T H E S T A H D & R D,
LA HG EST PAPER
pit hushed in concord.-
C(l i Vl'AIXS MOKE READING
MATTER TIIAX ANY OTIIEf:
1A PER IX TllIS SECTION.
FARM ESI STt:RRI-VS FLOPS.
IJoston Globe.
Yes, squire, I bought this farm of
mine
Just v.Il v the war was done,
And, though I say it, a purtier farm
The sun don't fhir.e upon
I paicl three thousand dollars down,
An' I've worked both night and
day,
An' iigsrered au' twisted the best I
knew,
Tcr make the blamed thing pay-
My wife and I got vp at five.
An worked td! nine at night;
"We've done the best that we knew
how
Tor make things come oat right.
But tumps somehow have backward
slid
Instid of goi' ahead,
An' I'll be dashed if I don't wish
Sometimes that I was dead.
They say our butter is the best
Tnat's made in this 'ere town,
But ali we git at Jones' store
Is thirteen cents a poun'.
Our wool is down tcr twenty two,
Our beef is four cents, dressed;
An' eggs so cheap they hardly pay
For the wear and tear of nest.
The speakers in the last campaign
AU promised better times.
An' said if the pesky Dimercrats
won
Our dollars would turn to dimes.
They said Pertection would fix us
right;
Bat cxiviienee teaches mo
That the more Pertection we farm
ers git
The wusser of? we be.
I've alters leen a Republican;
An' voted the ticket straight,
An' I blowed for Benjamin Harrison
In eighteen eighty eight
Tiia.es can't be wuss if wo hate a
change,
S ) now what I'm goiu' ter do
Is ter vote for G rover Cleveland
In eighteen niuetyvtwo.
Tw Picture.
Courier .Tmunul.
The Republican party when in
control of the Hou?e has chosen the
following spektrs:
Kcbuyler LVifax.
Jam.-s G. Blaine.
Wa- ren Keifer.
Thorns B. Reed.
The Cr.lit Mobilier scandals
drove Schuyler Colfax from public
life.
The iyIIuj; of Mr. Blaine in con
neciivMi wth ceitan bills before the
House co.-.t him the Presidential
nomi la.i'.'n f his own party three
times, aiiti defeated him when nomi
nated. Warren Ki.-ifer's conduct in the
c hair dig;i?ted !iis own party, and
ended lii-i pol't'cal existence. '
The Democrats when "in control
of the House have chosen the follow
ing speakers:
Michael Kerr.
Samuel J Randall.
John G. Carlisle.
Mr. Kerr d'ed from overwork aud
the results of a strict performance of
his duty. His conduct in the chair
won for him. the honest praise of
friend and foe.
.Samuel J. Randal was firm, cour
teous aud exceedingly zealous of the
rights of the minority. His conduct
reflected high honor on his party.
John G. Carlisle presided with the
d'gnity and the impartiality of a
JiuWe. No man on the Supreme
Bench was ever freer from partisan
rubngs than was Speaker Carlisle.
With Carlisle in the chair it ceased
to be a partisan oflice; and was cloth
ed with the dignity of the judiciary.
Mr. Reed ii bent on making a
record that will link his name with
every deed of violence against the
constitution, and every scheme of
co mptlun directed against the treas
ury. His two years in the chair
will stand as a perpetual warning
a.iiust putting a jester in a place of
such power. The Democrats car
v.eli a Kurd to conduct the Congres
iioa d campaign in the fall upon the
ree rdf f the Republican and of the
Deiiiocraiie Speakers of the House.
They I'.iH an.t on u Wnjr-r.
Ro.mi:, X. Y.. Feb. 1?. The glass
eati ig co.itest between James Fyvie,
of this city, and "William Delavantie,
of Ottawa. C.nada, for $30 a side,
wa' held in the village of Oneida on
Saturday evening. After the con
testants hud ciucn for about forty
five minutes Delavantie became ex
hausted, and a pit ce of gla33 cut his
tongue, causing it to bleed profuse
ly. Fyvie had eaten nine ounces
of glas3 and the looser eight ounces.
Many men from Ceutral XTew York
were present and all were satisfied
that the performance was not a
fraud. O.ily the clear white glass
was used. Mr. Fyvie says the reason
that colored g ass is not used is be
cause the fluid employed in colo
ing it is poiconous. Another match
between Fyvie and Delavantie will
be arranged soon.
VOL. III. NO. 6.
An Appeal to the Sor.h.
Cojrier Journal.
The people of the North do not
fully understand the anxiety that
has been caused throughout the
Southern country by the recent pro
ceedings in Congress.
As far as pension bills, subsidies
and other jobs are coucerne 1, the
Southern peeple can stand this kind
of legislation as well as the people
of the North. They are now paying
their due proportion of an animal
pension tax of $100,000,000, little
or none of wh'ch is received by the
Southern States, and making no
comp'aiut.
Bet the spirit of the Republican
caucus, the arbitrary and dictato
rial course of the Speaker of the
House, and the united support he
receives from the Republican mem
bers on the floor, iucl tiding such
men as Butterworth aud Mchiuley,
excite amoug the Southern people a
feeling of apprehension that may
soon deepen into a1 arm.
We well understand that these
extraordinary means are resorted to
ouly for some extraordinary pur
pose. Manifestly it is something
different from the tariff and pension
subsidies, or even the Blair bill.
When the Republican caucus de
termines, practically, to suspend
ever constitutional restriction im
posed upou the will of the majority
in order to unseat Democratic mem
bers and increase the number of
Republican votes in this Cougress,
this same organization will not hesi
tate to go greater leugths to secure,
if possible, the control of the next
House of Repaesentatives.
Manifestly this is the purpose of
recent proceedings in Congress.
Warniug was given months ago by
Sherman and Chandler in the Sen
ate. Orders to the Republican
members of tha House of Represen
tatives were issued by Mr. Quay, of
Pennsylvania. Their purpose is to
give the absolute control of the
Congressional electiou3 in the
Southern. States, not simply to the
Government of tie United States,
but to the Lieutenants of Mr. Quay,
who are in the pay of the Republi
can Campaign Committee.
Recent speeches in the Senate,
notably that of Mr. Ingalls, and the
course of the Republican members
of the House show the desperation
of these revolutionists and deepen
the conviction that we are to have
another era of reconstruction and
Federal domination in local affairs.
Eyer since President Hayes with
drew the Federal troops from the
Southern States, an active and ag
gressive minority of Republican
reactionists have been stirring up
sectional strife and denouncing every
measure of reconciliation.
Just so far as these reactionists
have lost power in the North they
seek to regain it by force and fraud
in the South.
The faH of Foaker in Ohio and
the discomfiture of Mr. Halstead
will not in the least lessen this agi
tation of revolutionary measures on
the part of the members of Congress.
The more certain it becomes that
the Democrats will control the next
House the more determined will he
these conspirators to use every means,
fair or false, to prevent such a con
summation.
For years they have beeu attempt
ing to bribe the Southern States
with the Blair bill, and this measure
has induced a number of Democratic
Senators to waive their opposition
to Federal domination in local affairs
with the hope of securing from the
Federal treasury some seven or
eight million dollars annually for
ten years.
The bill was never intended as a
means or education. lhe purpose
of it is the destruction of local
institutions, to make way for the
further extention of Federal power,
Back of Mr. Blair the Greek bear
ing gifts st..nd Mr. Chandler with
his bludgeou, Mr. Ingalls with his
torch, and Mr. Sherman with his
sbot-gun.
During the past twelve years the
material progress of the Southern
States has been without a parallel.
Millions of dollars has been invest
ed in industrial enterprises, and mil
lions of immigrants have moved to
our cheap lands and warmer cPmate,
adding to our wealth, ur power
our prestige and happiness. T
iNine out ot ten or tnese immi
grants have become thoroughly
identified with the Southern people
and they propose.to deal as the peo
ple of the South do, with all local
ana race problems, and separate
themselves, as a matter of course,
from the revolutionary organization
which now controls the Republican
party.
These people see plainly the ef
fect of continued agitation of sec
H
tional questions ; they understand
fully the effect of such measures as
those of Sherman and Chandler, and
such suggestions as those that come
from Senator Ingalls.
If these men in the Senate, led by
Boss Quay, are to be. re-inforced by
McKiudley, Butterworth and Reed
in the House, and are to be given
absolute control of Federal legisla
tion aud Federal patronage; if the
electoral bills are to become laws
and Federal Marshals are to be
placed at every voting precinct in
the South, it means that we are to
return to the period of reconstruc
tion and carpet bag domination.
It is not necessary to further en
large upon the situation. The
Courier-Journal simply presents the
picture to the people of the North
and makes its appeal to the intelli
gence and patriotism of all men,
regardless of sectional lines or party
associations.
If the Northern people will speak
now in opposition to this policy, as
they spoke in '77 in support of
President Hayes' withdrawal of the
troops, this conspiracy will come to
naught.
On the contrary, if they are sileut,
indifferent or timid, Quay, Chandler
aud Reed will carry out their
schemes, will spread dissention
everywhere, will disorganize busi
ness, will overthrow local institu
tions, will put a stop to further
progress of education, and will give
us, iu place of a happy and prosper
ous country, a great section domi
nated by outside influences, its local
affairs controlled at Washington, its
offices filled by negroes and carpet
baggers and it3 industrial growth
interrupted.
The effect of such a course i3 not
confined to one sectiou. The pros
tration of the South from 1868 to
1S77 had a tremendous influence at
the North, and it was this influence
that finally awakened the Northern
conscience and compelled fair play
to all the people.
A I;1umc Panacea.
Indianapolis Journal. ,
The Chinese consider ginseng
their most valuable vegetable reme
dy, a superstition that has redounded
to the profit of many a Hoosier, for
China offers a ready market for all
that can ever be dug in this State.
They readily pay in New York $30
an ounce for the real Coreau article
a medicine, and 2.oO tor ours,
ar.d of course one is often substi
tuted for the other. The very word
is a Chinese one, signifying "the
power of man, so called because it is
supposed by them to iucrease virility.
And all this is because of the fre
quent fanciful resemblances of some
roots to the human body, legs and
all. The hunting of these roots is
pursued with all the ardor of gold
seeking. Large and choice sped
mens are carefully preserved in em
broidered cover1 rigs and enclosed in
cases of varying sizes, the whole be
ing locked in brass-bmnd chests, an
extraordinarily fi"e specimen being
valved at $ 500, and this for a paltry
root named by us Panax, and classed
as ateeble tonic stimulant, and in a
country where a human life is not
valued at the paltry price of the
rice it take3 to sustain it.
lie Saw the Weather.
The Argonaut.
There was once a Scotch farmer
famed for his strength, who was of
ten challenged by people from a dis
tauce who had heard of his reputa
tion. One day there arrived from
London Lord "D., a well-dnown am
eteur pugilist. He found the Scot
working in a field. "Friend," said
his lordship, after first tying his
horse to a tree, "I have come a long
wav to see which of us i3 the best
wrestler." Without sayiug a word
the farmer seized him round the
middle, pitched him over the hedge
and resumed Ins work. His lord
ship slowly gathered himself togeth
er, whereupon the farmer said,
"Well, have you anything more to
sav to mer "JNo, ' replied Lord D.,
"but perhaps you'll be so kind as to
throw me my horse.
It Wasn't n Coon,
Bill Arp's Letter.
It is astonishing how a big thing
away off .can turn into a little thing
close by, and vice versa. Albert
fctPCKiaou toiu me tnat lie Knew a
feller to shoot niue times at a coon
in the fork of a very high "poplar
trre and nobody could see the coon
but him. Albert says that at last
an idea struck him, and he went
close up to the feller, as he was load
ing his n file for another shot, and
he discovered a littly fuzzy animal
tanking to a hair on his eyebrow
TT I i 1 ? a 1 ? . I i
lie ornsneu ii on wiin a straw, and
the fellow couldn't find the coon
anymore. The little animal belong
ed in his head, but had strayed off
on an exploring expedition and was
teaching the young idea how to
shoot. Albert didn't say who the
fellow was, but I have alwavs had
my opinion.
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 528.
Questions for Oar Congressmen.
Old Fogy In Progressive Farmer.
What induced our fore-fathers to
rebel against Eugland? Was it not
oppression? Did not our fore-fathers
build a government where "the
greatest good to the greatest number"
was the paramount idea? Are not
your methods radically different? Do
you consider the wants of the people
the laborer and farmer or the
wants and wishes of the manufac
turer, the banker and railroad mag
nates? Do yon send for farmers to
testify before your investigating
committees, or for bankers and man
ufacturers?
Do you heed the cries that go up
from the farmer and laborer, as ex
pressed in their demands in their
papers or do you bow down aud
worship before the golden calf your
modern Aarons have made for you?
Was it not the policy of the farm
ers of this government to give homes
to the people?
What have you done?
Have you not given their homes to
syndicates, to railroad companies;
and bate you not allowed those who
have fought against us, who have
with purse, brain and life opposed
the freedom of the people to come
here and buy our lands, and thus
prevent the people who gave their
treasures and blood from having
free homes? How long will free
homes be possible under the policy
you have inaugurated?
Was it not the primitive policy , of
our government to issue and coin
money for all the people?
What have you done?
Have you not given to banks that
power, you only reserving the power
of printing it?
Have you not thus evaded the
spirit of the Constitution?
Do you now contemplate passing
a Jaw to prevent the coinage of silver?
Is this the policy our fore-fathers
inaugurated or one entirely opposite?
Have you not taxed the people aud
then hoarded the money wrung from
them in your vaults, and when your
vaults were full to overflowing, have
you not loaned the people's mouey to
corporations? and these corporations
were by you empowered to loan the
people's money to themselves at as
high a rate as could be wruug from
them, while you are paying these
corporations 4 to 4i per cent, for
mouey; you reloan this borrowed
money to your corporate pets at 1 per
cent, aud follow this by making de
posit3 equal to your loans at no
charge at all.
Is not this the worst class legisla
tion on record ?
jjo you not Know tnat an panics
and hard times come aud come only
from restricted currency ?
Do you know that trusts force the
price of all commodities higher and
your most lntamous money trust
is forcing rates higher and higher
than ever before ? Do you know
that this power has made iu the
short space of four honra in one day
greenbacks depreciate more in value
than the South did in four years of
war r
Did it not take the best of seenri-
ty to borrow money at 40 per cent.
in Wall street, N. Y., and within
the last month, thus depreciating a
dollar in four hours to as low a rate
as it ever touched ?
Do yon not know that whenever
a Black Friday occurs that the gov
ernment pours out millions to pre
vent the smaller merchant and man
ufacturer from being driven into
the ranks of the desperate ?
Do you know that if ten millions
stop a panic, that a hundred mil
liou3 would do ten times as much
ana a Diinon one nunarea times as
much good ? .
Do you not know that if the Na
iionai.inueDtness were paia in cur
rency, the debt would be no greater
than now ?
Do yon not know that it would
save the people fifty millions yearly
in interest.
Do you not know that money is
sued on railroad or municipal in.
debtedness, or mortgages, is no bet
ter than issued on a chattle mort
gage on products of the soil ? .
Do you not know that your pet
banks will not take real property
for security, but demand persona
security just the same we offer ?
Do you not know that 1,000 hales
of cotton is better security than
mile of railroad ?
You do know that product certifi
cates would aid the farmer while
certificates based on indebtedness in
jures him at least to the extent of
his part of the interest.
You do know that in 18G2-3-4
the issuing of money enabled this
government to prosecute the most
expensiye war of modern times, and
chat the great abundance of money
then in the country built np manu-
T AND ARB.
facturing more than all the tariffs
have ever done.
.- M i . , . . .
ivnowing ints, ana mat all our 4-
periods of great prosperity were
those when money was abundant,
and all periods of "depression were
years w hen the currency was limited,
.why do you not give the: struggling
farmer and laborer as good a chance
as you do those who do not fight the
country's battles:
Why do you not take the silver
from the vaults and pay it to those
yon robbed when you taxed cotton
$15 a bale and incomes of $1,000
and upwards ?
Yon say you can't get silver out
into circulation. Pay the people
in these dollars you took from them
and see how easily it will get into
circulation.
The truth is, you know all these
facts, and I am sorry to have to say
you seem to care no more for the
poople you seem to heed their- de
mands no more than King George
did, and you may discover as he did,
some day, that the people will not
quietly suffer such unjust oppression.
Washington, D. C.
A Friendly Joke.
Cincinnati Times.
Some time ago a young married
man, named Johnson, in Chicago,
who was drawing a liberal salary,
told his devoted wife that every $2
bill that came to him in change
should be her3 for pm money.
Gradually Mr. Johnston's friends
learned of the promise and began to
conspire to help out the popular
young married lady. If they owed
their friend anything they would in
variably pay him in $2 bills. Finally
they got to borrowing from him on
purpose to liquidate in $2 bills, and
still unsuspecting Mr. Johnston
continued to allow the $2 bills to
flow into the willing lap of his bet
ter half. Finally the cashier of the
firm that employed him learned of
the generous promise, and he, too
entered the conspiracy, and on the
next pay day handed Mr. Johnson a
11 that staggered him. Every dol
lar of it was in the denomination of
two." Sweating under the burden
the rcpentent husband wended his
way homeward. "Mary," he said,
as he met her at the door, "I've got
to break my promise with you, for
the government at Washington ha3
ceased to print any money but in $2
bill denominat'.on. All the Y's and
X's, doublet's, L's and C's are be
ins rapidly sent to the paper mills
to be re-issued' as two dollar bills.
Gold and silver have gone out of
circulation entirely. Nothing left
but coppers and 2 dollar bills. If
you don't believe it, see this roll of
bills I was paid to-day. Sorry as I
am to do do it, I've got to break my
promise with you or else go into
bankruptcy. Can't we compromise
the matter by giving you fifty dol
lars a week ?" They compromised.
Crippled Congressmen.
Atlanta Constitution.
There is only a single one-legged
member of the. House Mr. Stone,
of Kentucky. In the Senate,however,
there are three Senators Berry, of
Arkansas, and Hampton and Butler,
of South Carolina. However, the
two latter wear cork legs and -their
condition is riot visible. There is
not a one-armed man in the Senate,
but in the House there are two
Col. Oates, of Alabama, and Gen.
Hooker, of Mississippi. Col. Oates
ha3 lost his right arm, Gen. Hooker
his left The story goes that they
buy tlieir gloves together. One pair
does for both. Georgia has both the
heaviest and the lightest men on the
floor of the House Major Barnes is
the heaviest by fully 100 pounds,
Mr. Candler is the smallest in either
house. There is another peculiarity
about Mr. Candler. Since he went
into the war he has never worn a
pair of shoes. He will wear noth
ing but the old style boot.
Kew POMtMKe Stamps.
News & Observer.
The new stamps are on sale today
all over the country at offices where
they have been received. They are
rather smaller than those heretofore
in use.
The ono cent stamp is blue, show
ing the profile bust of Benjamin
Franklin.
The two cent stamp is carmine,
bearing the bust of Washington.
The three cent stamp is purple
aud the figure is Andrew Jackson.
The four cent, chocolate, Lincoln.
The five cent, light brown, Grant.
The six cent, Garfield. Ten ceut,
Webster. Fifteen cent, Clay. Thir
ty cent, Jefferson, and the ninety
cent, Commodore Perry.
There is but one survivor of the
class of '28 at West Point, in which
Jefferson Davis graduated Gen
Robert Clary.
IS)0.
The Farmer's Alliance.
Atlanta Journal.
The history of the world shows
that greedy and aggressive men have
always sought to use the masses for
their own benefit. . The people have
maintained their rights only by re
sistance. These masses have in view
nothing but their own liberty and
their own rights, and in contests
political or otherwise have ever
been the main support of free insti
tutions and personal liberty.
In times of peace a thirst for pow
er shows itself in the aggressions of
capital. Men with far more money
than they need, or than can add to
their comforts or luxuries, for the
mere satisfaction of accumulating
millions, are ready to lay the heavi
est burdens on those toilers who
bear the heat and the burdens of the
day. We have it from the highest
authority that "the laborer is worthy
of his hire." The fruits of the
earth and the comforts that are pro
duced by labor should not be monop
olized by the few. Certainly there
is something wrong in that system
which allcws such unusual concen
tration of wealth as has been witness
ed in this country in recent years.
The wealth of the country has been
passing into the hands of the few at
a rate that the masses do not dream
of, until now we are confronted by
the startling problem: Shall the
people or the money kings be the
masters of this country? On one
side stand the people with no aim
but to be free, virtuous, prosperous
and happy. On the other-side stands
capital organized into trusts and
monopolies, with no aim but to se
cure an erpiial share of the products
of the country. The power of or
ganized money to throw the rights
and the will of the people cannot be
over estimated.
Farmers especially have felt the
burden of our system of tariff taxa
tion, and they will feel the burden
of every form of trust. The great
railroad trust recently formed will
oppress thorn more, perhaps, than
any other class, decreasing the pri
ces of what they sell and increasing
the prices of what they buy. It was
organized to make dividends abso
lutely certain, rain or shine. Crops
may fail but railroad trusts, being a
monopoly, will see to it that its own
dividends are forthcoming.
Feeling as we do about this mat
ter, it has been with rejoicing that
we noted the growth of the Farmers'
Alliance in Georgia, an organization
with which can neither be purchased
or duped. The purpose is the pro
tection of the masses. It is the op
ponent of every form of oppression
from the tariff system organized by
party, the tool and creature of the
money power, to every form of
trust or monopoly or robbery that
these latter days have brought us
lie Cheated Death.
Glens Falls, N. Y., Feb. 20.
Toot! toot! toot! shrieked the whis
tle of a locomotive as the iron steed
dashed around a curve near River
street this afternoon. The engineer
was causing the warning notes to
echo and re-echo, and at the same
time he tried to check the monien
turn of the heavy train, for, lying on
the track, only a short distance
ahead, wa3 a woman. It was Mrs,
Martha Nelson, an old resident of
Sandy Hill, who, falling while step
ping on the ties, had received inju
ries that for the time prevented her
rising.
As the train was almost upon her
she was seen by Robert Fennel, a lad
only fourteen years of age. The
boy jumped to her assistance aud
tugged lustily to get her out of the
danger.
The train was within a few feet.
The engineer hid his face with one
hand aud held the other upou the
throttle. Witlra desperate tug and
push the boy rolled Mrs. Nelson
from the track and fell to the
ground in a dead faint. The engin
eer stopped his train beyond the
spot, ran back, found that the pair
were uninjured, and then went on
with a joyful toot-toot-ot and a
lighter heart. Both boy and woman
were taken to their homes. Tne
former soon recovered. Mrs. Nelson
was found'to have sustained a dislo
cation of the shoulder and also in
ternal injuries, but she is not con
sidered fatally hurt.
Raleigh News aud Observer:
We
are reliably informed by ageutleman
of this city who has direct informa
tion that there ha3 not been and will
not be any transfer of the Egypt
Coal Company property as has been
rumored. On the contrary they are
adding extensively to their machine
ry and are going into the mining of
the coal on-a larger scale than ever,
and the quality of the coal a3 it is
being developed is richer and more
valuable and abundant than eyer.
WHOLE NO. 130.
Stephen Alleu's Pocket Piece.
The Hon. Stephen Allen, who had
been Mayor of New Yo-k, was
drowned from on board the Henry
Clay. In his pocketbook was found
a printed slip, apparently clipped
from a newspaper, a copy . of which
is given below. It looked worn, as
if it had often been read. It is
worthy to be remembered and acted
on by every young man.
"Keep good company or none.
Never be idle. If your hands can't
be usefully employed, attend to the
cultivation of your mind. Always
tell the truth. Make few promises.
Lve up to your engagements. Keep
your own secrets if you have any.
When you speak to a person, look
him in the face. Good company and
conversation are the yery sinews of
virtue. Good character is above all
thing3 else. Your character cannot
be essentially injured except by your
own acts. If anyone speak evil of
you let your life be so that none will
believe him. Drink no kind of in
toxicating liquors. Ever live (mis
fortune excepted) within your incom.
When you retire to bed, think over
what you have been doing during
the day. Make no haste to get rich
if you would prosper. Small and
steady gains give competency with a
tranquil mind. Never play at any
game of chance. Avoid temptation,
through fear you may net withstand
it. Earn money before you spend it.
Never run into debt unless you see a
way to get out again. Never borrow
if you can possibly avoid it. Do not
marry until you are able to support
a wife. Never speak evil of any one.
Be just before you are generous.
Keep yourself iunocent if you would
be happy. Save when you are young
to spend when you are old. Read
over the above maxims at least
once
a week"
Mystery In Jloorc Cwuiity.
Carthage, N. C, Jan. 2S. News
reaches here today of a mysterious
affair in Moore county. It is report
ed that an old negro by the name of
Joel had a dream to the effect that
under a certain pine tree was buried
about ei"ht feet in the ground silver
money to the amount of $700. Joel
i3 an honest old negro and on the
morning after he had his lemarka-
ble dream he went to the man who
owned the land and told him about
it. The man did not place any faith
in Joel's story, but went with him
to the place and remained while he
dug down for the treasure. The
land owner was surprised when the
negro began to dig around a jar in
the ground. It was taken out, the
mouey counted, which came up to
the amount specified in the mysteri
our dream. From all indications
the jar had been buried many years.
None of the money dates later than
1851. Atlanta Constitution.
The above item was sent to this
paper by the editor of the Statesville
Landmark who has been making an
effort to put a stop to the sending
out from North Carolina to such a
newspaper as the Atlanta Constitu
tion and New York papers, such
sensational and lying reports. There
is not a word of truth in the above
item, and some fellow in Charlotte
originated the whole story and it i3
by imposing such stories upon news
papers outside of the State that he
is making a livelihood. Such cor
respondents are manufacturing infa
my for the State, and infamy that is
doing much harm, and the State
press should issue a search warrant
for such fellows and have them
publicly marked and punished.
Central Express.
. Seed Corn 4,OUO Years Old.
St. Louis Republic.
During the season of 1889 a most
remarkable crop was raised by David
Drew, at Plymouth, N. II. In 1888
Mr. Drew came into possession ot
some corn grains found wrapped
with a mummy in Egypt, supposed
to be 4,000 year3 old. These were
planted and grew. It had many of
the characteristics of real corn; the
leaves were alternate; it grew to be
over six feet feet high; the mid ribs
were white; but the product of the
stock, there is where the curiou3
part come3 in. lustestd of growing
in an ear like modern maize, it
hung in heavy clusters at the top,
on spikelets; there was no tassel; no
silk; each sprig was thickly studded
with grains, eao provided with a
separate husk, like wheat grains.
Tbe Earth Inside tne Sun.
New York Journa1.
If the sun was a hollow sphere
the earth could be placed in the cen
ter of it, with the moon moving
round it at its mean distance of
237,000 miles, and there would sti 1
be more than 200,000 miles between
j the moon and the edge of the sun.
THE STHI1DMD.
WE DO ALL KINDS OF
JOB "WOEK
IN THE
.YEA TEST MANNER
AND AT
THE LOWEST RATES.
Tenacity r X.Ile.
X. Y. Ledger.
P appears from the gathered sta
tistics of the world that women have
a greater tenacity of life than men.
Nature worships the female in all
its varieties. Among insects the
male perishes at a' relatively earlier
period. In plants the semiuate
blossoms die earliest and are pro
duced on the weaker limbs. Female
quadrupeds have more endurance
ban males. In the human race
despite the intellectual and physi
cal strength of the man, the woman
endures longest aud w ill bear pain
to which the strong man succumbs.
Zymotic diseases are more fatal to
males, and more male children die
than females.
Deverga asserts that the propor
tion dying suddenly is about one
hundred women to seven hundred
and eighty men; one thousand and
eighty men in the United States in
18T0 committed suicide, to two hun
dred and eighty-five women. In-
temperence, apoplexy, gout, hydro
cephalus, affections of the heart and
liver, scrofula and paralysis are far
more fatal to males than females.
Pulmonary consumption, on the
other hand, is more deadly to the
latter. Females in cities are mere
prone to consumption than in tho
country. All old countries not dis
turbed by emigration have a great
majority of females in the popula
tion. Iu royal families the statis
tics sLow more daughters than sons.
The Hebrew woman is exceptionally
long-lived ; the colored man is ex
ceptionally short-lived. The mar
ried state is favorable to prolongna
tion of life among women. Dr.
Hugh proclaims that there are from
two to six per cent, more males
born than females in the living pop
lation. From which statistics we
conclude that all women ought to
marry, and that, as men are likely to
become so scarce, they cannot be
sufficiently prized by the other sex.
A Good Story About And jcw Jackson,
Centenary.
A very good story comes to na
about Andrew Jackson. A board
ing house keeper at Washington had
permitted a clerk in one of the
departments to run up a large
boarding bill. The clerk moved to
another place, and refused payment.
The poor woman, finding all other
attempts to collect useless, called
one morning at the White House
kind stated her case to the President.
The President told her to go to the
clerk, get a note payable in thirty
days, aud bring it to him. When
she brought it he took a pen and
wrote on the back, Andrew Jackson,
and told her to put it in a bank for
collection. In due time the clerk
was notified by the bank. - He paid
no attention to the notice until un
til a friend asked him if he knew
who had endorsed the note. He re
plied that he did not believe any
body would be fool enough to en
dorse his note. Hi3 friend told him
that the endorser was Andrew Jack
son. The clerk lost no time in get
ting the money aud paid the note.
A few days after he received notice
that his services were no longer
needed in the department.
Ten Health Jou'ts.
Courier Journal.
A popular physician was recently
called on by a friend, to whom, in
the course of conversation, he said :
"There are ten simple precautions
which form an excellent rule of
life, and if people would but ob
serve them, I should have to resort
to some other means of making a
livelihood." The then enumerated
the following : Don't read in street
cars or other jolting vehicles. Don't
pick the teeth with pins or other
hard substance. Don't neglect any
opportunity to insure a variety of
food. Don't eat or drink hot and
cold things in succession. Don't
pamper the appetite with such va
riety of food that may lead to ex
cess. Don't read, write or do any
delicate work unless receiving the
light from the left side. Don't
direct special mental or physical
energies to more than eight hours'
work in each day. Don't keep the
parlor dark unless you value your
carpet more than your and your
children's health. Don't delude
yourself into the. belief that you are
an exception so far as sleep is con
cerned; the nominal average of
sleep is eight hours. Don't en
deavor to rest the mind by absolute
inactivity; let it rest in work in
other channels, and thus rest the
tired part of the brain.
Doctor "Well my fine little fel
low, you have got quite well again !
was Bure that the pills I left for
you would cure you. How did yon
take them, in water or in cake ?'
Ob, I used them in my blowgun