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! ... . . ... V - -. i ' . .. . !, ' j I J ! U !- : i . i r la m ; ; '-,4 ;v . I I I i I 5 ! I, I V i If IB ' ?! A i 1 T 1 ii ': WL 1:1 j ! r-c I f ii' f r 5sv v hi i ? ; ! i! 1 'A THE CASE FOR THE DEFENSE. Documents In Evidence. Col. Cook's Snake will be Copyrighted. v Some evil-ruiuded and cyuict persons who do not believe in u$.hW ir. 0 Hhonas,s latl thing have seen nt to question the "authenticity" of the snake with two legs and feet andL claws., that Col. James r. Uook' saw Kiuea in Stanlv county. The News rises here and uowand gives-notice that it will nllowno more such aspersions to be thowu upon the character; of thin Kiisilfp. lu a few days 'the snake will be copyrighted, and any person who uses its name Jightl; will be prosecuted to the fullest ex tent of the law. - - Col. Cook and the Concord Stan rUinl 4-nine nobiv to the rescue of the snake, and oli'er evidence for the defense. 1 Here are some of the documents in evidence: An affidavit stating that the ac count in The N::ws is entirely col lect, signed by YV. S. Hart sell, L. R. Eose, M. D., A. W. .Moose, niuyor andJ. JtJ. H. C- Fisher, Frof. Math. Mont Aimrua Seminary, M. L. Buchanan, Sheriff elect. Whether these gentlemen art used to seeing snakes or not, The Kews does not know, but they are said to be men of tine judgment. ' A letter from Hon. James P. Cook, giving a detailed description of the snake, hoofs and all. Mr. Cook is one of the judges of snakes ihe country has ever pro duced, and can tell the age of a raitler by the campaign buttons on. its tail, and never take off his (Mr. Cook's) spectacles.. An editorial in the Concord Stan dard on snakes in geueral and this snake in particular. The Standard is the recognized authority on snakes in North Caro lina and may be called the Ency clopaedia Brittanica of reptilia. The defense here rests its case. The evidence is enough even to convince a Republican Board Of Llecaon Jud GERMANY'S WAR LORD. Duelling Now Worrying the Versatile Young Emperor. That astonishing gentleman, the Emperor of Germany, , when not oc cupied with his pufutmg or ciay modelling or nitisic lifssouo or designs for a new military coat, is usually talking about himself and his army Just at preseut the subject of duel ling is worrying him in such leisure moments as Priuce Bismarck allows him. Auy oue who has traveled through Germany diirkig the past two years knows how greatly the swaggering insolence of the German ofrjcer, in street and cafe, is due to the personal example of the Emperor and his ludicrous insistence on the sanctity of a uniform. He has es tablished in Germany a military des potism which makes the streets of the large cities something more than objectionable to a foreigner. Even the Germans themselves are waking I up to their folly in standing such tyranny. The outburst of indigna tion over the Brusewitz affair is the first attempt on the part of the worm to turn, Lieutenant Brusewitz killed a civilian in a cafe, because, &s the Minister of War explained in the Reichstag, "he believed that the hon or of his uniform had been tarnished by the accidental pushing against his chair by the unfortunate workman." He was court martialled and sen tenced to four years' imprisonment and dismissal from the army. That was about three weeks ago. Ths judgment of the court martial, how ever, was not "sanctioned " There fore it had no force in law The Emperor came down and insisted on all the documents of tljie case being submitted to the War Minister. That, of course, simply means that Brqsewitz will be acquitted. The government, however, is making ten tative efforts to limit duelling. It is going to tstablish a coutt of honor. When one officer insults another they are both to be hauled before the court, and "the judgment of that as sembly is never to be worded in such ti way as to make a duel a necessity, or even to imply the recognition of such means of settling a dispute." Harper's Weekly. Strange Words Coming From the Secretary of the Interior. Hon. D. R. Francis, Secretary of the Interior, nrd one of the strong est of ''sound money" men yrrites to the Sound M -y Democratic Club af Kaneaa Mo.: "While X agio. b the auTOcates of sound ,11301. . the fight recently made, th-ro , liiany priaciples advocated by u , f those who have been ad vocates of that fjnuee to which I cannot subscribe, if some legisla tion is not enacted to check the groring influence of wealth and cir cn" :.ribe the power of the trusts -arai th '-nonopob; there will be an uprising : ople befoie the centr: men will endanger cur mbUi . . ' MECKLEI3B MR. DAVIS WAS BRIEJfJgD. r- How tl Received the Annouifcemeht I LlncoIn'&Death.--Wa5 Cn Chr-, lotte "tt the Jim tenant in Company E, Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, writes the Atlanta Consti tution this account of how-Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate, States, received the news of tne assassination of Araham",Einboln, President Of the United States: ) j About Apiil IS, isb5, -I was sent under a flag of truce to Charlotte, N. C. Entering the, town with . M. Clark, a member of my company, as ah escort, we were conducted to headquarters, a large upper room, evidently a schoolroom, where the guard, pointed out General Echols, a portly, fine looking man, commander of the post. Removing my hat, I advanced to where General Echols sat, at one end of a long, table, and laid my dispatches om the table. "Gfnpral Echols. I Dresume. These dispatches are from General Gillam. Shall I wait for au answer.' "Please be seated, "' the general said. Glancing around the room, I saw sixteen or eighteen gentlemen, all, with one or two exceptions, in mili tary uniform Colouel Cal Morgan, wbo had been our prisoner a few months before, came to where I was sitting, and, shaking hands, said: "I believe you and I are not altogether strangers." While we chaUed a gentleman in a civilian suit turned to address Gen eral Echols. The cold start of a glass eye caught my attention, and the features were not uniammar. "Ob! Jeff Davis, and you here, pressed to the wall." was my first thought I saw, however, a much pleasanter faced man than our northern papers1 had pictured. A soul of kindly impulses beamed from eyerv feature. A dispatch was handed to General Echols, who read and reread it, with au anxious, earnest iook upon nis face. Half rising, he passed the pa per to Mr. Davis. General tEchols sat at one end of the table with two n between him and Mr. Davis. Mr. Davis read it slowly, and, handing it back, remarked: uell, we have lost a generous ene- mv. l paiu little attention to wnat Mr Davis had said, supposing one of our northern generals had been killed or died. The dispatch went the rounds, finishing in Colouel Morgan's hands, who asked General Echols, if consistent, to allow me to read it. "Oh, yes; give it to him," he said. I read. "Greensboro, N. C. April . Lincoln was assassinated the night of i the 14th in Ford's theater. Seward was assassinated about the same time in his own house. Grant has marched his army back to Washington to de clare himself military dictator. "J. E. Johnston." I cannot recall the exact date of the dispatch. But it necessarily traveled slowly, as we had cut all th? telegraph wires, burned bridges, torn up railroads and impeded travel as we could. In laying down the dispatch in front of General Echols I remarked, casually: "Pretty good pill, general; but too thickly coated." I presumed it was a doctored dispatch, intended to encourage their men and dis hearten ours. It was not long until Mr. Davis left the room, and several others followed, General Echols asked: "Mr. Thomas, where is Burbridge and his niggers?" 4tJust baok of Lincolhton," I said. I was somewhat incensed and retal iated with: I see you have President Davis with you, general." Looking around the room, the general said: "No, Mr. Davis is "not here." "But," said I, "he was here a few minutes ago." "Mr. Thomas, I am surprised at your asking any such questiors while here under a flag of trmce," said the general. "Oh, I beg pardon, general; you broke down that bar by asking about Burbridge and his niggers General Echols, smiling, said: "Yes, President Davis is with us." Soon after we partook of. a hearty repast, furnished by Mrs. Echols, and took our departure for our post. After the Ft - u With the Queen. London, Nov. 27. Ambassador and. Mrs. Bayard returned tp London thi jorning from Windsor Castle where they were the guests of the lueen yesterday. Three Pn! t in a Riot. WlLKK.Sij - Nov. 27.- While twe:;-v , were drink ing here th- ;. rioting, result mg in the fatal sheoting of James Motsley, John Betts and an unknown man. Blizzard in Minnesota. ' St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 27. The worst blizzard in many years is pre vailing in northwest Minnesota. i& CHARLOTTE. LMJ .WHO WILL BE SENATORP It IsPritchard Against the f Ifl A. r ' Hovy About DockeYy ofjauthrie? V IUleigh, Nov. 24 $ho will be Sehator, and succeed'' tajbe seat ot ritohard? ' . -It's a soft place with errough sala ry added to make most North Caro liha pdliticianrlonfi: for the joK""" .sThe candidates so far, announceq ' , i . i are: -Jeter CrPritchardrEepubncati. . S. Otho Wilson (the Lord knows what). , J..L. Ramsey, middle of-the road Populist. Col. Oliver H. Dockery, free silver Republican. Maj. W. A. Guthrie, Populist ft' is the field against Pritchard. If every Republican in the Legis lature votes for Pritchard, he will still lack nineteen votes of having a majority. If he gets these votes thev must come from the Populists. Thirty-odd Populist members of the Legislature have written the Populist. State chairman that they are not pledged to vote for Pritchard, and furthermore will not vote for. him. A Populist claims to have discovered a list of twelve Populists that the Republicans claimed were pledged to vote for ritchard's return; he wrote to all of them and has already received letters from eight of the twelve saying they will not vote for Pritohard. The Republicans claim to have enough Populists pledged to re-elect Pritchard. But when pressed each Populist denies he is pledged. Besides, Col. Dockery's candidacy is likely to draw some Republican votes from Pritchard, and that will further weaken his forces. To defeat Pritchard the Demo crats would likely be willing to make a combination with the Populists by which either a liberal Populist or a free silver Republican will be elected In this event Maj. Guthrie or Col Dockery would probably stand the best chance of election. Ramsey's candidacy is a real joke, and the electiou of Otho Wilson is a remote contingency. The Democrats will wait for de velopments before deciding what to do. The Legislature is so divided be tween the ihn-e parties that a dead lock mav ensue. v THE BUSINESS MAN. Free Coinage Arguments must Now be Presented to Him Mr. Bryan's Idea. "It frightens me," Mr. Bryan said in his great speech at Denver, Col., this week, referring to the free coinage question, "when I think how many people there are in the country whcTbelieve as we do. We believe that we were for what was best for all classes of the people, and the oppressed of all foreign coun- nes prayed for our success. 1 he issue goes down deeper and towers up higher than all others that have cou fronted us in years. It was a grapple between the prodncers of wealth and the monopolists, and the monopolists were the victors, but the masses were with us. We must cm nil teitH tV!s firrht Wa Mimnl stop it. Defeat cannot change it. I think we have been successful in bringing our cause before the farm ers of the country. I think we shall be more successful in four years more with the laboring men. We failed in our campaign to reach the business men, aud I believe in the next four years that we ought to give especial attention to bringing our arguments before them. Oh, if I could but make them see as I be lieve I see it and understand. "You business men must under stand," he said, "that the reason money is scarce when you call at the banks is because the banks have in sisted upon a policy that ties money up in the lreasury at Washington that ought to be in the banks to loan. Items ofvState News. George Mallory (colored) was kill ed and hk body torn literally .in pieces in the cotton seed oil mill at Wilmington. The supreme -court has decided that u ; ere a druggist sold a man's wife ouum after he had been warned by the husband not to do so, and the use of the drug affected the woman's health, the druggist is lia ble for damages. The decision was rendered in a case where the plain tiff sued for $3,000, which he recov ers. Another Fairy Story. A Republican of some promi : i : i i i , ueuue m pouncai circles and one who ecms te be well informed was heard to remark yesterday that " J udge Russell was to go from the J.1 1. i -l . rVT executive cnair or inis Btate to the United States Senate and that it would be tendered him on a silver f platter." Will some one kindly in form us of what is meant by this last quotetion?Wilmington Dis patch. i rofiTI.. TASTE PF HrGR0 RULE. First Fruits? of jtusseUM In ,W? $ v County,, vrj v$ Warren $ The Macon,Warfen untycor, ttspdndent of thNew m Ot server writesf the following: "The white people of this county have recently had another example Of ItaS'selllsm'aritl negrd supremacy: .About thireeveeks agO; Jojnr M; ;nniPTm . of Churchill, m fthis wtinty;asosy-itfsttlted-bf John. Milan, poiorea, incuyst4uCu of which" Ji M. .CoJeman immediate ly knocked the negro Sown' With his fist. Several days ago the negro made complaint to JphnlWright, ;a colored j u stice- -oi me eauf, u rant for the arrest of ' J. M. Cole man was'issued, and a negro depu tizecl to serve it. ; Mr. Coleman was arrested bv the negra constable, and carried to a negro store .ror triai. Mr. John M. Coleman is a young man of most excellent character, is universally popular, .and is a Chris tian gentleman engaged in the mer- p.antJIe business at Churchill. He s the son of Capt W G. Coleman, formerly a member of the, Board of Commissioners of this county. This is the second case of this kind which has occurred in this county in the hist six weeks. And yet this is reform." ' DEPEW VS. HISTORY. The Journal Says the First Battle of the Revolution Was Fought In North Carolina. i J The New York Journal says in an editorial: "Mr. Depew, we are told, has taken to correcting history. The occasion was his oration to the Vermont soci ety, Sons of the Revolution. After tb'e fashion of the trained' politician, who usually discovers that the grant -mother of" his wife's third cousin was born in the town wherin he de livers his hurangue, Mr. Depew cast about for something pleasing to the local pride pf his auditors. He cor rected history in their behalf. Not at Lexington, he asserted, but at Westminster, now in the State of Vermont, was the first patriot blood, of the Revolution shed. This was in 1774. "But perhaps history will in its turn correct Orator Depew. The blood shed in the Boston massacre in 1770 is generally esteemed to have been the blood of patriots. In 1771 the farmers of North Carolina, 'goaded as Professor John Fiske writes, 'by repeated acts of extortion and of unlawful imprisonment, rose in rebellion' against the British col lonial Governor. Two hundred of the insurgents were killed in battle and six were hanged for treason. Revolution seldom springs suddenly into being, and, though remote, this pitched battle on the Cape Fear River was more truly the, first blood of the war against British authority than either the fight at Concord Bridge or Dr. Depew's skirmish at Westminster." Whose mistake Was It? Some Republicans are now declar- log tnat irntcnard 8 letter asking Butler whether the latter! was for or against him was a grae political error, and that this applies to the statement which the Republican leaders have freely made that they had secured enough Populist votes to elect Pritchard. It is said the Populists who had promised are now declining. nr. Buxton's Affairs Settled. A special from Lenoir to the Asheville Citizen says: "It is known that the lamentable affair in wrhich J. B. Buxton was concerned at Wil kesboro a year ago has been settled by the prompt intervention of friends. Mr. Buxton spent last week in W7inston, and has since re moved from the State " Fatal Texas Cyclone. Marlin, Texas, Nov. 27. A tor nado passed Mart postoffice, nine teen miles east of this place, last night, blowing down a number of houses and killing a child of Mr. Douglass. 1 HOW TO PKEVEKT CROUP. Some Reading: Tfrat Will Prove Interest ing to Voting Mothers. How to Uurd Against the Disease. Croup is a terror" to young moth ers and to post them concerning the cause, first symptoms and treatment is the object of this item. jThe ori gin of croup is a common cold. Children who are subject to it take cold very easily and croup is almost sure to follow. The first symptom is hoarseness; this is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough, which is easily recognized and will r.cver be forgotten by one who ha i.r.jrd it. The time to act is when i .U child first becomes hoarse. .If Chamber lain's Cough Remedy is frwly given all tendency to croup rriu soon dis appear. Even -after the croupy cough has developed it will prevent the attack. There is mo danger in giTing this remedy for it ooutMfl nothing iniuriot;' For salo by S L, Alexander A C.,, Druggists." CEMU JJ. 7r- HIS BARK BURNED, 3. 1? AfrThrowir,s , Los.S-Death of Air. AU j: Va!0s.High Tea';. for Thanksgiving Day f Speiaiito Tfa';&ews- v- Pinetille, Nov. 25. Mrs. J. B. Swann and Mrs. Juman, of Bul- lockXfirejk Mrs. G-. S. Robinson. - f " Mr. . A. Thrower's barn , was "burned Monday night, andthe great- er part or tne con ten ta uesiroyeu; origin of the;fiTejunknowti ; Little Lawrence Mc Alpine fell frpm. a jiorse ,andj broke his arm last night, while visiting liis grand father, Mr. Elliott, Of Winnsboro, S. C. Mr. Ben Wolfe and Miss Nannie Baker, of Hebron, were' married last Monday, early in the morning, by Rev. Mr. Smith at the M. E. parson age. ' Mr. S. Hoover, who has been quite sick, is much improved. Mrs. Will Devlin will entertain the "Ladies Aid and Missionary So ciety" of the Presbyterian, and the "Ladies Missionary Society" of the M. E. churches, Thanksgiving day, with a high tea. , Thanksgiving ser vices will be held at Flint Hill church by the pastor, Rev. A. L. Stough.' 'Tis with sadness that we record the death of our dear old friead, Mr. M. L. Wallia. , He was confined to his, room only two days,, and the end was sudden. Mr. ' Wallis was seventy-five years of age, and had lived in Pineville many years; he had, filled many positions of public usefulness and. trust, and was our esteemed post master at the time of bis death. He was the father of Mrs. C. A Withers, Mr. Walter Wallis and Miss Cora Wallis, of Charlotte; Mr. T. J. Cureton, of Winnsboro, S. C; Mr, W, E. Wal lis, of Bristol, Tenn., and Misses Ida and Julia' Wallie-tjf our town. The funeral service was held at the Presbyterian church, of which he was a consistent member, by Rev. G. S. Robinson. The pall bearei3 were: Messrs. J. W. Morrow, L. W Fisher, J.3I. Niven,-,W. J. Taylor, W. M Morrow "and Capt. Jno Yount3. We laid his. body to rest at Harrison's, by the side of his wife who has preceded him ' to the better world. We extend our heart felt sympathy to the bereaved fami ly, more especially to the two daugh ters, Misses Ida and . Jula, who have been constantly with him in his last years, and were most de voted daughters, ministering to his wants and cheering bim in feeble ness, with the most loving solici tude. CAUCUS TO CONTROL CONGRESS. What Party Will Hill, and Smith, of New Jersey, Act With? i The World correspondent writes: "The coming session of Congress will be ruled by caucus." So many differences of opinion have already developed among Senators and Re presentatives that no course of action can be outlined until a thorough dis cussion has been had and the ques tions submitted to a party vote "The Senate is split up as it has never been before. The bolting Re publicans will caucus by themselves, and since notice has been served upon the sound money Democrats that they will not be admitted to the regular Democratic caucus, they will also have to hold a separate caucus. The Populists will have a conference preliminary to the general meeting of the silver men. "Senators Gray, Vilas, Caffery and Palmer on all matters of finance will act with the Republicans. The position of Senators Hill and Smith is not so plain. They may find themselves trusted by neither the siiver nor the sound-money Demo crats and forced to caucus bv them selves Madrid Papers Blame Weyler. Madrid, Nov. 27. The greater number of the Spanish newspapers blame Weyler for returning to Havana. WILL SLIP THROUGH YOUR FIN Don't let our $2 sh -a' escape you. It Is the thine to wear. Y i will get raore solid eomfortout of it io rhe square inch foot .j.a.u uutui auy out r rn tne Sauare at aUVthilur 1'V t.hr nrioH anrl laiKing or the squuie foot, it does the square thing by the foot. It isn't aa ex ggeration to say that ita, cheapness i? phenomenal. Every consideration of economy justifies its purchase, and ev ry consideration of coml rrt justifies its use. We never recommend a shoe that will do more to reeo; r-nd itself. T; wont try you much to trv ; rge stook Umbrftllrs, Trim I . vl Handbags, always on ham', A. E. RAN KiN & "Merit .... lntrin; . . lfae cure any of th' e " PuK blood pJr, ..v, ltl drive outth.;110 Is th '"-'"'I 'J-b, Still in the T 1 11 m tli , n business J mere with iJOtll goods at th, IotpnCes winning features. Tf ,.r . . -u u:iai a Picture 4 oi mg it to me. - If you want atffc your want.-. NERVE AND ElUill THE CRIGIWL, ALL OTHEB Is eoldur.fc-r no?in'ro AVrW, by aathi)raM ttev.v o'.ly,ttj ness, iisnr mes, tnlDra ful Errors, orEscessiyeC.sejiil or uiqa(,r, aicn leads to Hisr Insanity ;.nt Dpath. AfstwJ Cl.: biX i'tji' wilii rtiri.. J cure or refund mw.tj age. containing Te days'frd instructions, c?v.u. 6msz3 eacn perbon. At store or byiai CFRed Label Sd Extra Sfreaal or Imootenn. Ia Pnrpr. List Wjiii Hterilitr or Bmm ,$1 a)?.saitt$tl DR. S. L. ALEXAM DrniTirists mi Snie. harl:; Rl!We FOR La jected dH .eat oitti chance scaranitti days. Sn4 DR. S. L. Ck4 LADIE DR. FELIX n i in n. 4 ar? the-OtHlti by marl. Ganse1 DR. S. L. ALEXAM DnicTists andSoieA-i FARM? Bring us W our Tannery W for Tteia- If you nee line come Harness, Co'lare. ' Bicy la feet -vei)' will be io on Founh Street I Hood's P:nTlSH mm WE I .a- - , 5 ' " '
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