THE SUIIDARD.
FIJI DAY, - Decemuek 20, 1S89.
Jas. 1. Cook, 1
B. E. Haubis, J
Editors and
Proprietors.
STANDARD XOTES.
There is more virtue in hon
est pluck than in luck.
Jeff Davis is" dead, but he
still lives in the hearts and
memories of a true people.
The man who is wrapt up
in thought, is often times in a
desert of darkness and ignor
ance. A body of a person who died
in New York in 18:5") has been
taken up and found to be pet
rified .
"Hanging up stockings" for
Santa will cause many a heel
less and toeless stocking to be
darned.
The Alliance ought to elect
Zeb Vance an honorary mem
ber. They have no truer
friend in the world.
Woman means more than
lady. There are more ladies
than women. The same is true
of man and gentleman.
The Supreme Court of New
York has decided that the
electric wires in the city of
New York must come down.
Cleveland certainly values
his beautiful wife as a strong
aid. What appreciative hus
bands these old bachelors
make!
The AVilmington Review,
an evening paper, is thirteen
years old. A good old age
for a news-paper in North
Carolina.
A girl that can use a broom
(legitimately), make dresses
and breeches, use a frying pan
and rejoice with you in pros
perity and. encourage and help
you in adversity, is the ideal
woman.
-K-
K-
Patti, the great singer, one
of the greatest in the world,
is now in Chicago. Her lirst
appearance there was in a new
theatre, that in elegance and
completeness of appointments
eclipses anything of the kind
in the world.
.'i .V.
According to the Lenoir
Topic there was an old negro
woman in that part of the
country who reached the age
of 110 years, and accounts for
lier great age by saying she
supposed the Lord must have
forgotten her.
The Civil Rights law that
was passed by the Republicans
of South Carolina, and has re
mained on the statute books
ever since, wa? repealed a few
days since by the Legislature.
It has been practically a dead
letter any way.
It has been said by some
one, with more imagination
than brains, perhaps, that the
steamer of the future will be a
quarter of a mile in length,
and will make the trip to
Liverpool in thirty-six hours,
carrying 10,000 passengers.
Sensationalism is one of the
great means used to extend
the circulation of a paper, and
yet no paper is willing to ad
mit that it is sensational. We
received one recently though
that advertised as one of its
chief attractions "The
is sensational." Candid, cer
tainly. Johnstown is a fatal place.
Last week an alarm of fire was
given in a theatre. The crowd
rushed for the narrow en
trance, and. in the jam several
lives were lost and many
maimed. A few days since,
another Hood is reported, and
a bridge was washed away,
What a fearless, outspoken
man is Cleveland! At the
sacrifice of his chances for re
election to the presidency, he
promulgated his celebrated
tariff message, from principle;
he believed, it was right. In
his recent speech in Massa
chusetts he argued the neces
sity of ballot reform right in
that nest of manufacturers and
ballot corruptors.
The verdict in the Cronin
case was rendered Monday,
and. is not entirely in accord
ance with the verdict of the
people in this celebrated case.
John F. Beggs, the lawyer,
. was found not guilty; Kuntz,
the little wag, was sentenced
to three years in the peniten
tiary for manslaughter; Cough
lin, Rourke, and O'Sullivan
were found guilty of murder,
and were sentenced to impris-.
onment for life. The counsel
for the four last made motion
for a new trial.
CHRISTMAS.
The great, perhaps the greatest,
auiiu.il festival of the civilized world
is approaching. On next Wednesday
will be what the world has accepted
as the 1880th birthday of the world's
Savior. It matters little that the
true date of the nativity has been
lost, so enshrouded in the mists of
oblivion are these non-essential points
in the life of Christ. In spite of
this fact, the Christian world has,
with common consent set apart the
25th day of December of each year
in memory of the birth of the Savior
the gieati-st event in the history
of the world.
At first a religious festival, it has
now last the religious character that
in the early days of the Christian
church, marked its observance. It
is no longer characterized by the
same solemnity as in those times,
though in many respects such an ob
si nance would be more appropriate.
Coming as it does near the end of
.lie year, after the harvests have
been well gathered, and the barns
and storehouses are filled in antici
pation and preparation for the dark
and dreary days of winter that are to
come, it seems a fitting time for hu
inanity, with grateful hearts, to give
free reins to joyous instincts, and to
revel in iov, mirth and pleasure, all,
of which should be tempered and
purified by a consciousness of the
glorious event which the day com
memorates in name and in fact
And, in as much as,on that day there
was given to the mankind, in token
of love, the most precious gift the
world ever received, it is especially,
appropriate that this occasion should
be taken by mankind to give to one
another gifts that betoken love and
friendship, as all true gifts should
and do. For the intrinsic value of
a gift should reckoned, not from a
pecuniary standpoint, taking thus a
sordid view of it and applying to it
the rigid rules that govern business
transactions, but is to be reckoned
rather by the spirit with w hich the
rift is bestowed, and the motives
that prompt the bestowcr. The
same principle applies here that
actuated Him whose birth the dav
commemorates when He preferred
the widow's mite to the princely
but heartless gifts of the rich.
It is fitting and proper then that
humanity should on this occasion
lav aside as much a3 possible the
cares, in many cases the galling
cares, of every-day life, and give
themselves up to an appreciative
enjovmeiit of pleasure, and the srood
things that are customary, ever
remembering those who are less
fortunate.
This will enable us to go forward
with lighter and more willing hearts,
when we resume the cares thus laid
aside.
LESSENING THE SURPLUS.
It is rumored that Congress will
vote to reimburse the losses of those
members who suffered from the de
falcation of Silcot. As the Congress
is Republican, it may be done. It
sounds like the Republican congress
they used to have just after the war.
If this is done, it will be just be
cause the sufferers are members of
congress, and they might just as
well go further and replace any
losses that a congressmau may meet
with in pool or poker, or by a de
faulting cashier any where. But
that surplus must be spent.
THE PREVALENCE OF PERJURY.
It is a sad commentary on the
truthfulness of mankind, and one
that tends to wreck one's confidence
in the integrity of his fellow men,
that in the trials in a court of jus
lice interested parties make diameti
cally opposite assertions and not on
ly assert them, but solemnly and de
liberately swear to them. In some
cases this is due to the fallibility of
the human mind, or to peculiar cir
cumstances that cause men to see
things in different lights, or to see
only enough of the same things to
cause them to arrive at different con
clusions. But in other cases, and
many cases, where it seems that each
side have the same opportunities for
knowing the truth of a matter, and
must know it, the parties interested
will swear in accordance with their
respective interests, though it is
plain to outsiders that there is false
hood somewhere, and unfortunately
it canuot always be discovered where
it is. Of course it amounts to per
jury, and perjury is a most heinous
crime, both morally and legally.
But the difficulty is in deciding
which is the perjured one. It is a
pity thai the sancity of an oath
should be so tampered with. It is
the safeguard, the bulwark, upon
which all jurisprudence is depend
ent, and naturally when this is not
to be depended on, justice becomes a
mockery an a travesty. An honest,
truthful man is entirely at the mer
cy of the dishonest and untruthful
man, for the former can swear to
only one thing, while the latter can
swear to any thing. But perhaps
this is the natural result of all well
known cause?. If in ordinary con
versation oaths are bandied about
aud used as lr.ere expletives for em
phasis, without special regard always
to truth, the moral sense becomes in
lime lilmitpd in regard to the sanctity
of oath, and perjury becomes aim-
pi . :t;i indiscretion instead ot a crime.
M'nNliiiiffton Letter.
From our Keffular Correspondent.
Washington-, Dec. 15, 1880.
If I must tell you the truth, the
Washington Inauguration Centen
nial exercises at the Capitol last
week were extremely tedious, not to
sav tame. The gathering ot notables
was large and the music and Chief
Justice Fuller's oration very satis
factory, but the crowd lacked en-
thtisi.isiE. Admission to the House
was only by cards and cards easily
obtained. Generally in Washington
a free show is well attended, but
there were hundreds of vacant seats in
the galleries during the ceremonies
Among the ladies present were
Mrs. and Miss Blaine, but the White
House ladies were at home owing to
the death of Mrs. Lord, Mrs. Harri
son's sister.
The lirst hitch m the day's pro
ceedings occurred through the
abominable carelessness of Sergeant-
at-Arms Leedom, who seems to have
a faculty for doing the wrong thing.
Xo arrangements had been made for
receiving the Governors of the thir
teen original States and when they
arrived they had to be hastily bun
dled, one at a time, between the
Democratic Congressmen on the
back row. Still, inasmuch as most
of the Governors were merely repre
sented by proxies, this wa.s of no
particular moment, though the real
ilesh and blood Governors like Gov
ernor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia,
felt badly put out, and were not
afraid to say so.
Mr. Nichols, of the force of t he
departing officers, painfully distin
guished himself. It was his duty
to announce the guests. For a time
he got along very well, save an oc
casional slip that brought a titter
from the galleries. But toward the
last he went all to pieces and reading
from the paper he held '"the Vene
zuelan Commission," he made four
or five feeble staggers and finally, in
sheer desperation, blurted out ''the
Venuyzeelean Commission," to the
immense edification of the gallery.
The Speaker did not even attempt to
check the laughter that followed.
As usual on such occasions, where
there is no dignity in the proceed
ings and small interest in the sub
ject, one half unconsciously takes
note of small things. I was struck
with the intense palior of President
Harrison and Secretary Blaine; Mr.
Blaine's pallor was extreme, and
neither looked like a well man.
When the Vice- 'resident and the
Senate came in, they were all dressed
in decorous black except Senator
Quay, who wore a suit of ugly, ob
trusive brown that seemed to swear
at every other suit in the crowd.
Justice Lamar attracted much at
tention as it has been expected that
he would be far away attending
ceremonies of a far different charac
ter, the serv ices of sorrow instead of
triumph. That Mr. Lamar would
have been glad to be at the side of
Jeffeivon Davis's bier no one doubts,
and it is only fair to say that his
sacrifice of personal fealing to remain
at his post of duty in Washington'is
to his credit.
The suicide of Francis B. Go wen,
formerly president of the Pennsylva
nia and Heading railway, and one of
the most prominent corporation law
yers in the United States, created
more excitement in official circles
than any suicide in Washington in
five years. Mr. Gowen had been in
the city for a week or so prior to last
Saturday, arguing important cases
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. He retired Friday night
to his room at Wormley's in his usual
cheerful spirits. Late the next day,
his room door was forced and his
body found, with a ball through his
brain and the revolver still grasped
in his hand.
The cause of the suicide is un
known. The deceased had no finan
cial troubles and no domestic com
plications, he was in sound health
and not overworked. His friends
were legion. He had attaiued emi
nence in his profession. In his
beautiful, home near Philadel
phia, resided hi3 charming wife and
daughter. He had everything that
heart could wish for. Can it be
that Francis B. Gowen, in a eecond
of insanity, felt the inadequacy of
life, the fruitlessness of human tri
umphs, and crossed the Styx to
satisfy his weariness ?
Mr. G owen's courage was of the
highest character. A. dozen years
ago the Molly Maguires ruled the
mining region of Pennsylvania with
an iron-hand. Their lodges were on
every hillside, and once an enemy
was denounced by the order his fate
was sealed. Murder was the imple
ment of their success. The law
officers were powerless and in some
localities they even ruled municipal
politics. Francis B. Gowen resolved
to exterminate them, and he mapped
out the details of as careful and
searching a campaign as was ever
urged against a hidden and cunning
enemy. The result of his efforts
was that iu two years the Molly Ma
guires were scattered aud broken,
scores of them killed in encounter
with troop3 and detectives, and near
ly forty of their leaders hanged on
the scaffolds of Pennsylvania. It
had cost months of danger, thous
ands of dollars and many lives, but
it was done aud done thoroaghly.
DROPS OF
Tnr, Filch nml Turpentine from Ibe
Wilson has abolished her graded
school.
A new court house is being erect
ed in Moore county.
Two Mormon elders have been
doing Davidson county.
It is said that Sam Jones will
spend Christmas in Durham.
There are about 1,400 convicts in
the North Carolina penitentia-y.
Col. L. L. Polk has resigned the
position of Secretary of the State
Alliance.
A house was recently burned near
Foreshille, and in it were Uo cokr
ed children, who were burned to
death.
Another railroad is heading this
way through South Carolina, and
Monroe wants it.
Sam Scales, a negro under sentence
of death for arson in Rockingham
county died in jail.
.Col. T. L. Hargrove, of Granville
count', died last week. He was
Attorney-General of the State under
Republican regime.
A large four-story brick building
is being erected in Anson county to
be used as a school for colored peo
pie.
A well in the eastern part of the
State has been dug in which the
water seems to be impregnated with
petroleum.
There were 150 conversions in
Bill Fife's meeting at New Berne
One of them was General Cullen A
Battle and another State Senator
Green.
A little negro child in Gary drank
a lot of concentrated lye one day
last week, and died a few moments
thereafter from the effects. Raleigh
Visitor.
Major W. A. Guthrie, who recent
ly purchased the Durham Street
Railway with all its fixtures for
$3,340, has sold it to a Pennsylvania
company for 25,000.
Atlas Bagwell, a machinist, while
crossing the platform at the depot
in Durham, fell to the ground and
when his friends reached him thev
found him dead. Heart disease.
Captain V. E. McBee, superin
tendent of the Western North Caro
lina Railroad has been elected presi
dent of the Charlotte, Columbia
Augusta aud also of the Greenville
& Columbia railroads.
Two little girls near Monroe were
bitten by a mad dog recently. They
with another sister, were playing
where they were attacked by the
dog. They were taken to Charlotte
where Butler's celebrated mad stone
was applied.
Milton Advertiser: Mr. Graham
Long, a young white man, a citizeu
of Person county, fell from a trestle
over Castle creek on Wednesday of
last week and received injuries from
which he died the next day.
K. II. Weathers, of Raleigh, was
badly injured Monday by jumping
from the train. He was attending
to some business on the train, and
jumped from it while at high speed,
breaking both legs, and receiving a
severe cut on the head.
Winston Sentinel : A short while
since Prof. Clewell found it neces
sary to dismiss a young lady from
the Academy and telegraphed to her
father in a far western state: "Your
daughter is at your disposal." In a
few minutes the answer came,
"Keep her on ice till I come."
A Craven county farmer this year
made preparations for a big crop of
cotton, and calculated on making
125 bales. The wet weather, wind
and hail so ruined his crop that he
only got one bale oft of his eutire
farm. There are many instances in
Eastern Carolina almost as bad.
Morganton Herald.
Raleigh News and Observer: Since
the death ot Rev. Dr. Robert Hall
Morrison, of the class of 1818, the
oldest living graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina is George
Washington Haywood, Esq., former
ly a lawyer in Ualeigh, now a painter
near Greensboro, Ala. He giadu
ated in 1821.
Sanford Express : Mr. Dolly Page,
of Hoffman, says his community is
infested with fierce and vicious foxes
which attack people on the high
ways. Some time ago one of these
brutes entered a dwelling house and
attacked the inmates. It is possible
that these foxes may have the hydro
phobia. News has reached the Southerner
(Tarboro) that a short while before
the emigration train at Scotland
Neck started for the South, the
agent told all of the unmarried ne
groes who desired to emigrate that
he woulu take only married persons.
There were eight whose desire to
emigrate had reached its zenith.
Fortunately for them there was a
negro preacher on hand and they
forthwith called him to perform the
conjugal ceremonies, and in a very
brief space of time the eight couples
j were .united. They boarded the
train and took a Southern bridal
' tour.
Krply from Mr. Woti.
Messrs. Editors : Allow me to
spy a few words in reply to an arti
cle that appeareel in the columns of
your paper of Nov. 29th, under the
heading "Warning against a book."
The book refered to is Bible Read
ings for the Home Circle. Mr.
Anderson, the writer of the article,
says that the book teaches heresy
with reference to the Sabbath day,
the eternal punishment of the
wicked, and the condition of the
righteous dead. Very likely this
is true according to Mr. Anderson's
views of these subjects ; but we are
glad to know that Mr. Anelerson's
eyes are not made for other people
to look through, and what he would
call heresy others would not. Now
we would have been glad if Mr.
Anderson had given some evidence
that it does teach heresy. Simply
making assertions does not prove
anything. The Bible says "to the
law and and to the testimony; if
they speak not according is this
Word, it is because there is no light
in them," Isa. 8:20. Now we are
willing that the Bible Readings for
the Home Circle shall be tested by
this worel. If we had not found by
inspection that it gives plain posi
tive scripture in support of the diff-
ferent subjects presented, we should
never have engaged in the sale of it.
We know that it presents the truth
on all these points, and we defy any
one to disprove them by the word of
God. In regard to the Sabbath the
book brings ont just what the scrip
tures say on this subject aud all'
the evidence shows that the seventh
day is the Sabbath, and not the lirst
as is almost universally believed. I
could give many texts of scripture iu
proof of this if space would admit,
but will only refer the reader to
few of them. See Gen. 2:2,3 Ex.
20:8-11, Mall, 28:1, Mk. 15:42, Mk.
10:1, Luke 23:44-40. All admit
that the seventh day was the Sab
bath during the old dispensation,
but now the majority of the Chris
tian world claim that it was changed
either by Christ or his apostles to
the first day of the week. Search
the New Testament through from
first to last and yon can find no evi
dence that they did any such thing,
and there is a standing offer of a
thousand dollars to any one that
will jive a text showing that they
they did. In regard to the other
subjects, we have space to refer the
reader to only a few of the many
texts treating on those points.
In reference to the state of the
dead please read Job 14:10-14 and
21; Ts. 140:3,4; Keel. 0:5-10; Ps.
115:17; Ps. 0:5; La. 20:19; 1st. Cor.
1510-18; 1st. Thess. 4:10." These
texts and the bible throughout teach
that the dead are iu their graves and
will remain there until the resur
rection. The scriptures also teach
that the wicked will finally come to
an end and be no more. They are
compared to the most perishable
objects in nature such as stubble,
Mat. 4:1, dry branches, John 15:0,
chaff, Mat. 3:12. They are to be as
the fat of lamb?, Ps. 37:20. Now if
there be no analogy between the
wicked and these different materials,
these illustrations convey a wrong
idea to our minds, for if we cast any
of these substances into the fire the
result is, they are burned up. Da-
i vid says yet a little while and the
wicked shall not be, yea thou shalt
consider his place and it shall not
be. Ps. 37:10. Obadiah says they
shall be as tho' they had not been.
Obad 10. A great many more texts
of the same import could be given
but these will suffice for the pres
ent. We sincerely hope the good
people of this vicinity will read their.
bibles carefully, comparing scripture
with scripture that they may eletect
the heresy if there is any, and not
risk their soul's salvation on man's
epinions. We hope those who have
"Bible Readings" will read it care
fully and compare it with the bible
that they may know for themselves
that it is the plain teaching of the
word of God.
C. D. Wolf.
.Modal Coiilewt.
Demorest medal contest, under
the auspices of Mt. Gilead W. C. T.
LT., at Mt. Carmel church, Decem
ber 27th, 18S9. Exercises begin at
half past 10 o'clock a. m. Devo
tional exercises. Recitations and
subjects as follows:
Miss Effie Barrier "Prohibition
the hope of our country."
Miss Maggie Misenheimer "Rea
son's for a Prohibition Party."
Miss Ida Brantlv "Prohibition
Battle Call."
Miss Esther Barnhardt " The
sparrow must go." "What about
the liquor Vulture ?"
Miss Nora Misenheimer " The
infamous liquor traffic."
Miss Lora Walter " Prohibition
the great Deliverance."
Miss Lora Propst "A voice from
the Poor-house."
Miss Annie Walter "Patriotic
Prohibition."
Decision of judges and presenta
tion of medal. The exercises will
be interspersed with music.
Miss Jenxie Cook,
General Superintendent.
THE NEW ('ANDY STORE.
"What is that place up there on
See the people go with hurrying feet!
What is it? a query we everywiire
meat
It's Vaughan's candy store near the
corner.
"Where do you so for chocolates
fine.
Or any thing else in that same line,
Where do you yet t-n cents worth
for nine'?
At VaiiKiian'a candy store on the
corner-
"Creati s, baud-inades and nougat,
bo delicious!
Mixtures plain or fancy, both are
meritorious;
Go, invest your money, don't be
avaricious,
When you buy at the store near
the coiner. a
"The boxes are marvelous, each one
complete,
And what they contain a 'Confec
doner's Feat,'
For niothei , or sister, or wife they're
a treat
If you get them from the store near
the corner.
"Then let your good will guide your
teet.
To the place where ad is new and
neat,
Quantity . lul quality hard to beat.
'lo the new storu near the corner."
Non-Resident Notice.
North Carolina, In
Cabarrus County S Superior Court
L.C.CJdwell and!
J.D.Caldwell, Ex-1 Notice of JPubli
ecutor of C. A I cation to M. H,
Calwell H. Caldwell.
M.H.H.Caldwell..
This is an action to recover a debt
of S3G8.40 ahree Hundred sixty-eight
dollars and 40 cents clue by two
notes for balance of purchase money
for one houee and lot situated in the
town of Concord, and sold by C. A
Caldwell, deceased, to M. H- H
Caldwell, and a wai-rant ot attach
ment has issued herein. And it an
appearing to my satisfaction that
the delendaut 31. a. ti. Caldwell is
a non-resident of ties State, and
cannot alter due diligence be found
therein, and that he has property in
this State, and that a cause of action
exists against said defendant, and
tins court lias jurisdiction of the
subject of the action. Now this is
to commend the said defendant M
IT. H. Caldwell, to appear at the
next term of the Superior Court of
Uabarrus county, to be held on the
5th Monday before the 1st Monday
in March 1890 and answer or demur
to the complaint, or inclement will
Le rendered against him according
to law. JAS- C. GIBSON,
Clerk Superior Court.
This 27th Nov. 1S89. Gt.
Non-Resident Notice.
North Carolina, ? c , -
Cabarrus County, kuPe"r court
J. E. Dorton and F- P.
Boger Administrators of
J. M. W. Means, Plaintiffs
vs.
M. J. Dorton and hus
band Jas. Dorton, Root
Lemons, Brown Lem
ons, Evan Lemons, Jno.
Lemons, Jennie Law
ing and husbaul Joe
Lawing, Caroline Mc
Cords and Husband
Jno. McCords, Katie
Thompson and husband
Joe Ihoinpson. C. Q.
Lemons, Thos Lemons,
Virginia Lemons, Re
becca Clauntz and hus
band Wash Clauntz,
Matilda Ritch and hus
band Taylor Ritch, Jas
Lemons, M. M- Lem
ons, Alex Lemons, Hat
tie, Jess, Jackson. Rich
ard and Emma Morgan,.
J- W. Flinu avid Ilnrvy
Flinn, Flora Lavis and
husband Wm. Davis, Defer, dants.
It apr earing ! the satisfaction of
the couit from the return of William
Propst, hhenft of Cabarrus county,
N. C, anil from the affidavit of J.
E. Dorton tiled in the above entitled
action, that M- M. Lcni-jus, Elex
Lemons, Hattie Morgan, Jesse Mor
gan, Jaekson Morgan, Richard Mor
gan and Emma Morgan, J. W.
Flinn and Harvey Flinn are non
residents of this State, an. after
due diligence cannot be found with
in the State of North Curobnn, and
are necessary and proper parties to
the above entitled action, and
whereas the plaintiff above named
has begun an action in said court to
subject to sale the real estate of said
John M. W. Means described in the
complaint of the plaintiffs
And whereas the said defendants
M, M. Lemons, Alex Lemons, Hat
tie Morgan, Jesse Morgan, Jackson
Morgan, Richard Morgan, Emma
Morgan, J. W. F inn and Harvey
Flinn have an inioi est actual or con
tingent as heirs at law of said John
M. VY. Means in said lands.
Now, therefore, the said M- M
Lemons, Alex Lemons, Hattie Mor
gan, Jess Morgan, Jackson Morgan,
Richard Morgan, Emma Morgan,
J. W. Flinn and Harvey Flinu are
hereby notified uuless they be and
appear at the office of the clerk of
the Superior court of said county
and State afecsaid on or before the
27 day of January 1890 and plead an
swer or demur to the complaint of
the plaintiff in this action, that the
plaintiff will apply t; the court for
the relief demanded in the com
plaint and for costs of action.
This 10th day of December, 1889.
JAS. 0- GIBSON,
Ct Clerk Snpeiior Court.
Laid Victory ! !
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THE ONLY
GRAND PRIZE .
(First premiun) for the best Family Sew
ing Machine at the World's Fair,
1889, was granted to the
New No. 9
Wheeler & Wilson. All other machines
received as follows: Gold Medal (2nd
premium;) Silver Medal (3rd premium;)
Bronze Medal (4th premium;) and Hon
orable Mention (oth premium.) This jury
was composed of six disinterested prac
tical machinists; who could appreciate
the advantages of the ROTARY move
ment in the New No. 9 Wheeler & Wil
son. (Extract "Journal Official de la Re
publique Francaise.")
This machine also received at the Ca
barrus County Fair for "Simplicity and
easy Management" a DIPLOMA.as there
were not any 1st or 2nd premiums on
Sewing Machines offered. Buy only the
best. Call and see this machine.
HOOVER, LORE & CO., Agents,
M. L. BLACK WELDER, SalcBman.
nov 19 lm.
At swings sPECliL HOLIDAY S4LE.
We commence today a special
glassware, boots, shoes,
Pictures, picture frames, etc.,
in endless variety.
An assortment of elegantly
illustrated books for children,
Handsomely bound editions of
all the Poets, illustrated po
ems, fancy booklets, etc.
Plain and fancy sta.'ionery,
box paper, blank books, wall
paper, etc.
Canned goods, tigs, citron,
grits, oat meal and sugar.
ROYSTER'S PLAIN AND
Bibles! Bibles! Bibles!
Dore's Bible Gallery.
The Ancient Mariner.
The old, well-established, reliable iirm of
HOOVER, LORE & CO.
invite your attention to a
"Well Selected Stock of Goods.
An experience of 15 years in Concord enables them to sujily
the wants of their customers and with the
Verv Best Class of Goods,
And with a thoroughness that only comes with L()N(J
EXPERIENCE, and an intimate acquaintance with the trade.
OUR WARES ARE FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT.
AS AVE KEEP
NO SHODDY GOODS.
PRICES GUARANTEED TO SUIT THE HARD TIMES.
C H R 1 ST IVI A
FIRE WORKS.
8,p
Oranges & Bananas.
Figs and Eaisins
AP IPL 31! S.
TOBACCO & CIGARS.
Sly stock is complete. Whatever you
need come and call for it. You can't
leave without buying.
J. M. CROSS.
ThQ Corner Store
I HAVE JUST OPENED A NICE
STOCK OF
GIT :-: IB
AT THE
COKNEIt STORE of THE CATON
BUILDING,
and respectfully solicit a share of
the public patronage. Prices to suit
the hard times. PRODUCE OF
ALL KINDS WANTED and the
highest market priced paid for it
'se 6-4m G. E. FISHER & CO.
il i mm
have on hand the
FINEST DIM COFFEE,
Harris's Prepared
B uc k w.h eat,
FRESH NUTS,
ORANGES,
GRAPES AND
liil BOOBS
of all kinds.
The HIGHEST MARKET
PRICE PAID FOR FURS of
all kinds.
Goods delivered promptly to
?ny part of town.
CALL AND SEE US
ain and
At Swink's
sale of books, candies groceries
clothing and dry goods.
A large and varied stuck ot
I dry goods, Jeans, etc.
A special drive in men's
i clothing, in sack, frock. cur:i-
way and Prince Albert suirs.
Hats in all colors, sizes, quali
ties and prices.
Glass lamps, glass cups, va
ses, glass stands, bed room
and tea sets, etc.
Currents, cheese, hominy,
coffee, candies and nuts.
FANCY CANDIES ON S A Li-
i Hymn Books and Hymnals.
Milton's Paradise Lost.
Dante's Inferno.
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The following dispatch came
this morning to Gibson's Drug
Store by Santa Clans' sprcial
counsin Col. Jack Frost.
15 miles West of North Pel'.
December 18. 1SS'..
Dr. Ginsox. Dear Friend:
I write in great haste, as I am
as busy just now as a bee in a
tar bucket. I have just fin
ished making my last Toy and
am now repainting my sleigh
before starting down South on
my annual tour. Last Christ
mas Eve I met with a slight
accident in your town. Not
expecting to find a three-st on
business house in as small a
village as Concord, the top of
the Bank building grazed one
corner of my sleigh, rubbing
off some of the paint and slink
ing loose a couple of sleigh
bells from one of my rein
deers. By the way, has any
little boy in your town picked
up these bells?, I will pay
fifty cents in oy-money apiece
for them. Here is an extract
from a letter of a ten-years old
boy of your town to his cousin
in Canada. "I want to tell
you how sister and me tried
to fool Santa Clans last year.
We both of us wore stockings
exactly alike, made of turkey
red woollen yarn and when we
hung them up sister's name
was pinned on mine and mine
on her's. We went to bed
early and I fairly laughed in
my sleep at rhe way old Santa
was going to slip up. But he
is a sly old fox and next morn
ing the slocking with lister's
name on it had in it, a harp,
a pistol, a horn, a ball aud a
tin horse, and the one with my
name on it had in it two dolls,
an every day and a company
doll, a Cinderella boo,t, a tea
set, and a box of hair pin.
Wasn't it cute in the old man
to know one from tother and
which was which'' I peeped
into your store fast night and
really your stock of goods
would do credit to a town ten
times as large as Concord.
You carry, this year, a much
larger and liner line of Holi
day Goods than ever before
and that is saying everything
at once. Good luck to von.
mvlO-ly SANTA CLAUS.
WK treat and permanently
CL'KK, Or NO PAY, Mil CHRON
III DlSKASKS. DWOKMITIKS,
and 8uH(iiCAi. Casks, Skx
ual Diseases of Men. Wo-
r mill CHILDREN the r-
.yJeSiVjS. Bultsof Impercrt lM-rrlopmrnt,
&V-Si. JU illlabUsor Excesses, Opium
v I and tho Whiskey Jiub.l. A
liirire and nanif:cent Sanitarium and
Private Lying-In Hospital In connec
tion. Ji'iok of Life, with particulars for
Home Vure, Free. Dr. Parker's Mem
ical & Surgical Institute, lalj jturth
i-truce Street. NASHVILLE, TKNN.
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