North Carolina Newspapers

THE SUMO. THE STANDARD. BARB. L AUG EST paper PUBLISHED IN CONCORD.- Stan WK DO ALL KINDS OF job -wobk: i v the XEATl-ST J! A XX EM -ANP AT TUV LOW I. ST JUTES. ai.i:xim ; k tomb. The KnrrnpbntiK of Ihe Macedonian Conqueror Said to Be f'onnd. The announcement some tim&igo, says the Scientific American, t lint the tomb if Alexander thf Gif.it had leen discovered t Sidon cr ated considerable interest und gaveii-'e to is. noli discus-ion. i I "I imist confess."' savs Dr. "Wiod- stoin, "thar at Hie time so start tiiiir formerly for mary jears supei lnten an ittiimuiicement not only enu-d j ,1,-nt of labor statistics far the S-ate me to he skeptical of the v hole 1 c-, 0f Massachusetts, an uutl, only th n port, Imt even pr. judiced me against vvu)m theie is none higher in this the works of ancient art t iuit had j branch of in vestigatiou. The figures been discovered. Since tin 1: 1 have been at Constantinople, ami have beeu sin wn the photographs of tho sareoidia-n bv Hamby Iiey. As my own prcjudh; s have been complete-j ly removed, and as I find t hut my j colleagues here are as vet not free j from t h niv con m, 1 think it right to record j ictum mat the uiscovciy , Seems m me one in ui- ui'i ini.'i- tatit made in the present generation. Nay, 1 venture to believe that, ex cept the Burin marbles and the Hermes of 1'raxiteles, no work of ancient Greek art has b en iouiio of lei att-r artistic interest and value. " I'Leieare seveial sarcophagi of various dates, showing an inteiest ing dcvelop.uent of Lycian type, some lemimling us of the monu ments from -Vtniuus m 1 lie intisi Museum, apart f"i But one ol these siiinds its supieme beauty. It Las pediments v. hich tl e y are v. on- e. i .. I ntaimng rebels in i omatice additions , it-.es vd These : : cU, after. Im s.i iie o" t lie :s...i iiin of Ha!i a hardlv be later IV. ie! s.y!o t it in f i zes from tl cari.ns-ms. and tuaii the bt ginning of the hi i d een t oy before Christ. Ti.e subject of one pediment h iepr mentation of a lion hunt- is quite clear, inasmuch as it contains an undoubted portrait of Alexander. Now, when we remember that, ac cording to Pliny and Plutarch, the group of Delphi represent i;g the famous lion hunt of Alexander is aUiibuted Lo Lysippus and Leo ehares, it is highly probable that some relatiou subsists between this relief und th" famous Neapolitan m. saic, i.nd. ir I remember nhtiy, a hea 1 on th" right in this reiief is lvp ici of the head on the gold statue i t l'hiiip. The other peii n e :t, tti.-o eon umiug a portrait of Alexander, represents the execution of so re warrior or prisoner. About this I do not venture to offer any ii.terrretation. " I la 'by Bey do s not assert tlit tl is is actually ihe tomb of Alexan der, but I feei that he will be j isti iied in pointing to the possibility of such being the case. M3- acquaint ance with the works is merely based upon the Dhotographs which JIamby J eyjvvas g od enough to snow me. The works themselves are in cases lit. Constantinople, awaiting the coui p'etf 11 of the niusetjiii which is be ing bui'.t to house them. We may also hop- th-.t b fi-re long his pub.i cauoi of thes-i woiks will make them ). roper!, know i to the j ubii . Meanwhile. J feel assured that he has ihu,e u!i iu his power to act in th ' iuteiest of science and of his own country. It is light t hat we should ail sympathize with patriotic feeling in otueis."' K'llKv 1 1 1 Itis ilili:ie. We print in this isue an appeal from Olin Aliiance. .liking the re moval of tin? diu:jiihie !" Jc-bv-trnor W. V,. !' -l ; . We must ean-s-.h a-!. ' :e. eai A-siemt-'Iy b it. t'u-? request for i)i i ey. V na'i-xer n.ay have hi en the wrongs committed by this, pitied son of North Carolina, they have tee 11 amply atoned for bv the loss of eitizeiiship for years; and the Legis lature can afford to recognize the ex piation as sufficient, and extend me-cy to this aged man. There are others besides the ex Governor who have etiffeivd acutely all these years. Certainly it is not manly, it is not North Carolinian to require these innocent ones to suf fer on, when no public or private good can be done by it. Let the Legislature think of this, and be merciful. This brilliant and able man is now ( Id and infirm. He stands almost en the very brink of the dark .iver that bounds the unseen from mortal view. Let not his aed feet touch the dark waters with the darkness of his native State's frown resting ujiuij him Let him go into the gieat beyond with his aged eyes rest ing upon the forgiving smiL' of his native .State. Let it be known tiiat North Carolina can punish, and that she can also forgive. Progressive i'armcr. A JIhIhiio a nt I M lill ;ir I.lo-. This from the Charlotte Chronicle: The good peorde in the southern part of Union and the northern part of Lancaster counties are very justly indignant and enraged at the elope ment, which took place in the latter couuty hst week. ilinta Hayes, the daughter of William Hayes, who lives just be yond the state line, iu South Caro lina, eloped with a mulatto by the name of Jim Presson. They made their journey to rinevjlh1, where they were suspected ami taken up, but both told plausible tales and slu was n leased and went to Charlotte that afternoon. The negro was kept for further investigation, but failing to Hud any one to testify against him lie t- o was reiea Sed. The jiarents of the girl learned that the was in Charlotte, and tent for her and brought her home, and ihtii followed y. full confession of all thai had taken place. A large crowd of citizens are dilligeutKy hunting for the mulatto, who is concealed in the neighborhood, and if captured lie will more than likely receive justice at their hands. Mr. JIaves is a highly respected citizen and his daughter is said to be both pteity and smart. Such occurrences tire rare and can not easily be ac counted for, even by the philosophy pf love. im m Many Northern and Hew England people coining to the New Berne Pair. VOL. IV. NO. 7. .OI)lilU FOR EMPLOYMENT. Scientific Atueiican. There are in the United States, in this yar 1891, live hundred tbous- aiiit secKers ior won nan minion people, of both sexes and all ages, looking ior employment in gainful j occupations and only 460,000 maces lo be tilled. This is th om .tation I of Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United j States Commissioner of Jjabor, and I ;l)e based upon actual returns, from the census and other sources, of the total ii umber of persons employed at different periods, and the increase of the population, snowing an avers age percentage added yearly to the number of persona engaged iu all occupations. That is, to keep up the integrity of the work of the eountrv to kfep it up to its lull average standard of progression, and fill up the places naturall" made vacant -KiiUtOO new places will have to be tilled, wirle the incieaseof the pop ulatiou shows that there will, in natural order, be 500,000 applicants for these places, without counting, in either ease, " the great army of ut. employed which through all ages has hung uoon the outskirts of civi lization." These figures are arrived at, not only by the ordinary process of division over a decade of vears. but by on ihe separate calculations based death rate and other ele- merits. What, then, is tha duty of the b yy 01 young mailimpelled, by a praise worthy ambition, or forced by ne cessity, t seek occupation w lereby h - may rise in the woild, or it least ma e sure of a comfortable main tenance? It is evident from the bare statement of the case tha the prob lem will be, as it ever has been, a most serious one for a large propor tion of the seekers lor work. But there are other elements to be taken iito the calculation. Tha figures given include women and children outraged as well as men, ami, ac cording to the census of 1MS0, the employed in all occupations were Ho pt.r cent, ma'e and 13 per cent, fe rn -de. In tiie ditieient kinds of work, agriculture employed -1110 per cent, of the laborers, professional an I personal service required per cent., trade and transportation 10.41 per cent., and mauufac; uring, min ing and ui chauical industries 22 0(j psr cent. It will be seen, therefore, that there is not only a great diver sity of employments ottered to the upcoming seekers for work a wide range of industries, to which new additions are being daily made but that the computation includes all probabie candidates for work from the young or both sexes. In a competition that is so general, among competitors urged by mo fives of eveiy degree of forceful ness, it can hardly be said that there is any inexorable law which decrees tii.il only the most lit shall survive, it, may well be, l everlheless, that the manner of survival, the degife of .-access obtained by each, will, as a ruie, be determined according as the competitots are nio.-t ritfor't'.e ! , ices 1 in-j-sire moving they fo ward to people not till. Tlie world is full of lacking 111 n certain uegieeot will ingness to work, or in genera! intel ligeuce and aid ity, out who yt-t ap pear to iind the greatest dilliculfy m obtaining permanent employment. The trouble with most of them 's that they have no special litness for ;:ny p.uticuiar kind of work, and liiia is u:a eii.'piuj ers 01 laoorai e everywhere see.; ing, with a degree ui pairieuiaiuy never oetore so marked as at piesent. In al! the new industries so constantly arising, ex pei tuess in thf: lines out of which these ie '.;stnes are devel are uevetonmg is a vi' unity, or the proposed new ui-raouit: is oimuri ceiiaiu to lie a fore-doomed failure; und in 11 the old industries the division of labor lias been carried to the minutest de tail, to obtain the greatest perfec tion . in the work and the utmost economy of p oduotion. General intelligence is an excellent quahlica tiou, a mind disciplined to perceive thiugs luminously an t reason logi cally is of high abstract value, but i i trying to obtain employment the 1. ,..., . ..(.., t 1 question will be, hat can you do? It ticcs not bj much matter what line of business or avocation one choose.-;, but the doing of more and belter work tin tfeiu than another matt rs everything. The humbler the. employment, tnterod into with the right spirit, the mo. e rapid as well as the more certain wih be the advancement. The foundations are thus deeply laid, which, with energy aud right iii ection, will never fail to support a solid growth. We are constantly in receipt of letters asking advice for young men wishing to start iu life in some trade or profession, but who are unwilling to do that which lies before aud alt around them at their hands, u moat aucheses it is impossible to give anything but the most general opinion, as the personal equation forms so large a factor in the prob lem, but there is no place in this country where one cannot put his hands to something. Do what you can, whether it is to your fancy or not anything in preference to re maining idle and make it the ste ping stone for something batter. Training, b.dll, special knowledge, are only acquired by hard work, but 1 lie resolution wnicu ians netore an nutnoi" taste not to one s liking is hardly to be counted upon to meet the moie exacting calls of a higher responsibility, and those who are wautieij in the energy to do, aud do earnestly, what is before them, would probably bo found very illy fitted for the higher places they would hk. if the latter couid be hud -imply ho." ihe iifeking. Horrible Suicide. This morning as the light of day fell upon the cold and lifeless form of a game-cock suspended by the neck through a crack of the fenoe in the rear of Mcssers Whiting Bros, store, i waa tu once sadly realized that the poor rooster had been the victim of death by his own hands. This male of the gallenatioua fowl was young and handsome, the per sonal property of Mr. C. A. Separk, and the fatality i3 to be regretted. No cause has been assigned for the untimely deed; conjectures of course are current, e. g., disappoint ment in love, etc. At the lirue we go to press no in quest has been held.-Ra!egh Capital. RECOOXITIOX IX IIEAYEX. Durham Cdobe, 16th. There have been many sermons preached here of late on the above subject. Rev. Mr. White using that for his text Sunday eve-ing at the Baptist church. But what about recognition in heaven? 1 he Globe would not contradict the universally accepted belief of the CnriKiiau world, winch is that Clod is good. He is all-wise, til I -powerful, and to Him all vague dis tiLctions are fts pebble in the sea. But He has not promised us that we should know each other in heaven, ihe beautiful thought has beeu the hope ol many pet pie who died iu that belief and who have solved for themselves the Great Mystery. We 1 believe that hpaven is another sp iere; another life a placo where the grand and majestic souls which struggled here live again live for still grander purposes, until finally Perfection is reached. The Christian's hope is to enter the kiugdom of heaven. To achieve that g:orious end, this life must be as nearly perfect as possible but to our mind, this life is but the begin ning. We may have existed years and a .res ago we raav have been, as the great Beecher finally taught, evolved from the bowels of a mon key; we may have beeu a grinning chimpanzee or a monkey or an ape in some far olt age chattering our utile existence away, throwing co- c lanuts at explorers and having a igh old time 111 some Dark Afiica. Had Darwin -found his long lost missiug link and couueeted taiud an t matter, the theory of evolution might before this have revolution ized the world. But for all of that there will never be any theory or any hobby or any creed that cau batter down the strong wall of Christianity the bul wark of the world's morals But as to some of talks about heaven: To this old man it has beeu pic tured wrong: They tell us that there it no passion iu heaven and yet to love God would constitute a passion. There will be no laug ter in heaven because laughter denotes happi uess, and happiness is the opposite of pain and misery. As there will be no pain or misery in heaven there id be no happiness that is, general happiness, because there cau be no contrast. If all this world was rich, there would be no enjoy ment iu riches. If all this world was poor if there was a common level and no man climbed bevond it and ail approached it in poverty theie would be no pangs because we could hope ior nothing better. If there is recognition there must be passion. Thru if there is passion, there will be misery because they go hand in hand. If heaven as it has been wrongfully pictured, as we take it, is a dreary and tedious mo notonywhy should e strive to reach it ? But it is not. There will be higher tltvclopt,cm i?j licatcil. There will be irrades of ha pines s those who earn the rewards will re ceive tiiem. A simple ctov n will not sullice. We believe that the man who loves music, art ami literature in this world vvid lie given that in the world to come. His mind will be enlarged; he v id live again, and his measures wdl be fixed as they are fixe i iu this worll. Theie will be contrasts. We believe that the money changers will not lie theie but ther will be occupation. Idie-ut-s is the devil's workshop ami a m if he is to bo reeouiz -d would cut a sorry figure loahng around the throne for evei ana tor aye. ihtre will be sorrow in heaven because it must take sorrow to make happi ness. Tha old Hebrew writers appealed to man's avarice. Thev painted4the n-w Jerusalem as beieg paved witn gold ami jasper and yet they told us there would be no commerce; no thing with a commercial value there would be n ) iulerchang . of commodities; no circulating medi um. And then, if this be true, why uot pave the stre ts with beautiful, fresh and perfumed liowers? Ac cording to some of the theories there can be no music, for there wib be no passion there will simply be the mechanical twang of the harp; the dense and tedious monotony of discord and who would not weary of that? It is as much a newspaper's busi ness to talk about heaven as it is the preacher's business aud the Globe believes that Progression and De velopment ia the cardinal virtue of God's economy; that what we love and appreciate iu this world will be intensified iu the next; that those who are good and honest will appre ciate more in the next world but it cannot believe iu this selfishness. The way so many alleged Christians do these days i tc thank their stars that they are saved careless of their neighbor's welfare; thank their stars that they are g ing where there will be nothing to do; where the man married three times and his wives all in glory will meet them all again, and know them aud love them and yet be happy; where you may pass a creditor aud care nothing about him; where there is no art, uS intelligence that excels any oth-r intelligence; where there may be no contrasts; no rewards; no wo:k we cannot believe it. God is good. The intellect and soul are the only immortal things; aud we believe that the intelle t will expand in proportion to its cultiva tion, and th; t the soul will enlarge and ripen alone in proportion to its exertions to do good in this world but tV re is 110 desire to recognize ior thuiie who achieve the end Strug t 1 1 .ui - i pit a ior wiit ne grauaer ana greater; their task will be more holy and hallowed and the baso things of 1 his preparatory skirmish wid be lost to them forever. Died Trn Day Alter Marriage. Air. Morris Long, formerly of Charlotte, N. C, married last month Miss Kansas Smith, daiuhier of Hubert Smith, near Waco in this county, lie was sick Sunday fol lowing his marriage and was a corpse January 81st, lS'.fl, in ten days after his "nuptials. His first wife died two months prior to his second marriage Mr. Long w as a sou of m. of Gaston. Shelby Aurora. Long, f Death seemed to linger in wait for those matrimonial ties. (r : Atlantic and North Carolina KaiU road this week' receives two new lo comotives, and first time u new en gine ha been put on the road since 1857, a period of 34 years. CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, WILLIAM T. SIIFKMAX. William Tecumsch Sherman, one of the most brilliant of the Union commanders during the war of the Kepellion, was born at Lancaster, Ohio, February 8, 1820. In 1810 he graduated from West Point and served in the Indian wars in Florila, 1840-'42 In 1847 he went, to Cali fornia, and was acting assistant sec retary there till 1850. In 1853 he resigned his commiasiou, being then in New Orleans 011 commissary duty, and became a banker. He carried on business in Ne York and San Francisco. In 1858 he practiced la. at Leavenworth, Kansas. On Leavenworth, Kansas. On Mav 14, 1861, he was reappointed to the j army with the rank of colonel, and on the 17th was made brigadier-; general of volunteers. lie com manded a brigade at Bull linn, July 1 21st. In October he was appointed to the command of the Army of the Cumberland. He directed a division iu the Tennessee and Mississippi operations, and bore a prominent part before Vicksburg. From Mem phis he received an order from Grant, who htd succeeded Bosecrans, to cease all work and hasten to Chatta nooga, whereon the 25th of Novem ber, 1803, he succeeded in defeating Bragg. On February 4, 18(14, Sher man moved to Meridian, the great railway centre of the Southwest, destroying all the Confederate stores, but was compelled to return on ac count of the failure of the cavalry under Smith to perform its duty. On the Cell of May Sherman sei out for Atlanta. At Dalton he defeated, o'i May 13th, Gen. Johnston, and again on May 15th at Besaca. June 1st Alatoona was occupied by Sher man. Alter two unsuccessful as suilrson Kenesaw he at last com pelled Johnston to evacuate that place on July it t each Tice com pel Sed them lo fall back on Atlanta. After the most v igorous operations Sherman compelled Hood to evacu ate that place, but not until the general had destroyed everything of value. November 15, ISO II, aw the commencement of the famous " March to the Sea." December 13th Fort McAllister fell before him. December 20th Savannah was evac uated. His whole loss from Atlanta to the sea was 507, including 215 wounded and missing. Moving northward, he accepted Johnston's surrender upon a basis of agreement. which was, however, rejected by the government. On May 21th he, after a trium phant march, reached Washington, where his army was dissolved. Upo.i the accession of Grant to the presi dency he became commander-in-chief of the United States armv, March 4 th, 1809. In 1871-'72 he travelled through Europe, and through the courtesy of Germany viewed the operations of the rranco Prussian war. In 1874 he removed the headquarters of the army to St. Louis, but in 1870 they were again returned to Washington. TT ill f llT ne was succeeueu oy uen. 1 ninp Sheridan. General Sherman died -tt his residence iu New York February 14th, 18!)1. m n I!i-"s Wnntert. Chief A. II. Baird, of the Ashe- ville police, yesterday -afternoon re ceived a telegram from Henderson- ville, asking him to arrest and hold Dr. R. C. Goodwyn, 011 a charge of forgery. The telegram was sent by the State Bank of Commerce. Goodwvn, it appears, had forged checks on that bank 'o the amount of ;500, using the names of several of the prominent citizens of the town, aud then skipped. Inquiry brought out the fact that Goodwyn had come from llender onville toAsheville Saturday even ing, registered at the Glen Rock under an assumed name, and took the midnight train for the east. He is an Englishman, and lived at bow man's Bluff, the English colony near Hendersonvilie. Gootlwyue is describe:! as being 25 years of aire, six feet in height, of good address, straight olack hair, smooth face, and weighs about 125 pounds. Asheville Citizen. Ciood Atlviee lor Everybody. This below is from an exchange and handed us by an eminently suc cessful business nun: The first thought with most young clerks is to do as. lit tie work as pos sible 'or the largest pay. If a clerk expects to make a successful business man his nrst t nought must he ior his employer's interest, lie must try 10 find something to- do afld not allow his employer's interests to suffer because some 0110 else ehoulil attend to matters requiring attention. The successful business men are those wh-- stand, leady to perform any require4 duty, no matter who h,as neglected to perform it, aud the best salesmen are those who know most about goods and the details of business- mmm Wilmington produce exchange recommend a railroad commissioner. AM.I AX( L XKW. From Many Kourrm nnd About Dif ferent Fll"N. There are fifty-live Alliance mem bers in the Florida legislature. Michigm is increasing member shi in the Al ience at a splendid, rate, and will probably soou lead the northwest. Maryland is progressing, and in terest is manifested in every part of the State. Cecil county will soon add a county organization. The Legislature of North Caro lina consists of 170 senators and representatives, and of these 102 are members ol the Alliance. That the Alliance has a hand in fha by the fact that the resolution cut ting off flfty clerks was adopted. Secretary Beaumont says that he has sent charters of the National Citizen's Alliance into thirteen States, and new territory opens up every day. The Farmers' Alliance and the board of trade of Palouse City, Washington, sent a carload of flour recently to the destitute farmers in Cheyenne county, Neb. The Ohio Legislature asked the general assembly at Columbus to re peal the law exempting manufactur ured products from taxation one year after production, and the bill passed. Members of the Alliance in Leon county, Florida, are getting tobacco seed free in Tallahassee, distributed by the tobacco agent of the Leon county Alliance. Tobacco is be coming an important crop in Florida. Maine has no Farmers' Alliance, hut her stace grange is looking after the interests of the farmers through a committee now in attendance on the legislature to secure needed re lief in the matter of unequal taxa tion of farmers General Superintendent Hum phrey states that the Colored Al liance is growing in membership throughout the entire jurisdiction, and that the order indorses the de mands, putting particular stress on the sub-treasury plan. The National Economist says: "As a proof of the fact that the pres ent conflict of the Alliance is an old one, one that has often been presented for solution before, and one which has even been the concern of the philanthropists in times gone by, the reader is referred to Proverbs xxiii:7. Lead it." Texas has organized a State Citi ze is' Alliance t-inolar to that in K.nsas, and with the Farmers' Alli ance it. expects to control future elections in the interest of the tillers of the soil and the laboring- classes generally. Other States a-e expected to form similar organizations and unite in a national presidential cam paign. The Alliance Economist (Texar kana. Ark.) says. ''This is no time for llinching upon the part of the Alliance. '! he issue h. s been laid dt wn by the National body, and the demands made clearly and emphati cally. Those persons who cannot support them had as well get out of the way, as the Alliance will take no back step, but press forward to vic tory." Rev. Thomas Dixon, a distinguish ed Baptist preacher in New York City, in ?k recent sermon on the Farmers' Alliance thus referred to the co-operative work of the order: The Alliance stores for supplies are a prominent feature of their work. These stores contain the germ idea of the great ".nd us trial co-operative societies of workingmen in Great Britain. They are asserting in life the principle, that it is better for men to fight each other than against one another. They are learning the secret of associated power that in union there is strength. The Alliance Leader (Bolivar, N. B.) says: "Experience has taught us that at this last election that Al liance men could be elected without its being done upon an independent ticket since of the thirty-eight Alli ance representatives elected,but seven were elected in that way, so why form n new party when the very men whom v. e desire should occupy the legislative seats can be and are being elected on the old party tickets. All that we demand is legislation for the producer and we care no1" from what source it comes so we get it. So let us again say that the Alliance is not a political party, aud should not be so considered." WAIIfSBOKO S FIRE That IeKlroyed $10,000 Properly. Worth ol On Tuesdiy, 17th, at mid-night, Wadesboro had a big fbc The origin of it is unknown, but it was first discovered in the re..r of a gro cery store. Several buildings were burnt, to gether with the goods. Thirty Thousand a Year. This papr will be sold on the 24th of March next. It is a valu- able property aud lis today on a sat- isfactorv basis. It has a circulation, recently revised, of live thousand "oua fide subscribers, and its cash receipts for ihe year ending January 30th, 1891, were in round numbers $30,000. Its machinery and equip ment is In good condition. Wil mington Messenger The Argus says that St. Paul's congregation, Goldsboro, raised $600 "to evade the demands of the Young Men's christian Association during the coming year." 1891. TIII.; IX CiEWERAL. The Pensacola ( 'hamber of Com merce endorses the Shipping Bounty bill. It is expected that there will be a rush of German exhibitors at the Chicago fair. President Maver denies that Jay Gould has an option on the Balti more and Ohio. The two farmer organizati ns of Arkansas have united aud formed one association. Bismarck's paper has beeu warned that it must stop its attacks on th imperial government. The house occupied by Sitting Bull will form part of Dakota's ex hibit at the Chicago fair. Congressman Benjamin Butter worth has been appointed Solicitor General of the World's fair. Secretary Proctor will" shortly promulgate an order prescribing a fixed code of punishments for the army. The extra session scheme is urged by NewYoik politicians to force Governor Hill out of the executive chair. Postmaster Wanamaker appeals from the decision of a customs offi cer involving a few dollars and gains his case. A railroad, to be called the Macon and Northeastern, is to be built from Macon to the Georgia, Carolina and Northern. The Pensacola Chamber of Com mercj censures Gov. Northern for the manner in which he treated Jay Gould ou his visit' to Atlanta. At the request of Attorney General Miller, Judge Hoge, of West Vir ginia. the United States District Attorney for the District of Colum bia, has tendered his resignation to the President. During the recent severe weather in England sea gulls were fed from the windows of houses on the Ma rine parade. Wild fowl were found on the beach haif frozen and nearly starved. A citizen of Norwich, Conn., has been sentenced to 63 years' impris onment for selling liquor to the Dartmouth students. He was con victed on 723 out of ' 1,000 indict ments, and has entered upon his fearful sentence. He is Ififty j-ears of age. IS EX. THOM AS I'. DRAYTOX, A Confederate Soldier, of tinrlolle, Dies at Florence, S. C. Gen. Drayton, who died Wednes day morning in Florence, S. C, was born in Charleston, S. C, August, 1807. Of him, us a citizen, the Chronicle says : "His life presents an unbroken record of high integrity and spotless personal l-'ul- M 's U,MU a a"'j alio a pleasure to Uar testimony to the usefulness and public spirt which marked him as a citizen of Charlotte. Though born to wealth aud accustomed to affluence until past tiie ordinary age of active busi ness life, he exhibited an energy and ability uns.irpassed by the youngest among his companions and competi tors in business. " He .'.as hearing sixty years of age when he came to Charlotte and began the world anew, as it were. During more than twenty years he labored with unfailing courage and cheerful nes. A, more ready zeal for every .en turpi ise which promised real benefit to the community could not be found: a heart more warm to every d maud of sympathy, nor a hand more unstintedly open to every demand, he has not left behind him." Copal Grove Items. Some thief '"lifted" some chick ens from M. Ritchie's coops and a goose from C. Lefler on the night of the 3d instant. Oat crops are looking promising. Wheat is small, but we think a good stand. Farmers are doing but little on the farm, as wet weather has stopped farm work. M. Ritchie is agent for Stanly county for the Pictorial Cycloptedia of Live Stock and . complete stock doctor. No family should be with out it, as it gives all you want to know about stock and their diseases, how to keep them; also poultry and bees. It will save any one money, and help him or her to make money. We hope the alligator eg?s have not all been destroyed. Please save us a setting and oblige. Tne Stan dard don't mention much about mud, but we are aware of the fact, and would like to come to town if we thought we could get there with out swimming or without a boat, but we are doubtful about it just now. Plenty of eggs iu this market, but still all the hens don't la'. High freights have caused hem t. strike until the Roanoke and Southf rn is built. Let it come light along. . We are anxious for it and don't forget it. We want it through as near heiv as possible. The change in the mail line from Bileville to China Grove causes great di satisfaction on account of our mai. not reaching us ou time. . it A Success. I he Landmark contains a review of the result of Mr. Fife's meetings in Statesville. Among other things the Landmark says: The collections and contributions dur.ng the meet ing am united to more than $1,200. Of this amount about $G00 went to pay for the work which had been done in prepiring the tabernacle and $020 were presented to" Mr. Fife. He and his wife left yesterday morning by the Charlotte train for their home. They will be kindly min-m-bered by a great ho.it of people here who never saw either of them before, and we hope the re'suU of their la bors here will be apparent for many years to come. WTe are reliably informed that the $50,000 for the additional endow ment of Wake Forest College, being raised by Dr. Taylor" in considera tion of Mr. B istick's pioposition, is nearly completed and that the whole amount "will be raised by the 1st of March as was provided in the propo sition. Raleigh Capital. WHOLE NO. 163. LITTLE DROPS DP Tar. Piteb. Tnrpentine and Other Tar Heel Products. Asheville treasury empty. Norwood in Stanly goes on a bobjn. Catawba will plant a huge crop of cotton. The Burlington hen has St. Vitus dance. Charlotte ice factory nearly com pleted. Asheville and Bristol Railroad iu a year. Grand Central, Asheville, sold for $35,000. Pittsboro knitting mills go into operation. Dr. Stamps, Milton, turns his 7Cth year. Lively real estate transactions, Greensboro. Much pneumonia and grip in wes tern Rowan. Monroe fine Baptist church paya off its debt. High Point bed-stay company has staying success. Burlington colored people build ing an academy. Various members of the Legisla ture valentined. Teas in blossom on Eastern Caro lina truck farms. A cotton mill to be erected at Elmwood, Rowan. Fifty-five adveDtists at one bap tism, Wilmington.- Revenue raiders reported making it lively in Wilkes. Athletic sports during four days of Xew Berne Fair. Don't fail to attend the sub-tropical fair at New Berne. County pride in Alamance shows in the new court house. Raleigh Chronicle booms a lot of Commissioner candidates. A Leaksville man caught a flobert cartridge and a cut wrist. , McAdoo, Greensboro, offer to deed a lot of land lo a cannery. A Chatham magistrate issued pro cess for arrest of a dead man. Stunners' shipyard, Wilmington, sends scows and fiats to Cuba. Every mill, wheel and factory shaft in moaon at Wilmington. Electric railroad, Asheville to Rutheriordton, an assured fact. Hammond Manufacturing Com pany uoiiaLea a Bn,c-UL u;bu lvui-.u Wilkesboro $5,000 improvement bond Issue carried by good majority. Kernersville manufacturers will work more tobacco this year than last. Mrs. Wesley Thoma?, of Chatham, matured 3(3 oranges on a tree in her yard. Engineers begin preliminary work on electric street railway at Char lotte. Train shooter barely missed Col. A. B. Andrews, in his car, near Haw River. Yandermere, Pamlico county, has built anew hotel, oyster cannery and academy. A Chatham colored man 6hows a ten foot cotton stalk with correspond ing limbs. Legislative members, Governor and State'ofticers, will attend the fair at New Berne. Manager Crews, of the Western Union, is transferred from Goldsboro to Asheville. The name Daniel G. Fowle is im mortalized on a locomotive of the Atlantic road. Hickory Carolinian thinks Polk and not Peffer i3 the man for Presi dent, in 1892. . New Berne will have a direct, short line turnpike to Aurora, at a cost of $1,000. . Only eleven illicit distilleries cap tured in Collector White's district for past mouth. A Chatham cat carried to Fayette ville retured home in three days, dis tance sixty miles. New York World puts down the State CnronicJe as Democratic organ of North Carolina. Industrial manufacturing works, Wilmington, turn out 30,000 wooden plate3 and dishes daily. All trestles on Murphy branch, Western North Carolina, Dillsboro to Murphy, washed out. East Tennessee and Western North Carolina people want a new State with Asheville the capital. A Cheyenne Indian lectured in C'iuton on advancement of mission ary cause among the Indians. Cotton mills of the State, gener ally, will have their products oa exhibition of New Berne Fair. Members of the Pasquotank Rifles received each 43 i cents a day for their services in the oyster war. Vice Consul General Murphy, na t ve of North Carolina, appointed to the U. S. Consulate at Hanover. J. II. Barnard, Asheville, and II. J. Croley, Atlanta, were at Wil mington electric street railway pro ject. The Star suggests a factory at Wilmington for the manufacture of twint, cordage, etc., from Marsh grass. A special train bearing 140 New England manufacturers anu capi talists passed Greensboro for Ala bama points. James A. Trice, the colored Dur ham missionary to Africa, has been heard from at Sierra Leone, West Africa, well and at work among the dark heathen. CONTAINS MORE READING MATTER THAX ANY OTHER PAPER IN THIS SECTION. DE I.ARATIOX BY TIIE China throve Dart Man, Who is Yet Single, hut a Candidate. ' Patterson & Corrihcr bought 300 dozen eggs last Saturday. We shall know each other better when the mud passes away. The public schools are closing. Nearly 1,000 dozen of eggs are shipped from China Grove every week. Mrs Lillie Pethel, an aged lady, died last week. They have weekly lectures at the Academy. Mr. E. R. Black welder, who was suffering with rheumatism, dumb chills, and kidney and liver complaint was treated by Dr. L. II. Stowe, the electrician, and considers himself a well man. He says he would not take $50 for what he did for him in two treatments. Last Monday Mr. Moses Linn came to China Grove to get a war rant for the arrest of Reece Tor rence's little twelve year old son, who had broken into Mr. Linn's house and had stolen several articles therefrom. On account of the boy's age the magistrate refused to issue a warrant for his arrest, but instead went to the boy's father and told him to give the boy a good thrash ing, which Reece proceeded to do without any unnecessary delay. The boy is now carrying about forty marks on his back as a result of his kleptomania. COXDEXSEO ITEMS From Joe Caldwell's Landmark, the Best M eekly In the State. The streets are strewn with frag ments of playing cards. The Statesville Development Company ha3 been chartered. Tobacco breaks have been good. The young ladies are to form a band of King's Daughters. Sheriff Al lison took seven prisoners to the penitentiary. Lot of sickness in town. Center Point Alliance has adopted a resolution abolishing the ollice of county treasurer and vesting the duties in the sheriff. There have been ten cases of measles at the Presbyterian Home at Barium Springs but all are up again and seem well except that one or two are suffering with sore eyes. Theie have been four additions to the num ber of children since the removal of the Home to Barium Springs and seven more are expected within a week. The work of improving the Home goes on slowly owing to the bad weather. Kind friends can assist the superintendent in his vrt.,-1. A. '-- -"---a- -.wVj sending Iniii liowcr seeds, bulbs, plants, shrubs, fruit trees, vines and otner things for yard, garden,orchard and farm. I'XIOXAXD MOXKOE As Pictured for the Week, by the ICt'Kister. Evangelist Leitch has been con ducting meetings at Chester, S. C. Mrs. Jacob Helms died at the age of GO. Sheriff Horn has gained his case against the People's bank. A large number of mules have bun sold here. Rev. J. F. Moser has opened a select male school. The Register booms Dr. J. C. Brown, a dentist, for railroad commis sioner. (He could pull out the bad teeth Ed.) The Charlotte dis trict has purchased the house of lawyer Covington for district par sonage. The elopement of the colored man and white girl has cre ated a decided sensation. STANLEY' AXD ALBEMARLE As El kin's Observer I'onud It Out. About thirty days more will finish the grading on the Yadkin railroad. Mrs. I. J. Caldwell has been sick several days. The iron spans for bridge over town creek are being delivered Operations at the gold mine at Bilesville have suspended 2 months. A man caught 34 mice in a Racket trap in two days. The Concord Wood and Iron Works desire to locate the plant of machin ery , near the depot at this place. Five acres of ground is wanted, and if the price suits, the whole plant will be moved at an early day. We hope the land desired can be se cured on satisfactory terms for the accession of this company, NALISIII RY AXD BOWAX Reported by Little Rauiey'a Watch, man. J. W. Rumple, of Va., was here. -Horse trading has been resumed. The site for the cotton factory has not been selected. Rev. N. S. Jones, (Baptist) will preach Sunday, ou "Keligious Aristocracy. nr, J. F. Griffith wa3 called to his father's in Forsyth county on ac count of his father's illness. Now for a furniture factory. The only case of importance at court is that of Lee Sherrill for burglary. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 21. At Athens, Ala., Thursday night, a crowd of indignant citizens first hanged aud then burned Gov. Jones in effigy. One of the State agricul tural experimental stations i3 located at Athens, aud the legislature passed a bill dividing the agricultural col lege fund appropriated by Congress among the several stations in the State. Governor Jone3 vetoed the bill ou the ground that the fund was in the nature of a trust already accepted by the State for the benefit of the agricultural and mechanical college at Auburn, and could not be diverted from that institution. Athens' share under the vetoed bill wa3 $2,000 per annum. m Salisbuiy will now agitate for a furniture factory.