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TH E ST AH D&RD. fin THE STAN DARD. T BARB. r star-' It: Stan LA11GKST PAPEli PUBLISHED IN COXCORD.- CO X TA INS M ORE HEADING .MATT KR THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IX THIS SECTION. THE AUVAMT. tr TI1K FABSir.n. Ki.llIP of I In" Itt-lill of the runner ASItmue .Oran.sel.urir, S. C, Times an-l Democrat: This case has been plead in the con tis of E.iuitv for a hundred years qUUV lUr auwimirujiB'" but without avail. At last aiionc- the farmer has realized that resolu tions and declarations of rights are futile unlets lacked by substantial .lemonsiratioa; of power for half a century he has annually resolved, resolved and lived and paid just the same. Vui his own motion the case lias lvJi transferred to the vrt Ac.w u ln-iv his nower will be gauged and his ability to enforce his demands demonstrated. In its reseat status this case vi,Mvs up from the docket of '89, with the endorsement "continued." It has boeu "continued" upon mo tion of both parties thereto, but not on the same lines throughout. Some points have been definitely settled they are unalterable facts in the cal endar of 1S.SH, whatever history in 1830 may write. Note a few of the niot't prominent: 1. Contrary to all precedent and 1 reliction, the farmers have stuck together the past ,ear. They have done more they have acted concer tedly, conservatively, intelligently. Trnv, results are short of what they might have been; but they have been directly proportional to the preva lence of concerted action and, I am persuaded, are far short of what 1890 wilt show. The farmer's ability to "stick'' is a demonstrated fact. 2. The fanner's ability to control Lis products, and command a fair price for it in the markets of the world, even under the unfavorable cr.iditio;is of last year, is a settled q icstioii. There is no wiping out the f let that, notwithstanding the large c , and the manipulation of a sliiinkit'g vol nine of currency in the Interest- f ? n filiation, the cotton crep ju.--t lutrvfsted has sold for an average of ;" more per bale than that of any year since 'SI. This, tx, in faee of existing dispropor tions e. g., the crop of lSbl agre .yak'd ui!y live and a half million .b.ilt s a.-- against near seven and a rail" ud'iions for las' ear. To ;nii' l:a-e the crop of 1881 there was rum -in y in circulation to the amount of ;'i J.i per capita; to purchase the la-t crop, i here was only $0.10. per capita, or los--. it i. freiieiaily admitted now by candid observers, in Wall street and jut of it that the Farmers Move ment w.:s the principal factor in making up this res ul'. If such results can be wrought out of such crude material, with an environment- so inauspicious, what may not the furuiT rca -onably hope for the present year? The possibilities con tingent alone upon concerted action (for wise leadership is assured) are inspiring in the highest degree. :'. The mercantile and manufac turing w..rld has changed its attitude toward the farmer. Every line of goods in every line of business has been subjected to the closest scruti ny; aud "what are the farmer, go ing to do:' figures in every business calculation. The contemplation well nigh takes one's breath. Is this not ;iot worth all the labor, all the trouble? General inquiry info the first cost of corn modi ties has been stimulated and the people at large instructed as to the wide hiatus between cash and time ri(t. There will be no steps backward from this point. J he cohesive force do?s c.ist, then, among the farmers; and the stupen d.v.s iiioni'iitum of the coherent body of farmers against any and all cumi.iiiaiions devi.-od for the farm ers' hurt has been etartlirjgly illus trate 1. 15;;t I t the farmer not for get tlnit his cae is still res adjudicata mm it is "eon tir.ued" upon the d'-eket of 'i'O. it is still pending. Its iV f.Ulon or progress toward final ad-jadic-aii' ii this year will depend np o l the lid-'Ity of the farmer through out the vear. of coura-; but will de- p. nd pariieiilai ly, and more than all else, up u three things: 1, Upon the business ensagement the farmer makes during the nest two months. If he fall into the old rut ami make contracts for advances p iyable Xoyuuber 1st, as heretofore the movement will be shorn of half its power. It is the universal sense of State and National Alliance that no contract should be made that will compel the product r to sell his product before December 1st or '5th. Many decisive conflicts of liiotory have been virtually deter mined before the culminating strug gle was reached. Gettysburg was practically lost and won two days before the magnificent charge of July 3rd, no less than Balaklava, W'tich it 8 ) vividly suggests a3 im mortalized ly Tennyson.- Sedna VOL.' III.' NO. 5. was but the sequel of events trans piring for a decade previous on both sides the Rhine. And so let not the farmer be deceived by this lull in the fighting. Both parties are, or should be, now manceuvering for po sition, and once established and for tified, with impregnable salients in the shape of liens,, projecting into our territory, we will contend against desperate odds. Complete victory , for the farmer in 1S90 will be achieved, if; ut all, during the first months of the year. ' Let him economize at every point; make this crop, if possible, without incurring debt. If oue must have! advances, make no contracts to ma ture before January 1st or December 25tb. The merchant must help us at this point, and he will if it is properly pre.wcr.ted. Pay him inter est for the additional time, of course, but by all means hold that point, demand that time. 2. It depends upon strictest fidel ity to the plans and instructions emanating from farmers' headquar teis. Seeds of dissension will be in dustriously and insidiously sown by disaffected parties within and with out the camps. Every effort will be made to undermine the confidence of the farmer in those men who are stationed upon. : the watch towers. Their motives will be insidiously as sailed, and the temptation will be to repudiate their ruling when individ ual or local interests seem to conflict with them; but have patience, broth er, till you can see all around the matter from their standpoint. This phase of the fight is already "on," as was clearly shown a few days ago. The President of the State Ex change of Georgia resigned on the ground of ill-health and pressing private. business. An enemy Hashed all over the country the insinuation that he was a defaulter. The dai lies, with their usual enterprise, an nounced in Startling' headlines A scandal in Alliance Circles!" followed by a quarter of a column of conjec tures and surmise as to effects upon ihe Order. At the conclusion was a single line in small type", begin ning "Later," (also in small type,) announcing -that in. all probability the scandal was a falsa allegation. Let the farmer keep a weather eye on this sort of things and on all papers that "make haste".to publish damaging reports about the Farm ers' movement, especially upon those tapers that advise, and urge him to sell cotton when his leaders say "hold." Whenever these th.ngs ap pear in the papers let him settle in his mind "An enemy hath done this," until he gets cfricial information through his official organ. 3. Upon the action of the farmer relative to ware house?. The mer its of this scheme have been exhaus tively discussed aud demonstrated. The question of country warehouses is settled. They will be built and operated beyond doubt. One thing only remains to be seen whether they will be built and operated by farmers, for the benefit farmer, or by individuals for the money there is in them. Money is in sight today for the construction of a ware house in Oranirebnrir iust so soon as the farmers abandon the project. Com mercial minds are sharp enough to see profit in It as an investment, and this profit would accrue to the holder of stock, whether he lived in town or on the remotest farm in the remotest district of the country. But if the stock did not pap a cent divi dends, the farmer investor would be handsomely paid in the enhanced price of cotton. He can deposit his cottor In the warehouse, borrow money upon it for present needs, and hold it "for the rise." Thu3 he gets the benefit of rise in price in stead of the speculator- and, more than all else, he is in a position to have a say as to the price. .The failure of farmers to respond promptly to this scheme must be due to failure of proper partie3 to can vass it. Ten shares from each Sub- Alliance in the county would build a ware house, and yet the matter drags. One merchant in the town would have stored 500 bales with us, and yet we wait. Finally the measure of results for this year will be largely determined in the nest two months by our ac tion upon the three points mention ed; but especially upon the con tracts we make for advances, and upon the building of a ware house. With shorter liens or store accounts, longer credits, undivided confidence aud effort, and a ware house," the farmer is invincible, - With patience and intelligent persistence his case will reacli the higher Court after awhile transferred from the realm of mere Assizes, his power and dig nity having been properly sized up " in the commercial and legisla tive mind, in the realm of Equities will receive . an attentive hearing, and he get what he csks for. J. W. Stokes. Oar Kext Congressman. The following is a double leaded editorial that appeared in the Meck lenburg Times last week: As Col. Alfred Rowland is now serving his second term, which is as long as custom allows a man to serve in this district, it is not likely that he will be in the race for nomina tion. Already we hear of numerous aspirants for the nomination along the Carolina Central road. In fact, a candidate is reported in the field in nearly every county, and from the present outlook it seems that the contest will be a sort of steeple-chase race, with chances iu favor of most anybody. Before public opinion in the dis trict is crvstalized we wish to ask this question: How-would Capt S, B. Alexander do for our next Con gressman ? So far as we have been able to judge, we believe the farmers, gen eral!', desire Capt. Alexander to be come our next Governar. But what good can a Governor of North Car olina do for the farmers ? He has little or no influence over State leg' islation.. He has no control over the executive departments, and his duties are almost automatic. But if the farmers had a good representative in Congress he would be of invaluable service iu shapin legislation in behalf of many of the reforms demanded by the farmers. The agriculturists of the United States are by far the most numerous class ; yet they have had fewer rep resentatives jn Congress than almost any other class, . . They have never taken much part in politics, except to vote. They have never sent committees to the legislature or Congress asking for favors. They havs always been willing enough to choose men of other occupations to represent them iu legislative halls. But the rapid decline in agricul ture in recent years aud the conse quent discontent and discouragement among farmers, make it more im portant than ever for them to have representatives iu Congress. The depressed condition of agriculture is attracting uuiversal attention. The newspapers and leading magazines of the country are discussing the the subject. Farms in New England are selling at les3 than the cost of improvement?, while in the "West farm products are used as fuel. The number of small farmers is rapidly decreasing, and the number of large lard-holders is increasing. The mortgage indebtedness of farms is every year running up at a fright ful rate, and a dark cloud overhangs the future of the yeomanry of of the causes contributing to this state of affairs are thought to be the contraction of the currency, railroad discriminations, the tariff, aud the late tendency of capital . to concentrate into monopolies and trusts. Among the farmers of this dis trict there is no better equipped man then Capt. Alexander for the duties of legislation. He has been tried, and found efficient and faithful. We do not believe any man in the district is more of a student of polit ical science, and certainly no man stauds higher in point of integrity and good citizenship. He is every where the acknowledged champion of the farmers' cause and next to Vance, he is North Carolina's com moner. If the farmers are to have any represeutatire from this State we think Capt. Alexander is the best man they can select. It has been many years since a farmer sat in Congress from this district. It is best for the councry and best for Democracy that the farmers Lave a fair representation iu pur legisla tive halls. The Tery best writer we have on fioiitical science says that while a egislature controlled by a class is best for a monarchy, a homogeneous legislature is certainly best for De mocracy. How would Captain Sydenham B. Alexander do for our next Congress- man r Let us hear this subject from the people ou The HarriNon Luek. The sad events by which Presi dent Harrison's administration is be ing marked recall the tragic :. history of the term for which his grand father was elected. First came the death of the President within a month of his inauguration ; then the terrible explosion on the steamer Princeton, by which one -member of the Cabinet was killed; and later on the hanging, on the pharge of nauti ty at sea, of the sop of another mem ber of the Cabinet, John O. Spencer, of New York. - This hanging, by the way,. was recently discussed by Gail Hamilton in one of the period icals and the showing clearly made that young Spencer was innocent of the crime with which he was charged, and that his execution was nothing short of murder. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2h Dying Expressions. "It is well." Washington. "I must sleep now." Bynn. "Kiss me Hardy." Nelson. "Head of the array." Napoleon. "Don't give up the ship." Law rence. "Let the light enter." Goethe. "Into thy hands, O Lord." Tas30. "Independence f orev er." Adams. "The artery has ceased to heat." Ilaller. "Is this your fidelity." Nero. "This is the last of earth." J. Q. Adams. "Give Dayroles a chair." Lord Chesterfield. "A dying man does nothing well." Franklin. "Let not poor Nellie starve," Charles. "What ! is there no bribing death?" Cardinal Beaufort. "All my possessions for a moment of time." Elizabeth. "It matters not how the head lieth."-r,Sir Walter Raleigh. "Clasp my hand, my dearest friend, I die," Alfieri, "I feel as if J were to be myself again." Sir Walter Scott "Let me dte to' the sound of deli cious music," Mirabeau. "I know that my Redeemer liv eth." Horace Greeley. "God preserve the Emperor." Haydn. "I loved my father and liberty." Mine de Stfel, 'It is small, very small indeed, (clasping her neck.) Anne Boleyn. "I pray you see me safe up, and for my- pomjng flown lot me shift for myself," (ascending the scaffold) -Sir Thomas Moore. "Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave. Burns. "I resign my soul to God, and my daughter to my country." Thomas Jefferson. "I wish you to understand the true principles of the Government I wish them carried out, I ask noth ing more. Harrison. "I have endeavored to do my du ty." Taylor. 'xouepoKe of. reiresntnent, mv Emilie ; take my last notes, sit down to my piano here, sing them with the hjmn of your sainted mother": let me hear, How grand these rays ; they seem to beckon earth to heav en." Humboldt (The sun wa3 shining brilliantly into the room in which he was ly "Once more those notes which have so long been my solacement and delight." Mozart. "God bless you, my dear." Dr. Johnson. ttflml hloea mm to that, rrm TlnrnV" www. .jv, v""" J"l i" 'Wadsworth. "Now it is come." John Knox. "Dying, dying." Hood. A Ntory With ft Kforftl, A certain young man in this county has been chewing tobacco for seven years, the cost of which has averaged 7i cents per day, or $191. 10 for the entire time. This amount with interest for seven years makes more than $300. Besides this he has smoked not a few cigars, but never a cigarette. It costs to have pleasure. Scotland Neck Demo crat This is what is palled driving a point home by a strong application. We endorse it all condemn the folly and extravagance of chewing the weed but we never read such practical lessons without recalling the old Btory which ran this way: Two friends, both poor, about the same age, were walking by the ele gant brownstone houses on Fifth Avepup u New York. One was smoking a fine cigar; tb-3 other was a strong anti-tobacco man. "What did that, r.ioror nnst. enn ?" asked the A nti -Tobacco man. "Fifteen cents," was the reply. "How many do you smoke a day?" was the next query. "Half a dozen or so," was the an swer. "inat makes $0.30 a week you burn up. How many years have you been smoking at that rate ?" Abont twenty," answered the smoker. "Well," running over a calcula tion in his head, the Anti-Tobacco "Do you know that if you had saved all the money yon have spent on cigars and put it out yearly at com pound interest, you would now own one of those brown-stone houses ?" Jt was npw the time for the smoker tq ask questions, and he did it this ; ou bavp never smoked ? 'No." . -"You are about my age ?" "Yes." "Well, where is yonr house that you have saved by not smoking." State Chronicle. Not n Blftn Killed on Either Side. 1 News and Observer. The account of the bombardment of Fort Sumter is still remembered by many persons, but it may not be amiss to recall the fact fnrohhlv . , r without precedent in the annul a nf war) that not a man was killed on either side by the bombardment The only casualty was the death of one man and the injury of some others by the explosion of a gun in the firing of a salute to the United States flag by the garrison under Major Anderson's command on evac uating the Fort the day after the surrender. The firing commenced, after due notice triven bv General - J Beauregard, on the morning of Fri day the 12th of April, 1SG1, and continued for about 34 hours, and the surrender was on the 13th. Ti e Fort was partly destroyed by shot and set on fire by shells. The re duction of the Fort was an act of defense on the part of the Confed erates, to prevent in from being re inforced with men and supplies by the hostile fleet which was lying off the mouth of Charleston Harbor. The expedition was fitted oqt for the relief of Sumter, after repeated as surances from -the United States Government that the status would not be changed without notice ; and no notice of their intention to do so was given. Bjb Ingersoll, Albany Times.! A good story was told in the li brary of the general term of the Su preme Court by Mr. John S. Wrise, son of ex-Governor Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, who is now in this city from his home in New York. Said Mr. Wise: A few years agolngersoll was passing through Cincinnati, and at his hotel he was accosted by a working-man, who addressed him as follows: " Mr. Ingersoll, I am a poor, hard working man, having a family to support, and I want a favor." " Well," said Bob, " what can I do for you ?" " I want to call a brand of my ci? gars after you, and permission to use your photograph," answered the man. " Certain my man, and I wiil give you a motto, if you desire." " I would thank you if you would." responded the man, Colonel Ingersoll gave it to him as follows : " We shall smoke in this world, but not in the next." Some months afterward, while passing tnrougn Cincinnati, Colonel Ingersoll was informed that the man made $9,000 off the brand of cigars in less than a year. C"tise of bis Oeath. Statesville Landmark. Colpoel Allen owes his death a3 certainly if not as directly to a rail road car as if he had perished iu an accident. In the early part of De cember he went to Raleigh on busi ness, and returning took the sleeper attached to the freight train leaving for the west about 1 a. m. Board ing the car he found a stiffiiug at mosphere a roaring fire, no ventila tion and a temperature which was intolerable. He caused the porter to open the ventilators and when the temperature had been somewhat lowered went to bed. He awoke in the morning to find all the ventila tors closed and the fire roaring as the night before, and got off at Greensboro with a dull pain in his head. This increased from day to dayuntil an abscess formed, giving him expressible suffering, and finally broke and discharged freely. The pain, however, did not wholly abate for weeks, and then he began recov e:ing slowly. But the indications were deceptive. The inflammation attacked the brain and carried him off. without warning. The "ItUek" district. Wilson Advance. The Second Congressional Dis trict has long been denominated the "black district," because of the negroes who live in the districts. One of the fruits of the recent exodus movement was the thinning out of the "coons" to such an ex tent that there is very little doubt but that the white people of the Second District . will once again be represented in halls of Congress by a white man and a Democrat Hon. F. M. Simmons will be our next Congressman, there appears now to be but little doubt He made us a Congressman of whom the whole people were proud and to him do the people again look as their repre sentative in Congress. Few are the members in Congress who have made such a faithful and able Congress man as did Mr. Simmons. 1890. The Cross nnd White Case. Wilmington Messenger. Raleigh, Feb. 15. This after noon in the State Supreme Court the Attorney General made a motion to have judgment against Charles E. Cross aud Samuel C. White entered in conformity with the mandate of the United States Supreme Conrt This mandate confirms the decision of the United States Supreme Court the latter court having affirmed the sentence of the Superior Court that Cross, president of the wrecked State National bank of L'aleigh, and White, its cashier, be put at hard la bor "on the public roads for seven and five years respectively, they hav ing been convicted of forgery. Walter R. Henry, counsel for Cross and White made a motion for f urther arrest of judgment, alleging that there was a fatal defect in the record and that the court had such power even at this late day. His point wa3 that the defendants were convicted upon two counts one charging them with forgery, the other with uttering a fcrged paper, uuu mat upon inese mere was a general verdict of guilty. lie con tended that when' an indictment charged, two distinct offences in separate counts and the grade and punishment of the3e offences are different in degree, a general verdict of guilty cannot stand. He further contended that there is no statute in North Carolina denouncing the littering of a forged promissary note. The Attorney General in reply alleged that this contention was groundless and that the jury had rendered a verdict on each 'count. The oourt took the papers. Its ruling is awaited with much inter est as this is a very noted case. A Confusion of Dogs. Boston Transcript. A dog story just related to the Listener by a gentleman of unim peachable, or at least unimpeached, truthfulness, is certainly new. Meet ing the other day, the Listener re marked that he had not seen his bulldog Buff with him htely, and asked what had become- of him. "Well," sa'd lie, "it is the sad outcome of that singular McCarty business." The McCarty business? What do you mean ?" asked the Lis tener. "WThy," said he, "have you never heard of Uiat ? Well, I will tell you. Down on the corner be low our house there lived the widow McCartv, and she had a dog that looked so much like ours that we never could tell them apart. They were singularly alike, even to the left-handed twist in the tail. Well, we mixed the dogs up so often that they ended by mixing each ' other up. Our dog would see Mrs. Mc Carty going down the street aud would suppose that he was her dog, and would take after her. When she got home, her dog seeing the other one following her, would sup pose that he must have made a mis take, and that he was our dog, and then he would oome right over to our house. That would settle them for a day or so, and then some ac cident would switch them off -again, and then tney would be all at sea once more." "Well how did it come out?" "That's what I am going to tell you. At last somebody poisoned Mrs. McCarty's dog. And as by this time neither dog had any guide to go by but the conduct of the other, our poor dog was at a per fect los3 to know who he belonged to, and he vibrated so constantly from one opinion to the other, an 1 from one house to the other, an I lived in such a state of continual vexation that it preyed on his rea son. We were afraid he was going mad, and we had to shoot him. Poor, old Grip ! He deserved a bet ter fate." Tax Both. Morganton Herald. There is a proposition now before the Wyoming legislature to impose a tax of $2.50 per annum on bach elors over thirty years of age. Wy oming is the only one of the States where women vote in all the elec tions, and they are evidently getting in their work. To persistently re fuse to marry a poor fellow and then to tax him because he is so unat tractive that nobody will have him for a husband is the refinement of cruelty. The hen-pecked husbands in the Wyoming legislature should make one bold strike to defend the unmarried unfortunates of their sex. Let them introduce an amend meut to the bill taxing all old maids $25 per year, the tax to be remitted if they will make affidavit that no man has 'ever proposed to them. . This would be about right, and the amount of money the State would receive from this Bource could be readily ascertained in dollars by multiplying the number of old maids by twenty-fife. Not one of them would ever make the affidavit. WHOLE NO; 109. Abe LiueoTn Sklnieil II, m "If I can free technicalities and this case from jet it properly swung to the jury, I'll win it," Abraham Lincoln used to say, when confident of the justice of the cause he represented. lie was weak in defending a wrong case, for he was mentally and morally too honest to explain away the bad points of a cause by ingenious sophistry. Instead of attempting to bolster up such a cause, he abandoned it. Once he abandoned a -case iu open court, being convinced that it was unjust. A les3 fastidious lawyer took Mr. Lincoln's place, aud won the case. Mr. Ilerndon, in his "Life cf Lincoln," tells a story which exhib its his ability in crfittir.'T p lr o believed in "properly swung to the A pension agent, named Wright, secured for the widow of a revolu tionary soldier a pension of $100, of which sum he retained one-half as his fee. The pensioner, a crippled old woman, hobbled into Lincoln's office and told her story. It stirred Lincoln up; he broughtsuit against the agent, and on the day of the trail he said : " I am going to skin Wright, and get that money back." He did so. The old woman told her story to the jury. Lincoln, in his plea, drew a picture of the hardships of Valley Forge, describ ing the soldiers as creeping bare footed over- the ice, and marking their tracks by their bleeding feet. Then he coutrasted the hardship of the soldiers, endured for their coun try, with the hardened action of the agent in fleecing the old woman of one-half of her peusion. He was merciless; the members of the jury were in tears, and the agent writhed in his seat under the castigatiou of Lincoln's denuncia tion. The jury returned a verdict iu her favor for the full amount, and Lincoln made no charge foi his services. Hi3 notes for the argument wee unique : "No contract Not professional services an Unreasonable Charge Money retained by Defendant not given by Plaintiff Revolutionary War Describe valley rorge priva tionsIce Soldiers' bleeding feet Plaintiff's husband Soldier leaving for army Skin Defendant Close' Mn Stiver Clrenlnlion. According to official report of the Treasurer of the United States, December 31, 1SS9, there were ou hand in silver dollars $2S8,535,500, of which $282,949,073 were repre sented by certificates outstanding, leaving not in circulation nor repre sented by certificates only $5,58G, 427. The annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows $G0,09S,480 in silver coins in actual circulation, and at the dale of the report $277, 319,944, silver coins represented by certificates outstanding. The Sec retary further shows, that of the total silver coinage of the govern ment, only $6,219,577 were not now in circulation, or represented by certificates outstanding. Here we have at separate dates, and from the highest authories the facts as plain a3 figures can make them, that only a small fraction of the silver coinage is now in use as currency amonj the people. Still the cry goes up from cou tractionist3 that silver coinage must be restricted to the minimum allow ed by law, $2,000,000 per month, because as they say,if silver is coined to the maximum under the law, it cannot be forced into circulation. It will go freely into circulation, and they know it Scarce and dear money, and low prices for labor and the products of labor are what they want The Awful Alternative. Little Marshall P. Wilder told a Washington Post reporter the fol lowing gem : Finucane called in on Mike Leary's oldest boy, Tim, one day and found that fine broth cf a boy pale about the gills, losing his fiesh and the picture of despair. "Howly Moses, Tim, it's mutherin' ill ye're lukiu! Fwat in the name av th' kraken's the mather?" - "Finucane!" "Yis." "Ye know that blatherin' spal peen av a Widdy Costigan's second husband's stepson, Jamie?" .. "That I do." "He bet me a dollar to a pint 1 couldnt schwallv an igg ' widout br'akin th' shell av it." "Naw !" "Yis." "Did ye do utl' "I did." "Then f what's ailin ye :" "It doon there. If I jump about 1 11 bra k an cut me stum muck wid th' shell. . If I kape quiet the tlom thing'll batch oat an' I'll have a Shanghai roosther a-clawiu me 'asides," WE DO ALL KINDS OF JOB "WOEK IN THE NEATEST MANNER AND AT THE LOWEST RATES. mount, Bat Not Blunt. Wilson Mirror. The jail is M T. No noise annoys us now. A boil is indeed a swell affair. A wounded vanity is hard to dress. The human, nose oft comes to blows. A cat has nine lives, and some times a little kit-ten. Money close but not quite close enough for us to reach it Roosters crow to show their spirit of hen thusiasm. The members of a hrasa band should be taught by private footers. Even the most poverty stricken V-ofe! proprietor is inn-dependent Don't fret and fume and fuss and ferment. Never trouble troubles unless trouble troubles you. Love is that golden latch key which hangs on on the outside, aud lets in happiness to every heart When you hear the rushing cur rent of profanity you can rest as sured that a dam has given away. Kindness and cheerfulness cart remove remove more than half the wrinkles out of the forehead of age. To reach the height of our ambi tion is like trying to reach the rain bow ; as we advance it recedes. Some patients try the patience of their physicians, and particularly so wheu they become pay shants. Honeyed endearment and devoted ministry are precious buds which are found on the flowers of lov. Friars beer wards off the bier, and people drink it without fear, for it puts flesh upon the bones, and to all its good cheer loans." True refinement doe3 not tolerate or countenance indecent or indeli cate insinuations, it matters not by whom proclaimed; and modesty will blush and be shocked at it, even though it be uttered in the sacred desk. When the impassioned Mr. Tuttle in a glowing burst of eloquence,, said "blue is the favorite color of Nature, for we see the distant mountain tops are blue, the far off sky is blue, the landscape too is blue." Just then our visitor whispered "And the winds blew, and if Mr. Tuttle had the La Grippe like some his nose would be blew too. Exodus Agents "Dusting. Newberne Journal. Exodus agents have had a "set back" down this way. In fact, one fellow had to "dust" himself the other day. A number of citizens got tired of the meddling of the ;ents with our laborers and the disturbance they cause by making great promises to the colored peo ple and then failing to fulfill these promises, causing in some instances , sacrifices of situations by the colored people and a state of general rest lessness among them, and determin ed to stop it. So when a certain emigration agent put in an appear ance here on Tuesday night he was terviewed by a number of gentlemen and calmly advised not to try to take any more colored people from this town or county. The fellow didn't like to "cave in" for (wa hear) there is money in the bus iness; but on being earnestly ad vised to comply with the wishes of the gentlemen by leaving on the train the next day for Goldsboro, he consented to do so. He went, but on the evening train he and two others came back to Core Creek, thinking, perhaps, that they would not be bothered again. "Peg Leg'' was also expected to come down to the city, and a party of gentlemen were at the depot to receive him. but he didn't come. As soon aa the gentlemen heard of the agents being at Core Creek they procured a train and went up there. The exodus agents recived another dose of wholesome advice. They left yes terday morning for Goldsboro, leav ing a number of would-be exo dusters at Core Creek. It is thought that "Peggy" and his crowd will not try this county again. The Time Arouud the Earth. - Boston Transcript. A French savant has calculated the time required for a journey around the earth, and has obtainel the following results: A man. walking day and night without rest ing, would tak3 428 days ; an ex press traiC-30 days; sound, at a me dium temperatue, 32 hours ; a can non ball, 21 i hours; light, a little over one-tenth of a second, and elec tricity, passing over a copper wire, a lit:.'e under one-tenth of a second.
The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
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Feb. 21, 1890, edition 1
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