North Carolina Newspapers

TTi STilDABD. Thukpdat, February 12, 1891 Huaher Subscribers, 16B3 WoTHKK PAPE't EVER HAD AS 1.XHUK A (1KHHTIOX IX THE t'orvrv. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Amano ye Takin Notes and Faith He'll Phent Them.'J I'niiillv Ki'lnlionH Wanted. If there is any oue in Cabarrus by the name of Clarke or Meacham or lloldbrooks. connected with or re la id toWiPiuin D. Bangle.who went to Texas 18 or 20 years ago, they will phase report to this office. M m m This is Onr Report Since Feb. 5lh- NEW SVBSCKIUKRS TO WEEKLY Will Morris. V. C. Griffin, L. P. lr. ughton, J. W. X' isenheimer, 0. J. Misenhrinier. E. X. Hen in, H. L. Litakcr "even. SUBSCRIPTIONS PAID Pank-1 Pipe, M. 0. Rhinelmrdt, Oo. lV.ib.e, S. W. Winecoir, U. C. (io'Kl-i.au. T. B. (lOi'dman, .Monroe Dove, J nte- K. P. aton, D. C. Pay- v.tnli, J. II. M. Rogers The R. A . Railroad. The directors of the R. fc S. rail road met in Winston on Saturday. The meeting was to let out the con tract for grading the last division of the road between Winston and Roan oke. w hich is a distance of only six teen miles. I here we e quite a number of bidders. The contract whs let. It is not known how soon the work m the in;;J tontli of Win. bton will begin. Ollirr Mate Tor Slock. Mr. Linn Krw;.. nas returned from Washington county, Tenn., where he boujnt twenty-two head of mules. Thny are amorg the finest ever brought to this county. Mr. Erwin had a right to go to Tennessee for the mules, and there is probably a necessity for sending off for stock. Put should that necessity exist ? Is there any reason for it.' The time has come when this county must (as it can) raise its own stock. Wby Men are Paid Higher Wages. The higher wages are paid to men to keep them from stealing, lien smoke and drink. Women don't. Men must have money to buy whis key and cigars, which amount women do" not need. If men's wages are not sufficient to buy what they will have, they default or embezzle or steal the deficiency. Women don't mvd it and then-fore don't get it. Hickory Carolinian. That" seems to be a false explana tion. All men don't drink and use tobacco. How do you dispose of the condition of the editor he gets no uig wages. They Succeeded. Maj. Love, the gentleman that laughs at locks and makes faces ar parental doors, scored another Sat urday evening. Mr. Will Woods and Miss" Minn.e Davis pledged their lives in matrimonial bliss. They came down from Forest Hill to the residence of Mr. Lentz. Marrying Justice Willeford was calbd in and tied the knot. It is rumored around town that, an elloit is beinir madi- to have all magistrates ear.'t pray at marriage cereuionie . ;ik out license. If snob s the ease, the report goeo o:i, t h officer can mike out license for -Mi.-iice Willeford. All About Incubat r anil Chicken. Chalmers Sims, the young gen-ns, has i't his incubator agaiu. This time he loads it with fifty eggs. Chalmers a:so runs several liens in the hatching business; hut he cures for the brood aa soon v. h itched, and starts th hens off again. In this connei tion, it would be interesting to know just how long a hen will survive in the "setting" business. Treasurer Sims relates: I covered up a setting hen with new hay ; for weeks and weeks I used the hay, until the hen was uncovered ; '.Jive, -yes alive, but pale a death. 'I vasurer Sims asserts hat the hen uea t Tanner in the fasting project. mi A Sin ,JlnK Kicker in Man's Clothe. Theri was a genuine kicker in town on .Sunday, he kicked against everything he was a big, red-faced kicker. He kicked against the shave he got, against our streets (the mud), against the trade, against the hotel man because he didn't sit up all night, and he had the gall and cheek to kick against the II. & U. vestibule train. The Standard be ieves that old crank will kick when thev go to bury his dead carcaS3 in the" ground. He has a right, we reckon, to kick, but he miian't kick against paying three dollars extra fare on the 1L & D.'s vestibule bar- r..l Ox 1 1 I rooa. i tie manual u nas a. uuuii-iiil for a fellow who kicks about the innocent II. & D. the poor thing! A Finn Story that IsTrue. V. L. is a truthful man. He gives a Standard unn an account of tonic peculiar actions on the part of ' some fish that John Caldwell had broiigh here. The fish were all right Saturday, but Sunday night Pell went into the pantry, without a lamp. He was sttrtled, Pell was ! Pefore him lay the fish surrounded with the brightest illumination the light was brilliant, grand, beau fuful. When a lamp was brought ;in., the illumination disappeared, lint as soon a? the lamp wis tktfcfeiit, the golden IL'ht rested gently wul scenely over the pea-e jful tish. Pell declares that it was :a lovely tig At and the fish well je Loycotted ihem; he threw them Ufo the gardeo and covered them :i':f soil, l'he light is no more, but lBc.lt i troubled over the matter ciot tbeost of the fish, not the, lack f lwh fr Monday's breakfast yes, the's troubled. That light may h ivc a Jack o'-l intern, and it may have been some' hing els-; but the light wa? iheje, au 1 tM Stan lard klirea Mr. Bell's eUteme.it' SHORT LOCALS. Large congregations are reported at all the churches on Sunday. Artificial teeth are said to lengthen lifewalking will do that much. Mr. Hugh P. Johnston, of No. 1 township, is sick with pneumonia. With the reappearance of life in vegetation, let some appear else where. The internal revenue collections in Winston last week amounted to $13,340.07. This paper will print the photo graph of the ugliest man iu town at an early day. The Xews gives a very flattering account of the condition of Char lotte's Y. M. C. A. Miss Julia Magrud-r, the author ess, left for a short visit to friends in Castle Hill, Virginia. Dr. J. P. Gibson is having his two store rooms connected by the cutting of a door through the wall. The oschestra is preparing to give an entertainment. It ill doubt lessly be given within the next month. The reasons a lady, in Washing ton city, gave for naming her dog " MeKin ley bill " as that he was so -h a protection. If drunkenness is heredi ary, the Legislature ought to be petitioned to pass a law prohibiting drinking men from marrying. Winston base-ball men are arrang ing for some big gmes. Nothing is said about their arrangements for bufiness enterprise. II. T. Sawyer, manager of the Ileglar & Motley store at Bilesville, spent Sunday in town; he also met some drummers here. The chain-gang is in anti-mud quarters now. The members of that body are having a delightful time, or words to that effect. Mrs. John Moss has returned to her former position splendid sales lady in the dry goods department of the stor.' of Cannons & Eetzer. There whs a very delightful dance at the St. James' Monday night. The Standard returns thanks for a very kind invitation to be present. It is said that "tipping tite light fantastic toe" will soon play out and that in the course of several years, you will have to pay a man to dance. It is said that the mosquito has returned. Well, of "all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these": the mosquito is back at HIS OLD .IOH. The author of the beautiful and classical poem, " More Pain, More Pest," is not known. The Standard would print it, but this pauer says nothing about mud. Pev. Dr. Bavs, pastor of the M. E. Church, preached Sunday night on Reading." The doctor played quite a handsome compliment to the Press. We hear the sermon very highly spoken of. Miss Pnth Alexander, of Mecklen burg, is now teaching at the Stafford school "hor.s? in No. 1 township. Those people have just completed a good h use and are determined to have a good school. Col. James W. Long, ex-Representative of this county, in speaki'-ir of the sidewalks, as: "The pe rambulatious of the pedestrians alimina'es the txenogests of the asrranulus." To be ca- dil, e think i he colonel is about rig'tt. Mr. S. Knplev S' haeffer, forne-r y of he firm of Promt & Selmeffe'-, of this pi ce, nd t "On d' lie . Cr. F. Sehaeffer arrived in town Sundi nisf t. Mr. SchaeftVr was in the Johnstown floo I and n no vl es caped from being drowned. The people of the State will w -.nt to kuow, quite likely, why he iiiein oers allowed the Mr. Lobbynian to frame and dictare the " Railroad Commission Pill," reported by the committee. Or at least that's th impression that seems to be. Mr. D. P. Col rane, the cishier of the bank, was called to Guilford county, by the sickness of his mother. He may be gone for several 'ays. Captain Odell looks very natural and is verv efficient as the cashier of the bank in the absence of Mr. Coltrane Mr. P. B. Fetzer conducted the meeting at the Y. M. C. A. on Sun day. Mr. Fetzer's talk was an inter esting one. He said all men could not talk in public, etc., but they could live out their ideas of life. There is more merit in living good than talking good. The freight trains caused the ves tibule train to stop at the depot Monday evening. The freights were so long that they could not get on the side tracks, at all ; after flagging down the vestibule with torpedoes and a general shifting around the vestibule was able to get by. A young man, Winecoff, was in town and declared that it had rained in No. 4. The Standard would give some facts about it, but this paper does not say atiyting about rain and mud. Nobler, grander and more economic questions concerns us the railroad, for instance! The ugliest face we've seen for a lobg time was one on a boy that came out of a dentist s oihcc. Pe- sides beui!i ugly, it was emitins blood. Steel pinchers coming to wards an average American are cal culated to disfigure the usually amia ole countenance such people wear. Col. Ed. Fisher drained the alli gator pond and removed all the mud. that is the mud that contained the alligator es. He killed all the animals with a shovel. The little boys and little girls can go there now, and our policeman and others need not fear the pond the 'gators are all dead. "I can give you gas if you think the pain will be too great to endure, said a de l'ist to au old colored wo man wh dropprd in to have several teeth eu raced. "No, salil no. gati J" .8 te said angrilv. " You don't gib mj no gas an' hab me gi' up onten I it cheer an' walk homed ad No, ea i ; i reads de papers, I does!' Valentine day is coming up. People begin to say that it is lovely now, instead of saying that it is horrible. See the notice in another column of , sale of land, by Col. Paul B. Means, agent. The Charlotte Chronicle is im proving we are all improving, ex cept the pavements. Married at. Forest Hill, by Rev. II. M. Blair, Mr. W. J. Holtshouser to Miss Nannie M. Dent A bill to establish a graded school for Concord has been introduced by Reoresentative Hileman. The elm trees are budding. The rose leaves are green and the pave-1 ments are soft. Hurrah for us ! A gentleman took a large ther mometer the other day not home with him but for a clock of a new variety. Mr. Lee Sapp and Miss Annie Walter, of No. 5, will be married on the 12th, in Mt. Gilead church (Re formed). The Standard would like to pub lish some sidewalk news, including the mud, but this paper says nothing about mud. Mrs. Sidney Whitley, of Forest Hill, died Thursday night, of pneu monia. Mr. Whitley is quite ill with the same disease. Whr not sell the town cow, cart and driver ? Do it. invest the money in a saw mill, saw lumber and bridge the streets and pavements. Ed. Harris, the fellow that has a heart in him, has kindly offered to furnish the man of this print shop with a free ride once every week. James C. Willeford has accepted a position with Correll Brothers. There is no doubt that Jimmie will make a jeweler of the first water. Hon. A. F. Hileman came in Fri day eight for a short tay at home. Mr. Hileman is very unwell, having been suffering from an attack of grip. A young man, Erwin, from liar ribburg, reports the grain crop need ing rain, and the probability of a Land Improvement Company for his town. Jim Reeves, of the Mecklenburg chain gang, is not yet at liberty, as he is now in jail on another charge. The poor fellow is reaping some of his oats. A town mayor down in Texas at tempted to cane "Uncle Sam Jones," but the mayor got a licking at the hands of the preacher. Sam comes oat on top every time. Jimmie C. Fink, the efficient sec retary of this city, is said to have the bad fault of using an inferior article of chewinr gum. Fink says it is a medicated stuff. It is said that many a man started out in life as Jay Gould did, on fifty cents a day, but old Jay has also left "many a man." That is a great pity, but such is life anyway. Dr. Sam Montgomery has seen some snakey, mu silage-colored ani mals in the water, too. He says they have scales on 'em. these things are doubtless a species of shad. The string: band filled an engage ment, Wednesday night, to furnish music for the I hirfv-eihth Anni versary of Philalaethian Literary ocie'v, of Nor h Carolina College, at Mt. I'leastnt. Married in Concord, N. C, at the residence of J. S. Procto- on Fet ruarv 5, Mr John D. Rumage, of Ca'arrns county, to Miss Oharity A Shetrill, of Catawb.t county, Rev H. M. B'air officiating. China Gro e buvs and sells the rabbit skins, but our neighbor, Mt Pleas-tut, gets 'he e:gs of this coun try. lhe e is no wonder about thi- b cause the hen- the people use ov-r tnere are f a Putvh variety. Tlii vnii fnpl sri!nrlil ricrht. now ? jw.. . , . Now do von ? If you are a sub sen tier to this sheet, doubtless you do; but if von read it regular and a -e not a subscriber, then you must feel a little ''fictile, don t you ? The aged maiden lady being ask ed the oft-asked and never-answered question, " Is marriage a failure?" answered, "1 don t know about that, but many attempts m that directton have been signal failures, I should say." Mr. S. E, W. Pharr, a school teacher of the town, is nursing mean, ugly boil on his face just be low the eye. It has affected his eyes so much ana pained him so greatly that he was compelled to close school. It is conceded by all those who have tried it that it is a fine sport, to walk ; the muscles are exercised, the cheeks glow with vigor, the ap petite 8harpens,"and your freedom of speech is not a phantom. In the meantime, let us all walk. Mr. Jim U. Fink, the secretary and treasurer of Concord, has mailed to Hon. Hileman the bill providing for a graded school m this place. It is hoped that the bill will be passed so as to allow the citizens of the town to vote on this important meas ure. It is a little absurd for a 37 year old man, who has spent all that he has made, and then write his young brother advice on economy and faith fulness to duty! But then, he sits upon the stool of repentance and exhorts from a fountain of expen ence. The mortgaee deed of the Yadkin railroad tor he part that runs through Cabarrus countv, covers ninceen pages of 45 lines each. The company that takes mortgages on railroads certainly know how to write them, and leave "nothing un told. ' It is quite probable that the Ca barrus Wood and Iron Works Com pany will establish a wood working 8 hop near Albemarle, as quite alarge tract of wooded land has been se cured. The plant here is too large for the raw material to be secured, and by the division good results can be had. The enterprise of the com pany will doubtless make this a suc ciseful move. It is eoon time for the fertilizer trade to open up but no hauling can be done yet The passenger train, Saturday evening, was drawn by a " hog" en gine, a regular passenger engine not being able to pull the train. C. A. Pitts was in twn : he had his whole head tied up in a cloth ; he fell from a house roof and staved himself up pretty considerably. Cannons & Fetzer request you to call and examine some new and haDdsome ties they have for sale. To quote Ed Gibson " they are dan dies." Esq. Baxter Parks, of No. 1 town- Bhip, reports that there is consider able cold and sore throat in his sec tion, it is what is supposed to be the grip. Mr. L. D. Coltrane has been quite ill with an advance attack of the grip; he is yet quite unell with it. His ami ling countenance is missed from the bank. Our reading room is now in oper ation. Any friend who may desire to rest a whi'e or read, is cordially invited to drop in no nickel in the slot business, nor any cost Mr. Lloyd Swieegood, of Salis bury, is now on The Standard's com posing force. He is young looking and good looking, that is all rght; no ugly man can get a job in our composing room. There is emtirely too much noise in the vestibule of the Club Room. The noise is not within keeping with the constitution of America (r). It is innocent sport, to be true, but it is so loud that the neighborhood may become alarmed at it The R. & D. still do business at the same place, though the bosses are now canoodling rround the Leg islature down at Raleigh. The State ought to tax those lobbyists that sit around monkeying with the repre sentatives of the people. You know where New York is, and you know where Concord is. A box that weighed just fifteen pounds and valued at eighty-seven cents had to contribute forty-one cents to the railroad before it could get to Concord. These priceB may be all right, but it does not sound right to us. Drs. R. S. Young and J. S. Laf- ferty performed quite a painful operation on Mr. Victor Caldwell, whose sickness has been noticed by the Standard several times before. It is believed that Mr. Caldwell's recovery win oe rigut rapid now. lie has certainly suffered no little tor the last mouth. To the National Economist Com pany the Standard desires to return thanks for "The lland-iiook of Facta and Alliance Information." It is a book of 138 pages, containing a variety of information and statis tics. The pamphlet ought to be in every home. It costs only 15 cents, or $1.50 per year. It is sad, very sad, that people will have to depend on other States for such things as hay. If there is one crop that this country can raise, it is most assuredly the grass crop. hy in the name of Col. Tom. Walker should people send to other States for hav 'i " Why ?" echo answers with blood in h.s eye. hen a nineteeu-year old ooy a boy that nearly every one thought pretty tolerably lively in about two years sends home to his mother $534 as his savings, it begins to look like a promising son has been turned loose upon the worl ' ; but this has happened witii a Concord uoy and you .may well inquire who he is. Suit will doubtless be started against It. A. Brown for allowing red clay to be thrown in front of hi store and the entrance to the Stand ard office. If " Bus " wants to make brick, let him get out of town. But he is not to blame. Some other au thority had it put there, and it is all the way from two to six inches deep the nasty mud is ! The local W. C. T- TJ. offered a prize of ten dollars for the best essay written on alcohol. This offer was made last year at the Fair, and it results that Misses Corrie Fetzer, Dora Hix and G. E. Keesler, accord ing to the judgment of the judges, made a tie; therefore the premium was equally divided between them, each one getting $3.33. Last year the railroad that charges $G3 freight on $21 worth of coal, used a red card for an editor's pass. Our eyes had not feasted on one for this year until on the 6th. It was not ours, it was held by a brother editor. The boss' name and instruc tions are printed on a blue card. It is a pretty thing, but not pretty enough to close your mouth for. The antique oak furniture seems to be very fashionable with most people just now. But some are go ing back to samples and styles that existed two hundre 1 years ago. Ed. Correll, one of the finest painters in North Carolina, showed us a sam ple of what is known as the sixteen century oak; it is finished so as to change very materially the appear ance of the natural oak. The sam ple we saw is extremely pretty. The Standard wants to know and that bad, too, if we are allowed to walk on the railroad track that the R, & D. have control of? Will Mr. Lobby Man please let us know by next mail whether his boycott denies us the sweet privilege of walking on the track ; be sure to write very plain and let us know if you will let us walk on your track, by promis;ng to court au tne ties that we step over. Say, can we ride on your car, if we pay our fare ? If you want to feel healthy, just read the article on spelling in an other column. The school method is coming to the front and must be discussed. These columns are open to all sides and solicits papers from any who may wish to express any opinions on a matter that ought to concern us all. The arguments of fered by "B. A. L." are well put, and if he be correct, then the word method is certainly wrong. And if he is wrong, then some one ought to show such to b the case. Rutherfordton College is being re built Dr. J. P. Gibson now has a nice sign on his building. The cotton came bailing in, after the disagreeable weather. See the ad. of Miss Nannie Alex ander. The ladies must look it up. Ed Correll is using the rush on front of Yorke & Wadsworth's store. The State Sunday School Conven tion meets in Fayetteville, March 24 to 26. The brother of Sam Joues that was arrested for morder has been acquitted. A freight train was wrecked on the W. N. C. R. R. near Cod nelly Springs on Tuesday. The auditorium, to be bu!lt in Charlotte wi'l be 190x92 feet with a seating capacity of 5,000. Esq. C. G. Montgomery will have a new ad. next week. He wants to make a talk to the farmers. At the furniture store a bed spring, according to North Carolina inventive brain, can-be seen. Rev. Egbert W. Smith, the evange list, is to be in our town at an early day to assist in a series of meetings. WillianrEudy declares that the roads are not so bad. He is the only one, too; we want to give him a chromo. The Standard is glad to learn that Mr. Victor Caldwell is improving, since the succes9iul operation was performed. It was staged in the debate on cigarettes that arsenic and opium were used in the wrappers and in the tobacco itself. William B. Jones, the town mar- shal of Forest City, in Rutherford ton ccunty, was shot by a block- ader, named Parris. John Barringer has retired from the conductorship of the freight part of the street railway and gone to the Yadkin railroad. He is suc ceeded by Dock Corzine. It is a little absurd for a man to dictate, or attempt it, the way a school should be taught, and refuse himself to buy books. This world is full of fearful monstrosities. It is asserted that Senator-elect reffer, who succeeds Ingalle, is for "the suffrage for woman." That is all right; he is more acceptable than Iugalls if he were loaded for bear. A prominent druggestof the town was extremely excited over the fire alarm. He couldn't find the fire, so he began, m his excitment, to look about . certain homes for the alarm. Mr. John Wadsworth, one of the most prominent business men of Charlotte, came over Monday eve ning to attend the meeting of the stockholders of the Cannon Manu fact u ring Company. The Standard is in possestion of some facts that mean lots for Con cord and the surrounding commun ity: but onr hands are tied and mou'h closed, hence our readers will patiently await developments. Mr. B. S. Cotis, the manager of the Consolidated Carolina Gold Mine, of No. 7, has returned from New York. Some bu Idings are beinz pu up, but how soon operations in the mine will begin has not been decided yet. Ihe fife meeting; are going on at Statesville now, and large crowds are reported to be in attendance npon every one. The evangelist does not fail to draw large crowds even where, and Statesvill is no exception to the rule. Only one bale of cotton found its way o Concord on Monday. The convicts having worked the roads several weeks liefore the rain "set in," the roads are in a fearful con dition now. It is next to impossible for a team with a load to get to town. Cel. Jim Long has a mash -d nose. The ex-representative, industrious a he ii was cutting his own stove wood. The wood didn't lie right; at any rate, a piece struck the colonel on the proboscis and came near lay ing him out. His wounded nose is bad enough to be tied up in a rag, but the colonel will not submit to it. Mr. J. C. fctarnes, one ot our new "17" from Gecrgeville, came in to talk about the Standard. He re ported that he and W. R. Crayton had killed, each, a wild turkey. Each weighed 18 pounds and one had a beard 12 inches long. That is a great country down about Georgeville for turkeys and good "shooters. Mr. John C. Fry, a widower of sixty summers, and Mrs. Hettie Stone, both of Forest Hill, were married on Tuesday by Rev. II. M, Blair. The marriage wa3 quite a surprise to many, a3 nothing of the kind was expected by any one; but it is no use to be surprised, as such things are to be expected at any time. Information reaches this effice that there must be a blind hole for whiskey in town. Some kerosene cans have been seen going in a direc tion where no oil is for sale. If such is the case, the parties had better look well to their circum stances as the eve of the law is looking out for the blind work. The appearance on the streets Satur day night was not very common for this town. Mnking- Bepntra nt the Morris House. The pavement having been cut down, it became necessary to lower the door or build a pair of steps. Mr. VIorris is having the door low ered and a pair of steps made to run up on the inside where a vestibule will be built The house has been standing there ever since 1832, and cutting through the floor shows the timbers to be perfectly solid, thougu the sleepers were made of unpeeled pine poles of about six inches in diameter. The bark i3 still on, and the poles, though all sap, are in a perfect state of preservation. The old Aforris House is to look up again, they say But is there not a wide difference between the building of today and tat of thirty years ago? DEATH! From Ilix IIore t the Ground. Truly in life we are in the midst of death. On February 1st Mr. Geo. Parker, of Bilesville, N. C, was in Concord the picture of health, and he showed signs of a long lease on life. But on the 6th of February Mr. Parker was still in death. The circumstances of his sudden death are very sad. Mr. Parker his own enemy was riding in Bilesville and fell off his horse in the mud. A friend went to him with a d?sire to assist him. Parker, by his manner and words, drove the friend away from him. Some time afterwards another party went to him George Parker, he was blue, stiff, cold in death. It is thought that death was caused by either the rupture of some vessel or from stran gulation. Mr. Parker was about forty years of age, and a man of family. His death is a sad one. The County Homo. Mr. John W. Cook, superintendent of the Coukty Home, gives the Standard the following information : The total number in the Home is 19 ; whites 6 females and 5 males; colored 2 females and 5 males. Of tae nineteen, Mr. Cook says that only four can read and write, while the others are illiterate. or Course It in True. An experienced teacher says that pupils who have access to newspapers at home, when compared with those who have not, are better readers, better spellers, better grammarians, better punctuators, and read more understandingly, and obtain a prac tical knowledge of geography in al most half the time it requires the others. The newspaper is decidedly an important factor in modern life. This will not be disputed by any one who has taken the trouble to inves tigate the matter for himself. HendersoB Gold Leaf. A Commendable Act. Mr. C. G. Barringer, of No. 8, was in town recently and told the btand ard man all about a proposed school for his section. He gets his infor mation from S. A. Hamilton, the Superintendent of the Moose or Mis enheimer mine in No. 7 township, said mine being owned by a North ern syndicate, of which Mr. B. S. Cotes is the ruling spirit in the mine, y ... . Mr. Cotes will soon return and with him he will bring a lady teacher, who will conduct a regular school for the community without cost to them. The neighborhood is elated over the benevolent spirit of the gentleman, and expect a wholesone and substantial good to be accom plished by the school. - Damply, Coldly, Ntoveless. Through falling tears from a bit terly weeping cloud, groping and struggling along in two inches of sloppy, muddy slop, to sit during a trial in a cold, damp room the town hall without the suspicion of a particle of fire, exc.-pt in tha eye. Oh, men! a stove, my country for a stove ! Concord has a town hall, where the mnyor holds forth, where justice is meted out. It mav not be paid for, but the town claims it, and his a right to do it. It has a nice had ; it has a naseatent; it has au upper stor"; it gives room for the fireuiens' property. But. kind public, a whis er in your ear it has no stove, no stove! I'nneressary Dreaming;. For several nights there has been soni'j very wild dreaming going on in Concord; it w,s not confined to any age at all. One man, and he is a widower, too, dreamed that he had gone to Paris and was there intro duced to the very height of Parisian sciety, and he was not rigged out specially for such a royal entertain ment. "His account affords enough material for a good size 19th cen tury yellow backed novel. Another man dreamed that he was very warm and kicked off all his cover, and now he is sick as the re sult of his indiscretion. And an old bachelor tried to dream something very painful in the way of breaking his finger ; he failed to remember how the peculiar act was to be done, but it was but a dream ; so the following morning h. accidently burnt his finger exactly where he thought he had broken it. The gentleman now carries his finger wrapped in a ponderous rag. Last Sunday in Concord. The retiring pastor, Rev. J. D. Newton, gave an exposition in the Sunday school of Elijah at Horeb, and at 11 o'clock preached from the text, ' The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands." The church was exhorted to be as wise as the locusts, and though hav ing no pastor for a time, they should come together in a band every Sab bath and show their earnestness in the Lord's work. In the afternoon at two o'clock, the sermon was on Telling Jesus. The last words were spoken to the church, and the occa sion was solemn. At 4 o'clock a sermon was preach ed at old Mrs. Stowe's, who has not been able to go to the house of the Lord for nearly two years. The text was, "For I reckon that the suf ferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." The dear old sister said she was will ing to suffer the Lord's will, but ac cording to the nature of things it could not possibly be long before she wuuld see the glory of the Lord. A few of the saints were with us in this precious meeting, and the part ing was ead. May this dear church be prospered and very soon secure a pastor a God-sent man. Rev. J. i). Newton, in Charity and Children. Hill Property for Sale. Tne interests of Leah Crowell and Mrs. Rachael Beatty in the Cress mill, in No. 6 township, will be sold privately. Parties desiring terms on said property, will call on or address the above named parties, Mt. Pleas ant, N. C. " j28 6w OFFICIAL PAPERS That Sustained Wedded Lives n4 Loving Hearts and FeaNtinc Eyes. WHITES. Jas. W. Bamhard to Frances Earnhardt. Joseph F. Smith to Mary M. Leford. Alfred L. Carriker to Vienna Blackwelder. John W. Gulp to Jennie Revis. W. J. "Wallace to Asbery Love. Nelson Shoe to Sallie Starnes. Ii. O. Rogers to Ida Rogers. "We are seven." COLORED. Andy Brown to Nancy Ford. Moses H. Craige to Roxie Miller. Jesse G. Koonts to Mary E. Boger. Frank G. Bost to Farthine Lord. They are only four. Rev. R. ti. Pearsou. While engaged in a series of meet ings at Little Rock, Ark., the health of the evangelist failed, and from bronchitis went into pneumonia, but so soon as the permission of the doc tor was obtained Mr. Pearson, accom panied by Mrs. Pearson, started for home at Asheville. Ihe travel for home is said, by the Asheville Citi zens, to have acted favorably on the patient, and he is expected to re cover his heaPh soon. That Debating Society. The meeting of the Y. M. C. A did not materia'ize on Monday night, as was expected. The Debating Society is still ahead : it is some days off, it seems. There was a see-saw- in the meeting or rather before the meeting. Some thought that the meeting was for the whole associa tion, others thought that it was for the executive committee, and others did not think anything at all about it So the young boys cannot debat yet awhile ; but it is coming and must come. The place for it is right in the Y. M. C. A., and let the powers that be get together and or ganize the society. If the boys did not want it the Standard would not, either ; we are for the boys as long as they are right. And in this desire the boys are right. Xews From Rockwell. Mr. Mike Rinehardt, once'the mail carrier between Concord and Mount Pleasant, but now a resident of Rockwell section, Rowan county, came in to see the old man of this print shop, lie started at the birth of this paper and of course is still on. He said he had no news, but being quizzed a little, he let the bottom crop out. Among other things he told us that several Alli ance lodges in his section intended to start a store at Rockwell at an early day; there is considerable talk of a roller mill being erected ; and he said that Mr. Hambley, of the Gold Hill mine, was reported as having said that he would contribute $50,000 towards the capital for a cotton factory and that there is con siderable talk of it now. Mr. Rine hardt brought sixty-three bushels of good oats to town for sale and says that the wheat and oats crop is looking extiemely well in his section. A Ten Dollar Premium for Some Farmer. The Standard is authorized to of fer a premium of ten dollars for the best yield of cotton grown on out acre of land by any farmer of Ca barrus county during the present year. The c ntestants must notify the Standard of their intention before the first day of May. The contest ant: must, lso, furnish a complete account of the manner of cultiva tion, the kind of fertilizer used and the entire cost, &c. The quantity of land ani total y ield must be cer tified to by two disinterested citizens. The premium will be awarded on the first day of January next Con siderable prominence has been given to some sections on account of very large vields being made in some crop. This premium is offered with the view of showing to the State that as big a yield can be obtained in Ca barrus county as any other in the State. It is hoped that there ill be quite a large number of contestants, large enough to make it interesting and secure the largest possible results. A Brakemau Killed Near Salisbury. Sunday night a brakemap on the R. & 1). gave up his life ; it is a sad death in deed. All deaths are sad, but this is very sad and it was a hor rible death, too. While going down a grade all the cars broke loose from the engine, except one, on hich young Williamson, the brakeman, was standing. The engine and one car at once shot away from the other part of the train, but in the jerk the brakeman was thrown from the car npon the track and before he could take himself off the track the cars that had broken loose were upon him. Poor brakeman Williamson was ground to atoma beneath the heavily laden cars, and a wife became a widow and two little children be came orphans. The accident wa3 like many others that could not be prevented. The engineer nor the railroad is to blame, for accidents will happen, however careful the management may be. But if the George Murr coupler was iu use, no such break-looses could occur, as his coupler is such that one car cannot breaK loose from another. About the ting Machines. The Raleigh News and Observer has this to say: On the 27th of January two patents were granted to Wm. II. Kerr, of Concord, N. C , for a ma chine to make bags. Mr. W. II. Kerr is a son of the late Prof. Kerr, of Raleigh, and is manager of the Kerr Bag Manufacturing Company, of Concord. The machine is a mar vel of ingenuity and makes complete bags printed in one of more colors. The company is filling orders for flour and other bags from all over the country and the machine is said to use up cloth as fast as a hundred looms can weave it. "Hurrah for our folks!" The Standard is a hummer. PROCEEDINGS COrXTY ILLIAXCE In Its Last Meeting;. Held Here. Concorp. N. C, Feb Oth, 1801. Editor Standard : The Cabarrus County Farmers' Alliance met according to adjourn ment in the courthouse in Concord on February Cth, 18i)l, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Each sub-Alliance was earnestly requested to have their orders for guano in the hands of tho business agent by Fabruary 15th. Resolved. That we request our Representative to use his influence to have the law with reference to hunting, fishing, itc, so amended as to make it a misdemeanor for any one to hunt, tish, &.c, upon the lands of another without first ob taining permission from the land owner. That whereas the Alliance is al ways ready to aid in putting down oppression and to stand up for tho people's rights ; therefore be it Resolved by ihe Cabarrus onnlv Farmers' Alliance. That e commcnil and ciidoi-Me I lie action ot Ihi't onroril Standard in conihnllinu; the oppres sive measures ot the ICicluiiond and Danville Railroad. On motion, the Salisbury Watch man was adopted as the organ for this section. The next meeting will bo held in Concord at the courthouse on Fris day, the 10th day of April, lS'.tl. J. S. L.VFFERTV, Secretary County Alliance. The Stockholders ot the Cannon Mau nfaciiiring' Company. The annual met ting of the stock holders of the Cannon Manufactur ing Company took place on the 10th. The management was highly satis factory to the stockholders aud the old offices were re-elected. During the last fiscal year 2,085, 07'J yards of sheeting were made, and the mills run 300 days. The Cannon Manufacturing Com pany has one of (he best mills in the State. A Good Tree. Sometimes we get a tree in this country that rivals u California tree. Mr. V. S. Ritchie, of No. 4, and who made success at water-melon raising last year, has found one of the best trees in No. i township. It was a white oak, three feet across the stump. He got twenty-five two feet "cuts" before reaching the limbs, from which he made 5027 clap boards, and from the limbs and top he got over ten loads of wood. The value of the boards and wood is '2'1. No use to go California for big trees. He Took the Part of the Ncjfro. There has been some excitement and indignation in Reidsville on ac count of the conduct of Prof. E. L. Iluges of the graded school. A white and a colored lad belonging to their respective schools fought for some cause. Prof. Hughes took the pirt of the negro, and remarked that the negroes of the town were better behaved than the whites. A delegation of indignant citizens threated violence but were dissuaded. Charlotte Chronicle. This writer enjoys an intimate ac quaintance with Prof. Hughes; and our confidence in his manliness and chrii-tian character is so great that we believe that if he defended tho negro boy, he did right. Prof. 1 1 ughes is a man in its truest sense. To Consult Haltimore Physicians. Tuesday evening, Dr. D. G. Cald well, of Tulin, and Mr. C. A. Archer, of Coddle Creek, left for Baltimore. Dr. Caldwell only accompanies Mr. Archer who is to have an operation performed if the physicians think it advisable. During the war Mr. Archer lost his left arm; when he returned he fastened a strao around his left leg, and between the leg and the strap he placed the scythe handle and cut grass all day. Sometime ago his leg became diseased, not on the surface, but next to the bone. It was larited, and since tbtn it has improved none. Around the bone a hard case has grown, this now gives trouble and intense pain. Mr. Archer thinks that the scythe handle is the whole cause of the trouble. He is 52 years of age ; and while he had his arm amputated twice, first at elbow and then at the shoulder and now suffering with a badly afflicted leg, Mr. Archer is other wise in good health, lie hopes to be materially benefitted at the Uni versity Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Dr. Caldwell will stay with him. st Letter from Wake Forest College. Wake Forest, N. C, February 9, 1891. V Editor Standard : It is said that Cato never made a speech without finishing up with Carthago delenda est. So, of late, every issue of the Standard deals a death blow on the It. & D. It. II. "Lay on, McDuff !" is tne voice of the people. It is to be regretted that we do not have more editors with backbone to attack such ' moguls " nd to stand up far the righti of tho people. Loog live the Standard! 'J he college only has about one hundred and fifty students now, aa the measles has about the other seventy-five- The attacks have been very light with a few exceptions where la grippe made measles a little more severe. Next Friday will be another oasis to relieve the tedium of colh ge life The tilty-seventh anniversary of the Literary Societies is expected to excell any other in the history of the institution. At the sociable Friday night there will be no discussions about Greek roots and Asymptotes, but the subject of conversation will be about well, you can guess- "B. A.L." says some very sensiblo things on the Jiffeieut ways of teaching children spelling, and tho writer agrees with h m that the so-, called word methods will not do by itself, but combine tho "word method " and spelling and you will meet with success- But when i- A. L. makes the startling statement that he hax been teac ting for thirty years and still uses the Blue back speller as the best book to teach spelling, the writer thinks he is joined to his idols and it is best to let him alone. Is it possible that all inventive genius has been expended for the perfecting of the tools of other professions and that the peda gogue has to use the same old book that his gieatsgrandfather used? The Blueback speller has somo merits, but it is not adapted to the growth of the child's mind- It also has a large number of words that the best of scholars never use in common conversation. Why burden the child's min 1 with such words as it will never use when you could be teaching it something practical ? Tkbeoiu