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i.t Value of Co
kt;int drop of wati r
fc wny the hardest stone;
i'.ut pnaw or lowser
tes the toughest bone;
Knt cooing lover
off the blushing mam;
kmstaut advertiser
be who gets metraae.
MEKS' COLUMN
Hottc Uuildinsr and Loan Assoeia
111 loan money to farmers any wh re
OHirs county on Kood real estate
6 reri em. This is a home institu
ten in oooni' ioti nearly six years.
Lr and l oan p an is the cheapest
row money and easiest way to pay
lotion lit now open for 14th cl iss.
eut vondav Man-h 'nd. II L. inb
fi. I. Hunter. Secty. and Trea?.
ton riven and suosejlptionsreceiv
larnn's s.Ure,3 Nonh Ti yon St.
fAV I for catarrh Sano tor piles
fv(..u.l. .No. 310 North Tryou
?e
4 wed sat St w4t
,1E STOLEN Mr. M. 'r. fmun uau
In vr''av mare mule stolen Tues
jt vaca'n" lo in tear of Rogers
tmUe wa riddt-n in the direction
vby a yuunjr mulatto. Mr Smi'o
jd "to receive any information that
ils recovery,
Two young mare mules, N. Ci.
12 Berkshire hogs; Jersey nun,
it; sad'dies, harness, new wagons,
vKlsOn, Thai lot te.
four Hide We give the highest
ees at all times. The shuw-llow-
o. -ti
ind Weilding- Invitations in ttie
land latest style at 'Hf .News Ac
4ng Oilice.
THE FIGHT POSTPONED.
MOVmABODT.SKCKHTr.YXrrBIEKT JJDPONTGETS IT.
DlJSAPF01JTMKT for toe
- ING WORLD.
SPORT.
Momeofth- 'Sports' Are Betnrnlnjc North
in tlio Belief tbat There will be No Fight
at All,
El Paso, Texas, Feb. 14. The
big fight id post-poued until next
Monday at the earliest. If Maher is
not ready to fight then, Julian will
decide what he will do regarding the
forfeit. If Fitzpimmons demands
the forfeit money, it will go to
Stuart, none going to Fitzsimmons
or Julian. A number of sports left
for the North today, in their belief
that the nght will not come off. at
all.
The doctors disagree as to wheth
er Maher will be able to fight Mon
day. Some say he will and others
say it will be a week Dan Stuart
says he is ready and willing to re
main a week.
FOUND IN THE SAFE.
GATHERING OF FUSION HEALERS lfi
WASHINGTON.
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HUSTLING
STREET.
IN WALL
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JONES
TO BE SPIRITED AWAY FOR
JUST ONE TIME.
THE
Carlisle Will Publish the Lit of Delinqu
ents Monday, aud Sell the Bonds to the
Highest Bidder.
Settle the Only Republican WhoToted for
Silver CrUp's ; Strong Speech -News
special to the news, . Kew Youk, Feb. lo. A number
Washington, Feb. 15.Judge 2? ffers t0 dePosit old in the? Sub
Daniel Russell, Spier Whitaker and Treasury on allotments transferred
w ciuecu. x nere is consicieraoie
hustling in Wall street among a
number of successful bidders who are
unable to secure gold. It is estima
ted thai quite a large amount of
bonds will be thrown back into the
DELAWARE SENATORIAL MUD--DLE
SETTLED.
V
M. L. Wood are here moYing secret
ly around with Butler aftd Pritch
ard. They neither register nor are
they seen on the street, but their
business here it appears, is to heal
the breach between the two wings of
Reed Usd the Bond Bill to Snit hi Pnr
pose and HnpeA to Use the Tariff Bill in
th Same Way Gossip from Congress.
Special to the News
Washington, Feb. 19. It .must
not be passed over unnoticed that ! Oregon, Chairman of the. Senate
Senator Carter, of Montana, Chair-committee on privileges and elections,
man of the Republican National I presented to the Senate today the-
Committee yesterday mormngr arose 1 majority report on the Delaware Sen-
A Sp cfic Demand for Defaulted Bonds
Ca lilt to Render His ecUlou l o llor.;
row nr!Jif Day.
Washington, Feb. 17. Mitchell,
Joing to get married? send to the.
Times Printing Oih'ce and we will
kedding invitations in the neatest
tractive stvies at very low prices
Sins; matter,
n ever before.
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ZES FOR EVKKYBODY.
I of the Mecklenburg
m delighted with the change
pers size. It now gives them
and is a better
l Here is no
iby its subscription should
ubled. Verv few are so
t they cannot pay $1 for as
iaper us the Times.
nt our friends to help us
new subscribers. V e will
to. well for their trouble. Be
be found a better offer than
ever made before. Read it,
what you want, and go to
In this coutest everybody
a prize.
PREMIUM OFFER.
i
y one who will seiid lis one
icriber we will give one
ners garden seed
club of six subscribers we
.i Harris Cotton Planter.
c; to oieint suo.-eri ners we
a retty calibre rirle.
llubof ten suliseribers we
la pretty gentleman's or
Itch guaranteed to keep good
i
(ihb of twelve subscribers
give a handsome eight-day
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club of fifteen subscribers
I give a nne single barrel
loading thot gun.
tclub of twenty subscribers
good set of buggy
ive a
club of twenty-five sub
ve will give a g-od family
Ve.
club
of
shot
thirty subscribers
le barrel breech
gun, A good shoot-
ffive a uouuie
,club of forty subscribers we
a handsome double barrel
:oadiug thot gun. A fine
or a splendid cortlaud
subscribers we
s sewing machine
blub of fifty
I a nrsr ci tss
Spiete s-t of a'tu-hm--nrtJ.
iub of s-venfy-tive we will
ttv buo-o-y- tluttvull make
;ai d your girl happy.
lub of one hundred sub
hve will give a first ciass
C tire nicely finished bicy-
25 IX CASH.
.largest clnb received
Jer we will gi
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Eight Dollars that Have Been Sately Kept
Over 5 ars.
Ir. P. M. Brown has ben going
through the accumulated old papers
in the store eafe for a few days past,
and Tuesday morning he came across
au envelope yellow with age. It was
addressed to Mr. M M Hi 11, care Brem
Brown & Co., Charlotte. On tearing
open the envelope, Mr. Brown was
surprised to find that it contained
$8 in paper money, a five and 3 ones.
The letter was written from Big
Lick, Stanly jconnty, and bore da'e
of January 11, 187?. It was signed
W. M. Harward, was written to M.
M. Hill, and said: "Dear Sir
Enclosed is eight dollars that I owe
you " y
The letter was received bv Brem,
Brow n & Co , ou January 12, 1871
and was placed in their safe for Mr,
Hill. It seems though that he never
c-dled for it, and all this time it has
been lying among the old papers in
the safe.
Mr. Brown has the letter and the
mouev and will bo lad to turn them
over to Mr. Hill, if he is living, or to
his heirs.
Solicitor Mott I-leads Guilty to Gambling
A special from Winston to the
a.
Raleigh News & Observer says: Solic
iror Mott pleaded guilty to the
charge of gamb.ing in the Superior
court here this afternoon, and made
his promised explanation, which was
an ingenious plea of persecution
t T "11 , 1
lie saiu ne was tne only man ever
indicted by the grand jury of this
county for gambling, although there
were here no doubt, men who had
gambled monthly, weekly and daily
for ye rs He said on only two oc
casions had he participated here in
games in wh'ch wagers were made,
He had not violated any other statute.
and that he could have lorn up the
indictment and that would have
betln the last of it, but he was deter
(Till 11-1
minea mat every case snouia go
throue;h its regular channel. He
said some publicity had been given
to the matter, but he did not obiect
to that, he was a public officer, and
his j'cts. were opni to public scrutiny
Judge Norwood fined him ten dol
lars an u costs. ue same nne was
imposed ou others who pleaded guil
tv.
fusion and ome to an understand
ing as to the coming campaign
hands of Carlisle, who will probably
' make known the names of the delin-
Thos. Settle was the only North queut tadders next Monday and im-
Carolina Itepresentative that voted
against silver yesterday. Everyone
in his seat and offered a resolntiDn
to recommit th amended Tariff
Bill to the committee on Finance.
It must be remembered, too, in tnis
connection that when Senator Mor
rill moved to take uo the Tariff Bill
A11N Wll thxt K'nrtn W 1.
After The News was issued ves
terday, Esquire Maxwell suggtsted
to Mr McCracLen that he go the
rounds of the livery stables and see
if his missing team could be found
in any of them. The News had
an ac count of i he disappearance of
his wagon, which he had left in
charge of Lum Taylor. Mr. Mc
Cracken called first at Pitch's sta
ble, and there he found his team.
Later in the evening, he met Mr.
Taylor on the street. Taylor had
become tired out waiting for Mc
Crackens return and had driven the
to Pitch's stable. Two
wagfon
nJj j warrants had been issued for Taylor,
, t i and but for the item in The News
un-
veacash prize
are onlv fivp
the Jot. The winnpr of 'dna Dt lor tne item in 1he News
prize can take his choice be-1 - e a.v' Mr' Mccracken might
T i . I 1 -i
even yet nave neen nymg arouna on
the hunt for the wagon and mule.
The Forty Days of Lent.
Yesterday was Ash Wednesday,
the day which begins the Lenten
season and the 40 days during which
it is observed will be practically
free of events in the realm of social
pleasure. The observance of Lent
dates back, it is said, to the time of
the Apostles, when it was observed
in
of the members was in his seat and
when each name was called each an
swered distinctly in the affirmative
except Settle. When voting com
menced in the House Mr.
Stroud was seen to enter
with Mr. Howard of Alabama,
who wrote "If Christ Came to Con
gress," leaning heavily on bis arm
Mr. Strowd, was leading him in to
vote for the silver question but
Howard was too far below earthly
beings to know what was going on
for he was beastlv drunk. In his
book he denounced Congress as a set
of "Drunken Rabbles" and a few
minutes after entering, before his
name was called, he was carried off
the floor.
The speech of Crisp yesterday wras
judged to be the strongest advocate
of silver presented in the House dur
ing the debate,. It was an ingenious
trick of monemetalists to select
Turner of Georgia to make an op
posing speech They both occupied
the whole time, speaking four hours,
followed by a few remarks from
Dalzell. The silver adrocates ex
pected a bet.'er showing than they
received and were little disappointed
in the size of the opposing majority.
THE BURWELL & DUNN CO'S DEAL.
They Buy 33 Feet on Trade Street for 87,
000 and will Build a Large Drug House.
The Burwell & Dunn Drug Com
pany Monday concluded negoti
ations with Mr. W F. Buchanan
for the purchase of his property on
Lrade street, opposite the court
house. The property has a frontage
of 33 feet and a depth of 100 feet
The building now standing on it is
occupied by Mr. Jas Howie as a sa
loon. According to the term3 of the
sale, Mr. Howie is to occupy the
building until January 1. 1897,
when he is to vacate ai.d the Bur-
well & Dunn Company will begin
the erection of a tine structure, espe
cially designed for their large whole
sale and retail drug business. The
price paid for the Buchanan prop
erty was $7,000, or a little over
$200 per foot.
The Burwell & Dunn Company
own the old Burgess Nichols store
house property, a few doors east, but
as the building there is too good to
be torn down, thev will retain it and
buid on their new purchase. They
will put una commodious building,
one suited to the requirements of
Lately attempt to placthe bonds .
Reed and the rest of the leaders
with the highest bidder.
their big; trade.
MR. COWAN SHIELDS IN TOWN.
He Positively Identifies Monroe John
ston a the Negro who Invaded his House
Hud Shothlm Policeman Black Gets S50
Rfward
Mr. Cowan Shields, the victim of
the recent brutal assault at his home
! t ii, u : ji
in jjuug vyiecj luwiisuip, was m tne
city today tor the first time since
the assault. Mr. Shields' bullet
wound has healed, and he has about
recovered from the effects of his en
counter with the burglar. His
friends in Charlotte were glad to
shake his hand today. Mr Shields
is confident that Johnston, the ne
gro now held in jail, is his assailant
and is certain of his identity.
At 1 o'clock today, Monroe John
ston was arraigned before Esquire D
G. Maxwell for a preliminary hear
ing. Only one witness was examin
ed, Mr Shields himself. He made a
most positive identification of John
1" 1. T 1
ston as nis assailant, jonnston was
not represented by counsel and made
no statement. He was removed to
jail.
Mr .Shields paid policeman Tom
Black toe $50 reward which he had
offered for the capture of Johnston
Mr. Shields' testimony was that he
lives in Long Creek township, Meek
lenourg county, in. u., aoout one
mile from Bristow postoffice. and on
the night of January 8th 1896 he
was sleeping in his room down stairs
aud was awakened about 12 o'clock
iii ti ii
ov tne screams or nis uaug-nter in a
room up stairs. Hs called out:
"What is the matter up there.' He
then heard two reports of pistol or
gun, and heard something fall heav
lly upon the floor upstairs. He got
up from his bed n.nd getting hold of
the fire shovel, he was accosted br
tne prisoner who exclaimed: "Stand
back." I recognized his face, mous-
tach and beard and saw his face dis
tinctly from the flash of the pistol
three times. The prisoner had
no hat on his head, but
an old hat was found upstairs in
his daughter's bed room. Mrs.
r-i'ii ii
ftnielus was occupying a oeu up
stairs in the same room with his
daughter on that
night.
Tarred and Feathered Him.
North Platte, Feb. 16. The
Rev. William Bailey was tarred and
ft-athered and ordered to leave town
hy a vig-i lance committee, consisting
of 150 citizens, last night. Bailey is
an imitator of Schlatter, the Denver
healer, and has been working his
so-called miracles all winter. The.
man hnd endeared himself to the
members of one of the families who
had believed in his faith, until his
conduct compelled the husband to
order him to leave the house. He ! convention shall ba held prior to the
He also says tbat he was wounded
in the breast and left arm from the
first pistol shot.
He further says that he is well
acquainted with the prisoner who
lived near his farm'when not on the
chaiu gang or penitentiary and when
the prisoner exclaimed "stand back"
he recognized the voice to be that of
Monroe Johnson, the prisouer.
"ross examined by the prisoner.
He saw prisoner last about last Sep
tember just about the ttme of the
robbery at Croft anddid not see him
again until the n'ght of January 8,
1896.
Indiana Democrats.
Indianapolis, Feb. 20. The
Democratic State committee is in
session here today. The object of
the meeting is to reconsider its de
.l.il CA 1 I i
cision tnat tne tate nominating
might have felt comparatively safe
as the last three Senators, on the
ground that the G. O. P. could be
told that were "tainted" anyway, it
was no doubt equally realized that
the Chairman of the Republican
Committee would have to give the
reason of his faith; in other words,
that be would have to explain that
nay vote against taking up the
Tariff. Moreover, these leaders aud
Senator Carter too doubtless began
to realize that such explanation
wouiu came nam. so tnat it is
within all the probabilities that the
Repnblican Chairman was coached
for his recommitting performance
yesterday morning. If there is to be
any holding ups of the Tariff for sil
ver, the leaders are serinihglv deter
mined that their Republican Chair
man shall not be mixed up in it. So
that, after Mr Carter's remarks
next Monday on his resolutions, the
amended tariff bill will no doubt in
due season find its wav back to com
mittee, and Mr. Carter will thus have
shifted the responsibily of haying
buried Keed s Tariff Bill from his
own to the shoulders of the Commit
tee. This, will be a point gained on
the chess-board, and Mr. Carter evi
dently thinks that it is a stitch
taken in time. Then there is air-
other bit of gossip touching the fur
ther probable treatment of this bill
It was yesterday strongly- hinted in
some quarters tbat Senator Jones o
Nevada who is practically absent al
the tiniue, and who holds the balance
of power ou the Finance Committee
wou'd be spirited away "just this
once," and thus not stand in the
way of Reed's programme of putting
the President m what he calls
"hole." For the love of the Repub
licans for silver is of a Platonic na
ture, and will easily give way to their
small political game which has oc
cupied their time to the exclusion of
everything else thus far. For Reed
has subordinated everything else to
his Presidential boom, and thus
Chairman Carter is whipped into the
deal. Thus the Republicans hope
to go before the country saying that
thev stood for hard money, and for
tariff for "necessary expenses." Mr
Thurman says he thinks President
Cleveland would allow tne. rarin
Bill to became a law Outside of the
routine wrork, the time of the politi-
i i i i i.i
cians nas been taken up by tne
bond bill, which Reed used to suit
his purposes; the tariff bill, which
Reed noAv hopes to use in the same
way. The silver amendment that
came back to the House, came back
harmless to Reed who knew he could
safely entrust it to a hard money
majority without injury to himself.
And, no doubt, Reed's wishes as to
this, silver amendment were amply
shadowed bv the vote of that little
understudy of his, Thomas Settle
w. .E. a
club prize and the cash
jln test will close on the 31st
arch. U-newals count the
J new subscribers. In all
pey must accompany clubs.
rther information address
C. Down, Ed. and Pron..
Charlotte, N. C. '
Acrenfc; YVanfrl
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eu a wiue-awake, active ;Vi
fo Later at Rome, the Lenten tide last-
fan or voung woman in every ed 50 days and about the beginnine
pood m Mecklenburg and of the fourth century the time for
ig counties to act as agents its observance was extended to 70
espondents for the Times. dys- Bv order of PPe Gregory II,
terms to suitable parties
her information address,
W. C. Dowd, Publisher,
otte, N. C.
i f Vio T ,on fon aoQ.snTn ViAOM.n rr a Worl -
nesday in 715 and since then the
day has been called Ash Wednesday
and observed as the commencement
of Lent.
naid no attention to the order and
the husband ejected him. This act
was heartily approved by the citizens.
The healer was ordered to leave
town yesterday and disobeyed, and
after dark the mob was quietly or
ganized to enforce the order.
The members of the mob deter
mined to brook no resistance to
their plans They broke in the
doors of the house where the healer
was stopping, and, after administer
ing the tar and feathers, turned him
loose, telling him that if they caught
him again he would be lynched.
Ne cvs From Cuba.
Madrid, Feb 18. A Havana
special to the Impartial says that
the rebels have cut off all communi
cation Havana and Matanzas and
Batabano, and burned two railway
stations. It is reported that the
forces of Gomez and Maco affected a
meeting on the 16 th.
national convention. The sound
money wing of the Democratic party
favors the proposed change while the
advocates of free silver, who have
all along favored holding a State
convention in advance of the nation
al convention, threaten to leave the
party if the committee make the
change proposed by the sound money
wing, so a lively time is predicted.
Chicago has a Black Snow Storm.
Chicago, Feb. 19. A black snow
fell in tuis city last night, to the
I depth of a couple of inches. The
flakes were oi a muddy color. VV nen
melted they left a tiny inklike speck.
The weather bureau was at first in
clined to attribute the phenonenon
to local conditions, but the same
snow is reported at suburbs, thirty
miles distant.
Cotton.
New York, Feb. 18. Cotton is
several points higher; Liverpool, 2-4
higher.
25,000 Victims of the Turk.
London, Feb. 17. Another blue
book on Armenia was published to-
j dav, the dispatches covering the pe
nod between Septembet 3, 189o, and
February 11, 1896. It contains a
table prepared by a committee of
delegates from the embassies of the
six powTers, showing that the total
number of persons massacred, con
cerning whose fate accurate infor
mation has been obtained, is 25,
000. Too Many Enlistments.
Washington, Feb. 18. The new
recruiting system of army, aided by
the hard times, having resulted in
bringing the enlisted strength up to
its maximum, several minor stations
have been temporarily closed, and
officers on detail have been given
other duties. Other recruiting sta
tions are instructed to enlist only
the highest class of applicants and
be very careful in enlisting them.
Partridge Critically 111.
Chicago, Feb. 20. Edward Part
ridge, the celebrated, stock and
grain plunger, is critically ill.
atorial muddle, deciding in favor of ;
Henry A. Dupont, against William
T.Watson. r :
Morgan has made a specific de
mand for all the' defaul ted bonds of
the recent issue, under his blanket
bid. Carlisle will render his decis
ion tomorrow or next day.
LET'S GET THE OFFICES
As W-ll as the Shops-Rumor That the
Main Offices of te Southern Railway
Company Will be Moved From Waxliiug
ton.
Charlotte generally gets every
thing she wants, and she now has'a
fighting chance to get not only
the shops of the Southern Railway
Company, but the main offices also
There is aVumor to the effect that
the headquarters of the Southern are
to be moved from Washington to
; sohie Southern city, and as Charlotte
is the hub of the system, we stand a
good chance of getting the offices.
The reported removal has been
heard of in Asheville and that town,
through the Citizen is clamoring for
the offices. Says that paper:
"As the matter stands now, tie
Southern railway company -pays out.
in salaries at Washington $60,U(K
every month. Nothing of this
comes back into the Southern's cof
fers, for the reason that the road
does not carry a dollar's worth of
freight into the national capital
Now, if the officers were in a city
touched by the Southern, the com
pany would be unmistakably bene
fitted by reason of the increased
transportation which would follow
the increased demand caused bv t- e
location of 600 or 7"0 officials" d
clerks. If ever there vtff a city h t
could be called a Soutl txt. railway
city, it is Asheville. It is in the
strictest sense a non-oompf tithe
point. No matter from what direc
tion passengers or freight c m. th..y
must come over the Sonthei.n. Atd
thus, it may be readily seen, if the
offices were located here, the South
ern would be the only line to t e
benefitted.'
Charlotte's claims are "too nu
merous to mention." Our peVe
will keep an eye on this movement
and put in an oar at the proper
time.
Tremendous Explosion of Dynamite,
Johannesburg, Feb. 20 Eibt
truck loads of dynamite exp!oH'd
last evening at Viedendorp, aMn;u;b
of this city, wrecking one hundrd
buildings. The trucks were being
shunted when the explosion occur
red. It made an im::!en$i hole in
the ground. Every building in a
radius of half a mile of the explo
sion was razed to the ground. Fo' ty,
dead bodies, nearly all terribly mu i-
Jated, have already been takeu j.rom
the ruins, but the work of searching
the debris has scarcely begun. I vvo
hundred of the mot n ost seere;y
injured were admitted at the hospit
al, where several are dead It is Re
lieved only a few white persons were
killed. "
I)etails of the dynamite explosion
at Viedendorp, says that thousands
ofjpersDns are .rendered homeless ai d
about one hundred were killed. Two
to three hundred men, women and
children vwere severely injured.
Viedendorp is a suburb where many
poor whites live. The explosion oc
curred late in the afternoon, when
most of the people were returning
i' ' i i i i
nome. A subscription nas oeen
opened, and three thousand doilara
sccured.
The Fight Early Tomorrow.
El Paso, Feb. 20. It now looks
as though the fight will take place
near El Paso tomorrow morning,
bright and early. Maber's eyes are
nearly, well. Hundreds of sports
will attend the fight The betting
is ten to seven on Fitzsimmons.
El Paso, Feb. 20. Stuart is
cheerful this morning. The fight
special will leave town tonight for
the scene of battle ground. The
fight will occur as early tomorrow
morning as, possible.
Out of Work and Ended it by Snieide.
New York, Feb. 19. Jas. Mc
Cartney, a lather by trade, out of
work for a long time, -and with a
family starring, kissed his babies
and wife good bye and "Vot himself
i