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Our aim is. to make the Times a first-class General Newspaper, suitable for those who live in cities as well as those wlio live in the country. TniS PAPER IS ENDORSED ' BY THE FARMERS ALLIANCE Mecklenburg County. xtiw YOLi I. CHARLOTTE, N. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, J889. NO. 4. ! ! OYNE & BADGER, leading jewelers ' and opticians. OpjKisiti Central Hotel, " . CHARLOTTE, N. C. ''AS A SPECIAL INDUCEMENT ' . We offer to any member of the y farmers'' alliance " ' A STEM WIND GENUINE AMERICAN MOVEMENT SOLID SILVER WATCH FOR $10.00 GUARANTEED A CORRECT TIME PIECE. THIS OFFER GOOD FOR .30 DAYS ONLY - FROM DATE. JANUARY 1st, 188 DR. II. M. WILDER, PHYSICIAN" AND SURGEON. Office over Burwell & Dunn's drug store. J R. E. C. . REGISTER, OFFICE IN BELMONT HOTEL, TRADE STREET. Calls promptly; attended to. HERIOT CLARKSOX. CHARLES -H. DULS. CLARKSON & DULS, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, . OFFICE IN" LAW BUILDING. Prompt attention to all business" in trusted. Claims collected. - Practice in State and Federal ourts. JJUGH W. HARRIS, . . fATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. B ! Practice in the State aud Federal Courts. office : First Door West of Court House. J E. BROWN, ATTORNE Y-AT-L A W , CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice in the State and Federal Courts. office No. 6 Law Building. T. CANSLER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. ! Proiijpt and careful attention to - all. busi i ness. Practice in the State and ' Federal Courts. OFFICE Opposite Central Hotel. CLEMENT DOWD. WILLIS B. DOWD. C. DOWD & SOX, Attorneys and Counsellors at "Law. Office: 17 East Trade Street, CHARLOTTE, N. C. PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL SIZES AND STYLES AT . REDUCED PRICES FOR CASH. FINE CRAYON PICTURES - AT WONDERFUL LOW PRICE. Call and inspect the work. J. II. VAX XESS, 21 North Tryon Street. 'JJAN.SION HOUSE, ' (Opposite First Presbyterian Church.) GOOD LODGINGS, NICE. CLEAN ROOMS AND BEDS. ' r.UiU-: SUl'l'LIEDsWlTH THE BEST ' - - IN THE MARKET. RATES VERY LOW. Call on ine wl you come to Charlotte-. J. C. BOYTE , Proprietor. TOUAGE AXI) INSURANCE. All fannvrs k-irinr o store cotton will wH tt-.iil 01, the undersigned before losiiig any (.tniet ; fts I have excellent acuities and will store avid insure your otton at- c-Lur. of 20 cents per bale by he month. . - J. A. HENDERSON. .... At' Allish.cc Cot toll (EBce. ' THE V.ANDERBILT WEALTH. . ' " IT NOW FOOTS UP TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR MILLIONS. The Annual Income from Interest Alone Is Nearly $14,000,000 In Twenty fire Years the Whole Fortune WilV Amount to About $1,000,000,000 Most of the Great Sum Invested In . Stocks and Bonds. . The combined "Vanderbilt wealth amounts to $274,000,000, and the es timated income from it per annum is 013,864,400. No other single fami ly in the'world is so rich. If kept intact the total fortune at the end of twenty-five years almost reach $1 ,000, 000,000, and this'result will bo at tained by the simple arithmetical pro gression ot compound interest. Ihe rapid increase of the Yanuerbut mil lions clarly shows how money begets money. If the combined Vanderbilt wealth were all in one dollar bills the aera of paper would be just equal to the amount of white paper required to print 4,182,558 copies of the eight page world. If the bills were joined end to end they would stretch out 31,321 miles, or, in other words, would go .a trifle more than once and a quarter around the globe at its great est circumference. A careful examination of the wealth of individual members of the Vander bilt family makes the following ex hibit. t . ' Cornelius Vanderbilt SI 10,000, 000 William K. Vanderbilt 85,000,000 Frederick W. Vanderbilt 16,000,000 George W. Vanderbilt 15,000,000 Mrs. Elliott F. Shephard 12,000,000 Mrs. William D. Sloane 12.000,000 Mrs. Hamilton 3IcK. Twomblv 12,000,000 Mrs. W. Seward Webb....'.....'. 12,000,000 Total 274,000,000 Mrs. William II. Vanderbuilt has no fortune in her own name, contrary to the general belief. She has an annuity of '200,000. When William H. Vanderbilt died he left a fortune, in round numbers, of 200,000,000. It is remarkable how it has increased in the three years that have elapsed since his death. Old Commodore Nanderbilt left his grandson Cornelus $5,000,000 and his other three grandsons 2,000, 000 each. William K. operated ex tensively in the stock market five years ago and, it was generally un derstood at the time, lost his entire fortune which he had increased to 5,000,000. He was reported -to have received an allowance of 70, 000 a year from his father for his per sonal expenses thereafter and until the death of thelatter. About the time of or shortly before the termination of William K.'s disastrous experience in Wall street Cornelius began spec ulating and was reported o have lost about 3,000,000 of his . foitune," which had, however grown to 8,0,00,-' 000. The fortune of Frederick and George Vanderbilt had also apprecia ted in value, though not to the same extent as the others. Frederick had been very successful in stock specula tions and George had made highly remunerative investments under the directi6n of his father. Altogether, there was in the family, outside of William H. VanderbUt's personal fortune, 12,000,000. Deducting that amount, the wealth of William "H. Vanderbilt has increased 60,000,000 since his death. THE WAY THE MILLIONS HATE GROWN. The manner of the increase is both plain and natural. In the first place, the Vanderbilt Jlesatate was the best invested in the world. Many of the securities owned by the Yanderbilts, for instance this Government bonds, pay only 4 per i;ent.,; but many others, like railroad stocks and bonds, pay from 6 to 8 per cent., so that, an av erage of 5 per cent, is under rather than over the correct rate of income for the entire, amount. Reckoning the interest at 5 per cent, and compound ing it semi-annually, the natural im provement in the total wealth in the past three years has been 33,835,200 or, in round numbers, 34,000,000. The stocks of nearly all the Vander bilt roads have materially improved in value. In some instances Ithe im provement has been 25 per cent., in others 20 and so on to a lssser rate. In addition, profitable investments have been made with the income. Taken altogether, the increase in the combined Vanderbilt wealth outside of. the interest easily reaches 30, 000,000, which, added to interest computed at 031,000,000, makco up the estimated gain of 62,000,000 and 2,4)00,000 more. The last named sum is allowed for the personal expenses of the Vanderbilts. NONE SO RICH AS TUE VANDERBILTS. ; The wealth of the Vanderbilt fami ly, comprising only eight persons, is greater than that of any other indi vidual family in the world.. The Rothctilds are worth altogether about 1,000,000,000, but their wealth is scattered among a great many separate families and distant rel atives. Cornelius Vanderbilt is the wealthiest individual in the world. The fortune of-the richest individual Rothchild is not estimated at above ft75.000.000. Asa rule great fortunes are over estimated. Jhe figures here given are carefully prepared from authentic sources, and are as nearly correct as it is possible to make them. They are in no instance excessive. ,. William H. Vanderbilt left 10, 000,000 to each of his eight children and a special legacy of 1,000, 000 to his son Cornelius. Then he directed the residue, which amounted to about 220,000,000, to be divided equally between his sons Cornelius and Wil liam K. PASSING YEARS WILL PILE CP MILI The following shows how the Vi derbilt wealth, if kept intact, will in crease in the lapse of years at the reg ular rate of 5 per cent., compounding the interest semi-annually: Principal. Interest One year 5287,264,400 $13,864,400 Five years 340,720,000 66,720,000 Ten years 443,949,000 174,940,000 Twenty-five y's 941.299,600 667,299,600 Fifty years 3,263,172,900 2,989,172,800 A QUARTER OF A CENTURY IIENCE. All of the Vanderbilts are likely to live twenty-five years longer, and their individual fortunes, computing the interest at 5 per cent, and com pounding it semi-annually, will at the end of that time be as follows: Cornelius Vanderbilt $377,894,000 William K. Vanderbilt 202,009,000 Frederick W. Vanderbilt 54,966,400 George W. Vanderbilt 51,531,000 Mrs. Elliott F.Shepard 41,224,800 Mrs. William D. Sloan 41,224,800 Mrs. Hamilton MeK. Twombly 41,224.800 -Mrs. W. Seward Webb 41,224,800 Total 941,299,600 COUNTING OF THE TOTE. ELECTORAL It Will be Done This Year Under the New Law-The Method. From the New York World. Washington, Jan2. The electo ral votes for President and Vice-President this year will be counted in a newway and under a new law. On February 3d last year President Cleve land approved the bill providing for the change of method. The first evi dence of the operation of the new law came forth to-day when the Sec retary of State communicated to the Senate and House certified reports which he bad received from the Gov ernors of the States, showing the result of the late Presidential election. Under the ne'w law the Presidential electors will meet in their respective States one week from next Monday for the purpose of electing the Presi dent and Vice-President. But the result of that meeting will not be officially declared until the second Wednesday in February, when there will be a joint Convention of the Senate and House to receive the votes of the Presidential electors, canvass them and officially declare the names of the new President and Vice-President. Certificates of the result of the November election have been received to date by the Secretary of State from only a portion of the Governors. From day to day, as they continue to reach the State Department, Secretary Bayard will promptly transmit copies of them to Congress. The law also directs him to have a copy 6T each of the certificates published in some newspaper. The certificates which have been received up to the present time have been published in one of the Washington newspapers. Some of them are brief, compact documents and do not take up much space, but the certificate bearing the signature of Gov. David B. Hill, of New York, is not one of these. It occupies nearly three pages of the newspaper in which the publication'was made. The same law which requires the Governor to send this certificate to the Secretary of State also requires him to present three copies of it to each of the candidates elected to the Electoral College. These three copies he may deliver any time up to the day on which the Presidential electors meet, the second Monday in January. Section 4 of the new law Bets forth in detail the manner in which the electoral vote shall be finally counted. Congress shall be in session on the second Wednesday in February suc ceeding every meeting of the electors. The Senate and House of Representa tives shall meet in the House of Rep resentatives at the hour of 1 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and the President "of the Senate shall bo their presiding officerr ' Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall -be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and '.papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented ajid acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, . beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having therf read the same in the presence and -Scaring of the two Houses, shall make'a list of the voters as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the'-votes having been ascertained and counted in the manner and according to the rules in this act provided, tho'rcsult of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announce ment shall be deemed a sufficient de claration of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice-President of the United States, and together with a list of votes be entered upon, the jour nals of the two Houses. As there are not likely to be any objections raised against any of the returns which the joint convention of the two Houses will be called to act upon, there will probably be no delay in making the official announcement of the election of Harrison and Mor ton. . Death Was Her Bridegroom. Greenville, S. C, Jan. 2. Last evening Miss Fannie Heldman, daugh ter and only child of George Helman, broke away from her father's house and, evading all pursuit, ran ay dis tance of several blocks an? dropped softly into Reedy River. . Her body was recovered half an hour later. She suddenly becamelhsane a few weeks ago while making, final preparations for her marriage to a prominent young attorney of this city, and has been kept in her room by her parents ever since. To keep lamp burners bright, rub them with Bristol brick or dry ashes, every time the lamps are cleaned.- Mrs. M. L. Peaslee. A LETTER TO FARMERS. CATAWBA COUNTY. One of her Prominent Citizens GItcs Some valuable Hints to Farmers. For the Mecklenburg Times. continued. Every stall ought to be well littered with pine or wheat straw, or leaves from the forest. When they are well trampled, they should be re moved and put in pens mixed with lime, ashes or acids, to assist decom position and be made fit for plant food. Make all the dressing for the land you can. Save all the rubbish about the house. Haul muck from the ditch banks and other places. Pen it in the fields. Remove it from the stables or houses. Let the at mosphere be as pure about the house as can be, and let no leaks of impure water into the wells or springs. What kind of stock have you? Most farmers will answer; scrub. Don't you know that it is just as easy to raise a descendant from John Wil fongs thorough-bred registered "John Wardsworth," or from Capt. R. P. Reinhart's registered short-horned Durham, or John W. Robinson's reg istered Devon, or M. Bolingers pure blooded Jerseys (all of Catawba) as it is to raise a Jo Bunker scrub? If you don't know it I can tell you it is. When you have them grown, the thorough-breds are worth, very often, five times as much in value. Always try to have the beBt of everything you can raise or grow; not only of stock; but of grain, vegetables, or fruit. In order to do this, the farmer ought to plough his land in the winter to raise a good crop of cotton, corn, tobacco, or any other crop that is to be grown during the coming- summer. In the first place, yW can plough deeper. You can subsoil better. And any farmer that expeota to raise anything on upland to an advantage ought al ways to subsoil and break his land from 12 to 15 inches deep. By breaking in the winter, the dews, the rain and snow, all contain a consider able quantity of ammonia even the atmosphere -and if land is well brok en in the winter, the ammonia is car ried down into the soil and there held till taken up by the growing plants, and the moisture and rain is kept-'m deposit, to be given out as it is need ed, instead of being carried away on top of the soil and wash the land away, and run down into the streams. After the land is well ploughed and subsoiled, scatter your compost over it, and plough- it under moderately deep. By this means you can raise a bale of cotton weighing 500 lbs, on every acre you plant, or 50 bushels of corn. A large number of farmers cultivate twf -and' three acres to get a bale of 500 pounds or the number of busfiels of corn above stated. It is easier to work an acre of cotton in rich land than it is on poor ground. Thd one you can throw dirt to when it first comes up the other don't get large enough scarcely during the summer. Don't buy any commercial fertilizer if you can help it. See the wonderful tax that we have to pay who use it". How can the poor tenant' pay for fertilizer? In the . first place he has to pay rent for the land, and that is never less than a third of the crop. He mortgages his crop to be grown on the land for the fertilizer, and when he does that the merchant who furnishes his supplies charges him well for what he gets. At the end of the year he has nothing left af ter paying up his dues. Mortgage in its original meaning means a dead pledge. That 'is to say, the thing pledged is dead to the man who makes the pledge. As a general rule, when one makes a mortgage the property mortgaged is gone. It is like a city besieged, it is a city token. Don't mortgage if you can help it. Some times it is a good master if you will work under it, but more often it dis courages and you never takes heart again. Every farmer who will use commercial fertilizer when he can compost with acids and make a better fertilizer for one third of the money is wasteful and extravagant, and any man that pursues this extravagant course must become poorer and poorer every year. Any farmer that buys anything he can raise himself is improvident and will come to want. What necessity is there for buying all this Western bacon? What necessity for these Tennessee hams when there is not one of us in North Carolina that -can't raise his own bacon by proper man agement and industry? Any farmer that has to buy northern or domestic hay when he can raise all the clover, orchard and other grasses to make hay that he needs, is a disgrace to the profession of farmers. What is the ne cessity of buying coats, vests and pants that we and our boys wear when we can raise marino or fine- wooled sheep and send it to the factory and have it spun and woven and made into cloth good enough for a senator or governor to wear? Why not encourage our home industries and keep our money at home instead of sending, to the north never to return? Why not raise sheep, the most profitable of all the animals the only one that combines the two essential qualities of furnishing food and clothing? Our legislature will, answer this question. It won't do to say hereafter dogs, dogs! Progress of Ballot Eeform. The subject of reform in our elec tion methods is likely to attract groat attention in many of our State legis latures this winter. All the States which have given it legisWtive' con sideration heretofore but have enacted no laws New York, Michigan, Kentucky,- Iowa and Connecticut are certain to return to it, for the popular interest in it is much greater now than at any previous time. In fact, there is scarcely a State in the Union in which there are not earnest advocates of the reform. In Rhode Island a Ballot Reform Club was formed several months ago for the express purpose of drafting a bill to submit to the legislature, and less formal but no less earnest efforts in the same direction are being made in other States. , The record of the present year has been one of great encouragement to the friends of this most important re form. In April last the Wisconsin act went into operation for the first time, in a municipal election in Mil waukee. As our readers will perhaps remember, this act is only a partial application of the English and Aus tralian systems. It is notable as the first application of the principleof ballot distribution by the State Under its provisions the voter receives his ballots from a sworn official of the State in a room called the "ticket room," which only one voter is allow ed to enter at a time, passes alone to the "voting-room," where he deposits his ballot, and then goes out of a door provided for that purpose. No crowd of persons is allowed to collect within one hundred feet of the polling-places, and no person is allowed to offer tickets or to solicit votes within the same distance. In brief, from the time the voter enters the polling-place he is free from espionage and intimi dation of all kinds, and can deposit a free and secret ballot. The first trial of the law was a most complete and satisfactory demonstration of its prac ticability and wisdom. Not only was the election the most quiet and orderly that thrrcity had seen in recent years, but ticket-peddling and the browbeat ing of ignorant voters were annihilated at a blow. The press of the city was unanimous in expressing approval of the workings of the new law. The most important legislative achievement of the year has been the enactment of a complete ballot law in Massachusetts. lnis measure, while modeled primarily upon the bill whiehi the iNew lork legislature passed, butj6t0pped at a station, cried1 out loud which Governor Hill vetoed, differs i t t iT'ii . l i rr from it in many respects. It coutains an especially valuable provision for preventing the forgery of official bal lots, and is,. taken all in all, probably the most intelligent and comprehensive application of the English and Aus tralian systems to American needs which has been made. It places the entire printing and distributing of the ballots in the bauds of the State, to be paid for at the public expense. It provides, also, for independent nomi nations by a 6pecined number oi voters, and requires the printing of the residence, street and- number, of j each candidate after his name upon tho j ballot. The Massachusetts law ought i to be carefully studied by the framcrs j of the new bill which is to be pre- j then. Your pap went out to Colara 8'ented.tO the New York legislature ! (lv and made a hie fnvtin' thar. an' this winter. It is likely to become : the model for bills which are to be I presented in other States, as indeed it ought to be; for, aside from its great; merits, it would be most desirable to J have our different State laws upon this subject as nearly homogeneous as possible. We speak with entire confluence ot the possibility of the different States having such laws in the near future. This is one of the reforms which must come, for without it our system 'of popular government cannot be main- j tamed. Lvery election, especially in i our large cities, shows that until this reform is secured all other reforms are impossible of accomplishment. The control of the election machinery, of the printing and distributing of the ballots, must be taken from the politicians and put into the hands of the fctate. That is, we must take the power to control our elections away from the men who have no responsi bility and no interest in government save extravagance and corruption, and put it into the hands of officials who are sworn to do their duty. Of what use is it to try to get honest men nominated for office when we leave in the hands of the political workers the power to defeat them at the polls by distributing fraudulent or defective ballots, or by making "deals" and "dickers" which cheat the people of their will 1 We have talked for years about reforming the primaries and the nominating conventions, but not one particle of progress has been made. Under the Massachusetts law any 400 voters, in case of a candidate for State office, and any 100 voters, in case of a candidate for a lesser office, by uniting in a petition in behalf of a candidate of their choice can have his name printed upon the official ballots and have those ballots distributed at the polls at the public expense. What more certain way of reforming the primaries could be devised than this ? If there were such a law in New York Cityf there would be an end to the astonishing spectacle which is there so often presented to a "boss" setting up a candidate of his own for office in spite of all protests, and frequently electing him in spite of all opposition. Under such a law both "bosses" and primaries would in a very short time lose their present dominance in our politics. fact, there is scarcely a form of, iniiuity known to our election methods whifeh a good ballot law would not eradicate. We should be rid at one stroMe of the assessments upon candi dates, of thbribing and bulldozing of voters, of the nomination of noto riously unfit candidates, of " deals" and y dickers" and "trade" at the polls.1; All these would disappear, for the simple reason that the machinery of elections would be taken out of the hands of irresponsible 'and often dishonest men. Such an obvious and imperative reform as this cannot be long delayed. Bill Simpson's Darter. No matter how hard and ingly the truth is, it is more pleasing ij than the affection of what is not real. Expo sure is certain to follow nec-Dle who try to go througVlife behind a mask of pretense. We have little sympa thy for people like "Bill Simpson's darter." A gen tleman traveling from Buffalo to New York City ; tells the story: At Albany two ladies, dressed in the extreme of fashion, entered the car. Their manners indicated great affection and consequent shallowness. Ihe only unoccupied seat in the car was directly behind a quiet-looking lady, evidently from the I country. Hef dress was of calico, her bonnet of plain straw, and her gloves were of cotton. She could not however, have looked neater, and she had a eood. honest face. " As the fashionable ladies; adjusted draperies in the unoccapied seat, one ot Them said to the other: "Don't you think it bad that there are such poor accommodations on rail road trains now?" "How in what way?" asked her companion. "Why, here we are crowded up with all classes of people, some of them so commpn. Look at that per son in front of us." "Horrid, isn't she?" "Perfectly dreadful." I "How annoying to have to come in contact with such people!"; "Belongs to some ordinary family. If one could only exclude one's self from such person's when traveling short distances!'' I suppose its horrid in me; to say it, but I have all my life had such a repugnance to comjnon laboring people." The lady in the calico must have heard part of this conversation, but her facie was perfectly composed. At the moment an elderly man in the home-spun and home-made gar ments of a farmer came down the aisle. He stopped before the ladies of fash ion, closely scrutinized the features of the one havinc "such a repugnance to common people," and, just as thetrain enough to be heard by every person in the car: "Look hyar, haint you j old Bill Simpson's darter? But I know you air 'thout askin'. How de do, any how? ;You don't change i a speck. Got the same nose you had when you wor a little gal o' twelve : or fifteen years, trottin' b'arfoot round my old farm in Podunk county. "Yer mind how I youst ter give yer two bits a day an' yer dinner fer helpin' "H younguns dig taters! Ho! ho! ho! The vounsr lady had dropned her beaded veil and was nervouslv bitioz at her fan, but the old farmer went on hnnrleslv' "Thev's been mighty changes sence t iu,ar vmi i;Vft ;n rr(.nt stvlo "Rut, Simnaon ain't th man ; to (Wit old frens, an' you tell 'im that you saw old Jack Billins, what used to give hiiu a menny a day's work when he was so pore his family ha;d to wait till hens laid 'fore they could hev any breakfast. You kin remember that yourself, I rccou. j 'An' there wau't uobody "gladder nor me when yer pap did git rich so suddeut, for he was a mighty hard workin' blacksmith, an' always pore 'cause of bad luck. j '''My wife says she. lost ;an awful good washwoman when your nia moved an' I it off here. Good by! good by!" ! The meekest, most subdued person on that train during the rest of the trip was "Bill Simpson s darter A Negro for the Cainet. To tho Editor of the World,, If Abraham Lincoln were alive to day and forming a Cabinet he would have the courage to choose an intelli gent negro for a place in it becanse of the stimulus and encouragement such an appointment would give to the emancipated black race. But will any other Republican President with in half a century have the- requisite backbone for perpetrating such an in novation? The white members of the Cabinet might reconcile themselves to it for expediency's sake-j but the "Cabinet ladies?" They I are the grand stumbling block. Even under a'Republican regime the Washington 400 will draw the line at an Ameri can colored woman, though they will coddle any dusky-hued foreigner who comes hither in a diplomatic capacity. An Old-Tisie Republican. : - t i If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respects people ought to pay to you, and what people think of you. .. GENTLEMEN : ; THIS WILL BE A GREAT BARGAIN WEEK AT W. KAUFMAN & OO.'S CORNER CENTRAL HOTEL. The warm weather in the Fall has left us like the United States Treasury, with a Large Surplus, but in our case it is Clothing. ' A BOLD SACRIFICE. i WE WILL SACRIFICE OVER $ 40,000 WORTH OF MEN'S, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING. THIS IS THE THIRD DAY OF OUR SACRIFICE SALE. READ OUR PRICES. MEN'S SACK SUITS at $3.75, worth $6.00; a Sacrifice of $2.25 MEN'S SACK SUITS at $5.00, worth $8.50; a Sacrifice of $3.50 MEN'S BLACK WORSTED SUITS at $6.75, worth $10.00; a Sacrifice of $3.25 MEN'S BL ACK CUTAWAY SUITS at $7.00, worth $10.50; a Sacrifice of $3.50 ' MEN'S PRINCE ALBERT SUITS, DOUBLE BREASTED at $15.00, worth $20.00; a baenhee of $o.00 BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S, SUITS. BOYS' SUITS, SIZES 13 to 18 at S4.00, worth $6.50; a Sacrifice of $2.50 -BOYS' BLACK DIAGONAL SUITS at $6.50, worth $8,50; a Sacrifice of $2.00 CHILDREN'S SUITS, KNEE PANTS at $2.50, worth $4.00; a Sacrifice of $1.50 OVERCOATS. MEN'S OVERCOATS at $3.50, worth $5.50; a Sacrifice of $2.00 MEN'S ULSTER OVERCOATS, LARGE COLLARS at $3.50, worth $6.00; a Sacri fice of $2.50 MEN'S CHINCHILLA OVERSACKS at $4.50, worth $7.00; a Sacrifice of $2.50 MEN'S BEAVER OVERCOATS at $5.50, worth $9.00;' a Sacrifice of $3.50 MEN'S CHINCHILLA OVERCOATS at $5.00, worth $8.50; a Sacrifice of $3.50 BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S OVERCOATS. CHILDREN'S OVERCOATS at $1.35, worth $2.75; a Sacrifice of $1.40 BOYS' OVERCOATS at $3.50, worth $5.00; a Sacrifice of $1.50 BOYS' OVERCOATS WITH CAPES at $4.00, worth $0.50; a Sacrifice of $2. CHILDREN'S KNEE PANTS. We have 500 pair, which must be sold, we siart them at 25 cents per pair. A large line of Hats and Caps. Boys' Steamer Caps at 25 cents. 1 WE ARE CLOSING OUT $5,000 WORTn OF BOOTS AND SHOES. "; To all Members of the Farmers' Alliance, we give a special-discount over all purchaser?. J T. L. SE1GLE & CO., HAVE A VERY LARGE STOCK OF GOODS. THEY ARE ALL GOOD HONEST GOODS. ' New and Fresh: THEY ARE SELLING THEM AT THE VERY LOWEST LIVING PRICES. THEY HAVE A LARGE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF ZFIfcTT GOODS AT CLOSE FIGURES. Skirtings, Drills, Domestics, Utiseys, Yams and ftlamances. A BIG LINE OF SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. . HATS AND CAPS VERY CHEAP. we m closing out OUR ENTIRE LINE OF , CLOTHIITG-1 We have everything that a Farmer wants in the Dry Goods line and Ave will sell it close. GENTS' BOYS' MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S FINE SHOES, , AND ALL KINDS OF HEAVY BOOTS AND SHOES. We call Special Attention to our Men's Warranted $3.00 and $3.50 Calf Skin Shoes. THESE Alt THE VERY BEST SHOES THAT ARE MANUFACTURED FOR THE MONEY. ... Call and see us. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 19 EAST TRADE STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C. C. HUTCHISON & CO. (Next door to Wadsworth's Stables,) CHARLOTTE,- N. C. Wholesale and Retail dealers in CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS, GROCERS AND MILK WAGONS, &c. Sole Agents Columbus Buggy Co., Cortland Wagon Co., and Tyson & Jones, and other good makes. j Prices and quality to suit everybody. Work made to order. Call and examine our immense Stock, or write for catalogue and prices. We have the best Carriage and Wagon Shop in the city, and Shoe horses in first-class style. Yours truly, A. C. HUTCHISON & CO. 50 W. KAUFMAN & CO. -Leading1 Clothiers CHARLOTTE, N. C. T. L. SEIG-LE & CO. GRAY & CO. DEALERS EXCLUSIVELY IN BOOTS akd SHOES WE HAVE (A LARGE STOCK OF JT THE NEW CniNA STORE, 11 East Trade Street, j You will find a full and, complete i line of China, Earthenwate? Glassware, Lamps, Imware, Woodenware, Rogers Bros. 1847 Plated Ware. Cutlery, House Furnishing Goods. " I ' We keep only the most reliable wares, at the Lowest Prices.: The best English Ironstone China, guar anteed not to Craze or Crack, will be sold as low as inferior goods can be bought. Call and investigate before making your purchases. G. S. READ & CO.1 BOYDEN HOUSE, Centrally Located in Salisbury. North Carolina- s New Management and Better Fare than ever. -Free Hack and Sample Booms. Particular Attention given to Commercial . Travelers. J. R. KEEN, Proprietor..