who writes that, when all thought he would die, Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured him. Infallible for Burns, Scalds, Cuts, Corns, Wounds, Bruises. Cures Fever Sores, Boils, Skin Eruptions, Chilblains, Chapped Hands. Soon routB Piles, 25o at all druggists. nOlIS I4.6K DIVHCU la rMMM Tbe Mercenary Would Hate Yes Lire Be- v yood Ytiur Ueaat and Loose Oat. If you don't like living in your own . town, for the sake of the community get out of itr The lo cal, paper is about an even hun dred times better than the sup port you give it. The town gov ernment is what you make it. The streets are in a far. better condi tion than the returns you made to ihe tax assessor are accurate. Your competitor is just as good a man nanoially and morally as you are. The stores handle just as. good a stock of merchandise as the trade demands. They sell these goods just a little bit cheap er than you can bny them else where. ' :, ... "V - - .The little children are just as happy, the women, just as pretty, the grass is just as green, the flow ers jofit ai fragrant and opportu nities are m ire abundant right at home than any. known spot on the universe. If you are so blind ed by envy, hatred, malice or pet ty jealousies, or you can't do what you have, willed to do at home, go to that place where the environments .are in accord withi your nature. Don't stay in a town - and knock it. If you haven't, the patriotism of your fore-fathers nor the co-operative spirit of the present generation, you are not going to be much of a faotortanywhere. M e r c h a n t's Journal. iThe above is a splendid picture of the average booster's intolera tion, the. "mercenary spirit, the tyrant, but yet a little mild, be cause it contains enough truth to make it take to a certain degree. We do not know of any good reas on why more' drastic language or methods or not taken with the fellow who will not boost. Why not hrng the man who dares fail to boost and boost as the : booster thinks a booster . should - boost? Bang. hlmw&dlAiw if he is even suspected of unnar- monious thought. The life of the town depends upon some such vig orous and effective proceedings. Hang King avid in effigy 865 days in the year for writing the 23rd psalm. Why should a man enjoy a walk beside still waters, lying down in green pastures, or the taking of a moment's rest when hejmight be boosting, chas ing the almighty dollar, making the quiet waters turn wheels and shaking the green pastures by the effects of steam hammers, blast furnaces, and the flight of the lo comotive ; filling the fresh air with the odor of the fertilize factory, the sweat-shop, the fish packery, and making the eyes sparkle with delight with the sight of men breaking rocks in the broiling sun, blowing their lungs away in glass factories and dying in mines? Yes, the mercenary, the boosting mercenary, a cooling, refreshing, quiet, refined being in hose com pany all is serene, "peace be still," and joyful, like the bab bling, uncovetuous brook. Yes, by all means be a booster, if you are not a real estate agent with lots for sale, or a schemer with something to unload on a tender foot, hoost.any way. Boost any thing. Boost taxes, boost high prices, make it impossible for a man of ordinary means to buy a home or live within ten miles of your town. You know when men's incomes do not keep pace with thbir expenses he is becom ing. happy, when his home is en hancing in value he sleeps better, he. feels better, the little addition al cost of keeping up his home, in creased, taxes and insurance, which is going to the other fellow, maker, him still more happy, he becomes attached to his little home and he joins the boosters, and all is well until he finds the enhancing business and the march of his Worship, Progress, orders him sell out, give way to some one who is able to own the place, take a back Beat and reflect on the effects of boosting, wild cat schemes, en hancing values, get ricn, quick, watered stock etc., vs. prudense, conservatism, honorable methods, contentment, etc. Yes, you must be a booster, or you are too utter ly ut for anything. 'Why if you are not a booster it may be you won't get an invitation to a drunken frolic, now-a-days called a banquet, or at the next election of the Zot Wots you will be made feel the cold shoulder of a big porker rubbing against your bud ding aspirations. Yes, you should be a booster, a booster from Boostersvill9, boosting, ever boosting. What Machinery Is tojaod Work Nets pipers are to the Spreading of Information. The following letter we clip from the columns of The' Chris tian Sun . t is from the pen of Rev. W. W. Staley, D. D, pastor of the Christian Church at Suf folk, Va. i The first 'newspaper, The Weekly News," was published in England in 1662, and that is only 287 years ago. The first religious newspaper, the Herald of Gospel Liberty, was published in Ports mouth, N. H., September 1, 1808, mora than one hundred years ago. If one will review the history of civilization and Christianity it will appear that this agency we call journalism has led in human progress. The newspaper is to knowledge what transportation is to commerce. Before railroads and steamboats, the products of the earth were exchanged in small quantities and in small arears; but now ice from'cold regions and fruit's from sunny"climes are ex changed and all the'world contri butes to the local marketBand the dinner table of peasants As'well as kings. This does not only increase the wealth of the world but the sympathy and interest of man kind. The man in Canada is con cerned about the orange crop in F'orida and the pineapple in Cu ba. The exchange of ideas is as important as the exchange of ma terial products. The thought of far-off lands is brought to us on the printed page. We know to day that the Shah of Persia was deposed yesterday and we will know tomorrow whether Persia will be partitioned between Eng land and Russia. A cargo of in formation is transported more rapidly than a.'cargo of wheat and cotton, for muoh of it is sent by , wire. This electric current can carry thought around the world in ehcrttime. ThaQpttDa pers reproduce it, multiply it, and send it forth into every nook and i corner of society . Millions read it and feel the nearness of far away peoples. Our thought is no longer the thought of our neigh borhood, the provincial stock of our local output, but our thought is made up of the thinking and doing of the world. As exchange of products makes us richer and better furnished, bo exchange of ideas makes us wiser and reduces the prejudices of dead centuries. In the Bible we have not only the thought of centuries, but the thought of God. It is this thought that enlightens our spirit ual understanding and enriches our souls. A god of stone can produce nothing but a small cold man; but God of Heaven and earth can enlarge the worshipper until he shall be like Christ As good flowers reproduce the beau teouB oolors of the seven-colored light and the sweet odors of earth and air, so good papers reproduce the intelligence and heart char acter of all ages and all climes. I am writing all this to enquire of the reader whether we apprec iate a good paper. Do we appre ciate the labor, the wide research, the self-denial, the honest effort of the editor who endeavors to spread before us a safe and nour ishing soul-repast? Left to your self how much would you know? Do you not parrot the newspaper and almost forget where you got your last supply? Even so you eat your oysters and do not think of the man who stood on the boat on a cold winter day, when the wind was tossing his barge up and down and, with almost frozen hands tongs up from the bottom of the river those luscious bi valves. No workers are more poorly , paid . than the average newspaper man. - He ransacks his books, his exchanges, his brain, to prepare mental supplies for his readers, and they eat the good food and do not think of the cost. Whoever thoueht of paying a pa per for an elaborate write-up of a marriage, a funeral, a commence ment, a picnic, a revival -meeting, a candidate for office, or anything for which complaints are often Most of the Time of tlia DnldscD Superior Court Trteo up If it. November court broke" Satur day afternoon Rafter 2 o'clock. Few cases were tried during the week, as the last four days- were taken up by one case, that of Worley vs. the Southern, brought nere trom Kowan county, Wor ley, who is a Johnston county man, was a section hand oh 'the Southern, and was injured by a uitt uai &io&ea uv an enmne in shifting. He asked $15,000 dam ages' and the jury gave him $4,500. The case was a hard fought one. There was some grumbling on the part of the other people who had business at court on account of the time consumed fn the trial of vuicj uaao MiU uurj UltlSUil WtyS heard to remark' that he thought the legislature should repeal that law which gives a litigant the right to move a case of this kind from the county in which it origi nates. The, case was regarded as a foreign affair . This same com plaint has been often made and there is some resentment about damage suits being brought : from Rowan to Davidson and taking up so much time that Davidson cases cannot be heard and are put off. -The case of Tussey vs. Owen re sulted m a verdict for Mrs. Tus sey of $900, Mrs. Tussey, a daughter of the late Anderson Owen, sued for $4,000 for servioes rendered during the lifetime of her father. The case has been on the docket for veara and haa benn in the supreme court twioe. At this hearing the estate was valued at $9,600 and $900 was awarded the plaintiff . - A number of cases passed, from the decket by compromise ot non suit. Winston Fulton,. auing;Dr. J. H. Mock on the ground of ali enation ox nis wire's . aiiectiona, aBkinor $25,000 damaffea. tonV' a , auu tuui a case that promised a sensation is gone. Lexington Dispatch. made, if the write-up is not done in the most complimentary style. There is no form of service so lit tle appreciated and so poorly re numerated. The newspaper is ex pected to do what everybody ob jeots to, and all free. I sympa thize with editors, typesetters, pressmen, mailing clerks, and all who work in dens, away from God's sunshine and fresh air; but I honor all the faithful -workers in ink for that black cloud sends bujwbib vi uitsBBiuga upua man kind. Religion has been lifted out of ignorance and prejudice, and charity has taken the place of creeds, and good 'deeds , the place of dogma, since the religious paper has enlightened the church. No good "things come into the family so valuable and so cheap as the church paper; and yet there are members of the church who neglect to take the churoh paper, and seem to be unconscious of disloyalty, and certainly do not dream that they are impoverish ing their souls. Think of your editor, pray for him, read his paper, say a good word for the paper, and cultivate an appreciation equal to its worth. Dr. Cook Completes Report od Dlscoiery. New York, Nov. 24. Dr. Fred erick A. Cook's records in proof of his claim of the discovery of the North Pole, in completed form, are ready for thejscrutiny of the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Cook's secretary is sailing tomorrow, carrying the records; to Copenhagen. He reaches there December seventh. The Univer sity's decision is expected by New Yearsi Dr, Cook's report . con tains 25,000 words. We're sorry if you've tried other medicines and they faied As a last resort try Hollister'a Rooky Mountian Tea. It's a simple remedy, but it's worked wonders, made millions well and happy. Purifies the blood, makes flesh and muscle, cleanses your system. Corenleison & Cook, ,

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