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oLJ THE ST Ml D KR D. THE STANDARD. HE BARB. ITELISHID EVEBT FRIDAY BY W. D. ANTHONY & J. M. CROSS Rates of Advertising One square, one insertion, $ 00 One square, one month, I 05 One square, two months, .... 2 00 One square, three months, 2 50 One square, six months, 5 00 One square, one year, 9 00 TERMS : CNE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, - $1.25. SIX MONTHS, - - .75 VOLUME I, CONCORD, N. C., AUGUST 24 1SS8. NUMBER 33. 0 StIn J BRING YOUR WOOU TO THE F Qpmeps And have it shipped to the Gwyn-Harkets,Wolen Mills "the best mill in the State" and have your Blankets, Cassimeres, Jeaus, Linseys and Knitting Yarns made. Comes first srved first BELL & SIMS, Agts, N. B. Highest prices paid for wool GREAT VICTORY mi HIGH PRICES! II 1ST HE DM OF Tl STJMMEESEASON" The undersigned once more comes to th.i to lead all competitors in the govl work of plying theai 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 th bottom and if anybody get? caught when it falls, open your eyes, bargain hunters, and know a gofd thing when you see it, come by buying yonr Groceries, provisions and other articles winch cannot b purchasod elsewhere of Don't sell jour country produce before P. S. ThankiDg you for past favors, I pices to merit a continuance of the same. NEW miLLIIIERY STORE. I would inform the ladies of Con cord aud surrounding country that I have opened a new Millinery Store At ALLISON'S COilXER, where they will find a woll selecred stock of Hats and Bonnets Ribbons, Co'lars, Corsets, Bustles, Ruching, Veiling, &c, which will be hold cheap for CASH. Give me a call. Respectfully, C 3m MBS. MOLLIE ELLIOT FUNiTURE CHEAP FOB CASH AT M. E. CASTOR'S Room Suits;, Buroaus, 1101UDECOFFINS,ALL KINDS jA SPECIALTY. I do not sell for cost, but for a small profit. Come and examine my line of good. Old furniture repaired. 12 51. E. CASTOR. isuaior s mm Having qualified as administrator of Erwin Allman, deceased, all per sons owing Baid 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 nr before the 15th day of June. 1889, or this notice will bd plead in bar of their recovery- GEO. C. HEGLEIi, Adm'r. Bv AV. M. Smith. Atto. f22 6w CHAMPION i, . ) . . , I still keep on band a 6tock of Champion Mower Repairs. My old customers will find me at the old fctand, Allison's corner. jiHI C, R. "WHITE. Dry Goods, Hats, Boots and Shoes, I TURE ffl Buiial Cases. Caste Mil mm mm lu n u mtore. front ad avows his determination saving the people money and sup if our stock is not speedily reduced fire off our big guu. Everybody has dropped out of LOW PRICL 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 I will se.J calling on Lope by fair dealing and reasonable A. H. PROPST, Architect and Contractor. Plans and specifications of build lugs made in any style. All con tracts for buildings faithfully car ried out. Ofiice in Caton's building up stairs. 13 For Sale Cheap, A SECOND HAND OMNIBUS w ith a "capacity for twe've passengers in good running order. . Call at th office. yDMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Adm:nitrat r de bonis non of th estate of Ja. S. Pavker, dee'd, .ll pert'oi-s indebted to said estate are hereby fcotilied to niak? prompt payment ; and all per sons having claims against said eh;!e must present the same f r payment on or befoie the 4th day of May. 1SS9, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovf ry. JOSEPH YOUNG. Adm'r de bonis non. By W. G. Means, At May i. 188. MOOSE'S Blood. Eenovator, This valuable Remedy is adapted to the following diseases arising from an imLure blood. Eruntive and Cutan eous diseases, St. Anthony's Fire, Pirn pies, letter, hiugwoim, Hhumatisro, Syphilitic, Mercurial, and all diseases of like character. It is an Alterative or Restorative of Tone and Strength to the system, it affords great protectioa from attacks that originate in changes of climate and season. For sale at Fetzev's Drug Store FOE SALE -AT- DRUGSTORE I will deliver at any time, and leave your ordeis. Call 0. D. JOHNSON'S ' Life Recollections. Who is there that does not regret many of the lost opportunities of life. We would fain bring them back again, but alas! we cannot do bo. There are many who refer to the celebrated couplet of Shakespeare, "There is a tide in the affair of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," without once thinking of the necessity of making any practical use of the suggested action. There was once a large manufacturing es tablishment, five or six stories in height, which employed a watchman at night to protect the building from fire. His duty was to take a covered lantern, aud every half hpur to visit the main room in every story to see if all was well. To gnard against a sleepy sentinel and a sham service, there was a clock placed in each room, in the front f which projected a number of small wooden pegs, so ar ranged that one was to be punched in every half hour of the night. When the half hour had gone by the peg would not budge, and thus it notified the manager in the morning of - the fact that during that particular in terval of time the watchman had been missing from his post or failed of his duty. A writer commenting on this in cident, remarks: "We have often though that if, on the face of time's dial, each of us had our system of pegs, representing the service com- mitted to our charge, the number at the close of each day of outstanding monuments of our failures would startle us, provided we gave any se rious consideration to the subject There is an intimate relation, which many seem not to realize, between duty and privilege, obligation and the reward that follows faithfulness To not a few it seems a3 though the call of the hour may remain unan sweredif indolence 6uggest3 it, with out more than a passing lninrv to their own fortunes and even. then only a delay in the seizure of some good that may be secured as well by a little extra diligence thereafter But the machinery is inexorable as fate. No future propitious hour will give the golden opportunity to make amends for present neglect, Penitence alter tne nour lias crone will not lock in the projecting peg. nor has contrition, however much it may plead with its bliuding tears any power over the unfinished task- To superficial observers the hours are all alike. Sloth or self indul- geance pleads that the next half hour is precisely like this which is counting its pulse beats while the call to service is raining unanswered in the ear ; aud he fondly dreams that a duty neglected now may be taken up when the hands on the dial come round again with the same ease and promise of success. But lost opportunities never return. The sluggard, once aroused, may seizo the present moment and give hostages for the future but, he can not redeem the past, which has gone forever beyond the reach of his now eager hand. This cannot be too vividly im pressed on all who make anything out of life but a sad series of fail ures. Every moment has its golden chance of glorious service, with a promised meed that surely awaits the faithful. They seem to trivial to many, these little hints of the world's great need, that the call is wholly ignored. If the fate of a nation hung in the balance, or the welfare of a whole people depend on their faithfulness, oh then the occasion would be a a. blessed privilege, and it would be a blessed privilege, and it would be easy, they think, to prac tice any amount of self-denying vig ilance for an object so vast and fraught with such mighty results. But merely to push in a peg, with no one to watch the act but a tick ing clock, is not a sufficient incen tive to exertion, and the y prefer the inglorious ease ; and thu3 the rush ing tide goes by and there comes the ebb amid the shallows and miseries of the wasted years. Even for meie temporal prosperi ty, if there were no hereafter as a season of mourning when the fitful fever is over, the rule is the same. It has been said that a really suc cessful man makes occasions and creates opportunities. This is only in seeming to the dazed eyes of those who sit idly watching his ceaseless activity. No one can do more than to seize the chances as they come. But to the keen gaze of one in the thickest of the struggle there is a vouchsafed vision hid from eyes half closed in slumber ; and a reso lute purpose to do all that can be done in useful service, is rewarded with a mighty increase in the talent3 committed for the blessed usury. Thero is. however no distinction in the times as to the result of noble living. The clock thafmarks off the hours of our watching here will car ry the record of our faithfulness or neglect over into the eternal years. What we do or fail to accomplish be comes a part of our character, as im perishable as the immortal spirit within us. And all ought to remem ber the great law which has no ex ception in its application to human conduct. It Is not at all the quantity, but the quality of the service that adorns the final record, Faithful ness in little things, if only these are given us to do, has just the same re ward as that which greets the migh tier tasks executed in the same self sacrificing sperit. Well done' is all that can be said to any, and is the highest meed of praise that can ever fall to human ears. Old Preacher in Macon Advocate. Mexican Scorpions. Among the most common pests in Mexico are the alcarans, or scorpions, for during certain seasons of the year they are as numerous as flies around a sugar-house They are within the cracks of the wall, be tween the bricks or tiles of the floor, hiding inside your garments, darting everywhere with an inconceivable ra pidity,their tails (the"bi",siness end" which holds the string) ready to fly up with dangerous effect upon the slightest provocation. Turn up the corner of a rug or tablespread, and you disturb a colony of them; shake vour shoes in the morning aud out they flop; throw your bath-sponge into the water, and half a dozen of them dart out of its ceol depths into which they had wriggled for a siesta. In short, every article you touch must be treated like a dose cf medicine "well shaken before taken." The average scorpion is mahogany-hued, and about two inches long, but I have seen them as long as five inches. The small, yel lowish variety are considered the most dangerous and their bite is most apprehended at midday. In Durango they are black, so alarming ly numerous having been allowed to breed for centuries in the deserted mines that the Government offers a reward per head (or rather, per tail) to whoever will kill them. Their sting i3 seldom fatal, but is more or less severe according to the state of the system. Victims have been known to remain for days in conivul sions, foaming at the mouth, with stomache swelled as in dropsy, while others do not suffer much more than from a bee-sLng. The common remedies are brandy, taken in suffi cient quantities to stupefy the pa- tieutj ammonia administered both externally and internally, boiled silk and guaiacum It is also of use to press a large key or other tube on the wound to force ou t part of the poison. As most of my readers an aware, this species of insect a genus of arachnida, of the order Pnlmona- ria are distinguished from other spiders by having the abdomen ar ticulated, with a sharp, curved spur at the extremity, beneath which are two pores from which the venom flows, supplied by two poisonglauds at the base of the segment- The anterior pair of feet, or palpi, are modified into pinchers or claws, like those of the lobster, by which it seizes its prey, while the other feet resemble those of ordinary spiders Naturalists divide the genus into subgenera according to. the number cf their eyes, whether six, eight or twelve They eat the eggs of spiders, and also feed on beetles and other in sects, piercing the prey again and again with their stingers before com mencing the meal. When alarmed or irritated a scorpion "shows fight" immediately,, running about and waving his sting in all directions, for attack or defense, evidently aware of its power. The young scorpions are produced at astonishingly fre quent intervals,the mother displaying for greater regard for their offspriug than their vicious nature seems to justify. During their brief infancy she carries them about clinging in great numbers to her back, limbs, and tail, never leaving her retreat for a moment, unless, overburdened by their weight, her hold relaxes from the wall and down falls the whole happy family in a wad." The ungrateful children generally reward this maternal devotion by destroy ing the mnther as soon as they are Old enougn, leaiing uei j.icue.ue-ai with the greatest ferocity. Betsy onri t omnoo nursflvps hv stndvino , , their habits, ana nave become expert in catching them by the tail with lassoes of thread, afterwards suspen ding them in bottles of alcohol to send -to microscopically inclined friends. Boston Transcript. Getting: Harried Here is something delightful, sketchy and readable from Youth's Companion: Evelina is engaged. Indeed, she is shortly to be married. Her "set," of whom she is the first to take this important step, are greatly fluttered by the approaching event, and talk it over on every possible occasion: One of them sayj it is dreadful for an unknown man to come from away out West and carry off one of the girls. They will never see her again never ! She will come home to visit, probably ; but a girl who is married tells him everything, and has lost interest in people, and isn't the same at all, and they may as well make up their minds to lose her once for all. Here there is a chorus of is: us and grons, and another nice girl says he isn't much to look at either; she has seen his photograph. He has pale tyes, and ridiculous little moils tache that she knows by his .looks he is extremely proud of. Why Evelina wants him she can't imag ine. He isn't handsome, or rich, or heroic, or anything else interesting, lie is just a commonplace young man. Some one here timidly ventures to remark that Evelina is nothing very remarkable herself, and, perhaps, a commonplace young man will exac t ly suit her. Silent follows this observation, aud the persons- who at length breaks it directly selects another j branch of the inexhaustible subject Does anybody know anything about the trousseau ? It appears that they all do, but the information possess ed by one exactly agrees with that of no one else, and it is half an hour before they have sifted out the prob able truth from a mass of conflict ing accounts, ail given at once and verv lend. When this most important point has been debated and settled they take another half hour to express their amusement at the idea of Eve lina's actually keeping house ; they say it is nearly as absurd ss to call her Mrs. Thev then discuss the coming ceremony and each gives at length a description of the manner in which her own wedding should be conduct ed were she to marry. Several of the girls s::y they should like to mam just to show their friends what a wedding ought to be. One remarks that she, too, would like it, that she might demonstrate to everybody that a bride need not be pale, and can say "I will" load enough to be heard beyond the first three rows, if she will only make up her mind before hand to do it. Then Evilena's marriage really takes place, she is very pale, indeed, and too nervous to attend properly to her train. But her friends forgave her these little errors of conduct, and admit that on the whole she did very well. One of them who steps down to the station, and stands behind a pillar to see hei off with her husband for their now home, even says afterwards that she had almost forgiven her for choosing him. He looked as commonplace as ever, she declares ; only, when two people seem as happy as they did, somehow you have to forgive them every thing ; and she hopes the other girls will stay single for a long time to come; but as Mrs. Evelina, she wishes her good luck with all her heart. This i3 about the way nice girls behave when one of their number makes a commonplace young man happy. mi... It is with men as with trees : If you top off their finest branches, in to which they were pouring their young lifejnice, the wounds will be healed over by some rough boss, some tdd excresence, and what might have len a grand tree expanding into liberal shade is but a whimsical misshapen trunk. Many an irritat ing fault, many an unlovely oddity has come of a hard sorrow, which has crushed aud maimed the nature just when it was expanding into plenteous beauty; and the trivial, I erring life which we visit with our harsh blame may be but as the un steady motion of a man- whose best limb is withered. The Chicago Times recently sent , fin h ow much the woitins . ... girg were paid, and how they were i treated. nr . . ,t:,.i . i I shocking in the extreme The aver age "slave on a Southern plantation befoie the war wa infinitely better off" than the working girls oi Chicago are to- day. There are ninety thousand moth ers in Tennessee who or write, cannot read Kounrtntbulif.ni. Rev. Dr. Buckley, in the July Century, contributes an article un der the title of "Dreams, Night mares and Somnambulism," from which we quote the following: "Som nambulism, in its simplest form, is seen when persons talk in their sleep. They are plainly asleep and dreaming, yet the connection, ordi narily broken, between the physical organs and the images passing through the mind is retained pr re sumed in whole or in part. It is very common for children to talk more or less m their sleep ; also many persons who do not usually do so are liable to mutter if they have overeaten, or are feverish or other wise ill. Many who donotfaucy that they have ever exhibited the germs of somnambulism groan, cry out, whisper, move the hand, or foot, or head, plainly in connection with the ideas passing through the minds From these incipient manifestation, of no importance somnambulism reaches frightful intensity and al most inconceivable complications. Somnambulists in thh country have recently perpetrated murders, have even killed their own children ; they have carried furniture out of houses, wound up clocks, ignited conlkgrations. A carpenter not long since arose in the night, wciit I into his shop and began to file a saw ! but the noise of the operation awoke j him. The extraordinarv feats of somnambulists in ascending to the roofs of houses, threading dangerous places and doing many oilier things which they could not have done while awake have often been describ ed, and in many cases made the sub ject of close investigation. Form erly it was believed by many that if they were not awakened they would in process of time return to their beds, and that there would not be any danger of serious accidents hap pening to them. Tin's has long been proved falso. Many have fallen out of windows and been killed; and though seme have skirted the brink cf danger safely, the number of ac cidents to sleeping persons is great, fssuys have been written by som nambulists. A young lady, troubled ami anxious about a prize for which she was to compete, involving the writing of an essay, arose from her bed in sleep aud wrote a paper upon a subject upon which she had not in tended to write v. hen awake; and this secured for her the prize. The same person Inter in life, while asleep, selected i,n obnoxious peper from among several documents, put it in a cup and set f're to it. She was entirely unaware of the transac tion in the morning. Intellectual work has sometimes been done in ordinary dreams not at tended by somnambulism. The com position of the 'Kubbi Khan,' by Coleridge, while asleep, and of the Devil's Sonata,' by Tartini, are par alleled in a small way frequently. Public speakers often dream out discourses, and there is a clergymau now residing in the western part of New York State uho, many years ago, dreamed that he preached a powerful sermon upon a certain top ic, and delivered that identical dis course the following Sunday with great effect. But such compositions are not somnambulistic unless ac companied by some outward action at the time." Xcver Got that Low. Now that the hand organ aud the monkey have reappeared again upon the streets, the sight recalls to. the historian of the Boston Record a storj heard some time ago, the tell ing of which has been attributed to the Hon. J G. Blaine. Ill a certain New England factory town some years ago, where the ele ment largely predominated over a sprinkling of other divers foreign nationalities, an Italian priest had been placed over a large Irish con gregation. The Irish did not like it. In the first place, he did not possess the virile energy they aumire even in a preacher; and, in the second place, his broken English distressed the ear of a people fond, b3yond most others, cf flowing sentences and rhetorical graces. Still they bore their charge fairly well, until they began to discover that their ways were not a whit more grateful to the priest than his were to them. But the breach was not opened until one Sunday the priest indulged . . in a sermon in which he dolt severe- ! jv w;th certain of their more glaring w - fault their noisiness, quarrelsome ne;s, drinking and ness. Af ter he had against them as strong as his broken English wordd allow, he paused to see the effect. Sullen silence only wag visible and continued till the services ended. When this was over, however, aud he had returned from the vestry, having changed his sacerdotal robes, he found two old men had advanced toward the chan cel rail and stood ready as spokseman for the congregation. One of them respectfully addressed him in this wise ; "There's a great dale of truth in what you say, yer reverence ; I'm not the man to gainsay that. Some of us are quarrelsome and noisy, and fighting and drink. There's a dale of truth in it all, as this congrega ftion knows. But. ver reverenop ther's one thing ye never saw an Irishman do an'. ye uever will see an Irishman do ! Ye 11 never see an Irishman trying to earn his livin' by ladin' round a monkey wid a bit o' string! No, man will ever see that!" Having deli'-er.-d this broadside, whose deadly effect he felt must ran kle in the blood of the Italian, he decorously made his bow and joined the departing congregation. j A Woolen Mnnnfarlnrcr on Free Wool The Bridgeport Evening Farmer, of Connecticut, gives an interesting speech of Mr E. G. Sanford, a man ufaeturer of woolen goods, on the Mills bill and the good it would do lhe industry he is engaged in. Free wool Iie fays, will boom the woolen manufacturing business. At pres- ent his factory, he says, consumes from 5,000 to G.000 pounds of wool a days, the cost ot which at Cape Town is about 900. The dutv on the wool adds 6500 more to its cost, making the duty and the wool con sumed each week 3,000. He paid that sum weekly. It was a severe burden on his business. Remove it, and his factory could build up a for eign trade and run full time 300 ' days in the year instead of by fits j and starts. That would be a bless- as to himself. There would be steady work for th? worker at good wagss, and at the samo time the buyer of woolen goods would get his goods cheaper. Before the war, Mr. San ford says, his business prospered un der a 20 per cent. duty. Since 1873, under a high tariff for his "protec tion," his business has steadily di minished. The tariff on wool has killed his exports of hats. Free wool would raise the price of wool grown in this country, ns the imported wool wouhl be used only after being mixed with American wool. The greater consumption of the latter would raise its price. Japanese Rnb'os. The babies in Japan have spark ling eyes and funny little tnrfs of hair ; they look so quaint and old fashioned, exactly like those doll babies that are sent over here to America. Now, in our country very young babies are apt to put every thing in their mouths ; a button or a pin, or anything, goes straight to their little rosy, wide open mouth, and the nurse or mamma must al ways watch and take care that baby ! does not swallow something danger ous. But in Japan they put the small babies right down in the sand by the door of the house or ou the floor, but I never saw them attempt to put anything in their mouths unless they were told to do so, and no one seemed to be anxious about them. When little boys or girls in Japan are naughty and disobedient, they must be punished, of course; but the punishment i3 very strange. There are very small pieces of rice paper called moax, and these are lighted with a match and then put upon the fingei or hand or arm of the naughty child, and they burn a spot on the tender skin that hurts very, very much. The child screams with the pain, and the red hot moxa sticks to the skin for a moment or two and then goes out ; but the smarting burn reminds the little child of his fault. I do not like j these moxas. I think it is a cruel punishment. But perhaps it is bet ter than a whipping. Only I wish little children never had to be pun ished. St. Nichols. When the banks of Bangor, Me., decided not to take Canadian coin except at a discount of 20 per cent., a farmer in a neighboring town had quite a stock of the depreciated lucre, ! His daughter's lover, however, was 111 A glwr'J eiuic, uu ic ,11- . A M,.,-.H. r. - . rl-wl rik - r-1 ' was deputed to buy the family's gro- - 1 cenes. t or this purpose sue w -r- ., 1 cvueral rouh-' supplied witn tne taoooeu coin, aim j her lover being too tender-hearted le out a case'to enforce the discount, accepted ... T.. a:. 11 Iace UM" iH 11113 shrewd native soon releived himself of the outlawed eurrancy.-Chcago Herald. A HuMcal Critic's Repartee. Sjmie yers ago a musical enter tahiineut of some note-was given in the city of Raleigh, N. C. The Bib lical Recorder, then brilliantly edit ed by Brother John H. Mills, sharp ly criticised the performance.- The musical director, we believe, under tppk the periloqs task of replying to Brother Mills in the Recorder," and ' in the course of his reply said that the music was better than the editor could have produced. The editorial -rejoinder was crushing : "Our cor respondent's statement is trire, but irrelevant All the grocers iu Ral eigh could not together produce one eoo 5 but there is not a grocer of them who is not a better Judge of eggs than any man in Wake county.' -. This has always struck us as one of the keenest, neatest and most ex haustive repartees that we have ever." read. Richmond Religious Herald. Cotton. ' - Though known from prehistoric times, the rse of cotton for cloth did not become general until after the first successful American cul- . livatiou of the fibre in 1790. In-, 1791 the world'syiekl was 490,000,000 pounds, and that of the United : States 2,000,000 pounds. Since then the American development of the -industry has been stupendous, the present production of the United States being six times as great as that of the woeld a century ago, and its home consumption being equally to the world's product fifty years ago. It has been calcula ted that, with the appliances of 1790, the manufacture of the world's cot- -ton in 1326 would have occupied 50, 000,000 people, while it would re quire 300,000,000 persons at the present time. If a man is good for anything in this world he will die leaving a large tshare of his planned and attempted7 work unfinished. Whether he dies early or late, it will make no differ -enceatthis point. The more he, will see that needs doiDg, and that he thinks he can have a part in. I he should live a centurr it would be still the same. Let no mau, there fore, worry over the fact that ho mar die before he has finished the thing he has in hand to do. If he should ever come to the point where he has nothing more that he wants to finish bofoie ho dies, he already have lived too long. S. S. Times. r Npcllnla; Ills Name. '- ' Here is o story that makes one think of the old conundrum: "How do you pronounce b, a, c-k, a,c-h,'e?' -. The late Mr. Ottiwell Wood was,' once summoned as a witness in court. When he was called and sworn the judge, not catching his name, asked him to spell it. "O, double t, i double u, e doublo 1, double u, double o, d," said Mr Wood. Mr. Justice Dusenbury, an exeel lent, judge, but Dot nimble-witted.f after oue or tso furtile straggles, laid dow his pen in despair, saying: "Most extraordinary name I ever heard. May I trouble you to write it for me, Mr.-er ,"WitnessV" Youth's Companion, t'olJVe Tree In South Carolina William II. Foster, of Spartan burg, S. C, has a pecan tree about ten years old that has a fair crop of nuts on it this year. The seed came from Texas. He also has the only coffee trees perhaps, in the country. When he was in Confederate service near Coosawhatchie, in his rations of Coffee he got hold of Bome unbroken berries. He carried them home and planted the seeds and they came up. They are now large and beautiful shade trees and produce in May a great abundance of .sweet scented flowers, but they never make fruit. The wcikingmen of Indianapolis recently resolved that they are "un alterably opposed to the election of Ber jamin Harrison to the Presiden cy, because hislifeand officialrecord fully demonstrate that he is blindly wedded to the corporate powers of the country, and has no proper re gard for the interests of labor." WoilJ. Col George L Perkins, of Norwich, Conn; rode on Fulton's first steamer on its first trip. He induced the people to build the Nnrwich and Worcester railroad. It was com pleted in 1338. He was then 50 years old anJ was made treasurer. He has held it ever sirce, is in active duties now at the remarkable age of 100 years. Judge Frank T, Reed, a leading Republican and the liepnblican nominee for Governor of Tennessee four years ago, when the Republican ticket recieved the largest vote it ever recieved in Tennessee, has come out forCleveland and tariff re form The Scriptures have just ben pub lished complete in Chinese charac ters by the American Bible Society a work that ha3 occupied several years. ;:4 . . I'!!,