THE STAII D AR D.
PtTBLISHKD EVERY SATUKDAT BY
W..D. ANTHONY & J. M, CROSS.
. TEE3IS ?
ONE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE,
SIX MONTHS, - -
Saturday," January 14, 18S8.
AXXOUNCEME.NT.
Each book has its preface, and it
naturally follows that every news
paper thrown to the breeze for pop
ular favor must have a salutatory
a sort of promiscuous promise ot
what is to be given to its readers in
futuro j all of which niiffht be quite
easily condensed in a pithy adver
tisement thus : "Wanted, a reading
public. "Writers and publishers.ed
itors and printers would be quite
satisfied with this, and truly the
cheapness of all reading matter is
rapidly making us a reading people.
In this busy, intelligent and active
minded nineteenth century th 3 pub
lic, Athrenian like, are on the qui
vive for news, and each city or town
must needs have its paper and press.
In fact tli9 bustle of a busy age has
made these home issues a short cut
for information on each and every
subject from here, there and every
where.; As an applicant for popular J
favor with a reading public, the
Standard, following in the old rut,
can but promise its readers a newsy
home paper, bright, spicy, instruct
ive and entertaining. Its' literal y
selections will be of the best, its
news of the latest, and its local col-
umns complete with home happen
ings. Its views and comments on
public affairs will be fair and impar
tial, unbiased by any outside per
sonal influence. Its endeavor will
be to advance and promote the bet
ter part of human nature. As a
county paper the interest of Con
cord and Cabarrus will be its inter-
est, and as Carolinians "to the
manor born" its editors will ever up
hold the "good Old North State."
THEN AD XOW.
Many of us, wheu we look back a
Bcore of years, and compare Concord
as it then was to the Concord of to
day, can scarcely believe it is the
same, lne nelds of corn, cotton
and wheat surrounding the town of
that day, are now dotted with sty
lish dwellings or cosy cottages, "be
twixt them lawns or level downs,"
while stately trees shade the side
walks with their leafy greens. There
f re still among us grey haired and
grey bearded men who tell us of the
long ago, of old houses that stood
here and there "in the country," and
they tell us of days when wagon
train after wagon train wendedlbeir
way through slush and mud to
-crmtliern enH.nn marts : and it seems
as if ifase old men when they recal
these bygones would love once more
to have at least a panoramic view of
trrjinne scene. But it is al
Rt fln(lWftEersy and push
oi mis generation nave almost in
a city oFthe little town. The buz
zing of machinery and the noise of
the loom if heard on every side.
The little wooden structures, called
stores, are replaced by handsome
brick buildings, and busy storekeep
ers discuss even the foreign market
quotations. The great staple, cot
ton, its product each year increas
ing, crowds our railroad platform,
where a few years ago no platform
was needed, and the little old
churches have been supplanted by
uiyuaws uuiiumgs witn loity spire.
Behind this embryo city, backing it
up in its enterprise and advancement
are tho rich fields, the yerdant vales
and sun-lit hills of Cabarrus, popu
lated with the sturdy descendants
of a sturdy race. Intelligence, am
bition and education have driyen
old fogyism to the four winds. Love
of home has charged the old log
houses to neatly adorned homes.
The'old one horse way of ploughing
with shovel and bull tongue is sup
planted by newer modes of turning
up the mother earth. Aye, even the
old broom sedge field, the rendez
vous of rabbits and field mice, are
scarcely seen, and the ancient dame
"wishes almost in vain for an old
time hearth broom. The song of
the spinning wheel and loom hae
given way to that of the sewing ma
chine and organ, and mothers, wives
and daughters have hours of ease
mid books and flowers. "We may be
classed as part and parcel of a new
South, and still we are but the off
spring of the old the boys, as it
were, of progressive fathers in a
grand old country.
In order to obviate the many little
diffiulties between editors and, sub
scribers, we adjppt the cash system
entirely. Ounrule is cash in ad
vance, and at the expiration of the
paid up time, say three, six or twelve
months, we will stop, the paper if
the aubscriplion, is not renewed,
$1.25.
.75.
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REDUCE THH tiEB.
At last we-have an isfu?e upon
which to join battle in ttf coming
Fall elections. The bloody shirt,
intimidation nt Southern polls, Con
federate brigadiers and Forakers
unshaken hand have all been elimin
ated, and the country at last comes
fnta in face with a real genuine, vi
tal question-the question of how to
reduce the surplus, and whether to
revise the tariff or not.
Strange to say, the Nation (with a
bigNj did not go to the bow-wows,
nT our pessimistic Republican
friends insisted it would if a Demo
cratic President were elected. On
the contrary it has prospered and
waxed stronger and greater than ev
er before, so strong and powerful
indeed that the question of the hour
is now, not how to raise money
enough to run the government and
pay the extravagant pension bills
voted by Congress to the Federal
soldiery, but how to get rid of what
has been accumulated, and how.to
avoid raising so ninch in future.
For this issue, this common-sense,
business-like presentation of the
question, we are indebted to the
President, who devoted nearly all
his last message to it and brought
it so squarely before the public that
neither of the great political parties
can afford to overlook it any longer.
There is at present a surplus of
nearly fortv millions of dollars in
the Treasury, and this, with our
present tariff and Internal Revenue
system, is being continually aug
mented at the rate of ten millions
per month. It does not take a very
profound mathematician long to djs
cover that at this rate it would be
only a few years till all the money
in the country would be locked up
in the treasury vaults at "Washing
ton, aow the country needs this
money ; the people need it in their
business, and the only sensible way
to cuft the evil is to return to the
sound Democratic principles of our
forefathers and reduce taxation.
The tax on tobacco ought to be
removed entirely. The tax on whis
ke ought to be greatly modified, if
not taken off altogether. Not that
whiskey should go untaxed, but
each State should tax its own whis
key, 'and it ought to be removed from
the control of the Federal govern
ment. As it is now the revenue sys
tem is an engine of political power
which in corrupt hands might be
come very dangerous and subversive
of civil liberty. The tariff on the
necessaries of life ought to be abol
ished, either in whole or in part. It
is a shame and an outrage that ev
ery man has to pay forty per cent,
more for every suit of clothes he
uses to "protect" a handful of wool
growers in Ohio and Texas, twenty
five per cent, more for every pound
of iron he uses and every nail he
drives to "protect" a few Pennsyl
nia iron kings, and seventy-five per
cent, more for every pound of sugar
he uses to "protect" a few Louisiana
sugar cane planters. W? believe in
fostering and protecting American
industries in a proper manner, but
not to thb detriment or destruction
oi oiner ministries. There is an
Oriental legend 0ne bitter cold
night a camel came t& an Arab's tent
and asked if he might pui his nose
inside the tent and warm it. The
Arab consented, and the camel, htvr-
g t ntlLnJ' " mum iiHi '1 Ta uuti iu"o
in introducing the rest of his body
and driving the poor Arab out.
There is great danger that this huge
Piotectlon camel may take it into
his head to do something equally
ungrateful.
The" issue has been airly and
squarely presented, there is no
dodging it. The people will soon
know who are -heir friends, and the
President ias certainly shown him
self to5 one.
Tn taxes must be reduced.
Senator Ransom has introduced a
bill to appropriate $500,000 for the
erection of a light house on the Dia
mond shoals, on the coast of North
Carolina. He referred to' the many
disasters that had taken place off the
coast of Hatteras, and stated that
these shoals were about ten are fif
teen miles from the Cape Hatteras
light. He appealed to the Committee
on Commerce to take prompT and
speedy action in favor of the bill,
declaring that there could be no
brighter page in human history than
that which should witness the illu
mination of the dark horrors of
Hatteras by the light of human
science.
Secretary Lamar tendered his res
ignation as Secretary of the .Inte
rior on the 7th. The formal reaig-
nrtion did not go into effect until
Tuesday last. Assistant Secretary
Muldrowwill be aoting Secretary
until tlje Senate confirms the nomi
nation of Secretary Vilas.
Senator Vance has introduced a
bill in the TJ. S. Senate for an ap
propriation to erect a monument to
the memory of Gen. W. L. David
son, an N. C. revolutionary hero.
Col. Rowland introduced one of
the first bills in the House at Wash
ington, It was to abolish the to
bacco taxi
STATE' NEWS.
One of the new enterprises of
Reidsville is a broom factory.
The revenue receipts in Durham
for tobacco sold during 1887 weie
$485,385.66.
"Winston leads all the -State in the
matter .of tobacco-factories. It will
have thirty-five in operation this
year.! .
The total valuation of all taxable
property in the State for 1887 is
computed by the State Audifor at
$208,260,000, an inerease of $7,432,
000 over that of 1886.
A large trade is "springing up be
tween Durham 'and Germany in leaf
tobacco, 'with possibilities of great
extension, it is said.
The report made to the Superin
tendent of Public Institution shows
that tliH negroes in this State hold
about four million of dollars in prop
erty.
An English company have com
menced the erection of a saw mill at-
Glen Alpine, Burke county, w hich
will have a capacity of 30,000 fet of
lnmber per day.
Governor Scales has called in the
councile of State to aid in the con
sideration of the application for the
commutation of the death-sentence
of Charles F. Jones,'of,,Craven
county.
The negro woman Adeline "White,
who last Friday Tdrowned her infant
in a pond near J "Winston and then
fied, has been captured, brought
back there, and jailed.
A report has been received by the
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion that the Cabarrus public
schools will be kept open for four
months, as the Constitution di
rects. Ex-Congreseman"W. R, Cox has of
late been devoting his attention al
most entirely to -his plantations in
Edgecombe county. He is large
laDd-owner and a very good farm
er. '
Governor Scales says he believ
es the people are becoming more
and more opposed to capital puuish
ment in North Carolina. He is led
to so think by the great number of
petitions for commutation of U 4h
sentences which como in.
TheParrish tol acco warehouse at
Durham, burned some time since,
has been rebuilt and is now 225x110
feet lin size. Its formal openingf
with appropriate ceremonies, is fix
ed for the 17th instant.
The number of pupils in the five
graded schools of Raleigh has risen
to something over 2,00o;la very cred
itable showing for a place with 16,
000 population. In the University,
colleges, and private schools there
are over 1,000 more.
A curious bit of news comes from
Enfield county. "While an aged ne
gro, Isaac Baten, was fighting with
his grandson and a woman he fell
dead. The woman and the boy were
jailed. An inquest was held and a
post mortem made, which satisfied ,
the county physician that heart-dis
ease caused (the death, so the hr
ana woman nave Deen aisfcsmrg-
ed.
ITEMS.
JiiMnta is to have a poultry and
I Knn nil c-1 1 - ti'
here are 216 lawyers in the U.
S. Hoaseof Representatives.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania
are on a strike for an advance of
wages.
Last Saturday was the 73rd anni
versary of the battle oi New Or
leans.
Prince Bismarck of Germany has
an elder brother who lives in a com
paratively private sphere.
Ex 3enator Jones, cf Florida ap
proves of the President's tariff re
form views.
Old-time spelling matches or
"bees" are being inaugurated in the
country around Danville, Va.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, has
made a rousing revenue reform
speech in the U. S. House of Rep
resentatives.
On the last day of 1887 and the
first of 1888 there were 1,895 sacks
of mail received at New York.
The Pilgrim's Progress has been
translated into the Japanese lan
guage with profuse illustrations by
native artists.
A flat car on the Virginia" Midland
railroad was smashed into splinters
Saturday evening, caused bj -the
train breaking in two and afterwards
coming together.
After a lapse of 105 years there
still remains on the rolls of the Pen
sion Bureau the names of 38 widows
of Revolutionary soldiers.
Th Tower of Victory erected at
Newburg, N. Y., as a memorial of
1776 has been completed at a cost of
$35,000 to the National and State
governments.
All the business portion of Lou
isa Court House, Va., was destroy
ed by fire on the night of the 6th.
'except three stores.
The Department of Agriculture at
I Washington report the corn .product
Qlthe United States for last year at
Urai
1,451000,000 bushels, Valued at 8646,
000,000. Rev. Mr. lgyson is now; filling
his appointment at Spartanburg, S.
C. An earnest interest is manifest
ed by the audience and many have
been present at the enquiry meet'
ings. '
One of the first acts of the newly
organized camp oi confederate vet
erans at Petersburg was the inaugu
ration of a movement looking to the
erection of a monument in memory
of Gen. A. P. Hill, in honor oft
whom the camp is named.
AN ORATORICAL DUEL.
Nashville American.
A few days ago Gov. Taylor was
sittinc: in the Executive chamber in 1
conversation with a number of friends
wlieo the subject of oratory was inci
dentally suggested.
"Do you want to know whom I be
lieve to have been one of the most
powerful and convincing orators that
ever mounted a stump in Tennessee f '
Everybody was anxious to know,
rut before any reply could be made
tl speaker continued: kI think Ho
rnet Maynard was that man. I have
hear him often, and more than once
have jxone away from his speaking
heartsrVe and despondent. But when
he was ait the zenith of his power there
was one OtlVar in public life in Tennes
see worthy oV his steel. This was An
dy JInif.on.VI shall never forget the
trianra'ar fighthat took place in this
State between MfSynard, Johnson and
General CheathanV It was indeed a
battle of giants,
than a boy then,
was nothing
moie
it 1
watclied tho
progress of the
cont!
est
with the great
est interest- One
their debates is
fresh h my memory. 1 It occurred in a
little East Tennessee ftovu. There was
i
a tremendous crowd tthat had come
from tie farms and the! storehouses to
hear Mnynaid and Jolmison. A majori
ty of those present weile Republicans.
Mavnard was the first to speak. I
watohed h's every nioiement and heard
every word. As soon! as he opened I
bcgantc take alarm. I Soon he wanned
up, and more powerful speech, I be
lieve, never came yroni mortal lips. As
heairainged the lyeinocratic party for
high crimes and rmisJemeauors I felt as
if myse!fwhere on ihs prisoner's bench.
.9 I listened I Igradually grew bluer
and bluer till all I at once I recollected
myself and foiljnd that I had shrunk
down almost qput of sight in the seat I
was occupy iifc. 1 "looked about me
and every other Democrat seemed to be
occupying ihff same position. I then
thought of -lojhnson, who was to follow,
and wo dciu what he could say in re
ply. I hjl heard him befove, and
knew hodv infinite were his resources
and his jQiower before the people, but it
seeme that no mortal man could an
swjitr that wholesale indiefment and re-
iTtute those avful charges. "When ilav-
nard closed his speech Republ'cans
were standing on their chairs, on ben
ches and tables, cheering themselves
hoarse and appUuding their great lead
er, It looked to me and my partisans
as if the Democratic party could never
rally from suth an onslaught.
"All at onC3, however, a new sound
was heard, jt was the voice of An
drew Johnson, the eld ex-president. I
feared to look ;it him. Soon, however
he secured the undivided fattention of
his audieuce, ajd the magic of his or
atory began to make itself felt. As he
took up one cljirge after another and
disped cf them, despondent Demo
crat began to straighten up in their
chairs and listen to his jvords. To cut
the story thorl it was a master speech
from the grand old commoner that he
never in his life aclipsed.
He parried the thrusts of bis nimble
opponents, and from his own rugged
mind dealt out sledgsbammer blows
that were all powerful. The defense
he made for the Democratic party
brought tears to many eyes, and when
his audience had been wrought up to
the highest pitch he turned up on the
party in power, and staggered Eepub
licans with rharges that fell like bomb
shells. Before the speech was more
than half concluded every Democrat
was standing in his seat, hand in hand
jubilant and cheering to the echo
every utterance that came from the
lips of Andrew Johnson. Such a vie
tory over an opponent I shall never
see again, and such eloquence from
mortal man few ears will ever hear.
Cutting Red Tape. rintArviw
between a negro and sentinel at ar
mory gate, Richmond, just after the
war. j
Sentinel Halt.
Negro What I got halt for ?
Sentinel No one allowed in there
Neero But I 'bleeped fcr on
I got a note for the boss.
Sentinel No one allowed to go in
without a pass.
Negror-But I tell you I 'bleeged
to go in ; Mr. Anderson he sent me,
Sentinel Can't help who sent you,
you can't go in.
.Negro Welr.den. vou cimmft do
gun an' you take de. notQ.
Washington, Jan. 10.
A two-column letter from Sena
tor Stewart, of Neda, to one of his
constituents, announcing hj inten
tion of working for the confirmation
of Mi'. Lamar settles the question
as to Mr, Lamar's confirmation."
Senator Riddleberger has, from the
time of i!4r. Lamar's nomination, not
only favored Iris confirmation, but
worked earnestly with his colleagues
in his behalf. His vote and Senator
Stewart, together with that of the
Democratic senators, insure the
confirmation, but it is generally
believed here that two or three and
perhaps more Republican Senators
will" vote with Stewart and Riddle
berger for confirmation.
As a just rebuke to the radical
misrepresentations of the Republi
can press as to the treatment of Un
ion soldiers by Secretary Lamar, the
Grand Army employees of the depart
ment called upon him to day, amd Mr
A. F. Dinsmore, in their behalf, stated
that they had come to bid him a res'
pectful farewell, aud to thank him for
the kindness and consideration he had
slways shown the members of the
Grand Army.
Announcement,
The firm of SW1NK BROS." has
been dissolved by mutual consent, C.
W. Swink selling his stock in trade to
the undersigned, who will continue the
business.
Thanking the public for favors
extended th late firm, and hoping the
new one will meet a continuance of the
same, I am
Yours truly,
W. J. SWINK. -
All persons owing us by note or
account must come and settle at once,
as we have only a short while in
which to close up business of Swlnk
Bros. W- J- SWINK,
O. W. SWINK.
Removal,
Having removed to the neat store
room on Litakei's corner I am re
pared to furnish old and new custo
mers with good goods, nice goods an d
cheap goods in the grocery line.
Thankful for many past favors I
trust to merit a continuance by strict
attention to business and fair dealing.
Respectfully,
II. M. GOODMAN.
WALTER & SUfllERS,
GROCERS,
Are fully alive to the people's interest,
and are prepared to make things lively
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GROCERIES,
By puttiug them down to
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Their stock during 1888 will be of
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Don't forget the place, one door be
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In order-' to make room for my
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Now is the time to secure bargains.
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