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CHARLOTTE, N. C.V'FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1896.
VOLUME XLI1I. NUMBER 2235
THE
HARLOTTE DEMOCRAT
PUBLISHED EVKEY FBIDAY
Tekms One Dollar in advance; Two Dol
lars on time
o
Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C,
as second class matter, according to the rules or
the P. O. Department.
DRS. McCOMBS & GIBBON,
DESIRE TO INFORM TUE PUBLIC,
That they hava this day entered into a copart
nership for the
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE,
AND
SURGERY.
March 1, 1895.
March 15, 1895.
JOHN FARRIOR,
S 4 HOUTil TRTON STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
DEALER IN
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil
ver and Silver Plated Ware.
IW Special attention given to Fine Watcb
Repairing.
Jan 25, 1895.
BURWELL, WALKER & CANSLER,
Attorneys-At-Law,
kOOMS N08 5, 6, AND 13, LAW BUILDING,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Jan 4, 1895.
DR. E . P. KEERANS,
DENTIST,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office 7 West Trade Street
Nov. 2, 1894
HUGH W. HARRIS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Office, Nos. 14 and 16 Law BuildiDg,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
July C, 1895:
V. I. 08B0RNE, W. C. MAXWELL, J. W. KEERANS
OSBORNE, MAXWELL & KEERANS,
Attorneys at Law.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
OOlces 1 and 3 Law Building.
A' ill practice in the State and Federal Courts
Oct 20, 1S95.
DRS. M. A. & C. A. BJLAND,
Dontists.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
No. 21 Tbyon Stkeet.
Jan 3, 189C
lltillOT CLARKSON. CRAB. H. DULP
CLARKSON & DULS,
Attorneys at Law,
Charlotte, N. C
Prompt attention given to all business in
trusted. Will practice in all Courts of the
rftate.
Office No. 12 Law Building.
Oct. 7. 1896.
H. N. PHARR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office No. 14. Law Building.
Prompt attention to all business intrusted
Special attention given to claims. Practices in
State and Federal Courts.
Jan. 6, 1895.
THE ACKNOWLEDGED
Leading Seeds Are
13UISTS! - BUISTSII
We open ura to.lny, fresh from the grower
Plant only "Buist's Prize Medal Seeds," and
you are su f a crop.
R. II. JORDAN & CO.,
Jan. 19. 1H95. Retail Druggists
GO TO ALEXANDER'S
DRUG STORE,
NO. 210, NORTH TRYON STREET.
"Keeps a well assorted stock of all articles usualy
kept in a Drug House
J. B- ALEXANDER.
Tli- Poor prescribed for free.
April, 8. 1895.
FINEST LOT
Ever brought to Charlotte. This is
no idle boast We have the finest
lotol PRRFUMES in thecity. Rick-
sccker's best iu FANCY Bottles,
Cases, Flasks, etc.. in GOOD shape
for an EL HGANT PRESENT. It
RECOMMENDS ITSELF IT
WILL PAY YOU TO SEE IT.
R. H. JORDAN & CO., Druggists
Doc. 28, 1896
E. NYE HUTCHISON.
FIRE INSURANCE.
Offices 16 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon
Street, up stairs.
Feb. 19, 1895.
QUEEN CITY HOTEL.
In visiting Charlotte,
Don't fail to stop at the Queen City Hotel,
Corner East Fifth and College Sts,
Everything first-class.
RATES, 100 PER DAY.
July 6, 1895. W J MOORE, Prop'r.
Surgical Instruments.
A full line of Surgical Instruments at Manufac
turer's prices. Call and examine them.
EST" Mail orders will be promptly attended to
R. H. JORDAN & 00.
8ept 20, 1895-
The most eloquent words ever written
by Andrew Jackson was the epitaph of
his wife. It is a gem, and was: "Here
lies the remains of Mrs. Rachel Jackson,
who died December 22. 1828, aged 61
years. Her face was fair, her purson
pleacing, her temper amiable and her
heart kind; she delighted in relieving the
wants of her fellow creature. ai.H nnltL
vated that divine pleasure by the most
liberal and unpretending methods. To
the poor she was a benefactor, to the
wretcbed'a comforter. Her piety went
hand in hand with her benevolence, an 4
she thanked her creator for being per
mitted to do good; a being so gentle asd
yet eo virtuous, slander might wound;
but could not dishonor. Even death
when he tore her from the arms of her
husband, could but transport her to the
bosom of her God."
TRUSTEE'S SALE-
Whereas John M. Hanna and Rosa J. TTnnm.
did on the 10th day of January, 1890. execute
ana aenver to Albert It. Shattuck, Trustee, a trust
deed on certain lands in Mecklenburg County,
State of North Carolina, therein escribed, to
secure the turn of $1,( 00, due by t-aid John
M Hanna and Rosa J Hanna to the British &
Am:rican Mortgage Company, Limited, which
said trust deed is recorded in Mecklenburg
County, in Deed Book 69, Page 262.towb.ieb
reference 's hereby made; and whereas default
has been made in the payment of the moneys se
cured by said trust deed; and whereas the under
signed has been duly appoinied substituted tros
tee io the place of said Albert R. Shattuck, as
provided in said trust deed, and has been duly
requested to execute the trust therein contained;
Now therefore notice is hereby given, that un
der and by vinue of the power contained in said
trust deed, I, ihe undersigned substituted trustee,
on Monday, the 6th day of April, 1896, at 12
o'clock M , at the Court House door, in the city
of C harlotte, N C, in Mecklenburg County, will
by public auction sell to the highest bidder for
cash the following described property, viz:
One hundred ('00) acres more or less adjoining
the lands or Mary Barnett, George Elliott and
others, and bounded as follows, to wit: Begin
ning at a Spanish oak on the branch, and runs
north 44 den E 43 poles to a stone, thence north
52 deg W 54 poles to a stone, thence north 61
deg W 59 poles to a stoue pile, thence south 61
deg W 33 poles to a Black Jack, thence south 29
deg W 114 poles to a 60ur wood, thence souih 65
deg E216 poles to a poplar stump on the branch,
thence with the meanderings of the branch to the
beginning.
Said land will be sold to satisfy the debt se
cured by said trust deed, and such title will be
given as is vested in said trustee.
E. T. CANSLER.
Substituted Trustee.
Mch 7, 1896 5w
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
Urder and by virtue of a Deed of Trust ex
ecuted to me by Isom and Jane Torrence. and
registered in Book 86, page 512, etc , iu the office
ot the Register of Deeds for Mecklenburg
county North Carolina, I will sell for cash at the
County Court House Door, in the city of Char
lotte, North Carolina, on Mo- day, the 30th day of
March, 1896. at 12 o'clock M.. that followine lot
of land in the city of Charlotte, bounded and
described as follows: Commencing at a stake,
J. B. Ken's old corner, 300 feet from the inter
section of Myers and Eighth streets on 8th street,
and runs with Eighth t-treet in an eaatarn direc
tion fifty feet to a stake; ihence parallel with
Myers street in a northern direction ninety-nine
feet to a stake; thence in a western direction fifty
feet to a stake in Kerr's line; thence ninety-nine
feet to the beginning same being part of the
Englehard lot and same being house and lot now
occupied by Isom and Jane Torrence and being
conveyed by J. II Wearn and wife to them,
deed dated November 2nd, 192. and duly re
corded. HERIOT CLARKSON,
Feb. 28, 1896. 5w Trustee.
Administrator's Notice
Having duly qualified as administrator of the
estate of John G. Miller, deceased, all persons
having claims against the estate of said John G.
Miller are hereby notified to present to me for
piyment on or before the 1st day of March, 1897.
r this notice will be pleaded in bar ot their re
covery All persons indebted to said estate are
notified to make immediate payments to me.
H. N PHARR,
Administstrator, Estate, J G Miller, dee'd.
Feb. 28, 6w
Administrator's Notice.
Having qualified as Administrator with the
will annexed of Mary Jaoe Giiffln, deceased,
notice is hereby given to all persons having'
claims against the Estate of said deceased to
present the same to me for payment, properly
vertified, on or before the 13th day of March
1897, or this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery.
All persons indebted to the said Estate will
please mtks prompt payment.
This March 12th 186.
M. W. GRIFFIN, Adminstrator,
With will annexed of Mary Jane Griffin, de
March 12th, 1896 6w
FRESH MEATS, GAME.
FINE GROCERIES.
SEE ME
Eefore Selling Your Choice
BEEF CATTLE PORK, EGGS,
CHICKENS, &c.
Always in Market for above.
GEO- S. HALL
Feb 28, I8fc6
ACROSTIC.
T homas & Maxwell for Furniture are renowned.
H onest goods at their store are found.
O riginators of novelties they are. It's true.
M oney on Furniture ihey can save to voo.
A parlor, a bedroom, or a kitchen set;
S niyrna rugs and lambrequins you here can get.
A nd furniture, bric-a-brac, novelties, too.
N ew styles Thomas & Maxwell have for you.
D on't make a mistake on "The Hustler" call
M ost for the least money they ' ffer all.
A n enviable reputation they have won.
X celled in Charlotte they are by cone.
W ondr's bargains in all department bear in mind
E very thing for a home you here will find.
L ook where you will, go where you may.
L eaders Thomas & Maxwell are to-day.
We also keep stoves,
That will bake the finest loaves.
WARM OVER SHOES.
Ladies wool lined plain rubber oveiohoe,
price 50 cents, less than you can buy than any
where in Americx; Ladies plain overshoe
"gold seal" brand every pair warranted,
PRICE 50c.
This overshoe will wear longer than two
pairs of any other, ever made, comes high up all
round, affording more protection fro i mud,
rain; or snow, than any of the fancy styles cdst
ing as much, and not near so good.
LADIES RUBBER BOOTS,
for working garden In early soring, every lad
should have a pair With rubber boots you will
not mind the weather -'so the wind dont blow. '
"PRTfTK tann
Rest stock of shoes in the State. t
Jan. 24, 1896 GILREATH 4CO.
Ever a Song Somewhere.
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,
There is ever a something sings alway;
There', a song of the lark when the skies are
clear.
And the song of the thrash when the skies are
grey.
The sunshine showers across the grain,
And the bluebird thrills in the orchard tree,
And in and out, whe i the eaves drip rain,
Tne swallows are twittering carelessly.
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,
Be the skies above dark or fair;
There is ever a song that our hearts may hear
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,
There is ever a song somewhere !
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,
In the midnight black or the midday blue;
The robin pipes when the tun is here, '
And the cricket chirrups the whole night
through,
The buds may blow and the fruit may grow,
And. the autumn leaves drop crisp and sere;
But whether the sun, or the rain or the snow,.
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear.
There ia ever a song somewhere, my dear,
Be the skies above dark or fair;
There if ever a song that our hearts may hear
There is ever a soog somewhere, my dear.
There is ever a song somewhere 1
James Whiteornb Riley
mm tmmm
Hon. William McKinley.
The Hon. William McKinley, Jr., of
Ohio who now seems foremost in the
ranks of the Republican candidates for
the presidency, was born io Ohio in 1843,
and entered the Union army as a private,
but by successive promotions rose to the
brevet rank of major. He was a captain
on the staff of General Crook when that
crook officer, we should have said
made a raid upon the East Tennessee
and Virginia railroad, and unsuccessfully
attacked Lynchburg. He studied law
after he came out of the army and was
soon elected District Attorney. Next
he was elected to Congress and there
served for fourteen years, then he became
Governor of Ohio. Now, he wants to be
President,. an ambition that is dis
countenanced by W. B. Allison, Speaker
Reed, Lev i P. Morton, and sundry other
Republicans and the entire Democratic
party. It would suit us well enough for
him to be taominated as the tariff would
then become a great issue but we hope
that our own nominee will win the race.
McKinley is running on his personal
popularity r added to his high tariff views,
and the futrtber fact that his name is
plain Will iam (no middle name), though
he is often limeasalled Bill not McKinley
bill, but Bill McKinley. Richmond Dis
patch.
Silver and Gold.
The free -coinage movement will con
tinue to roceive powerful assistance from
fools who make the cause of gold ridicu
lous by tlieir sidy advocacy, says the
Washingt on Post. The gold bugs, if they
keep their eyes open, may see enough to
convince them that the PoBt does not
speak extravagantly. Richmond Dis
patch. WHAT WE WANT.
YOUR WHEAT AND CORN.
Bring It Along!
What We Will Do.
Pay You the Highest Market Price at ajx
times, in cash, for Your Grain, or Exchange
You the Best Roller Flour and Meal for it.
What We Have.
The Best Equipped Mill in the State.
Your Patronage is Desired.
THE MECKLENBURG MILLS,
Charlotte, N. C.
March 20. 1896.
LOOK AT THIS.
TABLES AT
$8 50 8 50 $8 50
$8 50 !
Would not be bad on a table, especially when
you can get a $12 50 Table for on y $8 50 1 That
is just what you get at E. M. ANDREWS'.
The grandest display of
FTJRN I TUBE !
ever shown in our history. The prices, not
withstanding the advance in many lines, are
lower than ever before in our history.
Buying in such large qu antities enables us to get
THE
BEST
PRICE !
We do not buy just one of a
kind, but 10, 20, 40. 50 and 1.000, if the firm has
MADE AN INDUCEMENT !
-.o:- BEAUTIFUL -:o:-
For the little folks Useful, Ornamental, Ap
propriate ! The display is ready. See them
Doll Carriages. Doll Sets, Doll, Bedsteads
Velocipedes, Express Wagoas, Childrend's Desks
Rocker, Chairs, Music Racks and an endless
variety that you mutt see
OUR LEADER IS COUCHES
10, 12, 23.75, 15, 18, 22.50. 25 and $50 They are
WHAT YOU WANT 1
E. M. ANDREWS,
Largest Furniture Dealer in the
STATE.
We Sell Buist's
GARDEN SEED
WARRANTED
Fresh and Pure.
RTT JORDAN & (0
11. JORDAN & lsO9
Prescriptionistf.
Feb. 7, 1896,
Party Intolerance.
Upon both sides of the gold and silver
adherents there is too much rash talk and
intolerance. Some Solomons claim that
they alone have solved the financial mys
tery, and silver is a sole panacea for all
our pecuniary ills, and abuse those whe
do not accept their intolerant dogma.
Then some gold men call all friends of
silver "silver cranks" seeking to debase
our currency, ruining our financial sys
tem. These forget there are two sides
to the gold-silver shield. -
Some democrats of North Carolina
threaten to bolt if gold ia not the stand
ard, others will bolt if the silver plank is
not in the platform. This is intolerance
that bodes no good for democracy. This
invites dissension, strife and defeat and j
shows more zeal than wisdom. We can
not all see alike nor think alike. There
must be mutual concessions and bowing
to the will of the majority. Kickers are
becoming too numerous and quarrelsome.
They wish to rule, or ruin. They say "I
will bolt if
Now this is wrong." Submit to the
majority. The Aurora never bolts. If
silver or gold is the slogan of battle, the
Aurora will never bolt. It has its own
views on the currency, but when the con
vention speaks, the leaders are chosen
and the battle drawn, the -Aurora will be
still in the democratic ranks. Shelby Aus
rora.
For Reflection.
A friend picked up the following some
where and placed it in our hands. It
contains food for reflection. Bead it and
meditate upon it:
Do you know That genius is simply
the power of making continuous ef
fort ?
You know That the line between fail
ure and success is so fine that you scarcely
know when you pass it, so fine that you
are often on the line and do not know it.
-You know That many men have
thrown up their hands just at a time
when a trifle more effort, a little more
patience would have brough success.
You know That when the tide goes
clear out,and when it comes back it comes
clear in.
You know When business prospects
are darkest, that often they right on the
turn, and that a little more effort on what
seemed hopeless failure will turn to glori
ous success,.
Everybody lows That there) is no
defeat except from within you, and no
insurmountable barriers save in yourown
Inherent weakness of purpose.
You know If your name is not record
ed on the muster roll of heroes who did
their whole duty in building up your
town and community it will be your own
fault.
We all know That to reach the highs
est possibilities possible your best efforts
must be exerted from this hour and con
tinued without a moments cessation to
the end. Will you be one who will do It?
When you wade right in fully deter
mined to succeed, it means dollar3,honor
able mention.
When you make no effort save to grum
ble and wait for something to turn up It
may mean cents, not sense, hardly a
rough stone to mark your jesting
place.
If there is one statement in this that
is false or exaggerated, please point
it out. If it is all true paste it in your
bat and read it daily. Try to get it into
your head. Winston Sentinel.
The Sin of Luxury.
If a man, passing down the business
street of any city, will glance in the
show windows of any store he will have
a revelation of the luxurious life of our
day. In the vasts heaps of merchandise,
necessities rational necessities make
small claims. The most unnecessary
tastes have grown up among us, and our
energies are exhausted to supply . their
vicious calls, Women wearing diamond
rings and bangled bracelets, and wrap
ped in cumbrous luxury, haulf poodle
dogs from one end of the land to the
other. Fashion books 5U for morn
ing dresses, evening dresses, walk
ing dresses, reception dresses, iall-room
dresses, bicycle pants and - 'bathing suits.
The other fixtures that go along with
these are more extravagant. 2" he luxs
urious folly of a woman's wardrobe at a
summer watering place is the height of
economic vulgarity. A glance at an
ordinary congregation assembled to wor
ship God reveals a mass of luxurious
pride. A hundred thousand dollars to
say nothing of millions of dollars spent
ia a residence where abide only ordinary
flesh and blood; thousands of fancy horses
tea thousand dollars spent for a sealskin
cloak; fortunes paid for unnecessary ser
vants, who pander to indolence and sen
eaalitv are the luxurious crimes toward
which the spirit of the world tends.
President KV-ao. in Southern Christion
Advocate
-:oS PRING HARD W A R E-:o:-
We are selling the only
RIVETED COTTON HOE
on the market, and it would Pat
you to examine our stock.
THE GENUINE
DOW1AN COTTON PLANTER
always gives satisfaction and is
the one for all farmers
to buy.
TURN PLOWS
OB ALL DKSCTtirnOJSS,
Plow Shapes, S weeps, bingle-Trees, Back Bands,
Trace Chains
-:o:- and a complete stock -:o:-of
HARDWARE.
Call in and see us.
J. H. WJ5DDINGTON & Co.,
Old Stand, 29 E. Trade St.
March 13, 1896.
Southern Development.
The South bad a splendid opportunity
to advertise itself at the world's Fair, but
it did not embrace the opportunity. Mil
lions of people were there who would
nave been impressed with the products
and resources of the Southern Slates.
The Southern people have not been
appreciative of their manifold natural
advantages. They have not been alive
to the advantage of climate and natural
products nor do the wealth that will cer
tainly follow from their development.
IS either the btate governments nor the
railroads nor the people, except in one
or two States, have ever manifested the
elighest interest in the benefits of immi
gration. The people seemed to act upon
the idea that they had a erand principal.
ity, and they wanted to keep it for them
selves and their children. This has al
ways impressed us as & narrow and "un.
wise policy. The time has come to change
it.
The west and Northwest and the Pas
cine have been developed in the last
thirty nve years The railroads nave
settled millions ot people in these States,
and the sections named have been ex
ploited to the fullest extent. The tide of
immigration that flowed to the West for
more than a generation is now turning in
the direction of the South. It depends
upon our own exertions how strong the
current shall flow southward.
The people who have settled in the
Northwest the hardy settlers who
braved the rigors of climate and con
quered the wilderness are looking anx
iously to the Sontbern states. They are
tired of living in a country where the
winter continues from September until
June. They have the four seasons in
the Northwest June, July and August,
and winter.
The Atlanta Exposition was a magni
ficent display of the progress, products
and resourses of the Soulbibut the people
of the west and Northwest were not there
in large numbers to see our wealth of
natural bounties. We would not discount
the advantages that will flow from the
Atlanta Exposition, for they will be very
substantial in many ways for years to
come. They will stimulate a growing in
terest in Southean development. If the
South's exhibits at Atlanta if the Geor.
gia, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama
products and resourses could be trans
ferred to Chicago,the people of the West
and Northwest would be surprised and
delighted at the marvelous products and
undevloped weatlh of the States named
The South missed a great opportunity in
not being tuny represented at the worlds
Fair. Chicago now extends another in
vation to the South. This should be
gladly accepted. Let it be remembered
that Chicago is in the centre of popula
tion of the United States. On Chicago
Day at the World's Fair there were over
over 750,000 people on the grounds, as a
great pumper were at .the Atlanta r air
in 100 days.
Ihe .National Democratic Convention
meets in Chicago July 5. Delegates and
prominent citizens will be there from all
over the Union. Let the South place its
products of the fields, forest, mines and
factories there on exhibit for sixty days,
and the result will be an immigration and
a development unprecedented in the his
tory or this country. Augusta Uhronicle.
How to Raise Revenue.
There are about 250,000 liquor dealers
in the United States. An addition of $5
to the . internal revenue license of each
would yield $1,250,000 a year of addi
tional revenue.
There are 21,293,124 gallonsof wine
and spirits consumed annually in the
country. An addition of ten cents a
gallon to the tax would yield a revenue
of $2,129,312.40.
There are 91,036,319,222 gallons of beer
drunk in the United States every year.
An extra tax of five cents a gallon, which
would not add at all to the retail price,
would yield a revenue of $51,815,961 a
year.
The government needs the money.
Every cent paid in BUch taxes would go
into the Treasury, which is not true of
any tariff levy. Such taxes would not
lay any burden whatever upon consump
tion. They would not ada one cent to
any man's expenditures for the necessa
ries of life. They would make good the
revenue deficiency and provide amply
for Ihe fortification and arming of our
coasts.' New York World.
Black Vesper's Pageants.
So SDeaks SbakesDear of those dark soms
bre clouds that we often see before nignt.
They fortell a storm. Just as surely do
functunal irregularities and "female des
rangements" fortell a life of suffering or
an early grave, lie warned by the symp
toms. Thousands of once afflicted women
have driven away disease and death, by
taking Dr. Pierce's favorif,e prescrip
tion send for the doctor's lares treatise,
( 168 oases') on diseases of women. It is
profusely illustrated with wood .cut and
colored plates and will be sent .to any
address for ten cents in stamps sealed,
secure from o observation, by the world's
Dispensary Medical Association, iJuffalo,
N. Y.
None Better.
When neonle talk about there beinir a
better State than North Carolina, every
potato slightly winks its eye, every cab
bage shakes its head, every beet gets red
in the face, every onion feels stronger,
every oat field is shocked, rye strokes its
beard, corn sticks up its ears, and every
foot of land kicks. The horses even de
nnnnnn tha statement with a neizh and
the printers grab their shooting stick).
Durham Sun.
Condensed Testimony-
Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manufacturer's
Aeent, Columbus. Ohio, certifies that Dr King's
New Discouery has no tqual as a Cough remedy.
. D. Brown, Prop St James Hotel, Ft. Wayne,
Tnii to&tifiM that he was cured of a Cousrb of
two years standing, caused by La Grippe, by Dr.
King's New Discovery. B. P. Merrill, Bald
winaville, Mass , says that he has used and rec
ommended it and never knew it to fail and
would rather have it than any d ctor, because it
always cures. Mrs. Hemming. 222 X. 25th 8t,
Chicago, always keeps it at hand and has no fear
cf Croup, because It idstantly relieves. Prte
Trials Bottles at Burwell & Dunn's Drug
Store.
Highest of all in Leavening
Mm
Mecklenburg's Property.
What the County is Worth According to the
Tax Returns of 1894.
Here is Mecklenburg's statement,
which will appear in the State Auditor's
report :
STATIC AUDITOR'S RIPOET FOE MECKLINBCRQ
COTJNTY POB 1894.
Z. T. Smith, Sheriff.
STATE TAXES.
Number. Valuation.
322,022 acres of land $2,680,554 $5,897 22
3,798 town lots 2,875,492 6,326 08
2,486 horses 123.442 271.57
3,995 mules 189,093 413 81
10 jacks and jennies 667 1.47
131 goats 140 31
9,612 cattle 97,622 214.77
11,107 hogs 28.107 6183
1,545 sheep 1,492 3.28
Value of farming uten
sils, household fur
niture, ete 373,435 821.55
Money on band or on
deposit 211.335 464 94
Solvent credits .. 736,943 1,621.27
Stook in incorporated
companies 985,449 2,167.99
Other personal pro--
perty 773,007 1,700.62
Total valuation $ 9,075 777
$57,335 gross income and profits. .286 63
Theatres 7D.00
Traveling theatrical companies .... 10,00
Lectures 3 00
Circus or menagerie 100 00
Companies or persons giving exhi
bitions, etc 40.00
Sideshows 25 00
Billiard saloons 120.00
Public ferries, toll bridges, etc 6.05
Livery 15 50
Merchants or other dealers 946.76
Dealers in spirituous liquors. 121.50
Liquor dealers, 2d class 200.00
Marriage licenses J7Z.00
Subjects unlisted 32.24
Total general taxes $22,320.44
PENSIONS.
Polls, $3,025 26, property, $565.20
Total 3.588 ti
SCHOOL TAXES.
3,562 white polls, $5,476 58; 2,070
colored, $3,182.63 8,659 21
Bank stock 483.58
Railroad property 1,254,78
General property, white, $14,122.-
39; colored, $398 95 14,521 24
9 dogs 9.00
Total school taxes $24,927.81
COUNTY TAXES.
County purposes 22,652.78
Roads, $7,460.82; convicts, $18,
292.06. "
T?6taf 25,752 88
Special county taxes'. ........ . 22,356 97
Total county taxes $70,762.63
Value ot real and personal pro
perty enlisted by whites .... $3,633,979
Value of real and personal pro
perty listed by colored 247,183
Value of real bank stock 309.580
Value of real railroad property 713,338
Who Was Llnooln's Father.
A Staitlipg Story that he was John O. Cal
houn's Son.
In the course of a communication to the
Lexington Dispatch entitled, "The Hand
writing of tiovernment or Man, by Mr.
D. J. Knotts, the following story is told:
"Whatever we may think of Abraham
Lincoln the world gives him a place
among the great heroes of the past. To
me there is something instructive in tbe
life of this man. In bis life and labors
there is to me a lesson of warning. His
birth, lite, elevation and success indicate
to me very strongly that he was a great
man on a great occasion. Whatever
historians may have written about the
birth and lineage of Abraham Lincoln
history will some day state facts as they
are. w nen written tnis nistory win say
that he was the son of John C. Calhoun,
and that in lineage ana blood be was a
South Carolinian, but not by birth.
"A young laly whose name was Nancy
Hanks, who was born and raised a few
miles from Mr. Calhoun's home, was his
mother. She was a lady of fine physical
outline and for whose worth and
qualities Mr. Calhoun is said to have bad
crreat respect and admiration, lie was
then comparatively a young man and the
feeling between them was said to be strong
but Mr. (Jalbouo was already a married
man. She moved West under guidance
of a man of intelligence and worth
selected by Mr. Calhoun. Poor Nancy
Hanks thus leaves her native land and
makes ber home among strangers, with
strong conviction uppermost in ber
troubled mind. Soon afterwards she
married a poor man in her Western home,
whose name was Lincoln. He who gave
the name of this offspring was not bis
father.
"She thus left her home and kindred
and thus became the mother of the great
President of the United states. Her
kindred are still in Anderson County,
and one of her brothers is still alive and
commands the respect of bis countrymen
for his sterling .virtues, and is a man of
very much Abraham .Lincoln s command
ing appearance. For little Abe his borne
was not happy and to him Jordan was a
bard road to travel. But these trials and
difficulties only developed bis faculties
and energy for tbe issues of this great
future..
"Possibly Mr. Calhoun thought he was
making the best disposition of a serious
matter, but the pat has revealed tbe fact
that be was paving tbe way for a child
whose life work would result in laying
the life work of bis father on tbe scaffold.
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
idling?
He prepared his own execution.
"b rom nullification in 1832 till secession
n 1860 the influence of the life and labors
of John C. Calhoun wasjto engraft a dis-
oyal fueling to the American flag, which
culminated in 1860 in what we can now
see was tbe foolish act of secession and
that usless and bloody war. Secession
placed us on that billowy sea and we nave
reaped a rich harvest for our sowings; and
while I am proud of the record of the
Confederate soldier I am sure no greater
disaster could have befallen us than for us
to have gained our independence."
Our Common Schools.
s their Work Any more Thorough or Efficient
Than It Used to Be.
It is a fact that will readily be con
ceded, that the great majority of chil
dren, especially in the country, must de
pend upon 6uch facilities as are afforded
by the common schools for an education.
Not only is this true of the present time;
but it has been true of the past, and, in
the very nature of things, it is safe to
conclude that it will be true of the
future. For obvious reasons, oom paras
lively few parents can avail themselves
of the superior advantages of the high
schools. These inseitutions exist for the
benefit of the favored few.
We live in an age of progresss, so
called. Measured by the standard of our
common schools, are we progressing ?
How does tbe present school system
compare with that of our fathers, or of
our grandfathers even f Those were
backwoods times. Everything was in a
rude and primitive state. Few books
were used. Webster s blueback speller
was an acknowledged authority. School
commenced early in the morning, and
was continued to late in the evening.
Discipline was rigidly enforced, yea at
tbe point of the rod. Children then went
to school , in order to study and not
merely to recite. What was the result of
this system of teaching ? As far as it
went, it was good. It embraced, ot course,
only what was termed an "English
course.
Now everything has undergone a. com
plete change. New books, new methods,
new rules. Is tb.3 change lor tbe better r
We can only iudge by the results. Are
tbe children of today, who are made the
happy receipients of modern methods
and improved facilities, better, educated
than their lathers who received instruc
tion at the old field, log school 40 years
ago? Nay, verily ! As a ruld, our
fathers and mothers are better educated
than their children.
Take the average man whose education
was obtained at the old field, common
school, 40 years ago, and you will find
that what he learr.od be learned.
thoroughly. He writes legibly; makes
ordinary business calculations accurately,
reads intelligently and possesses a praoti
cal, if not technical, knowledge of grams
mar. Many of them in turn became good
teachers.
Now. how about the modern common
school graduate ? They are scattered all
over the land. Every reader of this arti
cle is acquainted with dozens' of them
who are woefully deficient in tbe rudi
ments of an education. How many boys
and girls who have attended only the
common schools are capable of teaching
an ordinary country school T My aes
quaintance with such may be unfortu
nate; but I know of none, ibis, bow-
ever, may be traceable to the high stand
ard of competency that obtains in this
respect. If it is true that "a little educa
tion is a dangerous thing, etc," then
there are multitudes who are in indeed
in imminent danger. This is not written
so much in a spirit of criticism as bf
inquiry. j w. s. a.
Yorkville Enquirer.
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Girls In Cuba. -A
Cuban girl's life U vc;ry restricted,
and she is never allowed to go out alone
or recehricaller8 of the other sex, ex
cept in tbe presence of ber chaperon or
some member of her family; It during
ber childhood she attends a day school,
a maid or some member of the family
takes her there every day, and she can
not go as short a distance as across the
street unaccompanied.
In some instances Spanish customs are
absurd and " incongruous. Every well
fitted establishment in Cuba is provided
with a concierge, to guard the entrance
and admit callers. This man usually an
ignorant peasant, sometimes escorts the
young ladies of the family he is serving,
and that is considered perfectly proper,
where as it would not be proper for them
to go out attended by a gentleman, even
if he were old enough to be their father,
and an old friend of tbe family as well.
Of late years, however, the frequent
intercourse between Cuba and the United
States has somewhat modified the cus
toms. For instance, two ladies can now
go out alone in Havana in tbe day time,
which would have been considered an un
heard of and almost shocking proceeding
t. few years ago. , -
The social pastimes a girl enjoys in
Cuba consist of balls, parties, concerts,
receptions, tbe theatre and opera and
picnics, for Cubans have adopted this
American diversion, although in modi
fied form, to suit ' the requirements
of the Cuban etiquette. Exchange.
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