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not the road ! uccessi itself. IJOi'NK & BADGER 1 9 LEADING JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS. (hinsile Cent nil Hotel, CHARLOTTE, N. C. AS A Sl'lVIAL INDUCEMENT We "tl-r t any member of the FARMERS' ALLIANCE A STEM WIND ;K.TIK AMERICAN MOVEMENT LID SILVER WATCH FOR $10.00 ilJ AUAXTEED A CORRECT TIME PIECE. . THIS OFFER LOo I) FOR 30 DAYS ONLY FROM DATE". JANUARY 1st, 1889. I'ltOtf-ESSIOATj CARDS. J) Ii. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CUX'rlotte, x. e. Practice Limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. DR. II. M. WILDER. PHYSICIAX AM) SUIIGEOX, OiTii-e over Harwell & Dana's drug store. JU. E. C. REGISTER, OFFICE IN BELMONT -HOTEL, TRADE STREET.. Calls promptly attended to. IiKl-.l"T ( I.ARKSON. CHARLES II. KUI.S. CLARKSON & DUES, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, OFFICE IN LAW BUILDING. Prompt attention to all business in trusted. Claims collected. Practice in State and Federal Courts. E. T. POOL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. CHARLOTTE. N. C. 'Practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office: 2-j W. Trade Street. ir II W. HARRIS. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. in the State and Federal Courts. office: n st Door West of Court House. P.PiOWN, ATTORXEV-AT-LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. J.1 1'ni' t ice in the State and Federal Courts. OFFICE : No. fl Law Building. 0 WESN. P.KOWN, (F (RMALLYOE DAVIDSONS LLEGE) ATTOliXEV AT LAW. LAW BUILDING , XO. 14. DOW I). WILMS B. DOWD. ('. I)OWI & SOX, a xi) Cii'xst:i.i.oKS at Law. 1'. East Trade Street. CHARLOTTE. N. C. I. !' iituiiToN. T. .1. Jerome. 'l MIIHKTON & JEROME, ": "W.i i.op.s axu Attorxeys-at-Law, flice in the Court House, i i ti t, attention to all lmsiness. in State and Federal Courts Claims collected . (jr. C N'i:i:U FAH.s to CURE. NO INJEC TIO.V RE(UIREI). A voiir h 'M.U'U'I-t for it. Prepared by 15. W WELLS. Salisbury. N. C. Mav IT 'VI)KN HOUSE. Centrally Located Hi Salisbury, North Carolina. X' w Management and Better Fare than t 'r: ,Vr,' 5Ia( k a,ld Sample Rooms, particular Attention given to Commercial travelers.-. J. R. KEEN, Proprietor. . Advertising i 1(t siH'ocss. but Richardson. " " ' " ' - "-- - " i rr.MM, - S i VOL. I. FARMERS ALLIANCE WHAT IS GOING OX IX ORGANIZATION. THEIK Miscellaneous Articles Pretalnlng to AgrricaitHreandtbe Alliance. North Carolina Farmers' State Allianee. President S. B. Alexander. Char lotte. V ice-President T. Ivey, Ashpole. secretary l. L. Polk. Ksleigh. Treasurer S. D. Allen, Falls. "wviui" at. u. xveiu rarKer. j.nnuy uoiiege- Assistant Lecturer D. D. Mcln tyre, Laurinburg. Chaplain Rev Townsville. Doorkeeper W, Fayetteville. Carr Moore, M. Tomlinson, Assistant Doorkeeper R T. Rush, flit, iiilead. Sargeant at Arms J. S Chalk Level. Holt, Alliance Directory of Mecklenburg' County. President N. Gibbon. Derita. Vice-President J. A. DeArmond, Gar rison's. Secretary James A. Wilson, Hopewell. Treasurer E. W. Lyles, Charlotte. Chaplain J. M.Caldwell, Charlotte. Lecturer R. B. Hunter, Charlotte. Assistant Lecturer T. L. Lowe, Paw Creek. Door Keeper S. L. Cathey. Paw Creek. Assistant Door KeeDer R. A. fi Charlotte, box 10. Sergeant af Arms R, II. McXight, Paw Creek. Business Agent F. S. Neal, Charlotte. SECRETARIES OF SUB-ALLIASCES. No. 216, Beach Cliff, J. M. Hanna, Mar tindale. - No. 289, Alexandriana, Luther Wilson, Croft. No. 331, Hopewell. W. D. narry; Hope well. No. 283, McDowell's Creek, J. T. Cashion, Cowan's Ford. No. 302, Pine Grove, R. B. Abernathy, Sandifer. No. 348, Long Branch. M. A. Alexander, Paw Creek. No. 853, Davidson, J. W. Little, Char lotte. No. 794, Holly Grove, W. A. Johnston, Sandifer. No. 983, Vanoe, R. H. Elliott, Griffith. No. 330, Hickory Grove, Dr. W". W. Gait her, Hornet, No. 1239, Cleveland, J. M. Porter, Mat thews. No. 147, Derita, D. T. Ritch, Derita. No. 319, New Hope, W. A. Alexander, Cowan's Ford. No. 413, Hebron, F. C. Harris, Pineville. No. 538, Mint Hill, D. A. Henderson, Mint Hill. No. 478, Oak Grove, W. L. Marshal. LoJo. No. 309, Sharon, W. B. Alexander, Charlotte. Sharon Box. No. 995, Ramah, W. C. McAuley, Hun- tersville. No. 403, Bethel, L. C. Holler, Davidson College. No. 310, Polk, W. W. Phifer, Charlotte. No. 428, Matthews, G. B. Peninger, Matthews. No. 173, Mallard Creek, F. E. Query, Query's. No. 255, Back Creek, Jas. R. Hutchison, Query's. No. 390, Providence, O. E. Cunningham, Harrison. No. C10. Steel Creek, Jno. McDowell. Charlotte. Box 10. No. 1322, Catawba, James Sledge, Ran dlesburg. No. 1490, Craighead, N. P. Lvles, Char lotte. Xo. 1542, Wilson, R- F. Simpson, Mar-, tindale. No, 1532. Sardw, E. II. Walker, Sardis. Xo. 1C01, Tierryhill, C. A. Spratt, Lodo. No. 1007, Grove, L. M. McAllister, Charlotte, Box 10. 3 No. 1C09, Wilson's Grove, W. Bur nett, Mint Hill. Respectfully submitted, Jas. A. Wilson, Sec'y of Mecklenburg Co. Alliance, Chinch Bugs are doing mjuch dam age in" Union county. The crop of oats in 1880 was 407, 858,999 bushels, raised on 16,144,593 acres, an average of a little over 25 bushels per acre. The increase be tween 1870 and 1880 was 45 percent. The total value of fainting tools and machinery, as shown by the census of 1850, was $151,587,638. In 1880 it had risen to $406,520,055, a sum sufficient to make all the manufactur ers of farm implements rich. The amount of butter made in 1888 reached the enormous total of 806,- .672,071 pounds, and an average of nearly 16 pounds for every man, wo man and child in the country. The value of this product almost equals that of the entire cotton crop. The production of corn is increas ing at a most astonishing rate. In 1850 there was produced 591,071,- 104 bushels; this amount in 1880 had grown to 1,754,591,676 bushels, and the next census will show a still great er proportionate increase on account of the great development in the new States and Territories of the West and Northwest. Nat. Economsai. Mr. M. B. Simpson, president of the Union County Farmers' Alliance, reports a curiosity in the shape of a chicken with four legs. It is about two weeks old, and is quite lively, though it does not seem at all "stuck up" over the fact that it has 'double it share of legs and feet. It walks around after the mother hen, and does not seem to realize that it is a freak of nature, and therefore more dis tinguished than its brother chicks. The extra legs are attached to the body just in the reare of the natural ones, and do not seem to be of any special use to the chicken. Monroe Express. Less than One Bottle Did It. Mr. P. W. Withers, Deputy Sheriff Jeff. Co., Ark., writes; "I can cer tainly say that Hughes' Tonic is the best chill remedy I ever heard of. I used only part of a bottle and used no quinine and it cured me. Prepared by R. A. Robinson & Co., Wholesale J.)rugists, Louisville, Ky. Sold by Druggists. Diamonds, Diamonds, rare and rich at Hales & Tolar's, Jewelers. COTTON BAGGING FOB TUE SOUTH. Address of the Committee. Seven yards of jute bagging weigh ing lflbs. per yard will cost at factory 9 cts. per yard, making 63 eta. Seven yards of cotton bagging weigh ing three-fourths of a pound will cost 124 cts. per vard at factors mtmi 87 cts., or 24 cts, more for the MJOvering than jute. In addition to this there is a loss or difference of weight between cotton covered in cotton and jute per bale, of seven pounds, and this at U cts. per pound is cts. INow this added to the- ditterencs in cost 241, makes 87i cts. per bale aoaarent loss TTnrlon the determinations of the National Alliance, and justly so, the producer iU get an allowance ofeieht Dounds per bale on cotton covered bags; this, at nine cts. per pound, is 72 cts. This taken from the loss of 87 cts. by the use of cotton, leaves only b cts. yet to be overcome. .Now no sane man will dare deny that if 125, 000 bales of the lowest grade cotton just the cotton that all manufac turers do not want, and is alwav ac counted for as comparative! v worth. ess in the fixing of the price for a given season is consumed in the manufacture of bagging, that the price will not be increased on the remain- uer ui mo crop ana tor two reasons : First, the demand for the better classes .3 r i i of cotton is constantly increasine and that number of bales. 125.0007 will essen the supply, for the reason that t takes the same labor and expense to produce the lower grades that it does the better grades; or in other words, the lower grades increase in a given crop, the better grades de crease, lhe lowest estimate possible for thw diversion of 125,000 bale? of cotton, is an increase of one-fourth of a cent per pound, or $1.25 per bale ake the loss of 151 eents from this and we have a gain of 1.091 in favor ot cotton tagging as compared with ute at present prices. But still there is another source of gain in favor of cotton bagging. We are assured by ose who control the insurance of cotton that they will not charge more .1 i i . . z tuau one-nan present rates ot in surance on covered in cotton bagging, such as is manufactured by the Lane Mills of New Orleans. This gives cotton bagging 22 cents per bale in crease, which, dded to $1.09, makes $1.31 total actual gain to the indi vidual producer.' But suppose we throw this all aside and admit the loss of 15 cents per bale by the use of cotton baggings then your committees assert that it is far better to make this individual sacrifice for the reason that if we use jute bagging, the five millions dollars that will be required to purchase jute for the crop of 1889 will all go North or East quite a good sum of it to Europe, and in case we spend the five million with the addition of fifteen cents per bale for cotton bagging, the entire amount will gtop South, and will either be invested permanently, qr circulate as a debt-paying medium, and who is so blind or unpatriotic as not to be willing to reap his individu al share of the profits from such an amount of money, spent in his own section, at the small outlay of fifteen cents per bale on his one crop of cot ton ? This five millions spent in the South in ten years would be worth twenty-five millions to the South, for reasons too patent to take space in this article to demonstrate. Now we say to every Alliance num, Wheel man'. or Union man in the cotton section of our country it is your duty to yourself, to your fellows", to your coantry, to fall into line. Use nothing Int cotfon, and demand, when you come to sell your cotton, all that has been advised, all that is just and right and no more, and those charged with the management and control of the question of tare and allowance will see to it that you get your demands, thus qualified. Shoulder to shoulder, now, for 1889. You will, come off more than conquerors in this conflict, and prepare yourselves as individuals, and as an organization to "down" other wicked combines that now affiict our whole people for the sake of per sonal gain. L. E. Livingston, Ga., L. L. Polk, N: C, E. B. Warren, Tex., Com. Cotton Seed Hulls as a Feed Stuff. The possibilities of the cotton plant are simply wonderful. It has not been many years since the oil of cotton seed, was presented as a valuable product The meal or cake has always been re cognized as a fertilizer and also as a valuable food for cattle. Bat witlv, thousands of farmers to-day the best and most remunerative use that can be made of the seed, is to put them out as manure, after having heated, scalded and steamed them in the fer mentation furnace of huge piles of stable manure. Until very recently, the idea that cotton seed hulls was a valuable food for cattle was monstrous ly absurd. The hulls are to-day cart ed away from the mills and the best possible use found for them is as bed-1 ding for horses and cattle. But some recent experiments are developing the fact that they are really valuable ' as food for cattle, when used in connec tion with the meal. From the Direc tor of the Arkansas Experiment Sta tion we learn that Capt. Wright, of Little Rock, is feeding about 2,000 cattle, and that about 15,000 are be ing fed at Fort Smith, as a test of the value of the hulls as food, and the re sults thus far are'bighly satisfactory, Progressive Farmer. The largest cotton crop ever raised up to the last census year, 1880, was tha crop of 1879, which was reported at 5,755,359 bales, having anaverage weight of 475 pounds, and roughly estimated to be .worth $300,000,000. CHARLOTTE, N. C, Immense areas are soon to be open to homestead settlement in the Indian Territory. Much of this land ia said to be excellent, and cheap homes are promised to many thousands of lain i lies. Large quantities of unopened lands are also available in .Dakota, and on the whole land is still as "cheap as dirt" in this countrv. I The most serious question is ndt so much as to the scarcity of available land, but as to how to check tha de vouring canker of mortgages on farms already-nnder cultivation in the great established States of the West. Take the thriving State of Illinois, for instance, with its vast areas of rich prairie land; the finest corn producing section in the world. According to the last report of the State bureai of labor statistics the farmers are rapidly being swallowed up by mortgages. During the past 20 years this blight ua increased us ravages with alarm ing rapidity. Between 1870 the firm indebtedness increased about 6 per cent. But between 1880 and 1887. as the riper fruit of "protection," it inoreased 37 per cent. At the onen- ng of the present year the whole number of mortgages on farms wai- 92,787, on farm values of $112,400, 300. There are estimated to be some 34,694,182 acres of land in the State. vi wuicu luiai 4o.2o per cent, are under mortgage, over 20 per cent, of which is to cover loans incurred in keeping up the farms. The situation in Michigan is still worse, over one-half of the farms" there being in the deadly grip of mortgages. To sum up the whole situation, the farms of the West are rapidly being devoured by this eating cancer, which it seemed impossible to cut out. These farms were most of them f 1. '. . . A A 1 OO CQ opened under the homestead act, or were purchased at merely nominal figuies. They have yielded richly, and the farmers have labored untiring ly to make them stand alone. Yet in spite of all efforts they have gradually been pulled into the devouring maw of the interest-taker and ticketed deathward under mortgages, from which the farmer finds it impossible to extricate himself. If this fatality is to continue with the American farmer, of what value is it to prospective ones to open new farms to them, seeing that they must inevitably fall into the hands of the money-lending classes at last, with tbe poor farmers' years of toil thrown in? Something must be monstrously wrong, in our national economy to it about such a state of things. Grover Cleveland had the manhood to stake his re-election on confronting that wrong with the true remedy; which is the abolition of a system of- taxation which- grinds out of the farmer the monev wherewith the enormous subsidies lavished upon the "stimulated' upon tne 'stimulated in dustries are paid. In full view of this crying injustice it is no wonder that Citizen Grover has no apologies to make. Neither will his party have any apologies to make if it should choose him as its standard-bearer in 1892. Reforms. National Economist. A notable feature of the progress of the last forty years is tae marked tendency of growth by the cities at the expense of the rural districts. In spite of all the methods adopted and arguments used to make the farm at tractive, there has been a constant and gradually increasing emigration from the farm to the city. There must be a good reason for this be cause it has beon discouraged by agri culturists and agricultural papers, by city people and by city papers, all to no avail. There is a good reason and it may be found in the simble fact that the laws of the country and the regu lations of society and business have made the varieties of business con ducted in the cities more successful and prosperous than agricultural pur suits. This is a very simple reason, but it is a good one, and is sufficient to produce the results seen. The peo ple may always be depended upon to Hind and follow such Tines of business as are the most profitable, and if the conditions of the country are such that effort will secure a greater reward when expended in the city than like effort expended the county occupa tion, in spite of the most specious ar guments to the contrary. Self-interest rules the masses, and it whould rule them. Any reform worthy the name should be of such a nature that it will conform to' this fact before it deserves success. The agricultural population of to day is becoming rapidly aroused to the fact that agriculture, as a class, can only be rendered prosperous by radical changes in the laws governing money, transportation, and land, and this fact once realized, and then, by the great farmers' organizations de manded of the General Government, of the Republican, Democratic, Green back, Labor Prohibition, and all other parties, will secure the adoption of the nocded reforms. A land reform must be demanded, because a large per cent, of the lands of the country is now owned by foreign and domestic syndicates, and the. greater part of all the balance of the whole volume of the land is under mortgage to cor porations and speculators; and, as statistics and records show that the number and amount of such mort gages is constantly increasing, and as a consequence the title to the lands is gradually passing from the producer who lives upon them to the specula tor, it is only a question of time when a point will be reached where the masses must submit to slavery or call a halt. Subscribe TrMr.s for Tne MucKtRsiirRG FRIDAY JUNE 14, 1889. The Homestead. For the Mecklenburg Tim km. Recently the Supreme Court Norlh HirAlini I... - A j . ... . w . . ... ,j iuucicu two ue- cisions of importance, concerning the homestead ib this State. The first was in the case of Hughes vs. Hodges, where the court held "that a land owner who is not in debt, may, by deed absolute or by mortgage, convey his land that has never been allotted tO him na n 1,aaA--J . 1 . 1 - aa uumesieau, witnout tne joinder of his wife in the mortgage ccu, auu mai sucn a conveyance would pass-the risht of both the. hus band and wife to a homestead in the property. A conveyance made in this way, by thchusband without fhe con- pent of the wife, would be subject to the wife's right of dower, however; nothing can deprive her of that but her own consent. The next and more interesting de cision was in the case of Jones vs. Britton, where the court held that a judgement creditor has the right to have the owner of a homestead re strained from cutting and selling tim ber trees, except for necessary repairs and improvements. A remarkable thing occurred in this case: there are five Justices on the Supreme Court bench and every one of them wrote an opinion, three of them on one side and two on the other. These opinions make interesting read ing. First, Justice Merrimon, holds that the judgment creditor has a lien on the homestead and that he has the right to restrain the homesteader from cutting and selliug the timber trees orr land for any purpose other than neces sary repairs and improvements there on. Then Justice Davis follows say ing he is unable to understand the na ture of a lien of a judgment upon the homestead; that he does not think that a judgment creditor has any right to in terfere with the homesteader, the law having been so decided; and besides, that even conceding the principle con tended for to be true, he does not think the facts of this particular case are such as to entitle the plaintiff to an injunction against the defendant, concluding as follows: "I know of no precedent in this State or elsewhere when- the constitutional proyision is like ours for such an interference with the right of the owner of a homestead to use it as he may think most con ducive to the comfort and support of himself and family, and I do not con cur in making one. In the earlier days of the homestead law in this State it seems to me that the judicial pendulum lost its equilibrium, aud, swayed by a benevolent sentiment prompted by the impoverished condi tion f f the State, it was greatly on Uio aide of the homestead debtor. Having a constitution which guaran . .i i.i... . tees tne unraoiestea rignt to a home- ; stead, when its owner is denied the j right to use it in any way that may ! best contributes to his support and comfort without being molested, har- ; assed or vexed by creditors in regard to the manner m tvhich he shall use ; It is claimed by his friends here that it, it seems to me that the pendulum I Mr. M. L. Mott will be assistant Uni is swaying in the other direction." ! ted States district attorney. States Then follows Justice Shepherd, ! rilte La mi murk. with this opening remark: "If any question is well settled in this btate it is that all of the lands (the homestead inclusive i of the debtor i ) are subjet ; to the lien of a docketed judgment , and that having a "charge" upon the j land the judgment creditor "has a j right to invoke the aid of a court of i equity in certain cases to prevent the ; impairment ot uis security, and he ; thinks that this is one of the cases. Then nninni .Tncficn A uoru Tin ' shows by quotation from the constitu- tion itself that the homesteader has, at ; least, the right to the rents and ueofiia ! of the homestead; and he says that, "both of these words are terms known to the law, have a legal meaning, and it must be understood that those who laid the foundation stones to our po litical edifice "understood their legal significance, and intended that they should be interpreted accordingly." He proceeds to quote authority to the effect that if a grant is ruado of the profit of land, "the whole land itself doth pass, for what is land but the profits thereof, for thereby vesture, herbage tolls, mines, and all whatso ever parcehof that land doth pass." Now, says he, how comes it, since the State has given the homesteader the profits ot his land, that it has not granted to hiui for the time prescribed the unrestricted use of mines and tim ber trees thereon ? Then comes this caustic paragraph : "If the sovereign State, in its organic law, has not vest ed every citizen who owns a home stead with the right to the untram- ineled use of mines, 'timber, stone, and everything that might be used or con sumed by the owner of a life estate in England, conveyed to him coupled with exemption from waste, then it must be because the State has no power to grant the privilege, or because by a strained construction we distort the meaning of words that have had a known significance as far--back as the time of Lord Coke." The concluding opinion is by Chief Justice,Sinith. He begins by saying in substance that the dissenting opin ions of Justices Davis and Avery have a tendency to unsettle the law, and that he "can scarcely deem any evil in the administration of judicial func tions in declaring and defining the law, and especially that in ascertain ing the constitutional and statutory legislation in its effect upon existing law, greater than that which springs from conflicting decisions, and a want of regard ahown in the latter in de parting from the rulings made in those that precede, thus rendering personal and property rights acquired insecure and uncertain." Then the Chief Jus tice proceeds to depart from the known significance of the word "profits" as far back as the time of Lord Coke, and from - the rule of construction ; ! as contended for by Justice ; Avery without giving any authority on of ! this point except his own opinion. i "Tin t .1- e The true mode of arriving at the meaning ot the provisions relating to ine exemption ot land as a homestead is to iook at its terms and the pur pose to be attained. The primary ob ject was to secure a home to the un fortunate and insolvent debtor and his family, and to this end the prohibitory mandate is addressed to the creditor and the officer of the law, acting in his behalf, forbidding the sale of so much of the land as is exempted, either under execution or other final process for the enforcement of a deb-. except it be for taxes or the purchase money due tor the land itself thus ex empt. This is for the relief of the. debt or, and ito pre vent the expulsion of himself dnd family from their home or such land as he may choose to make his home on. It secures the home or "homestead," which designates the ex empt land on which he has or may make his home, to bis and their use for its full and undisturbed enjoyment for the time being, with the privileges incident to such enjoyment, as u pre cedent and unfettered owner would use it in expectation of its indefinite continuance as his own home." Notwithstanding this strong Ian-, guage, which would seem of itsclfto indicate that the Chief Justice agreed substantially with Justices Davis and Avery, the opinion develops later on into a contrarj- view, as follows: "Surely when the sovereign, the State tays to the creditor: 'You shall not take the home of your debtor, and put him and his family out into the world, houseless and penniless, and you must therefore wait for your debt; Nut you may secure it by' prosecuting your de mand to judgment and enforce pay ment hereafter,' " it did not mean to say to him: "Yffur debtor may use the property in any way he may deem most j i . . i . . ., i iu uio own auvauiage in tue mean time; he may remove the houses, he may destroy all the timber, and con vert it to his own use, leaving the premises, it may be, well nigh worth less; and you cannot bo allowed to complain unless he was prompted by mere wantonness, or a malicious mo tive, and did not do the act. for sonal advantage only." i" And so, after more reasoning, and citation of authorities by the learned Chief Justice, the opinion is brought to a close. Aud thus it was decided that a judgment creditor holding a lien of $50.30 against a homesteader, having 200 acres of land alleged not to be worth over $1,000, and being subject to prior liens "amounting to several hundred dollars," was entitled to an injunction restraining the home steader from cutting and selling the timber on his land, except for neces sary repairs and improvements. Little News Items. Bill Weddington will be "hanged in in Charlotte June 11th. At the trial of Dr. McDow for the niurder of CaP1' Dawson, to take place in Charleston June 27th, the plea of jjL.pow will be seIf-defence. Three hundred people have been buried in Grand View cemetery who were drowned in the recent flood. It required 35 men to dig the graves. Hliud Tom, the famous pianist is supposed to have been drowned in the recent flood at Johnstown. He was enSaSed to perform at that town about ,ine ume l ine n00d' and nothing has been heard from him since. Of the 53,436 miles of new railway already projected for the first quarter of 1889 it is a notable fact that near ly one half the mileage will be con fined to the South and Southwest. Indications continue to point to the fact that these are to bo the sections of the future. News d- Observer. Mr. A. D. Parks, one of the crack gardeners of the town, is to the front among the first with new cabbage and has remembered the Landmark with a contribution from his crop. , Cabbage is not an aristociatic dish but it is mighty filling and when a man gets loaded up with it he. has something to hold to. Statesville Landmark. A good Methodist brother once preaced about the benefits of humility and poverty, and when he called on one of his devoted flock to lead in prayer the latter turned the doctrine of the sermon on his astonished pastor iu this unexpected manner, "Lord, you keep him humble and we'll keep him poor." AhberiHc Medium. Fast Travel. A single mile in thirty-nine seconds, and eight miles covered at this prodig ous speed, was the record made the other day on the Bound Brook Rail road by Engiue No. 206, of the Wootten pattern, that drew tho fast train which leaves Philadelphia at 7:30 a m. There were five cars in the train and John Hogan, a veteran engineer, was in the cab. The speed recorded is equivalent to a rate of over ninety miles. It has been decided by the Pennsylvania Railroad to send one of its best engines to England to be tried on the roads there. It will make its first appearance on the London and Northwestern Railroad. As the En glish railroads are much straighter than those in this country, railroad men arc much interested to see what an American locomotive can do on a bee-line track. "Worth Knowing. HUGHES' TOJflC The old time, reliable remedy for Fever and Ague. Re putation earned by Thirty years' success. You can depend upon it. Trt It!' Daua-i GISTS HAVE IT, . ' ..- XXVII. i I., , , . . W.- KAUFMAN & CO.'S EXTRAORDINARY SALE ITO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN LISTEN: Our Store in the old Central Hotel Building, the comer that is as familiar to you as your own houses and firesides, is to be remodeled, improved, enlarged and fitted up in Palatial style. The work will begin right away, just as soon as we can dispose of the Stock. We've an enormously largo stock, and as remod eling will be general, we must sell.it. Can't do anything else. So Saturday, at 8 o'clock sharp, we'll begin a SLAUGHTER SALE OF OUR ENTIRE STOCK, a sale such as has never been of any description will escape. will wake the State.- We want and we want 'em to stick there. The Goods we are eonipelled to sacrifice now are New Goods of this seasen ; Reliable, Staple Clothing, such as we have always kept. As our entire store will be remodeled and improved we can't keen anv (Joods in anv Nook or Corner, so the compulsion to sell is very great. The Stock to be sold is simply enormous, and the time very, very short. To empty the Store in the shortest possible 'time, we have boiled prices and value down; down to such a consistency as will pack our Store and keep it packed till every dollars worth of stuff under our roof is ro?io ll4 iiiinetiiiil W. KAUFMAN & CO., Leading Clothiers. Gents' Furnishers and Hatters, Corner Central HotelCharlotte, N. C. N.B. Mail orders receive prompt and careful attention. IT IS A REGULAR PIC-NIC FOR The fanning people when they eonie in lar and a half s worth of goods for one cart CLOTHING They can almost name their own prices. You know we keep a splendid line of noth ing in our regular stock. We don't make all our profits on clothing, consequently we can sell it for less than some other people. Our stvles are all right, and then we FIT you. SHOES are here too ! All kinds. Can fit the Itaby as well as the old lady; m a well as his Pa. We want you to come! We try onr best to treat you right". Wp sell good goods and aslow as we can in order to make a living. PANTS GOODS 3 YARDS FOR 50 CENTS. That's a sample. 'ALAMANCE 20 yards for $1.00. That's another. Come. i r T. L. SEIGLE & CO. f tr t -v 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 AR 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 & 00. (Next door to Wadsworth's Stables,) CHARLOTTE, N. C. Wholesale and Retail dealers in CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS, GROCERS AND MILK WAGONS. &c. At our repository on North Tryon street, next to Wadsworth's stables, you will find the largest and best stock of Carriages, Buggies, Spring Wagons, Delivery Wag ons, Carts, &c, to be found in North Caro lina, and at prices that defy competition. We represent the Columbus Buggy Co., Tyson & Jones, Biddle, Smart & Co., Cort land Wagon Co., Hiram W. Davis & Co., the Emerson & Fisher Co., the Youngs town. O., Carriage & Wagon Co.. Collins Mfg Co's. Road Carts, and other good makes. One car load Four and Six-passenger platform, Spring, Cortland Wagons, open and with top, jost received. June 7 A. C. HUTCHISON & CO. ILREATH & CO., (Successor to Pegram & Co.) Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS, TRUNKS AND VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, &c. The largest stock to select from, the low est prices, and the BEST CLASS OF GOODS THAT ARE MADE. ' We make a specialty of shoes suitable for FARMERS, MINERS, MECHANICS AND RAILROAD MEN, BOYS' AND GIRLS' SHOES FOR HOME AND SCHOOL WARX. Mke no mistake in the place. ? ' . 16 South Toyota Street, - 18 v Charlotte, N. C. ... tJ The Times is not six months old, but it has reached the stature of a full grown newspaper. Its circulation is larger in Mecklenburg count', than that of any other paper. Send in your name to swell the subscription list -OF- seen in this citv. Not a Garment We've made reductions that ' to nut three facteinto vour head. to see ns. wheel. They can buy jast niton t one dol- lu "GRAY & CO. DEALERS EXCLUSIVELY IN BOOTS and SHOES WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF R EAD'S NEW CHINA STORE LEADS IN LOW PRICES AND RE LIABLE WARE. We buy only such goods as are sure to give satisfaction after use, and not the refuse of factories that reliable dealers will not have, that can be bought at a low price. We offer you Stone China cups and sau- sers at 30 cts per set. Stone China plates 20, 30 and 40 cts. Patent Spring-top Mollasses cans, 10 cts Footed Glass Bowls and covers, 23 cts. Four piece Glass sets 2T cts. Quart Glass pitchers 15 cts. 1 Knives and forks, spoons, tubs, buckets, brooms and a general line of house furnish ing goods at bottom prices. Rogers Bros. 1847 plated ware, the best. A large variety of lamps, lanterns &c. G. S. READ ft CO. No. 11 Eaat Trade Sreot. NEW SPRNG- MILLINERY. Miss A. L. Warueld, our -Designer ami Trimmer, has arrived with all the latest styles. After six weeks' hard labor in Baltimore and New York, gathering in all the latest styles and novelties in Spring Millineri?, and we are confident ladies will , find her the best authority for everything that is worn on the head and how to wear it. This advantage, together with tbe largest, finest and cheapest Stock of Millinery we have ever shown, makes our house the most de sirable place in this country to buy Hats and Bonnets. Ladies, ca& and see our beautiful goods. MRS. QUERY & . CO.