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THE STANDARD. l CBLISntD EVERY FBIDAT BY . Y '. P. ANTHONY & J. M. CROSS 7 1 THE STANDARD. HI ' Rates uf Advertisings One square, one insertion, $ 00 One square, one montht - I 03 One square, two tuoutjus, , - . 2 One bquare, three months, 2 Q One square, six months, 5 0U One square, one year, - 9 0U- TERMS : CE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, - $1.25. SIX MONTHS, - - - .75 VOLUME I. CONCORD, X, C, JULY 13, 1888. NUMBER 27. GREAT VICTORY 0KB HIGH PRICES! TO 1ST BIG II i TBI TO FARM Ens AJTD OTHERS. SPEI1T G-SEASO 2ST I The undersigned once more comes to tha front and avows bis determination to lead all competitors in the good worl? of sating the people money and sup plying them with a superior quality of i. ". , ' K GENERAL MERCHANDISE. We are ''loaded to the muzzle," and if our s.tock is not, speedily reduced there is danger of an explosion when we fire. off. our big gun. Everybody must "stand from under," for the bottom has dropped ont of LOW PRICES, and if anybody gets caught when it falls, somebody is sure to get hurt. Now Open your eyes, bargain hunters, and if you are close calculators and know a go'd thing when you see it, come and see me if you want to save money by buying yonr . Bit (Ms, Ik Boot ant Shoos G roceiies, 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 it. Pon't sell your country produce before calling on , " P. S. Thanking you for past favors, I hope by fair dealing and reasonable pices to merit a continuance of the same. NEW fillLLIIIEBY STORE. Dr. F. M. Henderson Having returned from Texas, ten ders his professional services to the citizens of Concord and vicinity. All calls left at Fetzer's Drug Store, will be promptly attended to. jnl-tf I would inform the ladies of Con cord and surrounding country thai I Lave opened a new i u Millinery Store At ALLISON'S CORNER, where thev will find a woll selected stock of Hats and Bonnets Ribbons, Colars, Corsets, Bustles, Pouching, Veiling. &c, which will be sold cheap for CASH. Give me a call. ; A. .H. PROPST, Architect and Contractor. 6 3ra Respectruliy, Mrs. MOLL IE ELLIOT. FUNITURE CHEAP FOE CASH AT M. E. CASTOR'S jam STORE. Stu Sits,: Bureaus, HO M APE COFFINS, ALL KINPS A SPECIALTY. I do not sell for cost, but for a small profit. Come and examine my line of goods. Old furniture repaired. 12 M. E. CASTOR. Plans and specifications of build ings maae m any style. All con tracts for buildings faithfully car- up stairs. 13 For Sale Cheap, A SE 'OXD HAND OMNIBUS with a capacity for twelve passengers m good running order. Call at this ofhee. A PMTNISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Administrator de bonis non of th estate of Jas. S Parker, dee'd, 11 persons indebted to said estate are hereby notified to make prompt payment ; and all per sons having claims against said estate must present the same f'-r payment on or before the 4th day- of May 1889, or this notice will be pleaded in bar ot tueir recovery. JOSEPH YOUNG. Adm'r de bonis non. By W. G. Means, At May i. 1383. I 1 i Aim Having qualified as administrator of Erwin Allman, deceased, all per sons owing said estate are hereby notified that they must make imme diate payment or suit will be brought All persons having claims against said estate must present them to the undersigned duly authenticated, on or before the 15th day of June. 1889, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. GEO. C. HEGLER, Adm'r. By V. M. Smith, Atto. T22 6w CHAMPION ( I still keen on hani a stock of Champion . Mower Repairs. My old customers will find meat the old stand, Allison's corner. al-tf C. R. WHITE. MOOSE'S Blood enovator, , This valuable Remedy is adapted to the following diseases arising from an impure blood. Eruptive and Cutan eous diseases, St. Anthony's Fire, Pim pies. Tetter, Kmgworm, Rhumatism Svnhilitic. Mercurial, and all diseases of like character. It is an Alterative or Restorative of Tone aud Streugth to the system, it affords great protection from attacks that originate in changes of c limate and season, x or sale at J! etzer s JJru Store University of NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL, N. C. ) "(.- The next session beg'ns August 3d Tuition reduced to 96y a halt year, Poor students may give notes. Faculty of fifteen teachers. Three full courses of study leadinz to desrees. Three short courses for the training of busi ness men. teachers, physicians and pharmacists. Law school fully aquip Ded, Write for catalogue to ' HON. K E M P P. BATTLE, . President. GREAT BA In order to close out my stock o Hats. Bonnets. Ribbons. Flowers &c. t will offer great inducements to purchasers until the same is dis nosed of." Call and see me. J. mean just what 1 say. " Mks. J. M. CRSS. The organization of the Cabarrus County Agricultural and Mechani cal Fair Association has been com pleted by the adoption of a constU tution and by-laws and the election of officers. The object of the Asso ciation is the development of the ag ricultural and industrial interests of Cabarrus county. To make the work beneficial to the largest possi ble extent, other counties and sec tions will be invited to assist in making the exhibition complete in every particular. The fee for membership in the association is only one dollar per an num. . The payment of said fee will entitle the member to admission without further charge to the exhi bitions during the year. To become a member it is only necessary to pay the annual fee to the treasuer, H. A. Black welder, who will report the name for election to the executive committee. When it is not conven ient to see the treasurer, parties de-r siring to become members may apply to the yice president of their town ship. The vice president will take the name and the fee, reporting 'the same to the executive committee, and the treasurer. As all members of the association are elected by the executive committee, and confirmed by the association, m cases where mere is no election, me iee win ue returned to ' the applicant. Accor- ing to a by-law adopted by the as sociation two-thirds of the members must be farmers. To make the as sociation a farmers organization for the purpose of protecting the inter ests of agriculture a niajoritv of the executive committee must be farmers Membership is not limited to any special class of citizens. Merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, laborers, etc., are all eligible and have inter ests amply protected by the consti tution ot the association. While the management of the affairs of the association is put practically in the hands of farmeis, other classihca- tions of citizens are represented on the managing committees. I he ob ject, as the name implies, is lo have a county association, to have a dis play of county products, be the same agricultural, mechanical or other wise. Every class of citizens are in vited to srive us aid. We want the united support of the people of Ca barms. W e want every farmer, ev ery manufacturer, every merchant, every mechanic, every laborer, every professional man in a word e very- man in Cabarrus county, to become member of the association. A membership of two thousand would put into the treasury two thousand dollais. That amount would ena ble us to equip the grounds in j style that wonld compare favorably with any fair grounds in the btate. We would have a most excellent lo cation for the fair, and the grounds are susceptible of the highest mi provement. Onr county has never been a lagard m the prosecution ot any business enterprise taken hold of with a determination to succeed and will hardly be found wanting in the matter of the fair. Onr pa triotism and home pride should stimulate us to unite in having the grandest exhibition ever witnessed in Western Carolina. The following are the township vice presidents, to whom application may be made for membership, if ap plication be not made directly to the executive comnntte. No 1, H B Parks; No 2, J II Mor rison; No 3, T A Fleming; No 4, J V Pethel; No 5, M Scott; No 6, Lau rence Kluttz;No 7, Luther II Moose No 8, E P Lentr.; No 9, Martin H Widenhouse; No 10, J S Turner; No 11, A B Young; No 12, J P Allison. The executive committee are: C W. Bradford, C. McDonald, also G E. Ritchie, G. M. Lore "and R. A Brown. ' The association has not yet been formed on the "joint - stock ' compa ny" plan, nobody has any stock, and there willbe no dividends, lhe sur plus, if any, will be used to perpetu ate the fair and to make it still more beneficial to the people of the coun ty, if the association choose to donate it to any useful purpose decided up on by a majority of the members. is emphatically a farmers and a peo pies association,-and it is intended to hold farmers and peoples fairs. The premium, list, is preparing ana win oe reaay soon ior uistnou tion. In the .meantime, let every body begin preparations for making one or more exhibits... We want ten thousand articles on exhibition, and twenty thousand people to come and see them. The time will be about the second, week of uoctober, as agreed to by the administration fee for males fifteen years of age and over, 50 cts; ladies and children from 10 to 15 years of age, 25 cts; chil dren under 10 years of aze free. The fair will continue four days not less than three any how. Hence it will be to the advantage of, every male over 15 years of age wishing to attend during the whole fair to be" eome a member of the association bv the payment of one dollar. There will be but one Fair in the county. The two associations at Poplar Tent and St John's hav united and hereafter will be part of the cour v association ' The new Fair Groi nds are located within half a mile of Concord. The advan tages of the cl a lge will no doubt be approved. . By order of the association. H. T. J. LupwiG, Sec,y. . ' How a Monkey Took Medicine. It is an understood fact that not only does a happy disposition conduce to health, but that laughter itself has proved in some cases one of the best medicines. Here is an instance: A patient being verry low with fever, Lis doctor ordered a dose of rhubarb. A pet monkey be longing to the sick man was present while the nurse prepared the med icine. When she'left the room the animal, not knowing the master was watching him, slipped slyly to' the tabletook up the goblet containing the liquid, and put it to his lips. The first tasted probably strange to him, and he made a comical grimace, but be disliked to givo it up. An other sip, and he got the sweet of the syrup. Aha! His grotesque J visage brightened. He cast a fur tive glance around; and then sat down with the goblet firmly grasped. and pretty soon he placed it to his ips and drank to the dregs. Per haps there had been a wine glassful of syrup of manna net more while the rhubarb had all settled. But he found it, and before he had fully realized the change of taste he had swallowed nearly the whole of the nauseous . dose. Mercy! what a face he made over it! The sick man was spell-bound. Never in his life had he seen any thing so grotesquely and ridiculously human! The face of the disgusted monkey was a study He ground his teeth and actually stamped his foot as he had seen his master do when angry. At last his excitement reached a cMmax. He stood un. his eyes flashed, he grasped the goblet by its slender stock with all his might, shut his teeth,- and then with a spiteful, vengeful snap he hurled it with mad fury upon the floor, and seemed entiruly satisfied as he saw the housand glittering pieces flyin about. Never before had the sick man seen any thing to equal it. The whole scee and all the circum stances, every thing about it, ap peared to him so supremly and comically ludicrous that he burst in to a fit of laughter that lasted until his niirse came to see what was the matter. And when he tried to tel her he lauged again more heartily, if possibly, than before laughed untl he sank back exhausted and in protuse perspiration. lhe nurse anxiously sponged and wiped his skin; he perspired and laughed again until he slept ; and when he awoke a reaction had takan place, the fever had been broken and he was on the sure road to convalescence. any. After a while I told a man if he wonldput his jug down on a dol lar aodgo away, he might, when he came back, find the jug full of whis ky. He did so. Would you know the man? Oh, yes, sir; I recognize him in a moment. You are the man, Judge. POLITICS AJfl PETTICOATS. or The trlnls or Life. j "Don't you find the life of a tramp very disagreeable?" "Not generally but I I'm very much downcast today." "Really." "Yes, I am a victim of misplaced confidence." "Hows that?" "Well, I saw a grocer wrap up a box of sardines and 1 lay it on the counter. 1 grabbed for it and ran. I loped about two miles before I open ed it, and then I found 4 cake of soap. had struck the wrong package. No, if e isn't always a bower of roses." . , HER GOLDEN HAIR It Ten n esse" Mountain dew Queen, Miss Bet tie Smith of Fentrers county, Tenn., who was arrested on the charge of illicit distilling, is said to be handsome and accomplished and is supposed to have wiitten that wild and stirring romance t'The Blue headed Sapsucker, or the Rock Where the ouice Ran Out." Col Harvey Mathers, editor of the Mem phis Ledger, says that Miss Smith is undoubtedly the author of the story. This is a staitlirg revela tion. At onetime Colonel Mathes offered $3,000 for the discovery o the author. When Miss smith was arraigned before the United States court Nashville she conducted herself with such grace and dignity that the po lite old judge, deeply impressed arose and made her a profound bow, Miss Smith, paid the judge, to see you in this awful predicament seri ously touches me. It doeame, too, Judge. How old are you? Judge you shoud not ask such Question, but I will tell you, l am two years older than my married sister, who was married before she was as oid as I am. She has been married eighteen months, and sti speaks well of her husband. Now how old am I? I cannot tell. I am not to blame for your mathe matkial inefficiency. Why did you go into the distillin business? Because I wanted to make whisky How long have you been distill ing. Ever since I was sixteen yeaisold When were you sixteen years old The year my father died. What year was that? The year my Uncle Henry mpved to Texas. Miss Smith, you are a woman, but I insist that you shall answer my questions. Remember that if con victed of this awful charge you wi be sent to the penitentiary. What did you do with the whibkey you made? Sold it. Who bought it? WellJudee.it would be rather hard to tell who bougbl it all Some time ago a party of gentlemen came out into my neigborhood to hunt deer. The party-got out whisky, and found it difficult to buy Makes Trouble in the . Family and lands Her in a Divorce Suit. The storys that are continually cropning out of the records of our divorce court are often new, and oc casionally startling. The latest and most noticeable comes irom Cincinnati: Mrs. Ella Dawson, once a belle in society in that city, has sued her husband, James Dawson, for divorce because the said Jas. Dawson has been separated from her for two years, refusing during that period to render her succor or comfort in any form or to any extent. It is from the male portion of this couple that the curious petition tor divorce has come, lie hied a cross claim askinsr for a divorce, without alimony, on certain grounds stated below. James and Ella have been married about two years and a half. .He had courted her for a long time be fore she would consent to marry hinu but finally, it came about all right and they were married. His wife was beautiful, and especially well endowed by nature in the matter of hair. Her looks were protuse and golden. He had admired them at a respectful distance previous to his marriage, but growing bolder one day ventured to pass his hand over them caressingly. His wife shrank away from him, as she smoothed away the havoc he had played, and took occa sion to warn him against ever touch ing her hair in the future. He dis covered the best way to ruffle his wife's temper was to ruffle her hair, and being a man wise and peaceful withal in his generation, he in the future refrainea. Their married life progressed pleasantly for several months. There was one" curious thing, it is true. His wife would never allow him to see her make her toilet. At such time the door cf her room was care fully barred against him. There was also one drawer in the bureau which was never unlocked. Once he jest ingly remarked that she must have a familv skeleton locked in that drawer, so carefully did she guard it. But this playfulness was ac corded about the same rec- ption his attempts to caress her hair" had re ceived. J Some men are never satisfied to let well enough alone, This was ex actlv what aflected him. His curi osity, which wa compelled to keep well concealed, grew postively over powering. He has no idea what the cause of his wife's myterious toilet was. and resolved to find ontt .One- day he found her door Barrifl against him not an unusual thing. By this time the idea of discovering the cause struck him. With fatal curiosity he rushed madly to his fate .or rather climbed to it. Bringing a chair, he climed up so that he could see through the transom into the room. His wife was standing before the. glass. But he could scarcely be lieve it was his wife. Her golden, locks were hanging on one of the candelabra at the side of the mirror and she was curling the bang with a stick. Where he had usually seen the hair was a perfectly bald scalp guiltless of anything that even ap proached the hirsute, and further more, scarred, seamed and blaeken ed in spots. This was the monster of ugliness that he saw in place of his wife. With a yell of terror he dropped in a heap to the floor. The cry from the outside of the door wa repeated from the inside with even more vig oi and horror. When his wif e mus tered up courage to go to the . door he was gone. Aud she has not seen him from that day uutil this. He The Question 1st Shall the Kogro the Chinese do onr- Washing? Bab in New York Star. Three-quarters of $iew York were all of last week, I am very sure, ob livious to the charms of that article of clothing that we like so much to send to the Cannibal Islands a flan nel petticoat. But on Wednesday one considered them; on Friday they embraced one; and it cannot be de nied that the woman who has been caref nl enough to pack hers all up in tar paper so moths -wouldn't get at them, sat down and bemoaned herself for being- a donkey. This discourse on flannel petticoats is ap ropos of the weather, which is, without any exception, the most va ried of its kind. In my early days I was taught that pioths were sent into this worlH so that the people might learn to be. .careful and put away their winter clothes, but I am now convinced that moths, like Chi nese, ought to "go," ' I believe they have been imported by the Republican party to chew up the belongings of good Democrats; they will make a blue flannel petti coat, trimmed with white lace, look more like a commutation ticket on the 30th day of the month than any thing else, and they have no hesitan cy whatever in eating a hole in a bodice just where it will show the most aud bring mortification to the soul of the wearer. I wonder if Mr, Blaine hadn't been eaten by moths, and if that wasn't the reason thev called him the "tatooed" man. Un doubtedly the wretched moth thought they'd try it on one of their own party, and it disagreed so dread fully that they never tried it again. If one goes in for studying politics, as I am doing, it is curious how the ethics of household economy and the true state of the world politically will combine. Now, for instance, I have become so certain of woman's right to bfing all influence to bear upon her husband to force him to do the proper thing that I am getting ready a speeeh to argue before J udge Bedford in favor of the woman who puts a few drops of laudanum in her husband's morning whisky, keeps him asleep all day and so prevents him from voting the Republican ticket. The end ouite justifies the means. Bv the by, why should they go on so about this Harrison man ? That he is eunique in being the son of his grandfather, 1 do not deny; but gra cious goodness ! his grandfather was only President for a month, and don t consider that a good example. Then he is in favor of the Chinese, am on the side of the col ored race. If it becomes a question of race, as regards my washing, I prefer that it should be done by a nice old colored woman any day to having it done by a oirty, halt dress ed, badsmelling Chinaman. If a colored lady loses any of the gar ments, she s apt to condole witn you in snch a nice way that you almost feel tempted to request her to keep on loosing your clothes, and you yearn to tell her that a fine collection of odd stockings has always been the desire oy your life. But if a China man looses your lingene he looks at you placidly and insolently ; if he has kepc'up the fable that he doesen't understand the English language,! he simply skakes his head to give j to understand. that he don't know anything about it, and cares less; while if, in a moment of confidence, he has let you know that he is capa ble of mastering the difficult tongue, he will inform you, without a tremor, that you didn't put that petticoat in Then, you know, Dolly, they have the reputation of pot being quite moral. One srentleman who presid- jed over a washtub, and whom I paid ior tearing my cioiues io pieces, in variably spread them out in a most remarkabW way. If he came while I was out I found my undergarments disporting themselves all about the room; things that are not usually shown would be paraded on a chair and look up in a more than coquet tish manner from under a petticoat laid above them, while it all would be topped by a masculine waiscoat and two collars. Each chair had its person, so to say, seated on it, while the nightgowns were spread around the bed in an entirely ongi nal way. This gentlemen was so pro fuse in his courtesies that it became necessary to ask him to retire per manentlv: but I always maintained that he meant these little acts as an expression of admiration either for me or my belongings. - - If the Republican party get in the nation will be given over to being washed in a Chinese laundry, wrung out in a patent machine and dried in abasement; whereas it and reaiiy there ought to be no "if" about it the Democratic party retain their power we will continue to be made sweet and clean with the, best soap fashioned Democratic "speech. But alas I I don't believe in women making speeches, 'though I'll tell, what they can do, Dolly, they caa try and imbue the coming orator . -with some of their wit. The trial of the Serpent. Everything about the National Republican Convention in session at Chicago indicates the complete bru taiization and debauchment of the party which once claimed to be- the peculiar representative of great moral ideas in the United States. The performance of the chaplain who opened the proceeding?,, vot - with a prayer; but a political dis- course, was so out of sympathy with the spii it ot God as to be mistaken for a stump-speech and to be wildly applauded. , Mr. Halstead says that it was ''brilliant," as if it had been an address by Bob Ingeroll; and no one seems to have notice the absence . of piety, or the presence of profani ty in its bombastic and threatening. -demands on Heaven. But it was . characteristic. The Republican party being bossed by the Money Devil naturally prefers that which is coarse and impious, and has about lit " the odor of brimstone. - The row in the Kentucky delega tion was vulgar in the last degree. . It disclosed the disreputable char acter -of the motives and ingre dients which constitute the party of hate and grab in tbie State. It was equally disgusting and disgraceful. But it was only a side show by com parison with the faction fight among the Yirgnians. The accounts of that . read like the police chronicles of some city slum. It seems incredible that they could have reference to any National body having in charge the selection of a Presidential ticket. . The circumstance, however, is sig nificant of the dtpravity of the Re publican idea, which has for it' motto "rule or ruin" and for ils inspiration venom and pillage. This aggregation of all that is heartless in American manhood and all thai is false in political teaching has, undoubtlv, its share of both wisdom and worth, and honest, patriotic purposes. But the good is wholly subordinate to the bad. The vicious is in excess of the virtcousv Its instincts are savage. Its meth ods are devious. The sound of its voice is that of a wild beast howl ing in the wilderness. Its language is a mixture of imprecation and fus tian. There ia nothing sweet or wholesome in ifck tone; but only noise and rant, cursing and carting swaggering and buUyine. It has wrapped the flag about it, marched off the professional patriot's ever ready pocket companion. Hold your nose brethren, for the air is full of sulphur, stuff your ears, likewise; for the words you shall hear are not pleasant words; but keep your eyes open, and clap your hands on your pockets; there be thieves around! A Question of Plants. Teacher, in the backwoods of Kef tucky (to boy) Why don't your father put pantaloons on you, instead of allowing you to come here with nothing on but that long shirt? Boy Low ter get me some britch es when the weather gits CQld. "But you need them now." . Pap 'lows I don't." "It is a disgrace.". "Pap 'low that he didn't he didn't w'ar nuthin but a shirt till he wua nigh grown." " What does your mother say." "She Tows that ef t had britches I'd w'ar the knees out." "Well, if you don't come with pants on to-morrow, you shall, not stay here." "Don't reckon I'll come back no mo' then, fur that's what a teacher said last year, and pap he wouldn't let me go back. Pap 'lowed that he had been liun' here too long fur new folks ter come along an' interfere with his affairs. 'Lows that ef folks haf ter change their clothes jes ter git er little- eddycation that he didn't want none. Wall, good by." . and nlntv of hot water wrunsr out states that the thoughts of her so ; , f j.. nlfl fj,shinm.d trav: huntr in . The Republicans will, of course, try to raise an 1840 furor, and to make a log-cabin-and-hard-cider Tippecanoe-and-Tyler-too campaign of it. . But the old chicken won't fight. The present Harrison is not that sort of a man. He lives in a palace and drinks only champaign out of a cut-glass. He never wore a homespun in his life, and would not know a coonskin if he saw it. He is a cold, selfish, exclusive, arro gant, and vain patrician. He hate a poor man worse than the devil hates holy water. There is nothing popular or magnetic about him. If fill j Viiri VirTTM tViat. Vif fV1a nssnrcil i 1 1 1. : x j .U rcrr:a i l B,u"8niue1iu u"e rhe iked in the East he wouw be a out darkey wno purines us win uu it . nfhtL nf Ettlimhino- nh the I drawling anglomatic. Living AVest, that the sight of her would unseat , . m v 1 1 " -l i. - i : ms reason, mre grounu ue uega to the tune ot "Uliniuinsr up to be leleased. Golden Stair." If I could only finish he is merely the grandson of hii The loss or rather laet of hair was' that up by a speech requesting my grandfather. With Morton for a occasioned by a severe hvan in child-'. fellcw eitizens to stand by me and j y0ke-mate, it is simply a rich man's hood. The deficiency she attempt ed to supply by an assorted collec tion of wigs. Henc the bureau drawer that was never opened to agree with me on this great and ; Qn a man,s latform and momentous question, 1 think li t. , mio-ht nmlr mv debut down in Tan-! wlU Po11 onl.v the Parti" te.-Lau- j many Hall in a good, strong, old j isville Courier JpurnaL