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. . , , ,. . , , ,. . ..,.. . ....... . . .... , . , .wt ....-:..,.:;;---.-'. jMJaiaMaaaMaaaiaaaaaaaaiMiMMMBan THE STiHDdlRD. ; rr.I.lSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY I. ANTHONY J. M. CROSS Rates of Atlvertlslnar: Ona square, one insertion, One squ re,' one month, One square, two months, One square, three months, One square, six months, 1 05 2 00 2 50 500 9 00 TEIOIS : YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, MONTHS, i ' . CONCORD, N. C JUNE 22, 1888. $1.25. .75, ONE VOLUME I. NUMBER 24. yh e standard: - m; ; ci ;r -i; : x:::.-",- EWT VICTOR? J m HIGH PRICES! II FIST -I DEAL OF THE SPEING- S El -A. SOIST! NOT THE SMARTEST FOLKS. The undersigned once more comes to the4 front and avuws his determinat'on to lead all competitors in the good work of saving the people money aod sup ply1 Hg them with a superior quality of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. We are "loaded to the muzzle," and if our stock is not speedily reduced there is dancer of an explosion when we fire off our big gun. Everybody rmv TJTiiriP.s. t "Maim uoiu unaer, ior iu uwnum ..j vvt-vv v,.. - it wiipn it fans. 8-imeDodv is sure to sex, nun. iow You may notch it on the palm's, lou may mark it on de wall, Dat de higher up a tond-frog jumps De harder he will fall. An de crow dat fly de swifes' Am de soones' in de corn, An' de fly dat am de meanes Get up earliest in de morn. De brook dat am de shallowes' Chatters most upon de way, An' de folks dat am de sillies' Ar' de ones have nios' ter say. An de rooster dat am younges' Am de one dat crows de most, And de man dat am de coward Always make de bigges' boast. And he am not de greates man Ay ho totes de bigges muscle' Nor am she de fines' gal ho w ars de bigges bustle. You cannot jedge de kin' o' man By de manner ob his walkin An' dey are not the smartes' folks Uncle Zeke. mu and if anbody gets can' are close calculators and 1 . . . .J i wn vnnr eves. barram nuniers, auu u yuu know a good thing when you see it, come and see me if you waut to save money by buying yonr D i y Goods, Hals, Bits w Sits, Groceries, provisions and other articles of home use. A specialty on flour which cannot be purchasod elsewhere of the sama grade as cheap as I will sell t. Don't sell jour country produce before calling on Tl. IBIRO'WIISr. P. S. Thanking yuu for past favers, I hope by fair dealing and reasonable pices to merit a continuance ot the same. A. H. PROPST, Architect ani Contractor. Plans and specifications of build ings made in any style. All con tracts for buildings faithfully car ried out. Office in Caton's building, np stairs. . 13 FUNITURi CHEAP TOR CASH AT M. E. CASTOR'S T SHE. Dr. F. M. 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CASTOR. ill R SUTI1ERS I would inform the eord and surrounding Lave opened a new ladies of Con country that I Millinery Store At ALLISON'S CORNER, where they will find a woll selecrea stock of Hats and Bonnets Ribbons, Colars, Corsets, Bustles, Kuching, Veiling, &c, which will be sold cheap for CASH. Give me a call. Respectfully, MRS. MULLIE ELLIOT. GROCERS, Are fully alive to the people's interest, and are prepared to make things lively in the sale of heavy and fancy GROCERIES, By pnttiug them down to bottom prices for Cash or Barter. m For Sale Cheap, A SECOND HAND OMNIBUS with a capacity for twe've passengers, in good running order. Call at this office. Their stock dnnag 1888 will be of the very choicest and freshest, and bound to please. is Don't forget the place, one door be ow Canuons cc r etzer. 1 8m WALTER & SUTHERS. IEERLESS DYES LADIES P Do Tour Own Dyeing, at Home. Tlr y will dye everything. They are sold every where. Price lOc. a package. They havenoequal for Strength, Brightneas, Amount in Packages or for Fastnes of Color, or non-f mliug Qualities. They do not orork or smut; 40 colors. Tor sale by For sale at 12 FETZKR'S DRUG STORE, And JOHNO'NS DRUG STORE Another Lot New Millincrj Mbs. J. M. Cboss begs to inform the ladies that she has the most se lect stock of Millinery in Concord, it being constantly replenished with new shapes, ribbons, &c. and also desires to state that her prices are the lowest. The Teimmino Department Is in charge of a most skillful Milli ner, and ladies who have been deal ing with me this season ar more than pleased with my goods and styles. I take pleasure in showing my goods and guarantee satisfaction. I have also an elegant line of Lace Caps, Silk "and Lisle Gloves, Fans, Bustles, Handkerchiefs, Corsets. A great bargain in silk Jersey Mils at only 50 cents. " Very respectfully, -Mbs.' J. M. CROSS- One of a party, of four seated around a table in an up-town cafe, was a sedate-looking gentleman, small in stature and faultlessly dressed. Extreme neatness was the first thin? that struck one in look ing at him, vet there was a si p-estion of virility about him that made his caretul attire seem out or place. One of the four addressed him fanii harlv as "Uhiquito." ine name struck "another of the party. who then heard it for the first time as a rather singular way of address ing the sedate if not solemn Mr. Smith, and he said something to that effect. "Oh. that's what our friend here and all the other fellows used to call me in the old da7S when we were fortv-niners in California, said Chiquito. "It is a sort of hybrid Spanish, you know, ana means small; it fitted me exactly in those days. I'm not of a large pat tern now, but in those days, when was a youth under twenty, I was not filled out and was very small althonfirii l ma carry tne unneu States mail on horseback over stretch of forty miles, nearly all of it a lonely mountain road." "You must have met some queer neonle and stransre incidents on those rides." one of the party re marked. "Not often," replied Mr. Smith. "Many a time I went over the whole distance out and back without meet ing a human being. Sometimes, lowever, 1 would come across a stray Indian and sometimes meet a white i "i Ti man, wno aiwavs nau a smaii arsenai strapped about his waist and a pair of pistols in the holsters of his saddle. It was a rencontre with one of those gentlemen at the loneliest pot in the lonely mountain road that is almost the only vivid memo ry I have of those days in the long J here was a general desire ex pressed to hear of that incident, and Mr. Smith continued: "Well, you know, to be a forty- niner in California you had to use tobacco in all forms. I don't know that there was any compulsion about it, leeal or moral, but every body did, and young as I was I did what everybody else did. bo it was my custom to go to the store just before starting on my journey and buy a huge 'hunk as they called it out there, weighing about half pound, which would last me out and back. But one morning, having small remnant of the weed left from my last trip, I forgot to get my usual supply before I started off with my mail. Queer mail that was, gentle men, and rather expensive to the government. What the contracto arot 1 never knew, out he paid me pretty well for carrying it, and never had over half a dozen letters. Once in a while a stray newspaper would sometimes escape the many dangers of confiscation on the long route from the eastern states and find Jits way into my pouch. Some times after it got to me it would reach the person addressed to, but , ften it would not, for when it got to his postoffice he would be dead. "Well, that morning I had only half a dozen letters and no news papers, and had got about ten miles on the road when 1 made the un pleasant discovery that I hadn't laid in my supply of tobacco. I reined up to consider the horrors of the situation. I was carrying the United States mail, which, small as it was, could not be trifled with by my going back to get the tobacco, Yet the idea of going without for two days was insupportable. Finally I made np my mind I wrould have to endure the hardship as best I could, and jogged on again. I had got about half way on my journey and was well up the narrow winding mountain road when I saw a mounted man coming toward me. He was a mile or more away when I first saw him, but owing to the sharp turns in the road he seemed to be quite near, and I saw that he was a pow erful fellow, and I knew that he was well armed, for that was the custom of the country. I knew, too, that I could a3 safely ask him for his hors e as for any of his tobacco, unless he happened to have a very large" sup ply, which was not likely. But I made up my mind he had to con tribute, so I got out my pistol, but held it so he couldn't see it. As our horses held noses we stopped, which was nothing unusual, as two white men meeting aiwavs halted to exchange items of news, of which, as general thing, neither had any. 'Mornin', stranger,' said he, and repeated the greeting. 'Any yar- ments about?' he inquired, meaning ndians, and I assured him there mi i J were none, men it came my turn to ask questions. " 'Got any tobacco, strangerr " 'Yes, an' I'm goin' ter keep it.' 'Guess I'll havejto trouble you for a bit.' " 'Guess not' . . : " 'Guess I must And m an instant I had him covered with my revolver. He took in the situation at once, and was convinced. He drew out a long piece of the black stuff called 'navy,' which some of you gentlemen may have seen, but I hope iave never tasted, lie extended it toward me, and growled more gruffly than before: " 'Take off what you want.' But I was not to be caught in that way. Still keeping him covered .with the pistol, I suggested that he had better cut that into two equal parts nim- self. Drawing a dirk knife of vil lainous appearance from his boot-leg he cut the piece as I had suggested- and extended it toward me: " 'Just drop it in the road, stran- . TT T 1 ' A 1 1 1 er. .lie did it, put nis xnue oac& A Few Words on Sectarian Bigotry. Editor Chronicle: Please pub lish in the next issue of your paper, for the information of your readers, a statement showing to what churches the nominees of. the Dem ocratic party on the State ticket, in cluding Judges, belong. Respectfully, A Subscriber. The Chronicle does not like to be unaccommodating. It loves to give any information desired by its friends, especially its good paying subscribers. The information asked about slip-shod and dirty from our work through the eveningsjbut Mol- lie, as soon as her housework was out of the way, would change her work-dress for a neat wrapper or evening dress, and always appeared at the supper table, looking as sweet and attractive as whenlwent a dozen miles over hills and drifts to take her out for a drive, or spend a few hours in her company; while I, as soon as I reached home, changed my business suit for a light Worsted one for by our' correspondent may not, No. I did not wear a dressing gowD, and we do not think it is, under all for it was too awkward to suit my circumstances, wholly improper, but fancy. After supper, I would wipe we decline to gne it for this reason: the dishes for Molhe, and then we It is no business of a voter to would ero for a walk or drive if it what church a candidate belongs. It is enough for him to enquire: Is he honest.-' is he capable.'' and if these questions are answered in the affirmative, it is immaterial whether the candidate has gone : under the water, or has believed that a few ounces oi water on the head was a sufficient baptism. The fact that people inquire into a candidate s church relations is a bad sign. It is evident that there is a spirit of sectarianism abroad that portends evil, and evil only and evil continually, to our institutions. Nearly every public institution in thaState has suffered by sectarian sel fishness and bigotry. The very life was summer time and pleasant. In the winter time we go to our sitting room, and sing, read or play some kind ot games. 1 never had any taste for liquors or tobacco, so I have never left her at home to amuse her self while I went to a club. And I never told her how my mother cook ed, while she never said I did not provide as well as her father. We never have had hard words. I do not mean to say that we are perfect for we both have our faults, but Mollie never twits me of mine, and I well, I never see any of hers There dre a few rules that I have done my best to follow, and they of the University has been imperilled can be followed by all married men by denominational bigotry. and women: 1. Bear and forbear. It is high time for the patriotism 2. Never say a word that will mten- a State to call a halt. If the tionallv hurt the other's feeliners. in his boot-leg, -gathered up his bridle-reins and remarked: "Gnes3 you have traveled some, youngster. Hope we ll meet again, some time. MorumV " 'You guess right,' I answered, as he started off dawn the road. As he passed by me I turned in my saddle and kept Jiim covered with the pistol until he had disappeared around the bend i; the road. Even then I waited for some minutes for fear he would turn back, but finally being convinced he had no intention of coming back, I got off my horse, clutched my prize, and having mounted went on as fast as the steepness of thegade would permit; not that I was running away, gen tlemen oh, no, not at all. But you see I was carrying the United States mail on schedule and I was making up for lust time. ' Here Mr. Smitji paused and med itatively smoked is cigar. 1 suppose ygV- never saw your remarked one or neiactor again, the company. "Oh, yes, 1 did, onlv a tew day afterwards, and that is the best part of the story. When I got back to the home ranch from that trip, the first thing I did after stabling my horse and putting away my arsenal with the mail bag in the post office, was to stroll down to the store to lay in a supply of tobacco. The store you know, is the one resort for everybody in a small settlement. It was so then in California; it is so yet in every village in the United States where, as a rule, the e is only one store, and that deals in everything, Well. I went down to the store. It was fall of men, as it always was. edged my wav up to the counter and asked for tobacco. A tall man who had his back to me turned around at the sound ot my voice. It was my friend of the mountain. recognized him iu an instant, but hoped he did not know me. But he did, and remarked: " 'Youngster, we've met before.' "I knew from his tone it was use less to deny the fact and admitted it, while I was preparing to dodge his first bullet, with the hope of escaping altogether sn the gem tusilade that would be sure to sue ceed it. But to my surprise he showed no intention of drawing weapon. On the contrary, he thru si out his hand with the remark: " 'Youngster, your name. You'l do, Shake!' "He had the grip of a vise and the strength of an ox. I would rather have taken my chances with his bulbts than have endured his friendly grasp again. But, happily I was not called upon to do it. The stranger extended a genial invitation to everybody to 'liquor up,' and gave the crowd a minute account ot our first meeting, ending with the com pliment: 'Youngster here is game, you bet.'" With the words he had paid his score and, striding out, mounted his horse and rode away." "You got well out of that scrape, Chiquito," remarked one of his hearers. "You never heard of him again, I suppose?" "Yes, I did. A few days after ward his identity was established, when he was hanged in the nexi settlement by a vigilance committee for horse stealing. Then it came out he was one of the most noted and daring desperadoes in the country. He had committed several murders and was suspected of others, but they had been done in remote places, and as he had never been in our settlement before the time I encoun tered him it is not strange nobody there knew him. When it became known who he was there was much marveling as to how I had escaped. I fully shared in it. I suppose it is hardly necessary to say that if I had known who he was I should not have ventured to request him to ! share his tobacco with me. 3. Never flirt. 4 Never tell each other how father or mother did this thing or that. Uncle Joe Cose. Wife (returning'from lecture hall) "Well. John, how did you like the speaker?" "Very much, indeed." "That'b strange." "Why?" "Well, from the number of times you went out I imagined you found the entertainment very dry." Ne- of clamor of sectarianism is allowed to go into politics, then the usefulness of public officials is at at end. Men will be made Supreme Court Judges, not because they know the law, but because their notions about baptism or tree will, or Calvinism are ml accord with the views of the great majority. Our Governors will need no other fitness than that they have confirmed to the outward forms of the dominant church. The day of promoting men for fitness will have nfl.asAfl n.wA.v nnrl fhf nsirrnwcv mle I " " J f , , , , -r 1 of bigotry will hold undisputed PrasKa otate sway. following this will come a dead and Godless church. Base men will ttach themselves to a church be cause it has a large membership in oraer to attain position. It were better to establish a State church at once than that such a state of affairs should be witnessed in North Caro lina. We view with alarm the growth of sectarian bigotry in North Caro lina. It is the greatest evil that threatens our progress. It is con fined to no one church. it is found in them all and is working iujury to all. Ten years ago men did not write to an editor and ask him to what church a candidate belonged. His inquiry was: Has he the neces sary qualifications to perform the duties of the office? WTe have made great progress in bigotry, and it has retarded all other progress. Unless checked it threatens to work still dedication was a mystery to every body. I do not understand it to-dav. in d so, regularly every month, as ong as he was able to walk, did that faithful old dog attended the Bap tist Church at Mount Harmony, two miles and a half from home. Ho ived to be 12 years old, when ,he died, and went where the good dogs go. I have related only facts in this story, and have refrained from any attempt to account for 'the singular conduct of the dog. I have often heard my father, and others who knew the facts, speak of it as a mcst extraordinary instance of what seemed religious notions on the parfc of a dumb animal. Cuff was faiths ful in all his relations and duties as a dog, and behaved as well as some who call themselvs Christians. best thafc Per-wish Sua It voters are anxious to know a candidate's church relations, it may follow that they will support the man whose religious views are in harmony with their own views. Then there will be no officers in North Carolina except Baptists and Meth odists. for these two denominations would form a re "trnst" and take all the offices themselves, leaving the weaker denominations out of the 11 1 j ice ai -4- "coinuiue. aim -neeze mem uui from all competition. being the largest ligious A Baptist Dojf. Dr. Fitzgerald : Here is a dog sto ry for you: When I was a boy my father owned a black-and-white-spot, ted cur dog called "Cuff." He was a remarkable dog in some respects, especially in his religious prejudices. My f athei was a Methodist minister, and all the family associations were connected with that church. The only exception to .perfect harmony of sentiment in the family was man ifested by 'Cuff;" and this appeared the more singular because he had been from earliest puppyhoodin our family, and had no opportunity to know anything about other denomi nations. He was, nevertheless a thorough Baptist, and he exhibited his preference for the Baptist Church in a very decided manner. 1. There was near our house a country log-meeting house, used as a "union-meeting house," and also for school purposes. The Primitive Baptists " Hardshells " occupied this house once a month, and the Methodist preacher on the circuit preached in it once a month. The relations between the two chuiches were not as cordial as they ought to have been, seeing they all professed to be first-class Christians. The Baptist did not attend Methodist preaching, nor did the Methodist go to hear the Baptist preacher. It was very seldom that any one.except Cuff, ever went from our house to The Chronicle has no patience Baptist meeting, yet that dog never with or toleration of tblS bigotry. ItA in Ke nreaenton Saturday and It doesn't care a fig whether Judge Sunjay cf the Baptist monthly Fowle kneels in prayer or stands up w,- TV.; miht We Wr, or reclines, or whether Mr. Sander-1 w:,hnnf Vfimart ;f vft lin was baptised in the ocean, or m a tm pan. It hasn t any interest in Col. Saunders views, if indeed he has any, about the theory of evolu tion, or IVlaj. lingers opinions about transubstautiation. It would not know if it could whether Mr. Davidson holds to the doctrine of had also attended the Methodist preaching, but he was careful never to put his foot inside the door on the day the Methodist preacher held forth. My brother and I noticed this strange partiality for the Bap tist Church on the part of "old Cuff," and we very strongly disaproved of nredesti nation, whether Col. Holt pins his faith to the doctrine of free it, and remonstrated with him after grace, or whether Mr. Bain believes the fashion of buys with dogs, but that laying on of hands is an essen Judge Davis tial to salvation. If believes in immersion, he will make a jrood Judfre: and if he don't be lieve in it he will make a good J udge all our scolding ana whipping were in vain. Cuff seemed to be "set in his notions," and our persecutions, of which I am now ashamed, only seemed to make him, more devout Whether Judge Shepherd wears the an(j constant in his attendance upon blue stockings to show his belief in Baptist meetings. The conduct of Calvinism if he believes in it, or tj.e flog attracted attention, and he whether Judge Avery punctually became the subiect of remark. attends all the services during Lent gome thinss were said by our Bap- if he attends any, does not con cern any voter in North Carolina. One thing the Chronicle does know about all these nominees, and it is: That they are competent to fill the positions to which they were nominated, and that they are all men of integrity. More than this no voter has a rieht to know." State Chronicle. John and Mollie. I thought I would like to tell how Mollie (that's my wife) and I got alon? for twenty years, seeming we are just as happy now as we were the first year. We were not in a hurry to get married, but kept company until we knew we were suited to each other. Then after we were married we did not think that as we we were settled down there was no need of dressing up so as to be at tractive to each other, and so' going tist friends more complimentary to the dog than to his master; however, the master stood very well in the neighborhood. ' The only point of invidious comparison was in refer ence to questions of theology and denominational affiliation: in there matters the dog was considered more orthodox than his master. 2. Mat ters went on for several years in this way, the dog still faithful to the Church of his choice, and his strange conduct the subject of occasional re mark, when the Baptist congrega tion built a new church, two miles and a half from the old school-house where they formerly worshipped. On the day the new church was dedi. catcd Cuff was present, though not a member of our family or any one connected with us went to church. How he learned oi the change in the place of worship and the time of the Our Itaby. By a Boy. I never could see the use of babies. We have one at our house that be -longs to mother and she thinks everything of it. I- can't see any thing wonderful about it. All it can do is to cry, and pull hair and kick. It hasn't half the sense of my dog, and can't even chase a cat. Mother and Sue wouldn't have a dog in the house, but they are always going on about ihe baby, and saying, "Isn't it perfectly sweet!" The worst thing about a baby is that you're expected to take care of him, and then you get scolded after wards. Folks say: "Here, Jimmy, just hold the Ibaby a minute, that.s a good boy;" and then as soon as you have got it, they say, "Don't do that! Just look afc him! That boy will kill the child? Hold it up straight, you good-for-nothing little wretch!" It's pretty hard to do your and then be scolded for it, . but is the way boys are treated, haps when I'm dead, folks will they had done differently. Last Saturday mother anil went to make calls, and told me to stay at home and fake care of the baby. There was , a football mach on, but what did they care for that? They didn't want to go to it, and so it made no difference whether I went to it "or not. They said they would be gone only a little while, and if?the baby waked up I was to play with it and keep it from crying, and "be sure and nofc let it swallow any pins." Of course. I had to do it. The baby was sound asleep when thev went out, so I left just a few minutes while I went to see if there was any cake in the pan try. If I was a woman I wouldn.t be so dreadfully suspicious as to keep everything locked up. When I got back up stairs again the baby was awake, and was howling as if he was full of pins. So I gave bim the first thing that camejhandy to keep him quiet. It happened to be a bottle of polish, with a sponge on the end of a wire that Sue used to black her boots, because girls are too lazy to use the regular blacking-brush. The baby stopped crying as soon as I gave him the bottle, and I sat down to read a paper. The next time I looked at him he'd got ont the sponge, and about half of his face was a jet black. This was anicefix, for I knew nothing could get the black off his face: and when mother came home she would say the baby was spoiled and I had done it. Now I think an all-black baby is ever so much more stylish than an alKwhite baby, and when I saw thafc the baby was partly black I made up my mind that if I blacked it all over it would be worth more than it had ever been, and perhaps mother would be ever so much pleased. So I hurri?d up and gave it a good coat of black. You should have seen how that baby shined! The polish dried as soon as it was put on, and I had just time to get baby dressed agaiu when mother and Sue came in. I wouldn't lower myself to repeat their unkind language. WTien you've been called a mur dering little villain and an unnatur al son it will rankle inyour heart for ages. After what they said to me I didn't even seem to mind about fa ther, but went up stairs with him al most as if I was going to church, or something that did not hurt much. The baby is beautiful and shiny, though the doctors say it will wear off in a few weeks. Nobody shows any gratitude for the trouble I took, and I tell you it isn't easy to black a baby without getting it into his eyes and hair. I sometimes think it is hardly worth while to live in this cold and unfeeling world. "Do you believe there is any such thing a3 luck?." asked a young man of an old bachelor. "I do. I've had proof of it." "In what way?" "I was refused by five girls when I was a young man." An affected young lady, on being asked, in a large company, if she had read Shakespeare, assumed a look of astonishment and replied: "Read Shakespeare. Of course I have; I read it when d first came out.
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