the stihud.
FRIDAY, - September 27, 1889.
Ja.s. P. Cook, 1 Editors and
B. E. Habeis,
J
Proprietors.
STANDARD KOTES.
In - Alabama, when a criminal
pleads insanitj as an excuse for
crime, the law requires a jury to be
impanelled for the especial purpose
of deciding at to the criminal's
sanity. If he is adjudged insane,
he is put into an asylum; if he is
decided sane, he it remanded to the
regular jury for trial on his offense.
This is a good plan, and deserves
imitation in this State.
In the trial of Mrs. Eva May
Hamilton for atrocious assault on
Mary Donnelly, her nurse, the
jury brought in a verdict of guilty.
She was sentenced to two years in
the State prison. Thus ends another
of those social tragedies that so
frequently happen in the North.
The frequency with which they
occur shows that a large part of
the social frabric rests upon a false
basis that is liable to give way when
provocation comes and engulf un
suspecting individuals in hopeless
ruin.
The nsgroes in Alabama, the scene
of recent race troubles, have entered
into an extensive strike. They not
only refuse to cook and wash for the
white people, but refuse to labor for
them in any way, giving as a reason
that they are tired working for white
people. Farmers are not able to
gather the crops already made with
out importing labor. This is a
short-sighted policy on the part of
the negroes, as they will either have
to work or leave the country. They
are dependent upon the white people
and are supported by them. Of
course they will not do this without
they receive work in return.
OUR PENITENTIARY.
The report of Col. Paul Faison,
President of the Penitentiary Board,
shows encouraging results in the
efforts of the board to place our
penitentiary upon a paying basis.
The expenses for the three months of
June, July and August amount to
$49,387.14, while the earnings for
the same time amount to $ 47,736.10,
showing a net expense of only $1,
651.04 for the quarter ending with
August. If the management is as
successful in the future as it has
been during the last quarter the
total expense for the year will be
about $7,000. Of course the only
way in which to do this is to work, and
though this will give rise to a cry
gainst competition with honest
labor, it cannot be helped. This is
better for two reasons that either a
tate of idleness for our convicts or
a system of giving away the labor.
In the first place, it will relieve our
taxpayers of a heavy burden ; in the
next place constant labor at a trade
has a good reformatory effect, in that
it gives the convict a means of mak
ing an honsst livlihood.
DEATH OF GEN. D. H. HILL.
Another grand old warrier has
fought his last battle, and, as he was
victorious in life, so was he in death,
the death of a true Christian.
Gen. D. H. Hill died in Charlotte
Tuesday evening at half-past four
o'clock, at the residence of Mr. J.
B. Irwin, his brother-in-law, and
was buried at Davidson College on
"Wednesday. He had been in declin
ing health for some time, suffering
with cancer of the stomach. He
was forced to give up his place as
president of the Mechanical and
Agricultural College of Milledge-
tille, Ga., about two months ago on
svscount of failure of health, and
came back to Charlotte, his old home,
to recuperate. Bat it was too late,
stad he gradually became worse.
Gen. Hill is especially well known
in this section of the State, having
lived at Davidson College and Char
lotte during a greater part of his
career. He was professor of mathe
matics at Davidson prior to the war,
and added very much to the repute
tion of that institution by his
distinguished ability and thorough
ness. At the outbreak of the late
Civil war he from the first took high
rank among the leaders of the Con
federate forces, for which he was
especially fitted by his undaunted
Courage and the military training
received at West Point, where he
graduated in the class of 1842, and
in the Mexican war, where he made
brilliant reputation for courage
and military skill. He figured in
many of the bloodiest battles of the
civil war, and attained the rank of
Lieutenant-General. He has a warm
place in the hearts of the men who
followed him in those terrible times
After the war he made Charlotte
his home, and edited M The Land we
Love, a magaiine worthy of its
distinguished editor, and later was
the editor of the Southern Home, a
paper of unusual merit. He moved
to Arkansas in 1876, and as presi
dent of the Arkansas University,
raised that institution to a high
rank among our Southern colleges.
From that place he moved to Geor
gia in 1885 on acount of his health.
Gen. Hill was not as old as he was
generally thought to be, as he was
in his sixty-eighth year. There are
few men in the South who were as
universally admired and as generally
known as Gen. Hill. He achieved
distinction in each of the several
spheres he was called upon to occupy,
and was noted throughout his whole
career for sterling integrity and
Christian manhood.
THE ALLIANCE AND THE TARE.
The Alliance started out with the
grand object of improving and
elevating the condition of its mem
bers socially, intellectually, morally
and financially. Of course a pur
pose that embraces so much, and
looks to such far reaching results,
cannot be attained in a day, and must
necessarily be the work of time.
But some of its good results are
already apparent, and augur favora
bly for the organization. It has
been the means of giving our far
mers a clear understanding of the
tare question, whereas formerly net
one in five hundred farmers knew,
in the first place, that there was
any such thing as tare on cotton, and
thought in the next place that he
was getting pay for his bagging and
ties, the same price for them as for
his cotton. The truth of the matter
is, that a deduction of six per cent
on the Liverpool price was made in
New York, instead of deducting it
from the weight of the bale. The
result of course would be the same.
The farmers cannot grumble at
having the tare, that is, the wrapping
for their cotton deducted, for this is
proper and is done in every other
business ; but what they do complain
of, and justly, too, is the exorbitant
allowance made for it The same
tare.is allowed now that was allowed
years ago, when the bales were small
and the bagging used was a heavy
grade. It takes just as much ma
terial to cover a light as it does a
heavy bale. On a 400 pound bale
(a common weight before the war)
the tare at 6 per cent would be 24
pounds, which, with the heavy grade
of baggiug used, would not be a
great injustice. At present the tare
allowed on a 500 pound bale (a
common size now) would be 30
pounds, a greater injustice than it
would otherwise be, when we con
sider that light bagging is generally
used. The result of the recent
agitation is an agreement of the
American exchanges to buy and sell
cotton by net weight, a fair and
equitable way. It is also agreed to
deduct 24 pounds per bale for cotton
put up in jute, and 16 pounds for
cotton bagging, without reference to
the size of the bale. We congratu
late the Alliance in having thus
simplified a matter that has hereto
fore been complicated and misunder
stood besides being unjust As to
the comparative merrits of the jute
and cotton material as a covering
for the cotton crop it is not our
purpose at present to discuss. The
main object the farmers have in
view now is to throttle the jute
trust, and this they will assuredly
accomplish if they successfully carry
out the plans now on foot
CORRESPONDENCE,
BIlMTllle Items.
Oats are coming up nicely.
Some of our people are gathering
corn.
Almost cold enough for frost on
the 19th and 20th.
Mrs. Adolphis Morris is quite sick
with typhoid fever.
Several Albemarle citizens were in
our town last week.
Miss Jennie sumrow is now a
resident of Laurinburg.
A revival meeting is in progress at
T- !. . Tl . ! i I 1
rrospemy uaptisc cnurcn.
A large crop of small grain will
be put in the ground this year.
Some of our people are picking
peas and some are mowing peas.
Mr. George H. Peeler is teaching
school at Mauney s school-house.
Mr. Wilson Morris and son, Ruf us,
of Concord, were here last week.
The rain on Monday night caught
a great deal of fodder in the field.
A large number of Stanlyites will
attend the Fair at Concord next
week.
Miss Lilly, from near Norwood, is
visiting friends at and near this
place.
The stamp mill, that noisy ma
chine, will be in operation in a day
or two.
Miss Lucy Kendall, of Palmer
ville, is now with her niece, Mrs.
Dr. Ivy.
Mrs. Bettie Parker, of Palmer
ville, is here with her daughter, Mrs.
Dr. Ivy.
Cabarrus cotton is far ahead of
that of Stanly. Very little
opened here.
Miss Simpson and little brother,
of Coneord, are here visiting friends
and relatives.
Mr. L. E. Biles, of Concord, spent
a aay or two wun xnenas at unes-
ville last week.
The colored Baptists are holding
. A" 1 1 . 1
a series oi meetings at meir cnurcn
near this place.
Mrs. Wincy Smith! of Albemarle,
is in the last stages of consumption.
She cannot live many days.
Mr. John . Williams, of Norfolk
conntv. Va.. passed throueh our
village on last Saturday on his way
to Palmerville to attend school.
Mrs. Cornelison, the mother of
Mrs. Augustus Miller, is visiting
the latter, and is quite sick, we learn.
What has become of the Cabarrus
weather prophet? Is be devoting
his time to a more lucrative calling ?
There is a calf at Bilesville that
has but one eye. It is the property
of John R. Ivy. It lived only a
short time.
Messrs. Gordon arid Boyden, who
have been looking out the best route
for the railroad, passed through our
place the first of the week.
Your correspondent has a pump
kin vine that has twelve pumpkins
on it the average weight being about
thirty pounds each. Three hundred
and sixty pounds is a Tight good
yield for one vine.
We wonder if hands for construct
ing the new railroad will be imported ?
It seems that of late years our State
caunot supply material to fill even
the most ordinary positions. No
wonder our young men go West
People are renting houses in Dur
ham in order to hear Sam Jones.
A man named Council, near Wil
liamston, poisoned his wife some
time ago from the effects of which
she died ; he then ran off. At the
trial recently, he was acquitted on
the plea of insanity.
Mr. W. S. Chadwick of Beaufort,
has been elected to succeed Mr.
Washington Bryan as President of
the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad.
The citizens of Fayetteville are
making extensive preparations for
the centennial celebration in that
city in November next, and neither
time nor money will be spared to
make every feature a success. It is
confidently expected that ex-President
Davis will be present at the
celebration.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TAXES, TAXES!
The Tax Books are now in
my hands for collection, and
all persons are hereby notified
to settle at once if they would
save cost.
WM. PROPST,
se 27-2t Sheriff Cabarrus Co.
FARMERS !
when you visit the Fair,
don't fail to examine oue
EXHIBIT OF
FIELD-SEEDS
WE WILL SHOW THIR
TY-SIX VARIETIES!
embracing
CLOVERS, GRASSES, OATS,
WHEATS, RYE, BARLEY
AND WINTER VETCHES!
This will be of interest to
you.
N. D. Fetzer,
Manager Fetzer'e Drug Store.
I Have a Corner
(LITAKER'S CORNER)
o x
FAMILY GROCERIES,
FINE CONFECTIONERIES,
AND EVERYTHING IN
THAT LINE.
Fresh Meat
AT ALL TIMES.
FRSH : FISH : EVERY
SATURDAY.
Country Produce of all
kinds bought for cash or bar
ter.
Goods delivered to any part
of the town.
J. A. KIMMONS.
Non-Resident Notice,
North Caroliha, ) q t.
Cabarrus County. Superior Court.
Elam Kins:, adm'r of Willis
Elfcins, riaintiff,
against
J. R., W. F., Millard A., Isa
bella, Ada L. Elkins, A. A.
May hew and husband W.
B., F. E. Mayhew and hus
band G. W., Randolph,
Fannie, Ida, WinecoiT, M.
T. Goodman and husband
W. F., Bettie Propst and
husband A. II., Defendants
It appearing to the satisfaction of the
court from the return of William Propst,
sheriff of Cabarrus county, N. C, and
from the affidavit of W. G. Means, filed
in the above-entitled action, that W. F.
Elkins and Millard A. Elkins are non
residents of this state, and after due dili
gence cannot be found within the State of
North Carolina, and are necessary and
proper parties to the above-entitled ac
tion, and whereas the plaintiff above
named has begun an action in said court
to subject to sale the real estate of said
Willis Elkins described in the complaint
oi tne piainiiH ior tne purpose of pay
ins; off the debts and charges of admin
istration against the estate of his intes
tate.
And whereas the said defendants, W.
F. Elkins and Millard A. Elkins. have an
interest actual or contingent as heirs at
law of said Willis Elkins in said lands.
Now therefore the said William F. El
kins and Millard A. Elkins are hereby
notified that unless they be and appear
at the oflice of the clerk of the Superior
uouri oi sam county ana state aforesaid
on or before the 4th day of November,
1889, and plead, answer or demur to the
complaint of the plaintiff in this action,
that the plaintiff will apply to the court
for the relief demanded in the complaint
ana ior cosis oi action.
This 26th day of September, 1889.
JAS. C. GIBSON,
sc 27-Ct Clerk Superior Court.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ONLY
B I Q S HOW
TO BE HERE THIS YEAK.
concord, nPT 7
UUI. .
BIG SHOWS
ALL UNITED!
i nnO Men and Horses
JLUUU TCmnlnvfid.
1000
1 2 3 4 EQTJK8TBIAN FEATS.
More Acrobats, More Gymnasts,
More Aerialists.More Wire Walkers,
More Clowns, More Bicyclists,
More Fling Rings, More Leaping,
More High Kickers, More Actors,
More Novelties and Feats
Than Ant 10 Shows Combined 1
4 BIG CIRCUSES ! A
GREAT RINGS!
.LILIPUTIAN
Roman Hippodrome !
Chariot Races, Elephant Races,
Standing " ' Camel Races,
Flat " Doe and Pig Raoes,
Jumping " Obstule Races,
Hurdle " Wheelbarrow Races
Sack " Sulky Races.
60 Children 60 Ponies!
3 M U S E U M C O
U ENAGE RI E O
Rhinoceros, Elands,
White Nile Hippopotamus,
Black Tigers, White Bears,
Flock Ostriches & Kangaroos,
Drove of Giraffes, Zebras, Llamas,
Leopards, Lions, Sea Lions.
AT 10 a. si. EACH DAT
3.0OO.OOO FREE STREET (PARADE I
12 Kinds of Music, 31 Chariots, 60
Cages and Dens, 8 Separate Bands,
2 Steam Organs, Steam Caliope, 12
Children's Chariots, Children's Tal
1 jho Coach, 300 Horses, 100 Ponies.
60 Children, Herd of Camels, Hera
of Elks, Herd of Buffaloes !
Cheap Excursion Rates on all the
Railroads.
HAVING
JUST RETURNED FROM
NEW YORK
iiuu. um x ui i ii fill ui.
wishes to say to her friends
and the public generally that
they will find with her the
Largest I Most CoDiplcte
- LINE OF
MILLINERY
SHE HAS EVER SHOWN!
THEVERYUTEST STYLK!
Would' be pleased .to have you
call and examine.
Also a beautiful assortment of
NOTIONS.
AT THE FARMERS' STORK
se 27-lm
Lap d Sal e !
I, as commissioner under an order of
the Superior Court of Cabarrus county
in an action in said court, wherein J. P.
"Goodman and wife Pey et al. are plain
tiffs and T. II. Sapp and wife Sarah et al.
are defendants, will offer at public auc
tion, at the court-house door, in Concord,
on Satckday, the 26th day of October,
1889, at 12 o'clock, noon, all that Tract of
Land in said Cabarrus County adjoining
Peter Cruse and others, containing 183
acres, more or less, and known as the
Katy Safrit lands, the biddings to com
mence at one thousand dollars, that sum
having been already bid for said lands. .
Terms of Sale: One-third cash; bal
ance on six months' (time, note ana ap
proved security required, 8 per cent, in
terest from former sale, September 2,
1889, and title reserved till all of pur
chase money is paid.
Sept. 25th, 1889.
JAS. C GIBSON,
se 27-tds Commissioner.
Your attention is directed to the
SUPERIOR QUALITY
of our
Triple Flng Extracts,
which will be exhibited in
FLORAL HALL AX THE
COMING FAIR.
They Are The Best
BECAUSE
THE STRONGER AND FIN
EST IN FLAVOR. I
Please examine their merit
and we believe you will at once
adopt them in use.
N. D. FETZER,
Manager Fetzer' s Drug Store.
Monday,
JOIIIIS
Ms: HOME
KEEPERS
SECOND ANNUAL
E trO
CABARRUS COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
.c.-0'jsf e
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
Qftlim 1,2, 8H0 ,-1889
IS FULL AND COMPLETE,
embracing nearly every article of house
hold and mechanical manufacture as
well as agricultural products and im
plements, live stock, poultry and fancy
work.
ADDRESSES
JUMBO MET?,
THE-
iesl
I,
HAS ENGAGED TO BE
On :: Exhibition !
Music by a
Heav
an
AMUSEMENTS AND GOOD
DISPLAY
OF
Live Stock
WILL BE
Complete !
TROTTING AND
EXCURSION
ISC
Special Train from Charlotte Wednesday Thursday
Game t th
Send to Secretary for a Premium List.
H. C. McAllister, President. H. A. Blackwelder, Treasurer.
J. B. Harris, Vice-President. H. T. J. Ludwig, Secretary.
0
c0
O)
-OF THE
-W ILL BE HELD AT
0 ft
0 N-
THOROUGHBRED
-AND
IMPOBTED
BY PROMINENT MEN !
Well-Trained Band !
RUNNING RACES EACH DAY!
RATES ON
Qrpeat iff Faip
0 Y 0 M
-
jsp. s.
Bis Fighting Weight
IS
649. Rounds!
COME AND SEE HIM
TIME FOR ALL
HORSES,
CO"WS3
S HEEP
and
3E O (3- S I
RAILROADS !
1
to the
RETAIL TIE:
We have added a full
line of
Staple Dry Ms,
Shoes and Eats,
to our stock. EVERY
THING, besides being new
was bought at the lowest
cash prices, and we guar
antee to sell you as cheap,
and many things cheaper,
than you canbuy elsewherl
Our rule is tobuy in large
quantities and pay the caxk
dawn, as soon as they come
in the house, mark them at
a small profit, and sell
for CASH.
WE GUARANTEE PRIECS OX
SALT, SHIRTING AND
PLAID L, TO BE AS
LOW AT THE
LOWEST.
TO THE
P-
'Our wholesale business has
been very successful, and we
thank our friends and custo
mers for kind words of en
couragement and liberal or
ders. Our stock is larger than
ever, and our
Prices Lower.
Save time and trouble or
dering your goods when you
can do as well in Concord.
WE OFFER:
1 Car Load Kerosene Oil,
1 " " .. White Rose Flour
50 Barrels of Sugar,
25 Sacks of Coffee.
25 Cases of Potash,
100 " Canned Goods,
50 Boxes of Tobacco.
50 Thousand Cigar etts,
250 Kegs of Powder.
150 Bags of Shot.
50 Cases of Matches.
100,000 Paper Sacks, $ c-
We have the Agency for the
Baltimore United Oil ft,
and keep all grades of Oil in
stock.
ALSO TIIK AGFNCY FOlt
-When in Concord, will be
pleased to have you call.
mm
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Lalin&Rand Powderco
Celebrated Powder.
TT 1'
and Retail Store