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VOL. II. NO. 36.
NlirTTIWO VP HEU FOLD.
By BU8AN TEALL TEKRY.
The fire burns dimly on the hearth,
The light is turned down low ;
And wintry winds through bare old trees
In fitful gusts oft blow.
The mother pulls the curtains down
To keep away the cold ;
Tucks tightly in the children's beds
She's shutting up her fold.
She covers up the little hand
Thrown over the coverlet ;
She wipes the place on baby's cheek
Which one Btray tear had wet ;
Kisses the little ones who sleep
And smooths the hair of gold,
Then kneels and " prays the Lord to
keep"
She's shutting up her fold.
Oh, little ones, fenced round secure
With mother's love and care.
What looks of peace and trust and joy
Tour sleeping faces wear !
Outside to-night some children, who -e ::
Are tall and large and old,
Are wishing they could be once more
Sheltered in mother's fold.
Tb Southern Political Situation.
Baltimore Sun.
The last Harper's Weekly, under
the head of "A Great Question,"
reviews the situation of the white
citizens in their relation to the negro
vote. The article, which is in the
style of Mr. George William Curtis
and was probably written by him,
recognizes the strength of the plea
set up by the Southern whites in
defense of their action, while deplor
ing the violation of the law, which
contemplates everywhere au equality
of the suffrage, and especially for
bids the suppression of a vote on
account of race or color. Mr. Cur
tis recognizes that the political situa
tion is an anomalous one, and that it
is exceedingly difficult to find a
remedy for it. "It is a fact of the
highest significance," he says, " that
the great multitude of the most in
telligent and substantial citizens of
the Southern States, the leaders of
the education, industry and pros
perity, who are neither Jacobites nor
Bourbons, who rejoice that slavery
is at an end and who cherish no
aims or desires apart from the Union
and the national welfare, are firmly
persuaded that the political equality
of the races, the unrestricted exer
cise of the rights of equal citizen
ship, is impossible in those States."
As showing the cause of this feeling,
Mr. Curtis cites the condition of a
county in North Carolina, one of
the quietest of the Southern States,
wnere tne colored population is
about one-third of the whole. "Just
after the war," he saye, (when many
of the white people were disfran
chised and the carpet baggers were
in the ascendency, and consequently
during the negro dominance,) "the
county commission was composed of
a negro chairman and three negro
members who could not write their
names and one white man. They
levied high taxes, and the financial
situation was such that when they
were driven from power the county
paper was hardly worth ten cents on
the dollar, and the colored sheriff,
one of the ring,' absconded with
nearly thirty thousand dollars
There was universal and complete
misgovernment But under 'white
rule' the county has paid the debt,
the taxes are low and echoolhouses
are open everywhere for black and
white. There is general content and
prosperity except that the negroes
are represented as even more ignorant
and superstitious than when emanci
pated. There is, however, no ill
feeling toward them upon the part
of the whites, and . no disposition
whatever to re-enslave them. But
the new generation, which never
held slaves and is perfectly loyal to
the Union, is determined to prevent
what it considers the lapse of their
community into barbarism under
negro ascendency." This determina
tion, as Mr. Curtis points out, "con
templates, if necessary, the destruc
tion of the right of the majority,
the overthrow by the whites of suf
frage, from which alone they can
derive their own right to vote, and
whereby they secure political advan
tages over these citizens in other
States who 'obey the law." To de
termine to do this, Mr. Curtis says,
is to contemplate an intolerable and
impossible condition. He goes on
to say : " It is, however, undeniable
that the reasons for this course are
of the most powerful kind. It has
been demonstrated that any other
course in many districts abandons
them practically to the control of
those who are absolutely unfitted for
civilized government. Apparently
it must lead to their abandonment
by the whites, and to their total oc
cupation by semi-civilized negroes,
Yet, again, the negroes are acquiring
a certain degree of instruction which
will reveal to them their rights and
their superior force, while the habit
of servility sprung from slavery is
rapidly disappearing. And all the
while the negroes are increasing in
numbers more rapidly than the
whites, while the instinct of social
self-preservation naturally welds the
whites together, and what they hold
to be the safety of society itself is
with them necessarily the paramount
public issue. This compels' the in
telligence of the Southern commu
nities to oppose any party which, by
favoring negro ascendency, seems to
them to threaten civilization among
them. In this grave situation some
thing more is necessary than to say
that a free vote and a fair count will
6ettle the question. Nobody has yet
proposed to show either how, under
the circumstances, a free vote and a
fair count can be secured, or how
they would settle the question. A
free vote and a fair count might
restore the North Carolina county
of which we have spoken to the
condition from which it has escaped.
Is that a result which the country
desires, or which it would wish to
employ the army to maintain?"
What ought to be don under these
circumstances, he confesses, he is
unable to say. He regards the ques
tion as "one of the most serious, and
certainly the most difficult, that
confronts the American people." He
is far from thinking that they are
unequal to its wise settlement, but
he warns them that its treatment
should not be approached in a nar
row, partisan spirit. " It appeals,"
he says, " to patriotism, not to party,
like the question of slavery and the
war."
Knlea for the Journal of Life.
Never to ridicule sacred things,
or what others may esteem to be such,
however absurd they may appear to
be.
Never to show levity when the
people are engaged in worship.
Never to resent a supposed injury
till you know the views and motives
of the author of it, nor any occasion
to retaliate.
Never to judge a person's charac
ter by external appearance.
Always to take the part of an ab
sent person who is censured in com.
pany, so far as truth and propriety
will follow.
Never to think the worse of
another on account of his differing
with you in politics or religious opin
ions.
Never to dispute if you can fairly
avoid it.
Never to dispute with a man mere
than seventy years of age, nor with
a woman, nor au enthusiast
Never affect to be witty, or jest
so as to wound the feelings of
another.
Say &s little as possible of your
self and those who are near to you.
To aim at cheerfulness without
levity.
Not to obtrude any advice unasked.
Never court the favor of the rich
by flattering either their vanities or
vices.
Ocean Depths.
The greatest known depth of the
ocean is midway between the Island
of Tristan d'Acunha and the mouth
of the Rio de la Plata. The bot
tom was there reached at a depth of
40,236 feet, or 8 miles, exceeding by
more than 17,000 feet the height of
Mount Everest, the loftiest moun
tain in the world. In the North At
lantic ocean, south of Newfound
land, soundings have been made to a
depth of 4,580 fathoms, or 27,480
feet, while depths exceeding 34,000,
or 6 miles, are reported south of
the Bermuda Islands. The average
depth of the Pacific Ocean, between
Japan and California, is a little over
2,000 fathoms, between Chili and
the Sandwich Islands, 2,500 fathoms,
and between Chili and New Zealand
1,500 fathoms. The average depth
of all the ocean is from 2,000 to
2,500 fathoms.
A Striking Contrast. A cor
respondent, who climbed to the top
of Pike's Peak one July day, found
the signal service officer melting
snow for his water supply, the only
one he gets. The officer shid : "Some
times I stand at the window with my
telescope. The wind without is keen
and cutting as a knife. I can see
the houses of . Colorado Springs,
twenty miles away, the visitors sit
ting in their shirt-sleeves, sipping
iced drinks to keep cool and the la
dies walking about in white summer
robes. I lower the glass ; the sum
mer scene is gone. Green trees,
animal life, men and women fade
away like creatures in a dream, and
I am the only living thing in a world
of eternal ice and snow and silence."
It is reported that an English
syndicate has subscribed $2,750,000
to complete the tunnel under North
River at New York, work on which
ceased some time ago.
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,
Got. James P. Eagle.
James P. Eagle, Governor of Ar
kansas, was born in Maury county,
Tenn., in the year 1837, and is con
sequently in his fifty-second year. He
is a practical farmer who worked on
a farm from early boyhood to matare
manhood, first on that of his father
and then on his own until he was
over forty years old. In 1839 his
parents removed to Arkansas and
settled in Pulaski county, afterwards
Prairie, now Lonoke county. When
young Eagle was sixteen years old
. -. t
his father went to Richwood, a heavy
timbered country, where he was em
ployed in the rough work of clearing
his father's new farm. In 1861,
when the Civil War broke out, he
entered the State's service as a pri
vate. His war record is that of a
brave soldier, faithful throughout to
the cause for which he fought. With
the official rank of lieutenant-colonel
he surrendered at Jamestown, North
Carolina, in 1865. When he returned
home he found his house and barns
destroyed, but he went to work to
repair his loss with his own hands,
and for several years followed the
plough and did all kinds of farm
work until he had accumulated a
small fortune. As he had not re
ceived much education, and as he
felt the need of a better one, he
attended in 1870 a school in Lonoke
for several months and then went to
a Mississippi college. Returning
home he continued his studies and is
still pursuing them. Meanwhile,
however, he has been an active poli
tician at times and interested in the
affairs of his State. In 1872 he was
elected to the Legislature as a Demo
crat from Prairie and Arkansas
counties. In that session he passed
the bill creating Lonoke county. He
participated in the extraordinary
session that called a constitutional
convention, and was elected a mem
ber of that body. In 1880 he was
deputy sheriff, and was also a mem
ber and Speaker of the House of
Legislature in 1885.
The Beautiful Women of Waahlncten.
New Oxleans Picayune.
Surely there is not another city
in these United States which can
boast of so many pretty women as
Washington. The stranger is im
mediately struck with the prevalence
of female beuty here, more especialty
if he has just arrived from Boston,
where one may walk the most crowded
thoroughfares for hours without
beholding a single instance of it In
this town youthful loveliness in
petticoats is to be seen everywhere.
During the cooler hours of these
summer afternoons the streets are a
parade ground for troops of Bweet
young girls, like so many budding
roses, in their dresses of snowy
cambric and muslin. To find :
plain one among them would be diffi
cult indeed. This Btyle of dress, in
all costumes the most appropriate
and becoming for maidenhood, is
tabooed in the modern Athens, where
it would be considered in bad taste
for a lady to appear out of doors in
other than a cloth gown. The
beauty of Washington women, too,
is of a peculiarly delicious kind, in
type distinctively Southern, with
tne soft roundness and delicate
tinting of a race not indigenous to
frigid New England. And, actually,
they have figures! The Boston
female figure is usually a zero in
quality and a unit in quanity ; in
other words it is the same size all
the way down and entirely lacking
in the essential element of curve.
With the young ladies of Washing
ton it is quite otherwise.
Sole Agent. We have been ap
pointed sole agent in this town for
the Kentucky Hemp Company, lim
ited, and will be the only one hand
ling their famous "No. 6" rope.
This rope, as most of our readers are
aware, is made for and exclusively
used as neckties for bad men. It will
stand the greatest strain, run easier,
fit tighter, and give more general
satisfaction than any other hanging
rope in the market No matter what
Bort of a neck a man has, this rope
settles to the right spot at once. We
sell it in twenty foot lengths, at $2
per length, and where more is wanted
the price will be made satisfactory.
Give us a call before purchasing
elsewhere, Arizona Kicker.
TANDA
Where the Battles Were Fought.
New Orleans Picaynne.J
The managers of oue of the rail
roads that lies chiefly in Tenessee,
has issued a map of the Southern
States on which is dotted what is
represented to be the locality of
every chief battle of the civil war.
Of course the lesser actions are not
given and only considerable battles
are mentioned; the whole number is
put down at 829. They are distrib
uted by States as follows :
Pennsylvania 2
Maryland 17
District of Columbia 1
Virginia 208
West Virginia 51
Kentucky 46
Tennessee 140
Missouri 131
Arkansas. .-. ... . .v. .... "... . ;'v. . 62
Louisiana 37
Mississippi 47
Alabama 21
Florida 15
Georgia 50
South Carolina 20
North Carolina , 31
Ohio 2
Indiana 2
Illinois 1
Kansas 2
Indian Territory 2
Texas 4
Captain Frederick Phisterer, late
of the United States Army, in his
supplementary volume of Statistical
Record of the Military Action in
the Civil War (published by Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York, 18S3),
gives the date and place of every en
gagement beginning at Fort Sunip
ter, April 12 and 13, 1861, and end
ing with the surrender of General
Kirby Smith's forces, May 26, 1865.
A surrender is classed as an engage
ment, and he 6ums up all meetings
of opposing forces, whether many or
few participated, at 2,261. There
were in each year 6uch actions and
engagements, as follows :
1861 156
1862 564
1863 627
1864 779
1865 135
Of course 1864 was the bloody
year, not only because of its greatest
number of battles, but also because
the desperate campaigns of Grant in
Virginia and the heavy operations in
Tennessee and Georgia, counted up
so terribly in losses. Capt. Phisterer
figures up the engagements by States
as follows :
Penbsylvania 9
Maryland 30
District of Columbia
West Virginia 80
Virginia 519
North Carolina 85
South Carolina 60
Georgia 108
Florida 32
Alabama 7S
Mississippi 186
Louisiana 118
Texas 14
Arkansas .157
Tennessee 298
Kentucky 13S
Ohio
Indiana 4
Illinois 1
Missouri 244
Kansas 7
New Mexico 19
Indian Territory 17
The fights with the Indians in the
Western and Northwestern States
and Territories are not enumerated
above, for although they exerted
some little influence in the civil war,
they had no connection with the
Confederates and were not inspired
by them. These are rather curious
statistics, and they show how the
terrible conflict pervaded the entire
Union.
They Say
That Father Time is a friend of
(h)ours.
That all our Salisbury girl8 belong
to the sugar trust.
That of all the vegetables the
onion has the most scents.
That some of our saloons are kept
up by the double entry system.
That money is tight, the conse
quence of merchants taking too
much.
That the shooting of J udge Terry
was another victory for the America
Nagle.
That a . Salisbury blood who fell
in love has got out by the assistance
of the girl's father.
That Judge Merrimon during our
last court made a "fine impression"
on some who were brought before
the bar of justice.
That one of our farmers feeds his
daughters on cantaloupes so that
they cant-elope.
That one of our Rowanites lost
120 pounds in one day. His wife
eloped with another fellow.
That one of our Salisbury girls
always keeps the young gentleman
who calls waiting at the door until
she can have his photograph placed
on the mantel piece in the parlor.
Salisbury Watchman.
Don't wear a silk hat to a pic-nic.
1SS9.
About Electricity.
SOME IXTERESTIXG QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Scribner's Magazine.
How strong a current is used to
send a message over an Atlantic ca
ble? Thirty cells of battery only.
Equal to thirty volts.
What is the longest distance over
which conversation by telephone is
daily maintained ? About 750 miles,
from Portland, Me., to Buffalo, N. Y.
What is the fastest time made by
an electric railway ? A mile a min
ute by a small experimental car.
Twenty miles an hour on street rail
way S) stem.
How many miles of submarine
cable are there in operation ? Over
100,000 miles, or enough to girdle
the earth four times.
1TT1 I i t
nnac is tne maximum power
generated by an electric motor?
Seventy-five horse-power. Experi
ments indicate that 100 horse-power
will soon be reached.
How is a break in a submarine
cable located? By. measuring the
electricity needed to charge the re.
maining unbroken part.
How many miles of telegraph
wire in operation in the United
States? Over 1,000,000, or enough
to encircle the globe forty times.
How many messages can be trans
mitted over a wire at one time?
Four, by the quadruple! system in
daily use.
How is telegraphing from a mov
ing train accomplished? Through
a circuit from the car roof inducing
a current in the wire or poles along
the track.
What are the most widely separated
points between which it is possible
to send a telegram ? British Colum
bia and New Zealand, via America
and Europe.
How many mile3 of telephone
wire in operation in the United
States? More than 170,000, over
which 1,055,000 messages are sent
daily.
What is the greatest candle power
of arc light used in a light-house?
Two million, in light-house at
Houstholm, Denmark.
How many persons in the United
States are engaged in business de
pending solely on electricity ? Esti
mated, 250,000.
How long does it take to transmit
a message from San Francisco to
Hong Kong? About fifteen min
utes via New York, Canso, Penzance,
Aden, Bombay, Madras, Penang,
aud Singapore.
What is the fastest time made by
an operator sending messages by the
Morse system? About forty-two
words per minute.
How many telephones are in use
in the United States? About 300,
000.
What war vessel ha3 the most
complete electrical plant? United
States man-of war Chicago.
What i3 the average cost per mile
of a transatlantic submarine cable ?
About $1,000.
How many miles of electric rail
way are there in operation in the
United States? About 400 mile3,
and much more under construction.
What strength of current is dan
gerous to human life ? Five hun
dred volts, but depending largely on
physical conditions.
The Youngest Confederate Soldier.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Berry II. Binford, who was the
youngest soldier in the Confederate
army, died yesterday while on a bus
iness trip to Monroe, La. His father,
Dr. Binford, was a surgeon in the
Confederate army. The boy, when
about nine years old, started out to
find his father and reported to Gen
eral Wheeler, who took him for a
Federal spy sent in by some of the
Union people. The General kept
an eye on the little chap and finally
turned him over to Colonel Josiah
Patterson, who knew Dr. Binford,
and at once assumed the care of the
boy. As he would not go back home,
a pony was secured for him, a gun
was sawed off the proper length, aud
he was recognized from that time on
to the end of the war as a soldier.
It is stated that young Binford and
another boy, not much older, under
took to do a little special service
once. They went out in between
the lines somewhere up in North Al
abama, threw up some breastworks
and awaited the advance of the Fed
erals on the opposite side of a small
river. The column came in sight,
and the boys opened fire a3if backed
by an army, which the Federals nat
urally supposed to be a fact. The
boys held the fort a whole day, and
when night came on they scampered
off and rejoined their command sev
eral miles away.
There are six newspapers published
in Iceland.
WHOLE NO. 88.
ODDS AND ENDS.
The guillotine is much more ac
tive in Paris than it was Borne years
ago.
A telescope lens is now to be made
that will measure sixty inches in di
ameter.
The New York Morning Journal
speaks of a graduating dress which
cost $500.
The effect of the electric light on
the Eifel tower is to illuminate all
Paris in a manner unprecedented.
John G. Whittier, the poet, says
that he expects to live to be a hun
dred, though he is not anxious to.
Some of the most prominent wo
men of Boston have signed a protest
against the docking of horses' tails;
An English syndicate, it is said,
has made an offer to biy the Elgin
Watch factory for about $10,000,
000.
The grandest and strongest natures
are ever the calmest Restlessness
is a symbol of weakness not yet out
grown.
A Boston statiatican states that
seven-tenths of the marriage engage
ments that are broken are broken by
women.
The gilded youth of Fresno, CaL,
have organized a tallyho club and or
dered four complete outfits from
London.
The City of Rome consumes an
average of three hundred tons of
coal a day in crossing the ocean at
top speed.
Signorita Gabrielli Salvini, daugh
ter of the illustrious tragedian, has
distinguished herself as a clever
amateur actress.
The majority of the writers on oc
cult subjects are Hindoos and En.
glish, and the best theosophical
works are issued in London.
Pittsburg and Cincinnati now
filter and boil their drinking water.
It would be well for the dwellers in
cities everywhere to follow their ex
ample.
There are only two women living
who have gowns embroidered with
real pearls. They are Queen Mar
guerita of Italy and Mrs. Bonanza
Mackay.
Norway is the most thoroughly
Protestant country in the world.
Out of a population of 1,802,172,
by the census of 1889, 1,794,934 are
Lutherans.
The legislature of Missouri at its
recent session passed a bill which
prohibits the marriage of first cou
sins, and declares such marriages
absolutely void.
Since 1850 the Roman Catholic
Churches have increased 12 per cent
in the United States, while the Prot
estant Churches have increased
eighty-seven per cent
A Buffalo bachelor has a memo
randum book in which he keeps the
name of every girl he has ever kissed.
He had 923 names on the list the
last time he counted up.
Mr. William Throckmorton baa a
farm near Griffin, Ga., called the
"Line Creek 'Possum Farm." Here
he raises 'possums for sale. He has
eight hundred all sizes.
An old gentleman in the Cleve
land section, Oconee county, has a
relic in the shape of an iron wedge,
that has been in his family two hun
dred and twenty-five years.
During the past year in England
twenty-six yearlings were sold at
prices ranging from $7,500 to $14,
000, and one youngster of the same
age brought about $20,000.
James Edwin Vardeman, who died
near Sparta, Ga., could repeat, the
names of all the senators and repre
sentatives in Congress from the be
ginning of the government
There are more paper mills, run
ning more machines, in the United
States than in any other country in
the world. Germany has nearly as
many, but no other country has half
as many.
Several Cairo, Mich., gentlemen
recently saw a large rat carry a hen's
egg on its back. They say that it
twisted its tail around the egg and
carried it safely until it was hit with
a stone.
The Paris Academy of Science
is just now excited over a plant
called colocasia. The plant often
exhibits a trembling or vibrating
motion without any apparent cause,
and as many as 100 or 120 vibrations
have been observed in a single min
ute. A kaleidoscope instrument con
taining twenty fragments of differ
ent forms and colors is capable of
so many combinations that, at the
rate of one turn of the instrument
every second, it woald take the in
credible number of 75,000,000,000
years to exhaust them.
II STANDARD.
WE DO ALL KINDS OF
JOB "WOEK
IN THE
NEA TEST MA JYNEB
-AND AT
THE LOWEST BATES.
W. 3. MONTGOMEBr. 3. LEE CBOWELL.
Montgomery & Crowell,
Attorneys and Counsellors
at law,
Concord, JY.
As partners, will -practice
law in Cabarrus, Stanly and
aujuimug counties, m me su
perior and Supreme Court of
the State, and in the Federal
Court.
Office on Depot Street.
MOUNT PLEASANT
FEMALE SEMINARY,
MT. PLEASANT, N. C.
Buildings recently enlarged and
improved ; teachers competent and
experienced : climate healthful, and
TERMS MODERATE. Entire ex
pense for session of 40 weeks $109 to
145. For catalogue apply to
J. A. lilJNN,
ju 19-2m Principal.
Coned Female Academy.
FALL SESSION OPENS AUG. 26, 1889.
A FvU Corps of Able and
Experienced Teacher.
Classes: Primary, Preparatory, Classi
cal, including Music and Art.
Tuition low for a school of Its stan
dard. Pupils boarded with principals at
from $5 to $9 per month.
Thankful for past patronage, a contin
uance is respectfully solicited.
Apply to or address
Misses BESSENT & FETZER,
Principals,
ang 16-6m Concord, N. U.
TO
My Deab Doctor :
I drop you a line to let you
know that I am well and hear
ty; but I am still troubled
with insomnia can't sleep at
night, your dogs keep up
such a barking on moonlight
nights. My family there I
please don' t give me away 1 If
the fair sex on your little
planet once find out I am a
married man I would thence
forth lose all attraction for
them. I take great interest in
Cabarrus people, but as you
have for the past few weeks
been "under a cloud," I have
not seen much of you ; but of
course you are all driving
ahead as usual. There never
was, since the scaffolding was
taken down from the Tower of
Babel, such a stirring, thrifty,
wide-awake little city as Con
cord, anyhow. Even your cats
sleep with one eye open 1 and
the burglars, after visiting
forty-one houses and finding
everybody on the premises, in
wide-awake, have concluded
you are not to be caught nap
ping and have given you up as
a bad lot. Taking the interest
I do in your affairs, let me
suggest that you utilize, at
once, your water route to the
seaboard. Put on a line of
first-class steamers to Wilming
ton, to run up Rocky River
and thence up Buffalo to the
tailroad depot. This will give
you what you so badly need
a competing line, with the
Richmond ana uanvme. i
regret to see that you are still
TRYING to raise corn, and
cotton in your county. Riob
is the crop for you. This will
answer for " the staff of life,"
and by instituting Duck farms
on the low lands and 'Possum
farms on the uplands you can,
with your abundant supply of
fish, have an ample stock of
meat Raise rice, fish, ducks,
'possums, blackberries and
persimmons, and cut loose from
corn, cotton, razor-back hogs
and chattel mortgages. Send
me a pound or two of Bromide
of Potash, and oblige,
Your friend,
The Man in tiie Moon.
Comment on the above Is
unnecessary. My friend evi
dently understands the agri-
cultural situation, but forgets
to tell you that I have the
largest and cheapest lot of
Paints, Oils, Drugs, Tobacco,
Cigars, Picture Frames, Fancy
Goods and Toys in town. Now
is the time to buy Fruit Pow
ders, Turnip Seeds and Qui
nine. Call and see my shock
or you will regret it.
mylO-ly J.P.GIBSON
FOB SALE BY
Cannons & Fetzer.
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