North Carolina Newspapers

THE STANDARD. PUBLISHED ETERY FRIDAY BY TY. D. ANTHONY & J. M. CROSS. TERMS : ONE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, $1.25. SIX MONTHS, - - ,75. Address all Communications to The Standard, Concord, N. C. Friday, April 27. 1888. Ieiuorratlc Conventions In 1888. The Township Primaries meet at their respective votinp places May 12th. The CabafRs County Convention meets in Concord May 19th. The State Convent'on meets in Raleigh, N. C. May 30th. The National Convention meets in St. Louis, Mo., June 5th. The Congressional Convention of the Sixth District meets in Wilming ton June 27th. I, THEY FEED THE WORLD. It is a natural law that man shall live by the sweat of his brow, that from the bosom of the earth he shall draw his sustenance and gather around himself the many comforts of life. Whatever relates, then, to agriculture must be of primal inter est to man ; and, in truth, the his tory of agriculture from the earliest age down to this time would neces sarily involve what has been most important and interesting to the race in all time. Though agriculture is a time honored pursuit, its progress and material advancement has not kept pace with other and later callings. The reasons for this are many, but whatever reasons can be assigned the honor, the importance and the great ness of the work remain among the highest, if not the highest The work of the farmer has been a hard one. He, for a long time, had no well-defined plan. He trusted to the fertility of mother earth ; no agricultural literature aided him to any extent ; the influences of organ izations were not enjoyed. But these things are changing. Inhis"Boke of Husbandrie" Sir Anthony Fitz herbert tells the great agricultural secret of 1534 : "A housebande can not thryve by his corne without cat tell, nor by his cattell without corne ; ehepe, in myne opinion, is the most profitablest cattell that any man can have." We see that man was more of a pastoral animal than an agriculturist proper. He lived more with and upon his flocks and upon the fruits of trees and vines and less upon the real products of the farm. The average man had somehow formed the opinion that there was something ludicrous and low in the efforts of men content with tilling the soil Even the farmers themselves began to think that they were engaged in a low and insignificant work, and by their actions more than their words their children were about to think that any one had brains enough to be a farmer. A new era is upon us. We wel come it The great and potent power, the press, is beginning to lend its in fluence ; legislation, at last, i3 being had in the interest of this almost wholly neglected industry, and the espouser of the cause himself has learned the lesson that if anything is to be done, that through him, by him and him only the efforts must have their birth. It will be a grand day when all the farmers learn thi3. It will be the advent of better and more prosperous times ; it will be the world's grandest period when once the horny-fisted farmers come to gether in an organized condition to discuss, devise and grapple with the great questions that bear so much upon the final result of their labors. Farmers, you are not the worst people in the world. Of all the world's honors you wear the purest and the best. Bo long as the city draws on the villages and the rural districts for the boys to make the preachers and merchants and bank ers and railroad magnets you have no right to think yours a brainless and insignificant work. Well, give us a rest! What strange ideas are now at a premium in some sections. A correspondent of the Raleigh News-Observer urges the nomination of the Rev. G. W. Handerlin for State Auditor. The Monroe Express has this to say about him, too: " Mr. S. is a talented min ister of the Baptist church, a fluent speaker," &c. That's so; and let him stay where he is. He can, per haps, do more good in preaching the gospel than if he were directly in the service of the State. We are op posed to two things : spoiling a good judge to make a governor and rob bing the pulpit of a talented minis ter in order to make a State Auditor. INNOCENT SUGGESTIONS. Some one has said that humanity is quite a study ; and it is. What is true and regular in one case proves to be otherwise in another. The whole thing is one peculiar, unsolved mixture of good, bad and indiffer ent Men don't see alike ; each one is a world within himself. It has always been so, and will thus con tinue. In the life and character of some one man a certain class sees the embodiment of the elements of honor, tfaorality and greatness, all of which has. failed, to impress others accordingly. Here is a man whose very life is one continued chain of defects fraud, corruption, vice, de ception and the meanest and basest prejudice lauded to the very skies, puffed in glowing terms, and can scarcely make a turn in public with out some hair-brain writer, thinking the " latest and best has been done," hastens to publish it to the world. The rest of mankind is simply amazed. And why not ? But it is only the way a fellow is built and how the drop falls. Some men and their course in life are kept constantly before the pub lic simply because they represent riches or are cut, moulded and shaped to suit some writer's pattern, or kin to him, or wields a great influence, or because their " daddies " belonged to the aristocracy in their days and wore the colors of honor, fame, &c Is all this according to the spirit of the age in which we live ? Do not the history of the lives of those men now found foremost in the social, political and religious world clearly point us to the fact that the majority of the country's best men today started right at the ground, unaided by the lingering glory of a dead father? Where are the boys that wore home-made shoes, home made shirts, home-made breeches with patch upon patch, ungloved and unhonored twenty-five years ago? Look into the stores, in the banks, in the factories, in the nation's halls, in the -school room, in the pulpit, and last, but not least, upon the farms. Ninety-nine per cent of them all once wore home-made breeches " more holely than right eous." Let the world stop puffing the fool, the unworthy subject ; in other words, set aside those whose lives have been made up of fizzles, and look to the men, the true and honest men, and let their records grace the columns of papers as examples to the poor, ragged boys of today, in whom lie the dormant sparks of use fulness and greatness. Away with the false lights, and let purer and brighter ones come to the front ! CANT THET TELL THE TRCTII? While the rank and sour Northern papers are making sport of the South ; while they call up something mean done by some rebel ; while they are manufacturing campaign litera ture, shot and powder ; while they are reporting Justice Lamar as hav ing said some discouraging and ugly things about his native land, we, the South, in our usual even tenor, hon estyfc truthfulness and energy, are making a greater advancement than at any time since the war. It is a source of much pleasure to us to stand off and see some mean Northern editor paw and knock at the air to such an extent as to work himself up to "a high state" of perspiration. Yet in our pleasure we do not fail to have some compas sion for the miserable creature and utter a prayer for the poor, vile sin ner. Say what they please, misrepresent the South as much as they choose, credit her representatives with all that is not good, the North can not fail to see, even in her spite, that here in the South the cold, hard facts tell of a most marvellous in crease in the industrial enterprises, and that the conditions which have given them birth are of a healthy and permanent nature. BLOOD IN HIS EYE. The editor of the Statesville Mail is the champion fighter of the nine teenth century. He's mad; he's sour; he's made war on the bullies. Last week he accidentally, or other wise, let fall a paper weight upon the head of. Bill Stockton, whose cries for help saved him from the grave. The editor has in reach a number of paper weights which he proposes to use for the entertainment of visitors who make themselves dis agreeable. Could not Bro. Gillespie use some of his iron to advantage round about the "Zephyr" cotton-seed agents. Perhaps he's afraid of striking " ile." Truly the editor has blood in his eye. THE WHITE. CROSS LIBERATED I Just as the week was closing its books forever last Saturday night Raleigh's highly distinguished guests at the jail were released on $15,000 bonds. It's a pity to rob the jailor of the fees that he ought to have ! They went straight to their homes homes where broken hearts and ruined hopes constitute the family circle. Let us pity the poor women and children ! "Good-night, gentlemen," said White, as he left the jail. He still has some starch left in him. Already some of the papers are beginning to say " Mr." White and " Mr." Cross. God pity the ungrate ful theives ! It is to be hoped that the gentle men attended Sunday School last Sunday through the force of habit, of course ! How things do change ! ANOTHER PROOF. We learn from the Charlotte Chronicle that "Granny Rose," a colored woman, died recently at Da vidson College at the good old age of one hundred and thirty-two years. It is said that she had cut during her lifetime several sets of teeth, and at her death she had just gotten an entirely new set Of course this old woman was once a slave. It is but another proof that slavery, instead of taxing and burdening the slaves with heavy duties, gave to them the requisites of long life muscles, strong backs and sheet-iron stom achs. THE TABLES TURNED. J. L. Stone, the dealer in musical instruments and "Zephyr" cotton seed, in the city of Raleigh, is seeing another side of the picture of life. On the strength of the Hearne case he had J. P. Caston imprisoned for damaging his cotton seed trade. He lost the Hearne suit and had to pay $800 cost, &c. This virtually re leases Caston, who now enters suit against Stone for damages. Give Stone justice if it takes everything he's got ! Let's protect the farmers. Hon". John L. Sullivan, the world's prize fighter, set foot on terra firma at New York last Tuesday from an extended trip to Europe. Wonder when Mr. James G. Blaine, the man who wants the presidency with such a longing desire that he can taste it, will return ? Of this duo, Hon. John excited the more at tention throughout his travels. The Observer, an evening paper published in Charlotte by Col. Chas. R. Jones, has again taken in its shin gle. What's wrong with the gods ? The British Qaeea Ytslta Berlin. Berlin, April 24. Queen Victoria arrived at Charlottenburg at nine o'clock this morning. The Empress, the Crown Prince and Crown Prin cess, and the Prince and Princess of Saxe-Meininger received her at the depot. Prince Henry and his sisters, the Princesses Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, Sir Edward Malet, Brit ish Embassador at Berlin, the Duke of Rutland and tho Burgomaster and municipal council of Berlin were also present. The greetings between Queen Vic toria and the royal family of Ger many were warm. The Crown Prince conducted the Queen to an open four-horse carriage which she en tered, and, with the Empress beside her, was driven to the castle. Great crowds of people lined the route and cheered enthusiastically as the car riage passed. The Queen paid a visit to the Emperor shortly after her arrival at the castle. The doctors feared the meeting would excite the Emperor and probably upset him, but their fears were groundless. The Emperor seemed rather brighter after the interview and his tempera ture was normal. Terrible Earthquake la China. SAxFBANcisco.Cal., April 23. The details of an earthquake in Yunnan are brought by steamer from China. The following has been reported to the Governor of Yunnan by the re4 spect of Linan : "From the second day of the twelfth month of last year until the third day of this year there were over ten shocks of earth quake. In Ship Ping nineteenths of the houses in the South are falling down, and in the Northwest a thou sand being cracked or'bentoutof perpendicular, two hundred people, men and women, old and young, be ing crushed to death ; wounded and injured over three hundred. At Fung Heang over eight hundred men were crushed to death and about eight hundred wounded. At Nan Hiang there are over two hun dred dead and five hundred injured. About one hundred were killed and the same number injured at Peh HiaDg. (The four places just named are suburbs.) In the town and su burbs over four hundred people are either killed or wounded, eight or ninetenths of the houses have fall en down and the rest cracked and leaning over. STATE NEWS, Oxford is to be illuminated by elec tric lights. Mr. R. A. Starkey, a very popular young man of Greenville, died Thursday week. The Democratic State Convention for North Carolina will meet in Ral eigh on the 30th of May. Wilmington is moving towards having a $15,000 Youug Men's Chris ian Association building. Wake Forest College students have organized an athletic associa tion with more than 100 members. Memorial services of the late Rev. M. T. Yates, D. D., are being held in many of the Baptist churohes of the State. The annual meeting of the State Medical Association will be held in Fayetteville, beginning on the 8th of May. The Wake County Cattle Club has decided to hold its next annual ex hibition at Raleigh on Thursday, May 15th. The Commissioners of Beaufort county have granted petitions for local option elections at Washington and Aurora. An Asheville man is going into the raising of chickens on a large scale, and has fitted up a hennery at a cost of $2,000. The Senate has parsed the bill ap propriating $10,000 for a monument to Gen. Lee Davidson, who fell at Cowan's Ford in February, 1781. The executive committee of the 3d Congressional District has selected Goldsboro as the place for the Con gressional Convention, and May 23d as the time for its meeting. Tne Winston Sentinel reports that a "moonshiner" in Stokes coun ty recently made forty gallons of corn whiskey from four bushels of corn and ten boxes of concentrated lye. During the pat three months, we see from the Baltimore Manufactu era' Record, North Carolina has in vested $3,000,000 in new enterprises Who says the Stste is not going ahead V The Phoenix notes that there is a movement on foot in Rocky Mount to get up a military company. Also that a factory for the manufacture of all kinds of wood work will soon be started there. Immigration Agent Patnck has received a letter from a Canadian manufacturing firm backed up by $1,500,000. They wish to establish a factory in our State for every de scription of wood work. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Clement Dowd, of Washington, a North Carolinean who formerly lived at Charlotte, to be receiver of the defunct State Na tional Bank of Raleigh. Jas. Russell, col., of James City, reports a chicken recently hatched out with four perfect legs, toes and all to each. It is a healthy chicken and doing well. Save him for the next Fair. New Berne Journal. The Messenger says the member ship of Fifth street Methodist church has become so large that they find it necessary to build a new house of worship, and have determined to build a brick church at a cost of $12,000. At the close of Mr. Pearson's meetings at Wilmington, resolutions were adopted to petition the daily papers of Wilmington not to print a Sunday paper. 1,285 people author ized their names to be signed to the petition. There is such an immense amount of business done by W &. W. Rail road, and we understand a double track is being mooted. This would prevent the vexatious delays of the trains that we now have. Rocky Mount Phoenix. Some people maintain that pro hibition does no good. Before Snow Hill had prohibition it was a very rare thing to see a sober man court week, but there was not a drunken man at Snow Hill last week. That is the difference. The Sentinel says that last week $26,000 of the capital stock of $50, 000 necessary to be paid in before work can be begun on the Roan oke & Southern. Railroad, was raised in Winston-Salem. The oth er $24,000 has been raised out side. Rev. Dr. McKinnon insists, on ac count of his failing health, on the acceptance of his resignation as president of Davidson College, and a president of the institution, and a professor of Greek, will be elected by the trustees at the commence ment in June. Gilmore's celebrated band ap peared at Wilmington last Thurs day evening. The Star says that the arrangement of the music was such that everybody could enjoy it. The concert includes an anvil chorus and cannon firing. Wilmington is the only place in the State that Gil more stepped at. We have been shown a specimen of stone found in the corners of Durham, Person and Granville coun ties, which is indeed somethirg new to us. It is free from grit, very hard and susceptible of a fine polish. We are at a loss to know under what head it comes. It has been sugges ted that it is fine material for litho grathio engraving. Durham Recorder. OENERAL HEWS, The Indiana State Normal School burned, Loss $185,000. The democrats made a clean sweep of Jersey City last Thursday. The Department of Agriculture re ports unfavorably the condition of the wheat crcp. The deposed Gen. Boulanger has been elected to a seat in the French Chamber of Deputies. The Democratic National Conven tion will meet in the city of St Louis on the 5th of June. Boston had a $100,000 fire Friday. Nearly covered by insurance. Sev eral firemen were injured by a fall ing wall 1,500 or 2,000 union malsters and brewers are on strike in Chicago be cause the brewery proprietors re fuse to recognize their union. A mower and reaper manufactory was burned at Young's Town, Ohio. Loss $250,000 ; insurance $80,000. 500 men thrown out of employment During the past thirteen months we have had 1,000 strikes in the United States. The losses in wages and in other ways amount to the cost of a small war. At Cumberland Gap, Tenn., afitfht occurred between striking railroad men and men employed in their stead. Five men killed and over a dozen wounded. President Cleveland has nomina ted Brigadier Gen. George Cook to be Major General, and Col. John R. Brooks, of the Third Infantry, to be Brigadier General. Mr. Pulitzor, proprietor of the N. Y. World, has purchased a $625,000 lot, with a hotel building on it, which will be torn down and a $1,- 000,000 building for the World erect ed instead. The Italian Cabinet has decided to stop military operations in Africa during the summer. A special colo nial corps will remain at Massowah, and the rest of the troops will return to Ualy. Fighting has occurred between the Spanish garrison at Sooloo and the natives of tne Sooloo Islands, in which the Spaniards lost ten killed and seventy wounded, and the na tives 200 killed. It is expected that a satisfactory settlement of difference between America and the Moorish Govern ments will be effected through the mediation of the British, French and Italian Ministers. Gen. Q. A. Gilmore, who was distinguished Union officer during the late war, died at his residence in Brooklyn. He was engaged in the seige of Charleston and the bom bardment of Fort Sumpter. A syndicate has secured the right for the Southern States of a process to manufacture paper out of cotton stalks, seed and hulls. It is claimed that good newspaper can be manu factured by them at three cents per pound. A dispatch from Helena,Mon.,says : "The Kootenai Indians are getting uglj, and threaten to avenge the hanging of three of their number, for murder by the white people. The Governor has been called on for troops." Indian Agent Gregory, looated with the Chippewas in Minnesota and Wisconsin, has resigned. Greg ory's administration has been a sub ject of investigation by the special Senate committee to which Senator Chandler is chairman. A Large Lot of FRESn GARDE 1 SEtD, LANDRETH'S Buist's and Ferry' JUST ARRIVED AX D. D. Johnson's DRUG STORE S A TiIEO 01 a y 6-Horse Pow PORTABLE ENGINE. By virtue of an agreement between John Wilkes and Wilson Icard. re corded in Book 37, page 330, in the omce oi tne Register of Deeds for HoKorvna rhii rsir "rVJ C. TtdiII oall Vi-wr public auction, at the Court House door in Concord, N. C, on DM! , APRIL 30, M, One very good 6-Horse Power Port able Steam Engine. Title guaran teed. Terms cash. ... PAULB. MEANS, Atto. Mecklenburg Iron Works, mar 30 tds CLOTHnsTG CANNONS WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO WAIT UNTIIi THE END OF THE SEASON TO PUT PBIOES DO"W"HSr, BUT HAVE PUT THE KNIFE IN RIGHT AT THE START ! :o; WE HAVE A BIG STOCK OF CLOTHING, HATS AND SHOES, AND THEY MUST GO 1 WE OFFER : A BLUE FLANNEL SUIT, men's size, at. $ 5 00 worth $ 8 Oo A GOOD UNION CASSIMERE SUIT, men's size, at.. 5 00 " 9 0u A GOOD WORSTED SUIT, men's size, at 5 00 " 8 60 A GOOD UNION CHEVIOT SUIT, men's size, at 6 00 " 8 00 A GOOD UNION CASSIMERE SUIT, men's size, at... 4 00 " 7 00 A GOOD TWEED SUIT, men's size, at 4 50 " 6 50 A GOOD ALL-WOOL CHEVIOT SUIT, men's size, at 8 50 " 11 00 A FINE ALL-WOOL CASSIMERE SUIT, men's size, at 10 CO " 12 CO A FINE ALL-WOOL WORSTED SUIT, men's size, at 12 50 " 15 00 I"AN ENDLESS VARIETY OF PANTS at 75c., $1, $1.25 and $1.50, worth 25 to 50 per cent. more. All kinds of LIGHT SUMMEE FABRICS AT VERY LOW PRICES. . ZBI-A-TS, ZEE .A. T S . Boys' Malaga 10 ceL t Men's Malaga 15 " Men's Malaga, extra wide 20 " Men's Mackinaw Sunday Hat 50 worth 75 Men's Wnite Canton Sunday Hat 40 " m Men's White Canton Sunday Hat 50 " 75 Men's White Canton Sunday Hat 65 44 l 00 Men's Drab and Calf Canton 65 " loo Men's Fine Manilla, six different styles, all good $1 50 " 2 00 Men's Brown Manilla 1 25 " 1 75 Men's Brown Manilla 100 " 150 t&- ALL OTHERS IN PROPORTJON.1 Ladies I Gents', Misses I Children's Shoes, AT PRICES TO PLEASE THE MILLIONS. - Now Do You Catch On? IF YOU DON'T, COME AND SEE US, AND THEN YOU WTLL FURNITURE CHEAP FOR CASH AT M. E. CASTOR'S n Room Suites, Bureaus, Burial Cases, Caskets, &c. I do not sell for cost, but for a small profit. Come and examine my line of goods. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Having this day qualified as admin istrator of the estate of J. F. Oreen, deceased. I hereby notify all person indebted to this estate that they mast make immediate payment of their in debtedness, aud all persons having claims against this estate that they must present the same, duly authenticated, to me for payment before the 3rd day of March, 1889, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. R. L. HARTS ELL, Adm'r of J. F. Green. March 2nd, 1888. STORE H K IV I IK lUlliUlUll A "NTD HATS -AT- & FETZER'S! CANNONS & FETZER. REERLESS If DYES Do Tear On Trying, at Boom Th?y will dye eTerything. They are sold tatt Where. Price lOe. a package. They have noequal for Strength, Brightness, Amount ia Package or for Fastness of Color, or non-fad iog Qualities. They do not orook ox smut; 40 colors. Tot s&U by " For sale at 12 FETZER'S DRUG STORE, And JOHNSON'S DRUGSTRQE. THE KAFFIR CORN. This crop was cultivated very large ly in some sections of the South the past year with great success. It ohould be sown or planted early in spring, wben required lor forage, sot either broadcast or thickly in rows about three teet apart, or if desired for the grain, plant a few seed every foot in the row and thin out to three or four stalks, according to the quality of the soil. When the grain turns white, clip the heads, and other heads wi'l oome ; this ensures (he largest yield of grain. It gives the best results by cutting the first growth for forage when in early bloom, and letting tho second growth yield both grain and forage late in fall. If forage only is desired, the seed may be drilled light ly ia the furrow It withstands drought aud is particularly adapted to the thin land of the Cotton Belt section. The grain when greund makes excel lent food fur stock) and equal to flour for bread. Price per lb 25 cts ; 5 lea. fl.UU For sale at FETZEtVS DRUG STORE. fcatabliaW FAY'S 1S66. Takes the lead: does not CtvtoOs "V tia r iron, nor seoajr like shingles or tar -. tiay to apply: MrongsTid doraMe; at half eoMol win, Is also a SUB!TITDTBJos PLASTJKR at Half thf Coat. CAHPBTS and RUGS o nun material, dnnhlo tha mrnnr M Oil fTWHa WJMa unit nfunDlflS W. H thX r