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Bed Steads from $1.25 to $10 ; Bureaus from $6.50 to $20 ; Baby Cradles from $1.25 up ; Baby Cribs, swinging and folding ; Baby Carriages all styles ; Chamber Suites, Parlor Suites, Extra Wash stands, Chiffonieres, Desks, Centre Tables, Work Tables, Bed Lounges, Canvas Cots, Woven Wire Cots, Woven Wire Mattresses, Husk and Cotton Mattresses, Marble Top Walnut Tables, Marble Top Imitation Walnut Ta bles, Dining Tables, Falling Leaf and Extension Top, Side Boards, Safes and Cup boards, Lounges, Sofas, plain and cushioned Chairs, Ann and Rocker Chairs, Baby Chairs, Dining Chairs, Cor ner Brackets, Wall Pockets, Curtain Poles, Window Shades, and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods. Come and see us, and we will try to please you in goods and prices. au 23 FacemaNewr FURNITURE STOR mm it jm DryGoodsS VERY PRICES 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. IN