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yajwin.1. m i . mil . u-i. mujajaMmjiM . ' - ' r - ' wwOJin hiiiwi t,... r ini' jl--jbwi FDBL1SBED EVEBT FBIPAT AT 0 l lT 1 B.U. , teems : , , .... , , One square, two months, 2 f. S'Sg1""'""' ".1?. VOLUME I, CONCOBP. N, C, JUNE 1, 1888, , NUMBER S1, gggig-g? . nm victory om mi mm TOE 1ST I DEAL' OF TBI SPEING S3 n The undersigned once more comes to V lead all competitors in the good work of saving the people money and snip plying them with a superior quality of j GENERAL MERCHANDISE. We are ''loaded to the muzzle," and there is danger of an explosion when we must "stand from under," for the bottom and if an body gets caught when it falls, Open your eyes, bargain hunters, and know a gord thing when you see it, come by buying yonr Groceries, provisions and other articles H.nicn cannot oe purcnasoa elsewhere of Dry Goods, Hals, Boots and Sits, t- .uon't sen your country produce Detore calling on i P. S. Thanking you for past favors, ncea to merit a continuance oi the same. UsTZETW RACKET STORE IN CONCORD A NEW FIRM! More fa a Skater is PEICBS I Come and see our beautiful stock consisting of Calicos, Dress Goods, IE Full stock of Notions, Men's Furn ishing Goods. A full line of Linen and a large lot of Jewelry. Also Tin Cups, Buckets and many other things. FELDMAN & LEVIN, Formerly of Baltimore. Next door to Mrs. Cross' Millinery Store. 14 The "Weekly News-Observer lbe weekly rsews and Uoserver is a long ways the best paper ever pub li-hed in North Carolina. It is a cred it to the people and to the State. The people should take a pride in it It should be in every family. It is an eight page paper, chock full of the best ort of reading matter, news, market reports, and all that. You cannot af ford to be without it. Price $1.25 a year. We will furnish the Weekly News and Observer until January 1st, 1889, for $1. Send for sample copy. Address, News and Observer Co., Raleigh, N .C. MOOSE'S Blood Renovator, This valuable Kemedy is adaptad to the following diseases arising from an impure blood. Eruptive and Cutan eous diseases, St. Anthony's Fire, Pim ples. Tetter, Ringworm, Rhumatism, Syphilitic, Mercurial, and all diseases of like character. It is an Alterative or Restorative of Tone and Strength to the system, it affords great protection from attacks that originate in changes of climate and season. For sale at Fetzer's Drug Store LADIES -Ps Io Tour Own Dyeing, at Home Th ;jr will dye everything. They are old every, where. Price I Oe. a package. Tliey ha v-e no equal for Strength, Brifrhfnees, Amount in Package or for FastneM of Color, or non-f ading Qualities. They do not crock or smut; 40 colors. Tor tale by For sale at 12 FETZER'S DRUG STORE, An4 JOHNSON'S DRUGSTORE Willi' I SEASON"! tha front and avows his detenninalon if our utock is not speedily reduced fire off our big gun. Everybody has dropped out of LOW PRICES, somebody is sure to get hurt. Now if you are close calculators and and see me if you want to save money of home use. A specialty on flour the sama grade as cheap as 1 will sel I hope by fair dealing and reasonable To Creditors o! J. S. Fisher Notice is hereby given that a retition has been filed before me by E- VV G. Fisher, guardian of J S Fisher, asking for the attachment of the home stead and personal property exemption fo J S Fisher, and you are hereby no tified that petition of said Fisher s wil be heaid at my office in Concord on Monday, 8th October, 1888. 13 7t J. F. WILLEFORD, J. P & GROOERS, Are fully alive to the people's interest and are prepared to make things lively m tne sale ot beavy and fancy GROCERIES, By puttiug them down to bottom prices for Cash or Salter. Their stock durnig 1888 will be os the very choicest and freshest, and if bour.d to please. Don't forget the place, one door be low Uanuons & Fetzer. WALTER St SUTHERS. 1 8m A Larsje Lot of FRESH GMDEII SEtD, LANDRETH'S Buist's and Ferry's, JUST ARRIVED AT D. D. Johnson's DRUGSTORE For Sale Cheap, A SE OND II AND OMNIBUS with a capacity for twe've nassenerers in food running: order. Call at th;s office. ALTER III REDUCE TUB TAXES. Principles of Taxation, There is perhaps no one of the powers conferred on the Federal Government so liable to abuse as the taxing power. The most produc tive and convenient sources of rev enue were necessarily given to it. that it might be able to perform the important duties imposed upon it; and the taxes which it lays upon commerce being concealed from the real payer in the price of the article, they do not so readily attract the at tention of the people as smaller sums demanded from them directly by the tax-gather. But the tax im posed on goods enhancad bv so much the price of the commodity to the consumer, and as many of these du ties are imposed on articles of ne cessity which are daily used by the great body of the people, the money raised by these imports is drawn from their pockets. Congress has no right under the Constitution to take money from the people unless it be required to execute some one of specific powers intrusted to the Gov ernment; and if they raise more than is necessary for such purpose it is an abuse of the power of taxation and unjust and oppressive. It may, indeed, happen that the revenue will some time exceed the amount antici pated when the taxes were laid, When, however, this is ascertained it is easy to reduce them; and in such a case it is unquestionably the duty ot the Government to reduce them, for no circumstances can justify it in assuming a power not given to it by the Constitution, nor in taking away the money of the people when it is not needed for the legitmate wants of the Government. Plain as these principles appear to be, you will yet find that there is a constant effort to induce the general Gov ernment to go beyond the limits of its taxing power, and to impoee un necessary burdens upon the people. Many powerful interests are con tinually at work to procure heavy duties on commerce, and to swell the revenue beyond the real necessities of the public service ; and the coun try has alrerdy felt the injurious ef fects of their combined influence. They succeeded in obtaining a tariff of duties bearing most oppressively on the agricultural and laboring classes of society, and producing a revenue that could not be usefully employed within the range of the powers conferred upon Congress; and in order to fasten upon the peo ple this unjust and unequal system of taxation extravgant schemes of internal improvement were got up in various quarters, to squander the money and to purchase support. Do not allow yourselves, my fellow citi zens, to be misled on this subject. The Federal Government cannot col lect a surplus for such purposes without violating the principles of theConstitution and assuming powers which have not been erranted. It is. moreover, a system of injustice, and if persisted it will inevitably lead to corruption, and must end in ruin. The surplus revenue will be drawn from the pockets of the people from the farmer, the mechanic, and the laboring classes of society ; but who will receive it when distributed among the States, where it is to be disposed of by the leading politicians who have friends to favor and poll tical partisans to gratify ? It will certainly not be returned to those who paid it and have most need of it and are honestly entitled to it. There is but one safe rule, and tnat is to confine the General Government rapidly within the sphere of its ap propriate duties. It has no power to raise a revenue or impose taxes ' ex cept for the purposes enumerated in the Constitution ; and if its income is found to exceed these wants it should be forthwith reduced, and the burdens of the people so far lightened. J?rom Jackson s Fare well Address. Paper Bottles. One of the most interesting of the many uses to which paper has been put is the manufacture of pa per bottles. We have long had paper boxes, barrels, and car wheels, and more recently paper pails, wash basins and other vessels, but now comes a fur ther evolution of paper in the shape of paper bottles, which are already quite extensively used for contain ing such substances as ink, bluing, shoe dressing, glue, &c, and they would seem to be equally well adapt ed for containing a large variety of articles. They are made by rolling glued sheets of paper into long cylinders, which are then cut into suitable lengths, tops and bottoms and fitted in, the inside coated with a water proof compound, and all this done by machinery, almost as quickly as one can count. They are cheaper and lighter than glass, unbreakable, and consequently very popular with consumers, while the fact that they require no packing material and are clean, handy and economical, commends them to man ufacturers. Unlike glass they can be manufactured at all seasons ; and, being made by machinery, the sup ply is independent of labor troubles, which are additional advantages to manufacturers who use bottles. Gen. Sam Hontm't Magnetism. No man, unless it was the great Napoleon, ever possessed more of what is known as "personal magnet ism than Sam Houston of Texas. Often without any apparent ef fort, he converted the bitterest ene mies into the warmest friends. One of his former opponents in Eastern Texas kept a standing advertisement in a local paper, the tenor of which was that any person having a quarrel with Gen. Houston could be accom modated with a fight by merely send ing his address to the Advertiser. He was not only willing but partic ularly anxious to take Houston's personal difficulties off his hands. On one occasion the question of removing the State capital from Austin to Washington, on the Brazos, excited a great deal of political and personal bitterness against Houston. Amonsr his bitter opponents were CapL S. and 'Squire W. of Austin. It was given out that Gen. Houston would visit Austin and deliver speech on the political topics of the day. Some utterance ot t-apt. o. and 'Squire W. gave color to the idea that Gen. Houston might meet with rough treatment from his stal wart opposers. Their movements were watched closely with a view to prevent any unpleasant eventual! ties. An eye witness gives the follow ing description of Houston's speech The day came. Gen Houston was escorted to the "Old Capital," which occupied the site where the Austin market-house now stands. The Capital was a frame building, with a hall running east and west, dividing it into two apartments ; the southern end was the Hall of Representatives, the northern the Senate Chamber, Gen. Houston spoke from the east gallery, facing Congress Avenue. He had a large audience members of the Legislature, and men who had faced every sort of danger incident to frontier life, and who had never quailed. He discussed various issues of the general character in his usu ally eloquent and happy style and manner, lie carnea nis nearers witn him. lie referred to his action concern ing Austin ; said some of his friends thought he had made a mistake. He called attention to improvements in the surroundings, the evidences of prosperity, and said : " If I did make a mistake it was a happy one." He then spoke of Texas her future prospects, her many elements to achieve greatness. He stood gazing as it were, upon the great volume of the future, whose pages seemed to be unrolled before him to be read by the liffht of inspiration. His face glowed with an intelligence appar entlv supernatural. He stood there in the fancv of his audience an im personation of the prophet of the olden times, glowing with the en thusiasm engendered by a sense of the revelations he was receiving from a divine source an inspired being standing between God and man, pro claiming in advance the events of ages yet to come. It was truly i grand spectacle. He then said his history, his in terests were identified with those of Texas. "I have nothing to leave her but my children. I consign them to my country. I have no leg acy for my children but my own good name. I can bequeath them that, unsullied by any stain, unspot led by inordinate ambition, and free from the sordid, taint of selhshness. At this point the tears stole down the cheeks of the impassioned ora tor. Many a stern old frontiers man, who had defied death in all its forms, caught the infection and wept as a child. The chasm was filled ; all antagonism was forgotton; all hostility buried. The noble old hero, the patriot, the statesman, had vindicated himself before an impar tial jury of his countryman. They carried their verdict to their homes written on their hearts. Gen. Houston decended from the rostrum, and wended his way down the hill, supported on one side by Captain S., on the other side 'Squire W. This remarkable illustration Gen. Houston's magnetism, of by of his power over an audience, occurred in November or December, 1853. There will be sold at auction in Washington city at an early day, an interesting collection of captured and abandoned property, gathered, as alleged, from Federal and Con federate soldiers on the battlefield of the late war, and which have laid in the vaults of the Treasury de partment since 1868. In the col lection are unclaimed gold and sil ver watches, finger rings, pins and other small articles. Two years ago Congress passed an act authorizing the delivery to the owners, or to the legal heirs, of all such articles, where the proof of ownership should prove satifactory to the , Secretary of the Treasury, and providing that every thing remaining unclaimed at the expiration of two years should be sold as auction. Should the owners of any of these trinkets now endeavor to secure them they can only do so by purchasing them at the coming sale. A rlianafnli from Vienna, rrvr th Oaliman refitments now nuartered in Austria will soon be transferred to Galicia. A COXFEDERAT'S LUCK. During the few eventful days which immediately preceded the fall of Richmond, Abraham Lincoln tarried at City Point, Va., awating the news from Grant, Meade and Sheridan, who were pulverizing Lee's right wing while Sherman waa hurrying his victorious column toward Savan nah. Time hung wearily with the president, and as he walked through the hospitals or rode amid the tents, his rueful countenance bore sad ev idence of the anxiety and anguish which possessed him, Presently, however, squads and then hundreds, and later thousands of prisoners, of high and low degree, came from the front, and we all began to realize from what we saw of their condition, and what the prisoners themselves told us, that the confederacy was crumbling to pieces. Among the captured were Gener als Ewell, Custis, Lee andBarringer, who became the guests of myself and wife, I being at the time com mander of post, and right well did they enjoy the only good square meals that had gladdened their eyes and their plates for many a long day. General Barringer, of North Car olina, was the first to arrive. He was a polished, scholarly and urbane gentlemen, scrupulously regarding the parole I had exacted from him, and deeply sensible and appreciative of my poor efforts to make him com fortable. Hearing that Mr. Lincoln was at City Point, the general one day beg ged me to give him an opportunity to see him as he walked or rode through the camp, and happening to spend that evening with the pres ident in the tent of Colonel Bowers, Grant's adjutant-gneral who had re mained behind to keep up commu nication with the armies operating across the James river, I incidently referred to the request of General Barringer, Mr. Lincoln immediately asked me to present his compliments to the general, and to say he would like very much to see him, whisper ing to me to his quaint and jocose way. "Do yon know I have never seen a live rebel general in full uniform." At once communicating the pres ident's wish to General Barringer, I found that officer much einbar rassed. He feared I had over-stepped the bounds of propriety in men tioning his curiosity to see the northern president, and that Mr. Lincoln would think him a very im pertinent fellow, besides which he was muddy and tattered and torn and not at all presentable. Reassuring him as best I could, he at last sought those embellish ments which a whisk a blacking brush, and a comb provided and we walked over to headquarters, where we found the president in high feather, listening to the cheerful messages from Grant at the front. I formally presented General Bar ringer, of North Carolina, to the president of the United States, and Mr. Lincoln extended his hand, warmly welcomed him and bade him be seated. There was however, only one chair vacant when the president arose, and this the southerner very politely declined to take. This left the two men facing each other in the center of the tent, the tall form of Mr. Lincoln almost reaching the ridge pole as he slowly removed his eye-glasses, looked the general over from head to foot, and then in a slow meditative and puz zled manner, inquired : "Barringer ? Barringer ? from North Carolina ? Barringer, of North General were you ever in congress ? i-vr n r t : l T " replied the general. "Well, I thought not; I thought my memory couldn't be so much at fault. But there was a Barringer in congress with me, and from your state, too!" "That was my brother," said Bar ringer. Up to this moment the hard face of the president had that thought ful, troubled expression with which those of us who knew him well were only too familiar, but now the lines melted away, and the eyes and the tongue both laughed. I cannot de scribe the change, though I still see it and shall never forget it. It was like a great sudden burst of sunshine in a rain storm. "Well ! wnll ! exclaimed the great and good man, burying for the mo ment all thought of war, its cares, its asperities, and the frightful labor it has imposed upon him ; his heart swelling up only to the joyous re- i 1 1 i miniscence which the meeting brought to him. "Well! well!" said he, "do you know that brother of yours was my chum in Coi.gress. Yes, sir, we sat at the same desk, ate at the same table. He was a whig and so was I. He was my chum, and I was very fond of him. And you are his broth er, eh ? Well, well! shake again." And once more in the pressure of his great hand his heart went out to this man in arms against the gov ernment, simply because his brother had been his chum and was a good fellow. A couple more chahs by this time had been added to the scant furni ture of the adjutant-general's tent, and the conversation drifted from Mr. Lincoln's anecdotes ot the pleas ant hours he and Barringer had spent together, to the war, thence to the merits of military and civil lead ers, north and south, illustrated here and there by some appropriate story, entirely new, full of humor and sometimes of pathos. Several times the general made a movement to depart, fearing he was availing himself too lavishly of Mr. Lincoln's affability, but each time was ordered to keep his seat, the president remarking that they bcth were prisoners, and he hoped the general would take some pity upon him and help him to talk about the times when they were both their own masters and hadn't "everybody crit icising and abusing them. Finally, however, General Bar ringer arose, and was bowing him self out, when Mr. Lincoln once more took him by the hand, almost affectionately placed another hand upon his shoulder, and inquired quite seriousiy : " Do you think I can be of any service to you ?" Not until we had all finished a hearty laugh at this quaint remark did the president realize the innocent simplicity of his inquiry, and when General Barringer was able to reply that " if anybody can be of service to a poor devil in my . situation, I presume you are the man.'' Mr. Lincoln drew a blank card from his vest pocket, readjusted his glasses, turned up the wick of the lamp, and sat down at General Bower's desk with all the earnestness with which you would suppose he had attached his name to the emancipation pro clamation. This was, however, all assumed. He wa3 equipping himself and pre paring us for one of his little jokes While writing he kept up a running conversation with General Barring er (who was still standing and won dering) to this effect : " I suppose they will send you to Washington, and there I have no doubt they will put you in the Old Capital prison. I am told it isn't a nice sort of a place, and am afraid you won't find it a very comfortable tavern ; but I have a powerful friend in Washington he's the biggest man in the country and I believe I have some influence with him when I don't ask too much. Now I want you to send this card of introduction to him, and if he takes the notion he may put you on your parole, or let up on you that way or some oth er way. Anyhow, it's worth while trying." And then very deliberately drying the card with the blotter, he held it up to the light and read it to us in about the following werds : "This is General Barringer, of the southern army. He is the brother of a very dear friend of mine. Can you do anything to make his detention in Washington com fortable as possible under the cir cumstances ? "A. Lincoln. "To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, "Secretary of War," Barringer never uttered a word. I think he made an effort to say, "Thank you," or "God bless you," or something of that kind, but he was speechless. We both wheeled about and left the tent. After walking a few yards,- not hearing any footsteps near me, and fearing Barringer had lost his way, I turned back and found this gal lant leader of brave men, who had won his stars in a score of battles, "like Niobe, all tears," audibly sob bing and terribly overeome. He took my arm, and as we walk ed slowly home he gave voice to as hearty expressions of love for the great Lincoln as have been since ut tered by his most devoted and life long friends. A few years afterwards I met the general socially in Philadelphia, and we went over this episode in his life, as I have narrated it, and then, for a third time, his eyes filled as he told me how he had wept and wept at, "the deep damnation of his taking off.' John Holland, one of the proprie tors of the Four Mile House, Au burn, N Y.t was drowned in Owasco Lake yesterdey. In a conflagration at Calbuzowa, in Galicia, four hundred houses and the public busldings of the town have been burned. Drink Water. There are very few people that ap- prepiate thp importance of drinking water. .Many persons merely drink water to satisfy thirst ; they think that is all that is necessary, and as there are a large number of people who care very little for water they fail to make drinking-water a habit. One great trouble is people don't drink water enough to properly thin the blood--secretions and excretions so tliat the system can be cleaned of its worn out matter speedily. I had a friend whosj health failed ; she consulted a physician ; she be gan telling her symptoms unpleas ant feeling about the head, palpita tion oi the heart, numbness of the limps and many other distressing feelings; when the doctor stopped her and said : " How much water do you drink during the day?" She replied that she seldom ever cared for water ; sometimes she drank a glass at her dinner but not often. His prescription was to drink at least a half gallon of water during the day, until she found the action of her heart better, and other sym- toms relieved, then she could de crease the quantity. But he said every one should drink over a quart of water daiiy, at different times. Another celebrated physician, Avhen asked as to his opinion of the effi cacy of some noted springs, said the only good derived from them, was the quantity of water people felt called on to drink when they went to such places- If they drink just as much at home they would never need go to springs for health. The human body needs washing out ; as a health journal expresses it : " The long-continued retention of secre tions that ought to be thrown off, is the cause of such diseases as rheu matism, catarrah, etc. They affect the heart by thickening the blood, making it harder work for the heart to do its work. Again, the use of water, in its full normal quantitv, washed out the alimentary canal; keeps t! e stomach and bowels sweet and clean, and has the effect of an inside bath." So we see this habit of drinking water is a very good one ; one that we should cultivate, and at tach much more importance to than we do. Guided by a Doe. The friends and relatives of Hessie Stevens, the little two-year-old daughter of Mrs Amanda Ste vens, and grand daughter of A. J. Sapp, was very, much alarmed re cently upon discovering that little Hessie had wandered from her home. They tracked her about half a mile to a pond, and, failing to track her any further, concluded she must have waded ioto the pond and was drowned. After a thorough search in the waters, with no clue of the child, and while the mother's heart was breaking with the thoughts of her child freezing in the wood that night, attention of those iu search of the lost child was attracted by the maneuvers of a dog that had accompanied the party, and as soou as the faithful animal found that ha had gained the attention of Mr. Sapp he started at once through a piece of woods, and after leading them some half f a mile, found the child lying under a treetop sound asleep. There was great rejoicing, and the family will from that day consider their dog as one of the family. Americus (Ga) Recorder. A City Hall official who has owned a bay horse for the last seven years has been talking of buying another to match him, and the other day some of the boys wenfr up to the barn and brought his eqnine down and hitched him in front of the building, and then had the owner come out and look at him. "That beast," he said, as he looked into his mouth," is all of 20 years old, I also notice that he is spavin ed and weak in the back." " Oh you are mistaken, sir," repli ed the seller. " I warrant him as sourd as a dollar." 44 Don't attempt to jockey me!" said the owner. " I wouldn't giva you $75 for him. Talk about a match!" Why. he's three shades lighter, 200 pounds heavier and and looks like an old cow beside my horse. You'd better make a dicker with some expressman" Wnen the truth came out, the bill for ".setting 'em uo " for the boys was over $4. Detroit Free Press. A 0od Move. The House on Monday adopted a bill ebtablishing a department of ag riculture by a vote of 233 to 13. This. overwhelming majority is significant It shows that there is more dispoa- tion than heretofore to legislate in behalf of the long neglected, but lar gest class of our American citizens.. The majority of our people are tillers of the soil. This majority owns the largest part of the wealth of the land. They have grievances that need .re dress. In order to ascertain the nature of these grievances and the remedy therefore, it is bfitting that they shoull have a distinct depart ment in the Cabinet at Washington, through which thev can be fairly aud fully heard. Charlotte Chron. icle.