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-. t . . 1 THE SIMiDSilD, Ba( of AdTcrtitUst One square, one insertion, $100 Ofotfe, one month, I 6Q One square, two months, x 2 00 One 6quare, three months, 2 30 One square, six months, . 5 00 One square, one year, 9 00 SE YEAR, CASH W ADVAS5E, SIX HSftKS, $1.25. VOLUME II. NUMBER 1. CONCORD, N C, JANUARY 18, 1889. WHOLE NUMBER 53. .75 ADVERTiS.KO MEDIUM. - . .-: " - , , .". ' JL JLXJLLd K-S J- - jLl-W JLJ, : ,.4 V '. ' " - TEEMS : ' : 1 r-.- r r. ' ! : '" J . '' . -f ; 4 . " . ' j piEDlIOXT-AIK-LIXE KOUTE RICHMOND AND DANVILE I RAILROAD. I - Condense d schedule in effect June 1 24th, 1887. Trains run by 73 Meridian Tiuio. Dail.. No. 50. Daily No. 52 4 30 pm 6 57 pro 9 42. pm 11 00 pm 3 CO atn 5 10 am 7 45 am FOUTllBOUND. Leave New York Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Charlottesville Lynchburg 12 la m 7 20 am 9 43 am 11 21 am 3 4- s in 5 50 pm 8 33 pm 3 10 pm 5 17 pm 5 57 pm Ar. Danville Lv. Richmond IWkeville Keysville Drakers Branch Danville. 2 30 am. 4 24 am 5 5 aui 5 20 am S 5 am 9 42 am C 13 pm 8 50 pm Ar. Greensboro 10 3G pru Lv. GoMbboro 2 40 pm t8 10 i m Raleigh Durham 5 00 p in 1 45 am 6 04 pm 3 1-' am Taptl Hill t" 2 .ra HiUsborO G 37 pm Ar. GreeUfcboro 8 33 pin 4 0g an. 7 40 atn C 3D am 9 50 am 10 10 am 11 IK am 12 12 pm 4 31 pm Gl m II 23 pm 12 pm 12 40 pm .' 37 pm 4 48 pm 9 4i) pm l.v Salem Greensboro llijrh Point ArStlis.br.ry Statesrille Asheville Hot Springs Lv Salisbury Ar Co cord CIi miotic Atlanta XORTHBOl'XD. 7 i.0 pm It) 4c jm 11 15 nm 12 M inn 1 51 'am' 7 28 am 9 15 am 12 2a am I lO am 1 55 a n 4 40 am 5 50 am 11 00 pin Dailv. No. 51. Daily. No. Do. Leave Atlanta Arrive Greenville Spartanburg Charlotte Concord 6 W pm 7 40 am 1 Pt am 2 13 am 4 fx) am 5 43 am G 22 am 1 51 pm 2 53 pm 5 30 pm G 30 Jim 7 05 pm 11 40 am 1 25 pm 5 5G pm 0.3S pm 7 15 pm 8 15 p iu 8 40 pm 12 34 am 10 50 pu 3 10 pm U 30 am ti 55 am til 45 am 9 50 oiu 10 20 pm 1 23 am 1 45 mil 1 45 am 5 ((0 am 12 55 am .Salisbury Lv. tllot Springs 8 ('. pui Asheville y i; pm 3 30 am 4 37 am G 27 am 7 32 am 8 00 am 11 40 urn 9 50 am 11 55 am tl 15 am 12 35 a n 1 15 pm 4 10 pin 5 05 am 9 47 am 12 25 pm 12 40 pm 1 25 pui 3 30 pm 11 40 pm 2 25 pm 7 35 pm 6 50 am 3 00 am J 20 am Statesville Ar. Salisbury Lv. Salisbury Ar. High Point ii e3usboro Salem Lv Greensboro Ar Hillsboro Chapel Hill Durham Raleigh Goldsboro Lv. Greensboro Danville Drake's Biauch Keysville 2iurkevill3 Richmond Lyncnburj; Charlottesville "Washington Baltimo.-o Philadelphia New York 3 05 am 'Daily. tDaily, except SuudayT SLEEPING CAR SERVICE. On trains 50 and 51 Pullman Buffet deeper between Atlanta and New York. Oc trains 52 an 1 53 Pullman Buffet Sleeper between "Washington and Montgomery ; Washington and Au gusta. Pullman siet-jier between Richmond and Greensboro. Pull- Tialiic Man'r. Div. Pass. Ag't AV. A Tn:K, -R cLnioud, Va Div. Pass. Ag't, J s. L. Tayi.oe, Raleigh, N. C. Gen. Pass. Ag't J ih Tho "Weekly nvVYO ZLZ"0 Vt'1 TheAVeekl v News and Observer is a long wavs he best paper cv r 1 ub- lilif ,1 in "Movtli f '., ... , Ti i a credit to the people and to the State The people should take a pride in it. It thou.d be in ewiy fnnly lr. is an tight page paj.er, chock full of the best sort of reading matUr news, market ri ports, and all that. You cannot, afford to lie without it. Price Si, 25 a year. We Mill furnish ttio Weekly Mews and Observer until January 1 st. 18, for $1. send for sampie copy. Address, . JNews and Obseuvek Co, Raleigh, N. C. Ci n 111 wl Fell? tekj The next sesMon of ti. Instil ii- iiou opens Jj..iui, a.un. i.ui., j 1888. Having heured tiie sorvicesj of competent teachers, the Priiwi- j pals offer to the community the I advantages of a iitst class t-chool, ; ! . 1 , 4..- I'JiK and ask a conririuaueo of the same I cL iitwtii c pii iiuriiin.i itu in iiic jiast. Tail ion in Literary Depart - ments to :j.50. Mi sic .05) to 81.00. For further information ap - "Ey to MissF.a Bessent. k Fetzf.p. l'liiicipitls. NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. N.xt si's--i mi -begins, tie fu-l Vcn d iv (if Sejitutil.vr. LiK'aiio i lWhhy '1 eHns i V'tleiatc. l iT C dies-. alopgue it jTutieuhtis, ad- J:tv J. G. Pf' .M. Piv'l, y. P.eawr., N. C, A n rust 3, 188', SEEBIESS X'O Tfor Own Drutmr. nt TTrMnr. xu yy i lCfr everrthhi. Tlii v i.rowilU irrr. rii' e IOC. e. 'i i..-r li.r i-j- li.i- ni(qiil "r H-f-ur-h, B-r-i'-iits, Araounr in Faol,;m or ltvrtaitn'Mor Colur or tio -t:i injr Qualit 1 aey uo ni t crock or uaui ; 4j oj'.ui j. i'nt luilo fcjr For sale at fl2 FET.I'.li'.i DRUG STORE, and D D. JOHNSON'S DRUG STORE and Ruhiigh lL.nn parlor car . It. 1876 1 w h IWr "itelhct ami between ba:isbuiy and knoxvHie. , , i,.,; . not, cannot last 111:111 Mfr- H't uitLi'fii u tfi nuuio. 1 t i- a r -ii a 1 -1 1 -i c lbrougtiticSetsonsa.eatpiK-ii aii, o.lce for Cab:irnis County, !" For the mill vrill ,,.u, u.,-..,.-, Noh Can. na,iu book No. 2G, page; the water thit lor rates and inlormatior. nunlv ! T .. -u ...n . ..i.v- 4.;' "Z. nit .uei ii4,u to any agent of tbe company, 6, 10 A - f "rX F hoi- Hass, J. S. Tons, - ii. n i;."-. 4.i, a - - J.. LEE 0ROWELL, ATTOlxXEY AT LA TP, Coscokd, - - N. C. PRACTICE in the Courts of Cabarrus Stanly and ad joining Counties. All busi ness promptly attended to. BfcJT Office over Patterson's Store. CREST BIB! In order to close out my stock of Hats, Bonnets, Ribbons, Floweas, &c, I will offer givnt inducements to puichasers until the same is dis puted of. Call and seo me. I mean jubt what I Bay. MRS. J. M. CROSS. lUDBE TOOB PROPERTY; Against loss or damage by fire, with J. W. Burkhead, Ag't. For the Pbooix Insurance (Jo., of iirookiyu; Continental Iusuranee, of New York; Insurance Co. of North America,' Philadelphia,' and the North Carolina Home Insurance i Co. All Rood Companies. Lowest Possible Rates Given. Insurance taken in any part of the County. A. H. PR0PST, Plans an-l spacilicatioin of bui.a - nigs made in any style. All con- traits lor buildings faithfully car- ried out. Oilice in Ctou's building, up stairs, 13 Land for Sale, j Any person desiring to purchase the tract of laud known as the Tay lor place, adjoiniug Charles Bost i and others, or the tiact of land i n iwn as the Reed and Allison laud, adjoining the Barnhardt land and others, will please, apply to me. a. they aro both for sale. Y. M. SMITH, Attorney.. Sale of Land. i I executed r.ri.iin vi By virtue of a mortgage to me On the 2d day of January, ; 1888, by I. L. Shinn and wife, Laura C. Shinn, and registered in Boo!;! No. 1 of Deeds of Trust. Far-e 422, ' etc., in Registers ofliee of Ctbamis County, I will sell for cash on the' 1st Monday of December i-ext, at; j ore o'clock, p. m., at pu'lic auction, in front of the Court House aoor in Concord, a tract of land consisting i SVonlyf "estator.1 Thil 2nd .1.1V 4.f T,-1-01I1 l4-,' L. M. ARCHEY. Ry W". G. Means, Attorney. Tustee's Sale. B.v virtue of antLorily vested in my by a deed in Trust or mortgigt- expeuted ' y C. T. Smith and wife. Dicemlier, 1SSS, to the highest bid der, for cash: One tract of hnid lying on Dutch Biihulo Creek, ad-: i'-ining the lauds of Eph Bost, M. T. j Teeter, John Y. Purr, aud others, . c Mauiiug j 10 :ici ps. udowu as in; ! Tobi:s a-id R-ichel Furr lands; also, iJuo. F. Fur and said Smith. Title 10 '"'. property ls supjiosed to be 0Y f'"1 tL(l purchaser only ta:es : sucii tine as l iti autl'.oi lZuii to con - V(J-V uude1' S;,ul. .V. . ! .. 1 U1L, 1 rnstee T.Jf f- hMJvAt Dilt,,1 L'th d"' of l,t- NOTICE. As administrator of John J ! son. deceased. I will sell at riilili : sale.eoutt house Aoor. in Concord on I lirst'Monday in Jan.'8., for assets to j py debts of said deceased, a vahi - able twict of land, containing sixty- ; in jicies, inure ur less tQ0 hinds of t&Ss&S?; tjive ticres, niore or less adjoin - mg the lands of Stafford isou and of sale, . I ourcnase money to be seemed by good note ! l i 1 r,1 t l' &uie lweive ro j. i i I : lilViitll tlll7! Ufl liC. . I 414 41.4.4.1-. V 4 f I 111. -p TVi vtcj Ppttui v , AT- ljKUM,". . . jto PN- J- Abison, dec d. Aug. 31, 1H8H. At. kt'atk OP NOUTII CAitOLIX V t CARAKUUS COUNTY SUPER10K VUL1U. ! , , . . , , , ! ,T; V !i?eforu' ,A' r' 1 of Jao' "D- 1 11 f' vs. Din Yoimsf, Koxani Young, . llenrilla Youni, .losHnliinc l'oger, Decree of Publication. 5Iaok liosjcr, J Defts. j It appoarintj to the satisfaction of the ; Court that the defendants, Dan Youn r I 1 ' ; .1... ,1 ,:4',.'.l UUII lVCAttLil I imilil, HI II.VJ I.", lr Lllli1 IV" '- ; actiun are noa resi.ieuts of tin. Mate, sr.tl p re proper pan sen to sat action i i beira at Uw of t-aid Jno Young, and the j-laintjiT absve. immed having begun ' M't'.'in in K-'lill CiiUrt. to Blll'ioct to ! ! tv.r a: -:.ts t pi'.y debts an (? l ii.-irs of 7 00 am Vi -'VVV. e's , tl.,s ' Love that wo might ouce have had : . , , , , on No. 5 township, said County, ad-: ri 1 I refreshment rooms before supper 2" air-1 ;.:..,. t v.... ' only for a word, . . .(., n 1... i:c . ... ' . . 1 uu ii liil" iioifi w:ih uru. iimi iiic 10 47 pm!J,;"llu- -'',V'li'."' . Tini:(c ,11,L;,..i v,, vied with the grand salon itself. 1 'o Iirr Jiaigaret jvrimmmgpr, ievi rniKi .-...... v., .n, ucili , - f- J.. and others. Title to said land sup-' penned, perishing unheard. Champagne flowed like spring wa- o 111 viii I'.iiii . iiic -jiii iu 1 , a i .i .mm o .tion 0-1 the estate of v-a-.'i .Ino. I r',n j You:v, the -rf;al estate of snid Youn.r. I ' " ;d:.veasl, situated in tiu.i cocuty a:i lf The King of Ron mania, Carol ! Mate, m which as heir at law, of said , ., . , j Yoiini. d.nca'V., they have intcm-t. j '!J years of ago, and was pro i No, thi.rirfore t.he said In Yo.iT'.i i claimed king old v .seven vears ago, ' snd Bexana Yo.in:: are reautrc I t-i ap-! , , , : , ,"c . ! r.cur si die office of the Clerk cf the' but for fourteen years before that H'merioWourt of Cabarrns . county, on; luld been chief of the IiOtiman ; or t-eforo the 11th day of February, lH8f, . an 1 p!ea.l answer or demur to the com-; ians. plaint of the plaintiff in this a tion, ori .- uieplu-n-itf will apply to the court for. 'for c of acti n 1 t Xi r 1. it ilnio-rirtr..! in Ihn lAiyiiilinnt cn.l I f, JAS. C. GIBPnx, V Il'lk OUITIIIII VJUU. Thli 3d day of January, 18b9. . M Mi', CONQOltD, N. C. James P. Cook, A. M... . Bkevaud E. Harris, A. R, "Principals. CLASSES. Primary, Preparatory, Commer cial aiv4 Academic. rXha course of instruction is prac tical and thorough It is the aim of the Principals to gieach pupil a thorougu English education, and prepare him foj the &jtive .duties of life. To complete the Academic course, the students will bo required ta take all the branches necessary fo . enter ing the Freshman or Sophomore class ia" our best colleges. Loclures on Physiology and Hy giene, the Constitution of the S ate and the United States, and on other pubjects of vital interest will be de- iiverea aurinc me session. Review examinations will be hied monthly. Tlie result of these exam ihations in connection with class I standing aud deportment will be re ported to the natrons of the school. MEDALS AND PRIZES. At the end of the pension, medal h and prizes -will bo awarded for p:o fieiency in studies, and for punctu ality and behavior. Board, including room." lights &c, cau be had in private homes at S.OO per month. Lower rates can be had by club arrangement. Feeling th t school o" tb;n grade is giTatly n ede ! in this community, it is the purpose of tha Principals to txert evei v effort to build up a school, worthy of the support of the town ni'.il m ittimm.it' v 'P.'k inw ; wo (.!lv,,fstiy Biiicit the patronage i iLa fi, j vtie citizens of the town j (UU Sunouuding couutiv. For further information, apply or address the PRINCIPALS, Concord, N. C. THE WATER Mil. I.. Listen to the water livelong day, mill all the To the creaking of the wheels as they wear the hours away: mmi Languidly th- water glides, tireless bed rooms for country guests. There j Hooded and vessels undergoi;..: ; u:j his eye on the aleit for Lestard, "our globe is entirely ir. visi on and still, I wero 1.400 invihitions sir.d 1 .40f I repairs were lloated of a:ui ' rrlhconrirsL' work, and one ' l-.l i th,-.,' Utt iuu f !, Never coming back again to the i water mill ..1.1.1.1..... 'l8tketI'cleSrin 3ourelf, take it. bold it fast, That the mill will never grind with the water that has jiasseo; That. the mill will never grind, etc. ."Willi 4-,, . , . , uii. ine wasi'M Hours 01 Hie tnat have lloated by, inegoou we nognt nave Uone that's lost without a sigh. I Tak? the Icssou to yur8t5f ec- Take this lesson to yourself, honest hearts and true, Golden years .ire passing by, and youth is passing, too; Try to make the most of life, lose 110 honest way, Ali that we can call our own lies in this to-day; strength may never grind will has passed; never grind, ere. Sru Who Rale Europe. Detroit Free Press. j j3 The present Emperor rf Germany w;ii;..,,, it Hi is 29.. vears of ! ago. . ! Joseph, is 58 years of age and has ; won, tlje ; imperial crovn f6r forty . J-"- The reigning Prince of Monljene o is Nicholas I., who h 47 years j old, and i rears. reigned for twentv-tight i Tli.-. Ivtiirr I...-I,.-t.i1 T imc T r.ft ; i M ,3 i . te ' t . " ' ' i i ,.,.,.., He has been for ! cum jiu 'ira, 1 twenty vears a kin j J "he Emperor of Russia, A'exan- ; ,p.r 1 1 !. i AX rou .f -a l,u ,a. i " : ', . . ' i c..nueu t lie throne alter the murder ! 0f his father, seven vears afro. ' o 1 11, ..1 .. 1 ...i -i l . : .1. 1 mni a ivt niiiioui, ML'I . 41 ... .f 11.. 1. 4 1 - . 1 ..'i4i. The President of the French Re-jbacin under their wing without ap pnblic, M. Carnot, is 51 vears f i propriating' a large part of Alaska, I - ' M '.1 "i.i... .1 i.. . : .. i-v I ag'.1, auu was eituieu to omce iu De cember 1887 as successor to M.Grevv. The Sovereign or Sultan of Tur- , kev, Abdul Ilan.id II., is 40 years j old, and succeeded to -the throne j twelve years ago when the Sultan j who preceded him was deposed. j The King of Servia, ?lilan I., is j -ti, and was crowned only six year. ! a?o. but before that he had luld tl e i throne for fourteen vears bv d.v - ' tion as Prince Milan Olenovfch IV. rri4 lviiiff-.f ftn-ni-lnn otil Vninrdi. 4 ill ivuic. k'ULiull iiuu .HM n.l'j Q jj h h, ,I(J C0(h year ' j He j has reigned for sixteen years, is a fairly libeial monaix-h. and has i favored some reforms during his One of the most, beautiful gifts . ! seen at a recent wedding was an j1H. mensebowl of Royal Worcester fill- I'll. II 4 1 t'J with freshly cut roses. THE TflT&ATE KING'S rOLLT. la Extraordinary Eatcriaintaeot that Set all London to Talking. London, Jan. 4. A Tery remark able ball was given at the Motel Me tropole to-night. It was not only remarkable iu Bize and lavUh ex penditure, the cost being 8,000, but it furthermore punctuated strongly the gradual rise of finance in England over the old aristoc racy. It was given by Col. John T. North, familiarly known as the Ni trate King. Col. North is a York shire boy who went out to South America 8ometwenty years ago and saw an opportunity. To-day be i3 the most talked of man iu England, lie is worth from forty to 9ixty mil lions of dellar3,and latfly hs bet: using his knowledge of the etock market to better the fortunes of cer 4ain well-known people. Lord Ran dolph Churchill was the first to bene fit from Col. North's power, and his profits are variously named in tens of thousands. Lord Randolph arranged- a dinner lattlv, at which Col. North met the Prince of Wales, aud the result is that Wales was givtn 2,000 share in a late allotment of new stock, which now stands at 7, making 70,000 for the heir ap parent. As the Prince has lately been selling oil the stock at Shan dringham. on r.n economical basis, the money is perhaps timely. These circumstances and the ex tent to which various members of the aristocracy have profited lately in stock ventures,lent unusual inter est to the ball to-night. The Colo nel, whose delight it is to be lavish, hir?d everything in the Hotel Me- tropole I n-i . i. that as vacant. The : nittiiaii suit ot baurooms, recep- tion rooms, Ac, was added to bv 100 the soc;al scale nests ranging iu j . , . . . , - 4 1. ... I ...rt., I ,.4k4itlo If wo liiivil tt ! theatrical people. It was mixed to iih. !,f ' hnt. ln,, the last degree, but, being a fancy I dress ball. all focial lines were lost. and l.aJy l...iKlolp!i t lmrc.iiM 1.1,1 ' 1 l..ll I I ..4 1 ruieu ine ocTasion,auiuirinuriiouci is a groteso .e actor of the Avenue The- irtk ,!lfl,! f,.., 'n.n.,v1,lu fi. I All the waiters and hotel em ployees were in fancy drcs, at Col. North's expense, and nothing fo strangj in attendance ami lavish out lay has been seen in London since a similar ball given by Lord Roth schild. It was generally expected that the j IVince of Wales wo.Jd be there. lie did come, however, and the gen eral opinion was that he is ungrateful. Ilis absence made little difterencc iu fun however, and the costume!, rooms, ar d accessories simply beg gareded description. Col. North was in a Henry Yl 11 costume, aud took Lady Randolph Churchill, who w::e a costume of black lace, covered with diamonds and a blazing dia mond star on her forehead, into din ner. Lord ltuiidulph took iu Mrs. North, who was in a pompadour cos tume, which was also magnificent. The ball lasted till 5:30 a. ni., and is the talk of the town. The English newspapers publish the astonishing news the other daj jt,(l the astonishing news the other day that Canadian surveyors had discov- ered that the Yukon River lies wholly within the British territory, aud therefore the United States has no claim upon it and its neighbor ing gold mines. As the British could not take Yukon and its great we are forced to believe that they are somowhat deficient in geograph ical attainments. The Yukan is the largest rirerbtit one oh this conti nent, and while ic steals a little Ca nadian water in it upper course it gets out of Canada as soon as possi ble, and very nearly bisects our great northern territory from the British boundary to the sea. The English 1 P1'033 should invest in a Uvr school at,a3CSEv"e,!inS Visitor . ... When Avlemus Ward lectured in I iru,'u "'t 'c'laj It ISGi, the red-slurted miners crov;!fd to hear him with such a rush that it mas 1 useless to attempt to take tickets or money in the usual way. A collec tion was taken br a srlf -constituted committee, whose hats were used to hold the procreds. One hat br-vki-thror.gh during the ceremony. Ar temus was one of the 11101s t euccess fal lecturers of his day, but when he first announced hie purpose to I . , . , , . 4-- 1 , j taKe me pjauorm, ms. ineUus torn hi m lie was a fool to think of it. School world.' war, ortb (storm at M any rotnts la ; - ' tbe Kaat aud West. . Niagara Falls, Jan. 10. 1 no storm raced here last1 night with great ' fury. The!Cr3j aftcr trying several positions, I ' m , .. thft falls was torn from its ca-! bles at 3 o'clock this morning and a portion of it lies oneith er bank while the centre por tion of it is at the bottom of the river. The structure was cut clear from tower to tower. Several buildings on the res ervation have been blown down and many trees destroy- j ed. The ..bridge' g- ' . -- . - . , ! Ill (t LlldlUUli aUU lllC Ollll Mill Cron t and Sister Islands is in!, . . , . ., L , danger. The dock at the foot of the inclined railway has been swept away. The water in the Niagara river is very high and many buildings on the Canadian shore are in dan ger. The storm still con tinues. The portion of the j bridge which was blown down! was completed January 4, 1869. j and was rebuilt last year. The: bridge owned bv a stock com- , r t ii tf'Az U-;. bold llV lbp .rfntP of.Delos Dewolf, of Oswego. A temporary bridge will prob ably be swung from the cables s possible. A large amount of property on both sides of the river was destroyed. lii'LFALo, N. Y., Jan. 10. Twenty families on the "'Is land" were driven from their homes bv the liigh . water' and " , , their dwellimrs washed awav 'they sulTered intensely from the cold and exposure. Con siderable damage was done to j the shipping. Many vessels broke from their mooring and sustained considerable - dam- i age. The dry- docks wre !sun-i- Much suffering exists m , iJC iiuiiii-iu nun!, v. nieii ! is completely inundated. The 1 " . , the A o1 House j pver tt street was torn . ,....nc. 1.1 ,i I The steeples on the churches i "I.! . I of thoi Messiah and the Baptist church on Prospect Avenue are swaying like leeds aild momuntarilv threaten to fall, The occupants of the flats ad joining the churches have been ordered to vacate and no one is allowed to pass through the, streets in which tne eamces .1 - 4- are located. 1 here are a num - ber of reports in circulation of loss of life, but none of them "Then I wouhVnt sign that can be verified. At two -contract just yet," said Web o'clock this afternoon the fury ter. oC the storm showed no abate ment. Tbe Old Bull Prnrr. i he placing of barbed v. ire fences; around farms, usurping the place of j the old rail fence, destroys half of the pleasure of farming. There is something about the'old rail fence that is real comfortable, and barb- ea wM - erenceisroroiuaing,coiu,re - pulsive. Lint: l you com'e to think of it, there does not .seem as though tkers was u greut de:d of solid com - fort iu a raii fem t 1 nt there is. Did ; what his manuscript was: lies the lava flow, called bythelo you ever see two old faimers loaning j worth. "I will give you $100,-! Cll population the Molpais. It is a against a rail fence, whittlingand j 000 and a royalty," he said. sea of molten black glass, which has talking politics or a ho-se .trade for j o Webster & Co. became coocjf retaining its'ragged and fan hours together? They are more ranfs publishers. Die firm hlsticallv s, d Waves from ten to comfortable, and rest more than if thry were occupying the softest sofa, or the best stuffed arm-chair in the world. There aro so many shapes a man can get into, to rest, about a rail fence. First the fanner will fold hi3 arms and rest them on the top rail, and lean hisbriaston toe fence, and talk for half an hour, until his legs are tired, and then he will step one foot upon the second rail from the bottom, and stand and whittle for half an hour, until the top rail is as polished as a piece of mahoga ny. Then he will change feet and lean one elbow on the second rail from the top, and sharpen his knife on bis b'.ot, and talk fjr half an hour about how he is going to pay the mortgage on his farm next year. After that position becomes irksome he will turn his back to the fence, stand on his heels, aud place his two elbows on the top rail, and lean against the feuce, and for half an hour he will tell how the old mare that he was trying to trade off clean ed out all the teams on the road coming back from the celebration at towi;, afUr the fireworks on 'he 4tb, and how, if he wasn't fixed jiut as he is, and wanted the twenty dollars boot money to send Nathan oft' to the eekct school, there is no mau on earth that could buy that m.ar. Then he vrill get tired and ttand aronnd sideways, put his left arm upon the f-!iice, and begin to whittle again, and swear the man that runs the cheese factory down at the cor uer is skinning ns farmers out of our tye teeth. Without going into de- 'nations by which a farmer can rest jon, about or' against a rail fence, it j may not le or.t of place to speak of Tb furm. j will instinctively climb up the fence ;and rest on the ton rail, tneir feet resting on the rail from the top, which is always laid with projection enough to make good footing, and an hour will pass as the fellows talk of the times when they settled in the country, and the hardships they have endured, and how the children have grown up and gone ' away, and the conversation will drift negin to sins in me west, auu me horny-handed sons of toil will sud denly remember that the chores are to be done, and with a "Good night, Lige," and a "Drop around again to morrow, Ike," they will separate and one will take a milk pail and a one-legged stool and go towards the ot whei-e the cows have come home, while lhe other wi acruS3 the . to his bara anC throw down , - , , some hav for the horses, and they i WH lth g t0 bcd at 8 'clck 'dS tired as though they had been mow ing. But they had a splendid easy visit on the old rail fence. Peck. Un. Grant Lurk. An interesting story, illus trative of General Grant's tra ditional good luck, as well as his lack of what is called shrewdness in commercial ; jinaiinirn is told bv Leonard!..,, .i - n - j ueaimj,o, is iwiu. .wy ijcuaaiu, from he sun, our world is onlv a ' .... 4 I .... 1 ...... 4- , -. r . . . . j gaged in writing his memoirs,! j the Century Com pan v, which I i mi been publishing some of! his war articles in the Century Magazine, offered him $10,0;ib for the manuscript of his book. I v-b- ter the "Publisher, also day called on the General to inquire about it. (riant was i ?eaitu ai ms ue.v, auoui u ;u- itach his signature to the Cen- seated at his desk, about toat- tury Company's contract, i which lav oeioie 1111:1. 11 iuiu nim-irpntlv npver neenrre.l to him to ask more for Iris liter- j ;irv production. Webstiv in- I timntd tbit b would like to 1 . . . make .HI Offer. "If it would not bo importi- the si.us, the mormons sun that il nent," he said, "I would like Kimil.ates u j . itsef no tl 4. 1 1. 1. 4.1... 4-1... co inquire now muni uie v.-en- tury Company agrees to pay vou' 1 '-Ten thons.-ind dollars," General Grant said "Why not?" "Because I will pay you 150,000." " General-' Grant opened his eyes in amazement. It had j nf the present day. These ruins at not occurred to him to set soQ,..1M Gui vera are of gigantic stone high a value on his work; he had not thonsrht of dickering! t , But he be von-. I the lirst offer I did not si":n the contract. Afrm-vr-il Mnrk Twnin. j We))stel..9 relative ;m1 busi. ! ness partner, called and told the. General that none of the 1 publishers had olfered him "tl. " V Y, V m i hook, and urant. s lamuy na been paid over $500,000 'And Grant's book," said Mr. Swett, in conclusion, "will become a classic more valuable than 'Cajsar's Commentaries.' I consider it the greatest achievement of General Grant's wonderful life to have written such a work with death look ing over ', his shoulders." School world. Invented the Lucifer Malrli. A German authority claims that lucifer matches were the invention of a political pris oner, who perfected his idea within the walls of a jail. Kammeree, the prisoner m question, on coming out; of confinement began the manu facture of matches. Unfortu nately the absence of a patent law prevented his rights from beincr secured, and an Austri an and other chemists analyz- j iini the composition, iniila- I tions speedily mi'de their ar -f -i , 1 T pearanee. iierween rue uici fer match as originally made and safety-match that lights only on its own box. have ap peared ninny vprieties of matches. Tito safety mrttel: tvas invented in Sweden by a man named Lundstorm. The I triwlA in ?nj:t:-bs fus r.ssumed Ilions 1:oix;rtioii s. esT.ec i- j.,, iT1 Germany, where vr.si ; quantities are exported. Troy Tiroes. If yon want to be miserable, think, about yourself. . As other Warlds sec Vm. Throughout the long night of 354 hours, the tide of the mooa to ward us is lighted by a magnificent ITvllector of the sun s raxs. Alwavs jr - . - mainiug in one fixed spot in the heavens, while sun and stars go bv iu regular cycles of 29 J terrestrial days, the earth as the moon may see it passes the phases from first quarter to full and to last quarter, shining at the lunar nrduight with a light fourteen time3 stronger than that of our full moon. ' To our sat ellite, cravitating around us at a distance of 240,000 miles, the earth then appears four times as broad and thirteen . times as great in area a3 the m-ojn appears to us. As dav light spreads over this part of the moon, the earth dwindles away to a thin crescent and many disappear at the moment of new earth. Passing to its sister phmets," we find the earth has lost its imposing appear ance. To Mercury, 33,000,000 miles from sun, the earth is an ex ternal planet, having the light of a first magnitude star, and nualogous with Jupiter as seen by us; to Ve nus sixty-eight mi i lion milej from the sun, our globe exceeds the stars I in brilliancy, and has ptrceptiule di-r ameter, with the moon plainly visi ble near the disc. To Mars, one hundred and forty-five million miles from the sun, the aspect of the earth is very like that exhibited to us by. the beautiful planet Venus ; j but to the jriar.t Jupiter, four bun ,ir.-..i nn,i i,ii,.fiv. .;n;. " f'tl' . 81 c , 13 Tar i.v.yiv ci tl , uiA,i3 aci.Mll. 1LU1U sun. To Saturn, the .i-.i r ii i... ! 6 'Sr to Uranus by three d, greej, and to Neptune by but two de grees. "Immersed in a luminous fas cicle of solar ravs," savs Mons. J. system to -which it belongs. The earth is unknown to these woilds, which are relatively near and are connected, like it, with the destinies of the sun ; and the existence upon it of the intelligent race which believes itself to be alone iu the Universe" is unsuspected. To these planets neio-hhormo- our own u-f iId lint pyish. Rvn fmm tlii nonrMf. nf j t t wandering in the in- fiuite kbyiinth of the world. Charlotte Democrat. Ruins ofu City In Trxa. During-the survey of the Kansas i City, El Paso and Mexican rai'ro.id, j the surveyors came across t lie ruins j of the city of Gran Cm vera, known already to the early Spanish explor- fers, butscldojn visited-bv'vvhite men builclincs of magnificent propoi-- i tions and built in a very substantial j , r J i manner, une was lour uc.es in ex- tent- Every indication around the the nuns was evidence ot the ex.s- j teiiCC li01'e at one time of a dense j population, miles fron although now forty from water. To the south twelve feet high. It is about forty miles long and from one to ten miles iride. For mile's on all sides the country lies buried in fir-e white ashes, to a depth as yet not reached by any digging. No legend exists as to the destruction or abandon ment of the ruined city, but oner of the engineers of the surveying party advances the theory that Gran Gui vera was in existence when the ter rific volcanic eruption took place which so desolated andburnedup the surrounding country. The se gcrets of the early civilization of pre historic Amcr.ea elude our possess ion ; yet that such a civilization ex- isted, we have abundant proof. The many mysterious ruins in Central America may yet yield some infor- lYinnilll 4F I'lO r.4i.4l tVllll llfll If f.l!T. i hi.,,.., ,.i , .:.i.i i.P I lUiiuiMini. iniriii, .iiivi i iciitvi, iuii- I ing no satisfactory memorial their existence. Demort&t. of j The iC.ixl Miaiukt, !! mpr's Vfi"m- Pponli.'. eagle is a bird of! Th ii common wor.drrful keen sight. At : height j of eMilv vards it can see a crass vards it can see mo;!:-.' or stoat, a::d, having once !j frosa Dickey and a royalty on every cated iti prev, it will swoop down I se.nure foot of marble quarried thtt w ith" the pe-d .f an r.rrow and rise j is guaranteed to reach $1,000 every v.u!i the vklimhiihs claws. Mr. I month. .Mr Dickey has no ex--".ncl Wiiii'ot. the supcrintemfent ! pernse, no work. He simply receipts of tb- Canadian fbh hatohoriea at Newcastle, Out., told me the follow ing story of au esgle : A pair if eagles built their nest mar our house -.veil up in a large pine tree, year in and year oat for many seasons. One autumn the cold weather set in ear- lier than usual and the smooih parts of the stream ran by onr htaw were frozen, :but the eagles still re maineil in the big pine save whea they llew abroad for food. One' morning as I sttatthe window look ing in the direction of the pines I noticed one ot the birds leave the tree and poise directly above a rough part of the river which was mt fn ren. Then he went down li V and disappeared under the water. I watched with great interest to see what he weuld fetch watched one, two, three, four seconds, but he did not appear. This was something so uuusual that I became iu tensely in terested. I stood at the window for half a minute watching where the bird had disappeared, and then, sure thatsemcthing had happened to him, I snatched my hat and ran down to ' where lay my little boat. After some difficulty I managed to gat into the " open water., and then poled to tlw spot where the eagle had gone under. Looking down, I saw the bird, his wingi partly ex tended, and held fast to the bottom in some unaccountable way. With a grappling hook I drew him out. J udge of my surprise when there came to the surface, besides the eagle, an enormous salmon. It was for this splendid prize that the eagle had made his plunge. Of course he hai buried his strong, sharp talons in the side of the fish, but when he wanted to rise he could not lift his prey. Neither couid'hc withdraw his talons from the sal mon's side, and so had perished. The fish weighed a trifle over thirty pounds. -esiilt7 or ThoroosU Ventilation. If a single ounce of cotton "be burned in a room," it will so com pletely saturate the chamber with smoke that one can hardly breathe, although there is but a single ounce, of foreign matter in the air. Should an ounce of cotton be burned every half hour during the night, the air would be kept continually saturat ed with smoke, unless there could be an open door or window for it to. escape. But the sixteen ounces of' smoke thus formed by the cotton burning are fur less pcisonous than the sixteen ounces of exhalations from the lungs and bodies of ,two-pc-rsous who have each lost a poimd i i weight during the eight hours of sleeping. For while the dry smoke is mainly taken into the lungs, the damp odors from the body are agaiu absorbed into the lungs as well as in to the pores of the skin. A little more thoughtfnlness would impress upon every one the importance and necessity in having " sleeping rooms well ventilated. Air should be ad-, m it ted -in iiot only during the day, but whilst we are asieepTsiVuother very important item of the haltlToi our beds is that every morning after getting up the sheets, blankets and other coverings should not be rear ranged without being left about for a few hours. It would be a great advantage if they could be aired for. that space of time. This may 6eem a trifle, but trifl;s make np the sum of our health, comfort and existence. Herald of health. SpnrUlv from Henry Ward Beecherv The ideal is the glory of the world. It is the morning-star that tempts men on. Without it the race stag nates, a.id the world is pestilent, m'asmatic swamp. There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them the senses, intelligent companion?, and bojks. Health and happi.iess are alike a generous Hickory-fire a bank of coals with considerable flame on the top. Next to ingratitude, the most pain ful thing to bear is gratitude. Mr. James Dickey, of Fannia county, Gh., Las for mauy years ex tracted a meagre support from a "red hill"' farm, which descended to him from his father. A few months ago according to the Atlanta Con stitution, a syndicate of Chicago gentlemen, who arc developing the marble interests of North Georgia, ! struck the old Dickey, farm. They prodded into its crevices, and gullies while there. They told Mr Dickey that his farm was better than a gold mine. They found on it the best marble to be found in A m erica. Be Is tut, a ieae oi one uuuurtu j rj evcrv month for a minimum of $1, 000 royalty. This income of $12, CO'Ja year "(which maybe $60,000) is guaranteed for one hundred years. So tie old farm makes Mr. Dickey and bis heirs' rich for generations. Democrat.