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i i MECKLENBURG TIMES PUBMSHM BYMT THTJB8DAY. THE CHARLOTTE NE W S. DAILY BICEPT BU3SPAY - W, C DO WD, EDITUK AND PKOPBI OFFICE 25 8. TRYON STREET. Subscription in Advance: Tctss On year. $1.00 8ix months...... Three raonihs... - 50 .25 Jjftiwa Ob year. ......... ... Six months ... - - ..... 14 00 2 00 ..... ioo I Thre TBonths. THURSDAY, JAN 23 1896. A FHEE S1LTGR BANKER. ; ., Mr. W. P. St John is perhaps the Vpw York city who advacates the free and un limited coinage of silver on a ratio of 16 to 1, or free and unlimited coin- ' age on any other ratio HeisPresi dent of the Merchants -National ." Bank. When Secretary Carlisle is sued, his call for bids for bonds that . - bank turned $500,000 in gold into - the Treasury in exchange for any "'r other kjnd of money the Government chose to"gf or it. ' One other bank " in the countrywide Germania Bank, " of CmcmnatU offereriall thggold it bad iabont f 50,000 on the S&rneLgrjuTG; out those sections do not want t ' terms. This is not a great deal of ' money? but if the banks of the coun- try generally were mspirea. ov ,luc same patriotic impulses how easy it would be tor the Treasnry to get all ( the gold it needed. A good many of the goltt standard men think Banker - St John is a crank on the silver question, but Banker St. John started out as strong a gold man as any of them are now, gave special '-: study to thr financial question to be better fortified to defend the gold - side of the question, but the more he studied the less he believed in mono metallism and the stronger he be came in the belief that bimetallism, not theoretical but practical, was the only safe course to pursue. His ac- - tion iiTtttrning these $500,000 of gold into the Treasuryrsho'8 that he is not a gold hoarder, that his actions are consistent with his professions ' and that he is as conspicuous in his unselfish patriotism as in the signal ability with which he champions the cause of silver. It is too much per haps, to expect that other bankers f will follow his views on the financial question, but he has set them an ex ample in patriotism that they would do well to emulate: - There are three candidates for - Bergean t-at-arTrnr-of the Senate Mr. Valentine, of Nebraska; Mr. Cnrtis, of New Hampshire, and Mr. Grant, . of North Carolina. The candidates for Secretary oKhe Senate are Mr. Gorham, of Washington City. Mr. McMichael, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Shaw, of Washington. Mr. Wilson, of the latter State, who is the cham- . pion of Mr. Shaw, says that all he wants is for the, caucus to place its candidates in -nomination. If his man has not the, necessary number . of votes, then, let the best man win, and, Mr. Wilson says, he will sup--ort him for the place. This is not the spirit that appears to actuate the rest of the caucus. The Post says that there is an element in the Re publican party in the Senate in fa vor of retaining Sergeant-at-Arms Bright. He has made a good official and has many influential friends. But-Republicans who are Republi cans and partisans combined say " there are just as good Republicans who will make as efficient officials as Mr, Bright can possibly be. -v'''r,.i:'-."',x. The South Caioaina General As sembly ia in session. It will be a particularly long and important one, as the statute laws will be made to conform to the provisions of the new Constitnriom The only important election will be jthe choice of an associate justice for the Supreme Court.. The election laws will com mand the;; greatest interest, but so far there has. been absolutely noth IB to I tldicate any serious division. The reform element is in a large majority and it is unlikely that there : will be senons organized : opposition to it. The raising, of -additional . : ;n v , - revenue wm aiso oe an engrossing feature, and several radical bills on this line are to be introduced. " Gold mining in the South is hav ing quite" a boom just now, according to reports in the newspapers. The gold mines in North Georgia are said to be doing a profitable business; a company with $2,500,000 capital is about to develop gold mines in West .Virginia, andfinds of considerable line and importance are reported in North .Carolina. It is said that hundrtrtjs of miners have recently - arrived in the gold fields in Mont gomery and Stanly counties, this State, '. ,.' ' ' The impression appears to ; be ; growing among Democrats that the i ustoro of the party in power holding the first ; National Convention, .will not be followed this year, and .that ' the Democratic Convention will not iie helduntdl after: .the' Republican Convention has made its platform 1 ind nominations. '. The '.' National Committee will : today decide both the time and place for -the ConTen x a i) le held. a LABOR, MORAtlTT, AND BOCJt VI. ' V OKDER. The fact that of the 229,370 im. migrants who came in through, the port of New York last year no less than 42,942 above fourteen years of age could not read and write has a direct and strong bearing on the pending effort to add illiterates be. tween fourteen and sixty years of age to the ' list xf the excluded! The Washington Post says that if etch a law had been in force we should have missed whatever of benefit or injury has resulted, or may result, from the addition of 42,942 illiterates to our population. They would not have been sent back, for , they vonld not have crossed the ocean. The steam ship companies would have found means to protect themselves against the heavy loss that they would have incum i had .they been compelled to transport eo large a number of persons back toMhe ports from which they sailed. We have do $ ibt that most of these illiterate are honest and in dustrions pco , but as we already have in all oar cities a large surplus of unskilled labor, it seems impolitic to re-enforce it with such material. Tine, there is a loud call for immi grants in the far West and in the ignorance and poverty. ' And if tut y did want it they would not get it, for the statistics show that these people go into the e slums of the Eastern cities. ' .- ' About 149,500 of the 229,370 im- migrants were over fourteen years of age, and only 29.287 of t frese brought with them $30 and over. The South and West want immigrants who can take up land, make a payment, buy stock and - implements, and subsist themselves till the first crop comes in. Families that have no monev, or only a few dollars, and are not want ed in the agricultural regions, and if they were they could not be had. The statistics of Eliis Island show that , no less than 182,000 of the whole number of immigrants had some point in the North Atlantic States for a destination, while only 2,451 were bound for the South Cen tral States. The industrial and social condi tions of. this country not only justify, but demand he passage of the pend ing bill to exclude illiterates. It does not require that an - immigrant shall know a word of the English language, but it demands a slight knowledge of the immigrant's native tongue. -TLe theory that this coun try is the asylum for all the misery of the 6rd world was set aside long ago. We put up the bars against China because we believed it right to protect ourselves against' the degra dation. of labor. We barred out pau pers and lunatics because we found that the asylums of Europe were be in unloaded on us. We shutout contract labor to maintain living wages in our mines aud mills.' With increasing illiteracy, in spite of onr enormous expenditures for education, with a labor inaiket glutted, and with our poor asylums and prisons crowded with inmates, it seems to un quite time to give to labor, morality, and social order the increased pro tection promised in the restrictive measure now before Congress. '.. The decision" of the Populists to hold their national convention on the 22ud of July, after the Demo cratic convention has been held, is in accordance with the idea that i? prevailing in political circles. The Democratic convention, contrary to the practice, which is for the party in power to hold their convention first, follows that of the Republicans, because the Democrats want to know in advance of their own convention what the silver Republicans intend to do after being turned down at St. Louis. The Populists put their con vention off until afterthe Democrat ic convention in hopes of capturing the dissatisfied silver inen from that convention if the anti-silver men control -it. The whole programim is laid out on the theory of a possi ble bolt by the silver men. The silver Democrats think that if the silver Republicans should bolt it would increase the chances of a sil Ter platform and candidate coming out of the Democratic convention, with the hope of securing this Re publican support The Populists calculate that the silver men will be beaten in the Democratic as well as in the Eeplican convention, and that tbey will be able to draw off the bolters from both parties, if there are any. The radical silver men who are not Populists and who dread as sociation with that party, express the opinion that if there is a general sil ver bolt it will result in still another convention, and that the Populists' win not get tne Denent of it. Laot year Mr. Dill, of Sandy Flat, S. C, raised 530 bushels of po tatoes on one acre at a cost of twen ty-five dollars. If sold at only 50 cents a bushel this crop of one acre.aohDa e served, too, in the would net $240, as much as the gross price of six 200 pound bales of cotton at 8 cents a bale, or as much profit as would probably be made on twenty iuur oaies ot 8 cent cotton, buch instances as this omrht effect. The "all cotton" theory has long ago been condemned hv lences, and the nearer our farm come to making cotton ' a enrol n crcM'- ' t:r c2 they will be. CROP TALK. The Pral statement of the Agri CulturallJureau at Washington con tains some interesting facts concern ing thr wheat crop of 1895. The bureau has increased its fiures on crop to 467,000,000, which is 7,000, 000 in excess of the crop of 1893. This brings the average per acre yield of the country up to 13 7 bu shels. The bulk of this addition has occurred in the four leading States of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and California. The States of Missouri, Illinois and Kan sas, however, have about the smallest wh 'Ht production of years. What these States lack in wheat, though, thev h.ve more than made up in the prod uc i ion of corn; Missouri, for ex ample iitiii an estimated crop of 238,- 000,000 bui-hels, as against 116,000, . ooo l.t year; Illinois, 255,000,000 ! agiusi iG'J,0lo;060; Kansas, 294, ! 000.000. ao-aiust 41.000.000 In the 7 O . ' latter State the increase seems phe nomenally large, but it must be re membered that the drought of 1894 but the corn crop of Kausa practi cal lj fn half. This is true'also of Nebraska, which shows a production of 125,000,0,00, as against only 13,- 000,000 iu 1894. Iuwa shows the biggest corn production of any State in the Union, having a crop this year j of 3980oo.ooo bushels. Texas and j Arkansas also hav. distinguished i ; rhi lin nf nroducr. I I X. IU 3V. 1 v V. O ill - I ' ' ftlid Qave rtSpeotiTeiy a crop of 107, 000,000 bushels. Figures as proline of result as these obtain in nearly all th eorn-bearing States, and ffgo to make aH aggregate crop of 2,1 5 1 ,000, 000 bushels, which i? an average of a little over 35 i bushels per capita distributed among the population of the Uuited States. The oat crop for the year 1895 is also exceptionally large, in fact th largest on record, being, estimated at 824,000,000 bushels, as against only 662,000,000 in 189-t. In Missouri, Kausai and Nebraska, only, of the States directly tributary to the St Louis trade, was the yield above the average, Illinois and Texas showing a smaller production than in 1S94. W hile the final figures on the cot ton crop of 1895 are not, as yet, in, still the consensus of opinion seems to be that the yield Will show some where between G,?0O,000 and 7,000, 000 bales. There are some who seem to incline to the idea that the yield may go to 7,250,000 bales, but in view of preseut reports this appears somewhat excessive. That the crop B considerably short of an average yield may be apparent from the re ceipts at Southern points for the pa.-t.year There were in 1S95 5, 619,000, as against 0.53S,000 in 1894 Kecent reports from the State of ArkansaSjhowev-er, go to tow that there is a good deal niore cotton in that locality ihnn is generally ac credited to it. On home plantations a third crop is being gathered. A great pumher of planters also have stored their cotton, nrd declare they will not sell it until the price changes radically one way or the other; though it is generally conceded that it would take a drop of fully a cent in the price to force them to lt go. Should the price advaucea half or even a quarter of a cent, though this cotton will probably be coaxed out of its hiding pUces and figurs materially in swelling the present es timates of the crop. THl pension appropriation bill ha? pwed the House, being several weeks in advance of the usual timt for action on that bill. It carrier $141,325,820 Mr. Bartlett of New York raised the poiut of order against all new legislation propoied in the way of amendments, such as that looking to making a pension a "vested right," &o , and Mr. Dingi- of Maine, who wa in the chair, sus tained them. In this way theclau---in the bill changing existing law e as to allow widows to obtain pensions under the act of 1890 whose net in comee did not exceed $500, per annum was stricken out. Mr. Bartlett, how ever, did not raise the point against the provision making pensions under the act of 1890 rejected, suspended or dismissed, and afterward allowed, to date from their first application. It was aunouueed in the debate that bills cohering l he amendments ruled out would bo reported from the in valid pensions committee. May 18 is to be celebrated as n.u" ; r. V..U "I i: ' "Vance . M-rj 1 14 111 L 11 VttlUIJUa, i J . u QWU DIAp Schools are to be closed and a gener- a.U that He Perform?d the opera al .nherrintion is to be uvL J tton successfully and Mr. Hollyfield . " 0 . " t i throughout the State for a menu ment to the Senator. Mr Vance was born on May 13. 1830. and his urn- I tracted public service as Counfv At- ' t J I tirnor Sfiifa latcl.,. C D.i i p ; -r61 Representative m Congress, Governor , (three times), and United States Sen $tor made him during his lifetime the most conspicuous and probably the most influential citizen of North civil wa on the Confederate side and was one Of - the most ponular1 campaign speakers in the South. He ttA irt Airi,: : . . . drediri Washington nn Ar.r5i ia 1894. - ' Yesterday, January 19, was the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He was Dorn in w estmoreJand countv Va., in 1807, and died in Lexington, Va., October 12, 1870, OLD LIBERTY -BELL. THE FIRST JOTJRJTET OF THIS HIS TORIC RELIC. ntrrtHK Pacts Concerning Its History HUtailcat Kpl.oda of tbm Revolution , bourn Thing la Connection With It That May Not Bo Familiar to Afanr of Our Rrailvn. The Liberty Bell, originally capt ii London on the order of the Colo nial Assemblv, arrived in PhiladtJ phia, August, 1752. It was put in place aud the very first stroke of th clapper cracked it, greatly to the mortification of those who had brought it over; they were about to send it back, when two ingenious workmen of Philadelphia named Pease and Stowe, offered to recast it, and did 10 successfully; but when they came to sound it, it was fourd to contain too much copper aud they again re-cast, it, and that is the Bell as it is today. By direction of the Assembly there had been cast on the shoulder of the Bell, the prophetic inscrip tion, '.'Proclaim Liberty through all the Land, to all the inhabitants thereof." Lev: xxv. 10. When com pleted it was swung in the oper belfry sometime in 1753; there, for 23 years prior to the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, it rang cur few and call and greeting to Colo ni:il Philadelphia; there upon the 4th of Julv, 1776, of hallowed re in. mhrance. nuon the stillness of the summer air, and the attentive ears of a waiting, solemn people, it.- pt-aling tone? sped first and far am1 wide the announcement taut the claration of Independence was an accomplished matter, and that as "free and independent states, they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown." Enshrined in the affections of the people by its prophetic motto and earliest m-'S eafe of liberty, its safety became the solicitude and its keeping the treas ure-trove of the people. For as the war sweiied, southward from Lex ington to W bite Plains, and from White Plains towards Princeton, and the patriots get tidings of the advancing British columns, they hasted to put their loved Liberty Hell in safer quarters. Under th direction of Congress, after the bat tle of Brandy wine, while th British wero approaching the city it was lowered from its stanchions, placed on a wagon an I hurried away anion .Tidies baggage trains of a patriot people, fleeing under the September skies before the invaders of their homes. Out the Old York Road (or pike) to Trenton thtv pushed on and thence under the escort of Virginia and North Carolina troops, both horse and foot, over the hills and through the almost wilderness loads they bore it to the peaceful -Moravian Village of Bethlehem even then oTtrflowin" with onr sick and wounded eotdiers. On its way through the City of Bethlehem, the truck on which it was conveyed, broke with it; it had to be picked up and carried on; it sustained a slight injury there. It is this scene of the cavalcade, picturesque with its colors of the sere year, and its tales' of exile, that, is depicted iu the painting; the stirring incident in the history of the Liberty Bell that il lustrates that the love of our people for it is no new tking. The Bell wa. afterwards taken to Allentown and hid in allar until after Gen rral Washington's victory at the bat tle of Monmouth, in August, 1T?S. when it was brought back to Phil adelphia aud replaced in its posi tion. It announced the proclamation of war of 1812; it announced the proclamation of peace in 1815; it rang for the reception of Lafayette in 1824; it was rung, for the last time and was cracked tolling for the death of Chief Justice John Mar shall on July 8, 1835. It were a needless story to relate in these davs how the Beli was brought back to its old eyrie with pageant and joy, with breeze-flying flags of red, white and blue and huzzas and arches of flowers and parade, and bow the people kept festival upon its 'return. Sixth and Chestuut swayed and swung with its multitudes of patriot men and women, girls and boys, the roofs and windows added to the joy ous throng, tearful in their gayety, as they welcomed back the Liberty Bell, guerdon of their Common wealth, and looked on the soldiers, who were to fight and win, through famishment and tatters, froni open enemies and traitors, the land of their birth and toil and establish it among the, nations " heritage of liberty forever." After 31 Tears. Dr. W. S. Taylor, of this place, cnt a minnie ball out of the leg of Mr. John H. Hollyfield, of Rock ford, N. C, which had been troub ling him ever since it was fired into him on the battlefield at Petersburg, Va,, thirty one years ago. Mr. Hoi I lyfiVld was at Dobson last Thursdav complaining with his leg and. Dr. I Tavlor told him h A vmlrl innn nn is ooiug wen. lie kept the ball and placing it in his pocket, remarked that he intended to give it to his wife- This old Confederate veteran ha8 8,me pluck vet' as if is not every man thnt nri'll m' rt.-.. n 1""" o.u uunu aim aiJOW the surgeon to apply the1 knife after carrying a bullet in his merson thir- ty-one years, Mt. Airy News. ; Frozeu t Death. Last Saturday night Mr. Gus Shook, while crossing Lila's creeK at Roseman's mill, in Cline's town ship missed the road, and got into a acftbat empties Jnta .the creek a -j e' cart tnrn" ed over and from just above the ford. -over and other he was nt able to get out of friends hunted for him a.11 d av Snn, tue orancn ana iroze to death. His da7 and found hig. body about five iU luc rnoon. tie was a eon or Mr. William Shook and leaves a wife and two email chil dren, Newton Enterprise. ' INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS. Tb- Sams Tarred In By t no Various States .. Somo Curious Figaies. ' Very nearly, if not exactly, one half of the Federal revenue of the Treasury Department in Washington comes from internal -revenue tav.es levied upoa American pro hi els. During the civil war, ' when many. American ports were closed to for eign commerce, the internal revenue receipts augmented by stamp and in come taxes exceeded largely the cus toms revenues. This condition continued until 1868, but from that time on until 1893 a quarter of a" century the Custom House receipts prodominat ed, in 1894 the Avar-time division was resumed, and it continued in the year following. The internal reve nue tax, however, is not evenly dif fused, for some Stales pay an undue proportion of it and others practically escape all responsible v. The total sum raised from this source is about . nnr, , i e . . -i.-x.. "e ,u v...,, i na lrifMiiiMin v n in- mi i iifiin lviitiii .. . - r i r..l. v, ,1 sTcarohn ' Tn thelattw State the State Gov- i.rnmunl. h:is .a ii 1 1 1 1 fi I eontrol over Hio a-ilo nf linnor under the Oisnep.- "" " l ; 1 i sarv law, so called, which endeavors ; to restrict to a nominal amount wine making in the Palmetto State. The total amount cf in ternal revenue raised in South Caro lina was $S7,000, while in 'North Carolina, where there is no Dispen sary law to limit the manufacture of Mquors (North Carolina has a large tob.'icco business besides), the Federal Government's internal revenue was ,o00,000. The population of S mtk Carolina in 1S90" was 1,150, 000; of Xorth Carolina it was 1,600, 100.. Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont contributed col lectiA'ely last year $500,000 to the internal revenue receipts of the Government These three States have collectively a pop ulation of 1,500.000, but the one .State of Wisconsin, which was re turned in the census of 1891 as hav ing a population of 1,800,000, con tributed to the internal revenue re ceipts of the Government $4,700,000, this large total being due in consid erable measure to the brewries of Milwaukee, the generous product of which is well known. i Far in advance of all the other States in the amount of internal reveuue taxes which it yields is Illi nois, the "distillery State," it is sometimes called, Avith a total of $31,000,000 last year. Next, of course, comes Kentucky, a State j where the friends of prohibition are less securely intrenched than in Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont. Kentucky contributed to the Fedoral revenues last year $20,000,000. New York State, first in .nearly every thing else, is third in the amountof internal revenue furnished $10, 000,000 last year. Ohio, generally near the top, follows with $12,000.- i 000, and then Pennsylvania with $11,000,000, toward wliich the Pitts burg district, where distilleries vare numerous, contributes considerable; and Pennsylvania is quite a tobacco rroducing State, too, .with 20,000 acres of its fertile laud devoted to the raising of Raleigh's leaf. Then follows, after a considerable distauee, Missouri; then, in the order named, Wisconsin and Indiana, Michigan, and New Jersey. Some of the W es tern prohibition Stite., r-o railed. Kansas, Indiana, and Nebraska, con tribute very little to the internal reA'enue total, and the big State of Alabama, where the mint juleps u.sed to come from, turned in last year only $88,000 $1,000 more than South Carolina. Arkansas, where "bad whickey'' was once thought to be as com mod as bowie knives, turn ed in only $85,000, or $2,000 less than South Carolina. Texas turned in $300,000, and Massachusetts $2, 600,000. A Tear's Work of One Factory. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Odell Manufacturing Company was held to-day (Thurs day ) in the offices of the company at Forest Hill. Among the other fact and figures, submitted by Pres ident Odelband Treasurer Odell, to the stockholders we find the follow ing of much interest: Dnring the vear the mills manufactured 19,338, 753 yards of goods, or enough to reach half around this old world of ours; 149.228 seamless bags and 722 dozen (8664) towel3, or eight to each family in Concord The company used 4,019,144 pounds of cotton, or 8,038 500 pound bales. There was paid out to ODeratives $135,571.36; and for the wood and coal $24,387.28. The company paid during the year for help, wood, cotton, etc., on the average of over $2,000 per day. This brings it down to where we all can grasp what a big enterprise it is, not only for the stockholders, but directly and indirectly for hun dreds upon hundred of our citizens. Concord Standard. For the Corpulent One. When you are dieting to reduce flesh you must eat stale bread and give up potatoes, rice, beats, corn, peas, beans, milk, cream, all sweets,' cocoa indeed, anything which even suggests sugar or starch. Dry toast without butter, tea without either milk or sugar, rare meat with no fat, and, as far as ' possible, no vegetables at all should form your diet. Take all the exercise you can in the way of Avalking. Go twice a week to a Rus sian bath where possible and invari ably go to bed hungry. Anybody brave enough to live up'to these laws will certainly lose flesh. , ; -1 - J State ofOhto, Ci.y ot Toledo, I " : 4 - . Lucas County . f bs. : I . . . : Frank J. Cheney makes oath hn la t.fin unfer partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co doing business In the City of Toledo, County and.1 Jr "v vuai. caiu ui ui wui Uat llltj sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for eacu andevery case of Catarrh that cannot toe cu?l, -n8e f HALL'S CATARRH CbKE- . t , FRANK J.CH EN KY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 8th day of December, A. D. 186. bBaIj - A. W.GLKASON, - ?0Vr5,Catf1rrh ? ,taken?ntenianj 1 md by C0- JkS INTERN ATIOIS.ll. BAKK.' TbHonse Banking Committee Consider a Favorite Frojsct of JmosO Blalov At a meetinfir of the Commit toe on Banking and Currency" yesterday the j project of establishing an interna- tional American bank was under dis- enssion. The prvj-ct is in line with j th recommendation of the psn- j American Congress, and was 'a'gely j tbeideaof the late Jamts U. blame. At non g the would-be incorporators are Cornelins N. Bliss and Charles R. Flint, -of 'New York; T. Jefferson 'oolidge, Andrew Carnegie, J. S. Clarkson, P. D. Armonr. and M. M. Estee, of alifornia. The bill puts the capital stock at $5,000,000, and authorizes the bank to act as the financial agent of any government, S'ate municipality, or corporation; to handle bonds, &c", but bars it from issuing notes to circulate as money in the United States. The Committee was addressed by Comptroller Eckels, who stated that he favored the establishment of such a bank under proper restrictions. It would give to the United States, he said, cheaper exchange with South American republics and enaulethem 1 to compete successfully with Euro- in uiei ouu to ill in misuuiaiiuiiio. 1 Al1 South American exchange is now j udled thr0"gh Loudtm andn other U i-i nmm Ainfvn rt . 1 1 i3 till AO IT i 1 C i , .r . . i lnS ln exchange 1 of ten determined who should do the business or a country. The international bank, he thought, should not be permitted to issue circulation in the United States, and it should be under such restric tions that it would not be given an advantage over other banks under government control in case it should decide to do all its busi-ness iu the United States. The question wheth er such a bank could Le chartered under the Constitution was one for Congress to pass upon. Commodore William T. Hughes, of New York; 8. C. Neill, and Charles J. Bell explained the details of the plan. The Potato in France. In France we find that the potato was placed on the royal table in the year 1616, but it was Parmentier, an apothecary, who really introductd it and did all be could to get it gener ally cultivated, though not without the assistance of the government. In 17714$. high prize was offered by the Academy of liesancon for the dis covery of a new food which would fill the place of cereals in case of a famine. Parmentier showed his po tatoes, and Louis XVI gave him fifty morgen of land to plant them on. When showing the first flowers of his potat"es the king used them as a button-hole bouquet, Queen Marie Anfionette had them in the evening in her hair, and at once prince., dukes, and high functionaries went to Parmentier to obtain such flowers. All Paris talked of nothiug but potatoes and the cultivator of them The kim- said, "France will thank vou some time hence because you have found bread for the poor. And" France has not forgotten Par meutier, for I haw myself, in 1882, potatues growing on his grave in the grand cemetery of Paris, the Pere la Chai-e, and I was assured that thrv were planted there every year, so that his services might never be forgotten by Frenchmen. Journal of the Roy al Horticultural Society. ai Shaii Do? Ii the earnest, almost egonizing cry ot v. -:al:, ti. ed, r ervous women, and crowded, cverr jrked, struggling men. Slight dif ficuliieg, orJ'-uary cares, household work cr daily labor, magdiiy themselves into seemingly impassable mountains. This is aim; ly because the nerve3 are weak, the bodily orgaus debilitated, and they do not Take proper nourishment, i'eed the nerves, organs and tissues ou rich red blood, and how soon the glow of health comes to the pile cheeks, firmness to the unsteady hand, and stresgLh to the faltering limb. ood's 3arsaparilla pirifies, vitalizes and enriche3 the blood r id ia thus the best friend to unfortunate J umanity. Ie FTire to get Hood's and only Hood's. All druggists, fl; six for f5. UnAJ'e-DHIe Uie afior-dinaer pill aad a iouu J x unily cathartic. 25a. Ob! My Eyes! - Don't suffer -with your eyes. SHELL will -examine them ' -FREE O V CHARGE and have Glasses -made to suit them. -REMEMBER -I carry , -a nice stock of -JEWELRY. -All sorts REPAIR WORK done right at Fair Prices. J. E. SHELL, Jeweler. Will slip through your pis- GER& , Don't let onr $2 shoe escape yon. It is the thing to wear. You will get more solid comfort out of it to the sn&re inch than out of any other shoe to the square foot at anything near tbe price, and talking of the square foot, it does the square thing by the foot. It isn't tn i ggeration to say that its . cheanneaa ia phenomenal. Every consideration nf economy: jastines its purchase, and ev ery consideration of comfort justifies its use. We sever recommend a shoe that win do more to recommend itself. It wont try you ranch to try it. A large stocte Umbrellrs, Trunks, Valises and Handbags, always 0 a hand, WE WANT 50 Small 33, 34 or 35 inches chest measure, to buy 50 cutaway suits that we have in small sizes only. We will give t:iem the great est bargain of their lives. These suits formerly sold for 25, $20, $18, $ 15 and 112, and we wil let them go now for $5 a suit. DID YOU E.VER HEAR OF SUCH BARGAINS? ' We lose a pile of money on these suits but THEY MUST GO. We h ve also some cutaway suits that we sold for less than $12.50 and thesevwe offer you now for 3.r'0 a suit. G00D3 BOUGHT AT SHERIFF'S SALES COULD NOT I E SOLD AS CHEAP AS TilESE SUi.S ARE OFFERED. Closing WILL BE CONTINUED UNTIL FEB RUARY 1st. Our entire stock of CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISH INGS are offered at closing out prices as this Company will be diss dved on Feb ruary 1st. Rogers & Co , CLOTHIERS and FURNISHERS. 21 West Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. (Iff PRICES' We have all grades ot goods in the Crockery, China, Glassware and Tinware lines. T.arge t stock in Charlotte and the 'owest pnees. French and Austrian China, Enslish Poreelasn and American ware in difinirseis. Austrian and Eng lishObtn;65 pieces Tea sets. Tinware of every discription Glass .ware all styles. Lamps all shapes and sizes. To Our country friends. W e solicit your 'rade and can furnish yo i goods from the cheapest to the best. ' t Special inducements to merchants buy ing stock for retail. No. 20. West Trade St. Smith & Flouknoy At the Washington Stand, No. 20 West Trade Street, Charlotte. N. C; SHOULD K A KNIFE -FOR- CUTTING CORN TOP S -AND- SUGAR GAM AND WE CAN SUPPLY YpU With one made for the PURPOSE. CALL IN AND SEE We can save you money on Cane Mills and Evaporators. 3 9 IOI lie v 25 Kii Men doi bui 1 in -J an th "5 lai Mi 3h Out Sale -9 19 VEW STORE: 0 1 l. Prices to Suit the Tiiiift Our friends will please take notice that we have opened one of the Most - Complete Stocks of Clothing ever brought to this city at our splendid stand No. 10 West Trade St We bought our goods a'-the very lowest cash price nnd it will surprise you to see how low we sell good goods. For example we sell a good suit of clothes that wears well and looks well enough to wear to n it ttosbjbrjody 5. , t? . We want your trao345ffiTd make it to your i ::t rest to give it to us. We will be J - 1 to hare yenL inspect or z ck at any time 1 M 7 ! "to' - a ira rl jri o in 3 r r ;
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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