North Carolina Newspapers

"'-t' Y' ' ' " THE STIWM- PUBLISHED EVEBY FRIDAY BT W. D. ANTHONY & J. M. CEOSS r THE milDARD. Bates of Advertisings - One square, one insertion, $ 00 One square, one month, 105 One square, two months, 2 (K) One square, three months, - 2 60 One square, six months, 5 00 One square, one year, 9 00 TEEMS : GNE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, $1.25. SIX MONTHS, - .75 1 L VOLUME I. CONCORD, N. C., JULY 20, 1888. NUMBER 28. STlNDKD GREAT VICTORY OVER HIKE PRICES! THE FIRST B G DEAL OF THE SIFIRIZLsTGr SEASON" The undersigned once more comes to tha to leadallcompehtorsinthegood work of plying them with a superior quality of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. We are "loaded to the muzzle," and there is danger of an explosion when we must "stand from under," for the bottom has dropped out of LOYV PRICES, built the house on his own plan. and if anbody gets caught when it falls, somebody .s sure to get hurt. Now Whm gugie trfed fco dimb tWairB upen your rjes, uargum uuuirrs, aim know a go1 d thing when you see it, come by buying yonr Groceries, provisions and other articles which cannot be purchasod elsewhere of t. Ion t sell Your country produce before i - P. S. Thanking you for past favors, I pices to merit a continuance of the same. NEW fillLLH STORE. I would inform the ladies of Con cord and surrounding country that I have opened a new Millinery Store At ALLISON'S CORNER, where they will find a woll selecrea stock of Hats and Bonnets Ribbons, Co'lars, Corsets, Bustles, Rucbiug. Veiling, &c, which will be sold cheap for CASH. Give me a call. Respectfuliy, Mrs. MOLLIE ELLIOT. 6 3m FUNITURE CHEAP FOB CASH AT M. E. CASTOR'S F B. llu HOMADE COFFINS.ALL KINDS A SPECIALTY. I do not sell for cost, but for a small profit. Come and examine my Hue of goods. Old furniture repaired. 12 M. E. CASTOR. Havinsr Qualified as administrator of Erwin Ailman, deceased, all per sons owing said estate are hereby notified that they must make imme diate payment or suit will be brought All n Arsons havinsr claims against said estate must present them to the undersigned, duly authenticated, on or hefore the 15th dav of June. 1889, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. GEO. C. HEGLER, Adm'r. By W. M. Smith, Atto. T22 6w CHAMPION MR t i Dry Goods, Bats, Boot w Sloes, M'lT R TOE HI 1 1 U Eton Sit:, Bureaus, Burial Cases, Caskels. &e. MR MP ffi ) ( I still keep on hand a stock of Champion Mower Repairs. My old customers will find "me at the old stand, Allison's corner. nl-tf C. R. WHITE, front and avows his determination saving the people money aod sun- if our s.tock is not speedily reduced fire off our big gu. Everybody 11 you are ciose cuicuiaiors ana and see me if you waut to save money of home use. A specialty on flour the sama grade as cheap as I will sell calhug on 1R- A. BE,0"W"lsr. " - ' w w - - hope by fair dealing and reasonable Ht 17 M IT An A nnrnn mjl a J.U. AAViivti ovrii Having returned from Texas, ten- ders his professional services to the citizens of Concord and vicinity. All calls left at Fetzer's Drusr Store. will be promptly attended to. jnl-tf A. H. PROPST, Architect and Contractor. Plans and specifications of build ings made in any style. All con tracts for buildings faithfully car ried out. Office in Catou s building, up stairs. 13 For Sale Cheap, A SECOND HAND OMNIBUS with a capacity for twelve passengers, in good running order. Call at this office. DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Havinsr Qualified as Administrator de bonis non of th estate of J as. S. Parker, dee'd, all persons indebted to said estate are hereby notified to ma uruuipi payment , aim an per sons having claims against said estate musi present tne same i-r payment on or oerore ine m aay or iuay, 1889, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. JOSEPH YOUNG. Adm'r de bonis non. By W. G. Means, At May 4. 1888. MOOSE'S Blood enovator, This valuable Remedy is adapted to fha following diseases arising from an impure blood. Eruptive and Cutan eous diseases, St. Anthony's Fire, Pirn pies. Tetter, Hingworm, Rhumatism, SvDhilmc. Mercurial, and all diseases w 1 ' of like character. It is an Alterative or Restorative of Tone and Strength to the sjsteui, it affords great protectioa from attacks that originate in changes of climate and season. For sale at Fetzer's Dru Store University of NORTH CAROLINA, r, .,r tttt xr ) ( The next session begins August 3d Tuition reduced to a half year. Poor students may give notes. Faculty of fifteen teachers. Three full courses of studv leading to degrees. Three short courses for the training of busi ness men, teachers, physicians and pharmacists. Law school fully equip ped. Write for catalogue to Hon. KEMP P. BATTLE, President. fn order to close out my stock of Hats. Bonnets, Ribbons, jb'lowers. &c, I will offer great inducements to purchasers until the same is dis nosed of. Call and see me. I mean iiiaf what. T nav. GREAT BARGAINS Mas. J. M. CRSS. THE HOUSE THAT JOE BUILT. BY MBS. M. L. RAYNE. When Joe BarEtow married Susie Eddy everybody said it was a very unequal match. It certairly was,1 so far as appear ances go. J oe was six foot two m I ches in his stockings, while Susie was not more than four two, in her j highest high heels. These were physical attributes. Their mental and moral features were equally dissimilar. Joe never thought of anybody but himself. Susie thought of every- body else first. 'I hov wnvo mnrricrl and .t. nncp vrtoair. ; t,0,v nm home, ina house that Joe built on ,. . , LUKJ V TV U IVVi Its very curious to watch the evo lutions of a man with one idea, Em merson says that as soon as wo al low ourselves to be dominated by one idea we become insane. So Joe must have been insane to begin with His own idea was himself. Being abnormally tall he had she had to swing herself up by the banisters. She could not. reach a shelf or .a mantle in the house even on her tip toes. They were just the height for Joe, but unfortunately he was not to do the house work. The furniture had been bought af- ter the same model. Sue's feet dan- gled in the air when she sat up on nnA nf thA chairs I am clad I learned to ride horse- bacK, she said one aay. x can mount the chairs and sofas in that way. Joe had built his house with basement kitchen because he liked it It had neyer occurred to him to say anything about it to Susie. He had plenty of tend but he preferred his own ground plan tall and nar- row. o the poor gui spert most of her time under ground. How do you get the dishes on the pantry shelves? asked a friend one day. Joe didn't believe in keeping a girl. Oh. that's easy enough if I don' miss! answered Sue cheerfully. jump, and the dish goes right into its place; it is harder getting them down, I miss so often. Sue acquired a springy motion from this exercise that alarmed her friends. .They thought she had the St. Vitus' dance. Between the two rooms on the ground floor in which they lived mostly, were two steps, Joe had put them there, he said, because it seemed to make the parlor more im posing, A kind of three room, one of Sue's friends Joe hadn't any of his own remarked sarcastically. When Sue was taken down with nervous prostration from overwork, the doctor asked what those steps were for, Mostly for ornament, Joe answer ed with placid contentment. PeoDle make a erreat mistake m hmldint? one room that much higher . a than another, said the doctor in a grave tone. I would rather my wile should climb a whole flight of stairs than jolt every few moments over those two steps. You should have let your wife plan the house. It never hurt me! said Joe stolid ly. I step right over them. But it nearly killed your wife!" answered the doctor curtly. When Susie was better the doctor told Joe to take her on trip be was about to make to California. She can't stand the tiaveling, said Joe in a convinced tone, It wears me out. Then let her take a sea voyage with that uncle of hers, the captain. She'll be seasick. I always am, said Joe. Well, you must do something to give her strength or she won't live till spring, urged the doctor. She needs building up, said Joe thoughtfully, as he seemed to study the question. The next day he gave Sue a sur prise. Ive bouerht you a present bue, he "aid, with one of his sbw smiles. Its your birthday and I haven t forgot it. He had never given her a present since they were married; the house and lot were in his own name. Oh, you dear good Joe! Ive often thought Joe said his wile with a little sob, that it was kind of queer you didn't ever make me a present. Didn't I give you myself? asked her self-satisfied lord. Yes, dear; but what have you for me now? In that great package? It must be something very nice! It is a whole lot of Pride of the West cloth, to make up into shirts for me against I'm back home again. Ain't I good provider, hey, nowV Joe went to California, but before he returned Susie had taken a lon ger journey. I'm so tired, she said to her moth er, the last night on earth, J've gone on tip so long that I feel as if always reaching ur after something, and and it's so hard climbing stairs. always climbing, climbing! O moth er! it don't seem to me as if I would want to go to Heaven if there will be any tairs to climb. When Joe came back there was a package for him, just as Susie had left it. He opened it and found the set of shirts neatly finished.' (and each one marked with his name. , I'd I'd have built a house all on one level without a pair of steps in it if I'd known, be said, complain ingly. I dare say I'd. a liked that kind of a house myself when I got used to it. But Eusie was resting in a house not made with hands. Tbe TblrdPrrty mistake. Rev. J. C. Rowe, a sensible Metho dist preacher in the jjenoir xopicj 1. There are no reasonable grounds of hope of success to the party. Surelv not one of tlie candidates expects to be elected. Belva Lock wood's chances for election are al most as good. No voter will expect to save his vote if he casts it with the Third Party. Some may vote that ticket to "show their colors" and that they may appear spunky, but is it wise? The Third Party vote will not measure the strength of Prohibition in either the State or Nation. Many true Prohibitionists will not vote the ticket, because they know their votes will be lost. 2. Local Ootion law. as we have it, and as others may have it, A grants us all we ought to ask for at present. Local option law in North Carolina gives us the oppoitunity of proving by actual experiment that Prohibition is a social, moral and financial benefit to the people. Anv community, large or small, that de sires to live under Prohibition can do so by a vote of the majority. Other States can have the same laws if they want them. - 3. If we had every office, State and National, filled with Prohibitionists, they could not render the cause any better service. Prohibition must be entrenched behind a much more fa vorable public sentiment than exists now, to control the Congress and Legislature of our general and State governments. What would the mere fact of the President or Gov ernor being a Prohibitionist amount to, so far as the public weal is con cerned? 4. A change of administration now would be followed by great confu sion. Now while the Third Party cannot hope to elect its nominees it may turn over the government to Republican hands. The managers of that party are shrewd enough to know that much depends on thor ough organination of the party and they will see to it that no liepubli cans vote the Third Party ticket iEsop tells us in fable, "That a dog was swimming the river with a piece of beef in his mouth. He saw the shadow of the beef and thinking that it was a genuine piece of beef much larger than the one he had, he opened his mouth and grabbed at the shadow and lost both substance and shadow." Itls to be hoped that Democrats will not be so fascinating with the shadow before this Third Party movement as to let go and lo3e the present administration. 5. A change of administration would be a loss " to all. Perhaps no rresident ever had more influence over Congress than Cleve land. Certainly no one has ever had more fully the confidence of the public than he. A change of admin istration now would very likely be followed by a money panic. Men of means would refuse to let out their money to circulation or to invest in building manufacturing establish ments for lack of confidence in the government. A money panic would be the result and it would continue nrobablv throueh the next four . A v " years. How will this strike the "old sol diers" in North Carolina? J.CPritch ard, tbe Republican candidate for Lieut. Governor, while a member of the Legislature voted against the bill nensioniner ex-Confederate sol diers. It is a small amount they get, it is true, but he didn't want them to have that little. A man who is no better friend to the maimed and dis abled Confederate veterans who prefers seeing them die in poverty and want in the county poor houses of the State rather than allow them the small sum the pension bill pro vides can go before them asking their votes with ill grace it seems to us, Gold-Leaf. IT WAS A FITXEKAY.. Bat Gen Harrison's Friends Thought it was m Parade in his Honor. On the Fourth of July while the assembled guests at Gen. Harrison's residence were awaiting the arrival of the ratification committee an acci dent occurred. The blinds had been drawn to keep curious people from ooking in. All was expectancy. The hour had arrived, but the com mittee came not. Suddenly the strains of music were heard. The Starry Flag was the air. The sounds became distinct: the guests were astir. Everybody thought it was the committee coming, .headed by a band. There were several young ladies in the front parlor, and " one of them, more venturesome than the rest, went to a . window and lifting the blind, slighly peered out. "It is a colored band!" she said in an undertone, but which was heard by all assembled. " "Oh," said the Rev. Dr.'McLeod, "the colored folks are a loyal class, and well they should be in this case, after all that Gen. Harrison has done for them." The young lady looked again, and, with keener interest than before, said to those within hearing, ''There is a procession of colored men. Some of them belong to Gen. Har rison's command, no doubt, suggest ed a gentleman in the room. "And they are wearing regalias," the young lady added as she looked again. "They are a strange people," in terposed a guest; "but I admire their earnestness and sincerity. This is a handsome comnliment to Gen. Har- A risou, now, isn't it?" The procession was a long one and now and then the young lady would communicate something about it to those who waited to hear. "They're carrying a banner," came next. Another tribune to Gen. Harrison some one remarked. "There's a hearse!" were the words that suddenly fell upon the ears of the guests, as the young lady much chagrined, left her station at the window and took a seat. It was a colored funeral procession passing! One of the members of a society known as the Sisters of the White Dove had died and was being borne to her last resting place. The band, of its solemn mission, or the propri eties pf the occasion, had struck up the "Starry Flag" on coming in sight of Gen. Harrison's residence. The colored parade had hardly gone bv when the committee in carriage arrived, and those in waiting at Gen. r Harrisons residence found something to break the painful silence that had ensued when the young lady disclos ed the fact that a hearse was in sight. South America Mosquitoes. One of the pests of life in South America is the ubiquitous mosquito, which there attains such au enor- mons size and venom that . his vie tims are numbered by the scores. Not Ions ago a herd of valurable cattle taken from the United States to i ranch upon the Magdalena River be came so desperate under the attack of the mosquitoes that they broke from their stalls, jumped into the water and were all drowned. Pas sengers intending to make the voy age usually provide themselves with protection in the shape of mosquito bars, head nets and thick gloves, and when on deck are compelled to tie their sleeves around their wrists and pantaloons around their ankles. Even these piecautions are not al ways effective. Large as the insects are they seem to have the power to creep through the smallest crevice, and it is often necessary to change one's clothing four or five times day on ther account. Day and night they giveBthesensitie skinned trav elers no rest. I have been solemnly assured that very often when they 'have attacked a boat and driven its captain and crew below they broken the windows of the cabin by plung ing in swarms against them and have attempted to burst in the doors. Al though this may be something of an exaggeration it is nevertheless true that frequently horses and cattle, after the most frightful sufferings, have died from mosquito bites on board the vessels. An Alaska Indian, sentenced to the nenitentiarv for 99 years f or murder, startled the judge by in quiring if they proposed to keep him alive that long, and would they turn him out when he died. Where Colors Come From. A well known artist gave me some curious information the other day regarding the source from which the colors one finds in a paint box are derived. Every quarter of the globe is ransacked for the material ani mal, vegetable and mineral em ployed in their manufacture. From the cochineal insects are ob tained the gorgeous carmine, as well as the crimson, scarlet and purple akes. Sepia is the inky fluid dis charged by the cuttlefish to render the water opaque for its concealment when attacked. Indian'yellow is from the camel. Ivory black and bone black are made out of ivory chips. The exquisite Prussian blue is got by fusing horses hoofs and other refuse animal mat ter with impure potassium carbonate. It was discovered by an accident. In the vegetable kingdom are included the lakes,' derived from roots, barks and gums. Blueblack is from the charcoal of the vinestalk. Lamp- back is soot from certain resinous substances. From the madder plant whfehrows in Hindoostan, is man ufactured turkey red. Gamboge comes from the yellow sap of a tree, which the natives of Siam catch in cocoanut shells. Raw sienna is the natural earth from the neighborhood of Sienna, Italy, when burned it is burnt sienna, Raw umber is an earth from Uni- bria, and is also burned. To these vegetable pigments may probably be added India ink, which is said to be made from burnt camphor. The Chinese, who alone produce it, will net reveal the secret of its composi tion. Mastic, the base of the var nish so called, is from the gum of the mastic tree, indigenous to the Grecian Archipelago. Bistre is the soot of wood ashes. Of real ultra marine but little is found in the market. It is obtained from the precious lapis lazuli, and commands a fabulous price. Chinese white is dnc, scarlet is iodide of mercury. and cinnabar or native ermillon is from quicksilver ore. Luckily for the health of small children, as my friend the artist remarked, the water colors in the cheap boxes usually bought for them have little or no relation, chemically, to the real pig ments they are intended to counter feit. San Francisco Examiner. Worrying the Cow. When Henry Ward Beecher was a young man he lived on a farm in tbe outskirts of the city. Fences were poor and straying cattle often gave the family much annoyance. "One day Henry, to his iuamese dis gust, found a cow quietly resting in the middle of the barn-floor. Wth the accumulated indignation nroused by numerous chases which theee poachers of the highway had led him by many tramplings across flower beds and destruction of garden veg etables, he drove her out and chased her down the street. Comming in hct aiid tired from his run, he threw himeelf on the sofa, saying, "There, I guess I ve taught one old cow to know where she belongs." "What do you mean?"said his father, looking up apprehensively from his paper Why, I found anothex- cow in the barn, and I have, turned her out and chase her clear 'down the street, and I think sTi'e' will stay away now." 'Well." said, Dr. Beecher, "you have done it. I have just bought that cow. and I had to wade the Ohio River twice to get her home; and, after I have got safely into the barn, you have turned her out. You have doDe it now, and no mistake. "And the chasing of that cow was renew ed. mmt m tmr Love and Honor "All is honerable in love" is a maxim entitled to more considera tion for its ago than for its correct ness. It is not truo that all things are honorable in love. Here are two young men, for instance, of good standing, and standing equally well in the estimation of the community. Before all other things each desires the hand of this girl ; they do not believe merely, bat they both know at least they think so that life will be one continuous gloom without her What a temtation to resort to every means to win her favor.One of them bfclievs that by falsely disparaging rival he can achieve success. But how base to resort to calumny even though it would secure to him what he esteems the greatest of human prizes. Many a young man in such a dilemma has acted on the most generous and ohivalric sentiments, even exaggerating the virtus ot his competitor in love and beauty rather than to run any risk of doing him injustice. The true way to win in love is to make your own merits greatest in reality, rather than by sounding your own praises too loudly. The Three Prayers. A Republican, a Democi at and a Prohibitionist went up to the tem ple to pray. The Republican stood with his face toward heaven prayed: "O Lord, we thank thee that we are not like other men. We thank thee first of all for the pure, incorrupti ble, holy Republican party. We thank tae that all Democrats are liars and all Prohibitionists fools and that we alone are good. We have no special favors to ask, know ing that to be consistant thou must of necessity be with us. Tne Democrat prayed thus: "O Lord, thou knowest we do not often bother thee with our .prayers; yet there be a few things wherein thou canst be of great use to us. Bless' Cleveland, O Lord, but curse his il service. Bless the Prohibition ists in the North, but dam him in in the South. Bless Minnesota and thy little Norwegian Knute Nelsoir, but curse Pennsylvania and that traitor Sam Randall. The rest, O ord, you can safely leave to our care. ; The Prohibitionist fell on his knees, as usual and prayed, U Lord, thou knowest we have done ittle else but pray, lo, these many years. JNow we are going to tight and do thou; O Lord, be pleased to stand by and see fair play, while we show the Phariscees and Saddu cees that there is a God in Israel." Ex. ' A Great President. Grover Cleveland, with his match less record and brilliant nromise. stands before the country as the choice of the Democratic party for its highest honor. le is no longer an untried man. For more than three years he has- guided the national policy firmly,. $ skillfully and safely. He has been equal to every demand. Assuming ' coutrol of the government whose machinery was operated by a hun dred thousand hostile subordinates, he managed it, all inexperienced as he was, with the eary mastery of a veteran. Never once did he fail to rise to the needs of his place The men who expected to control him found him a leader. ) here was no power behind the throtre. , , ..Cleveland was president, and the administration was his own. Before last December Mr. Cleveland had proved himself a good President; at that time he proved himself a great one. By one splendid stroke pf courage and statemanshiphe lift ed" his party out of its bog of timid irresolution and drove the tariff fat tened monopolies - from the isolent aggressive to the alarmed defensive, awakened the people to the infa mies they had been patiently endur ing for a quarter of a century, and marked the lines of the campaign beyond the power of shifty politi cians to change. What Have they Done. The ques4ion has been repeatedly asked by Republicans "what has the Democratic party done for the coun try in the way of dealing out the finances of the people." They have done exceedingly well. The Democratic Rministration don't be lieve in acting Sellfto an(i monopoliz ing every thing by do w tariff. They believe in protectih'g the laboring men by paying them fair wages. They don't believe in importing rat eaters over in this country and per ish our native working men to death. That is Republican doctrine. Now, who would vote for Chinese Hariison, and the great monopo list, Levi P, Morton to ruin this country. Workingman think of this and don't vote for no such men as Harrison and Morton, the twe most dangerous weapons that the Repub lican patty could have nominated to contest for the high office of public trust. Goldsboro Mercury. A Memphis darkey who stole a mule tried to engage a lawyer who once saved him from prison. The lawyer said he could not help bjm until he paid his fee in the former case. "Why, boss," exclaimed the disconsolate darkey, I stole dat mule 'specially to sell him and pay you. At last accounts he was still without a legal adviser. . At the Gettysburg reunion the few Louisiana Tigers who were present were among the most popu lar men on the ground. The feder al veterans made a rush to shake hands with them. The last time the Tigers were at Gettysburg , the fed erals were too busily engaged to think of shaking hands.' The veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac assembled in -reunidn at Gettysburg. Pa., Tuesday, week. A magnificent address was delivered by Mr. Geo. Wm. Curtis, the dis tinguished editor of Harper's Week ly. - " - -