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THE SmiURD. .TAMES T. COOK, Editor. BREVARD E. HARRIS, CORRESPOND ING EDITOR Crarrkr'i Letter. The wind was high here yesterday. Harvey Cook'g school closed Jast week. Every one of us took ft shower bath, coming home from the speak -ing on Saturday evening:. 'otton planting in this section will be late. oligarchy, in America, don't suit. xorth Carolina is prelific of good men, but she will hare to look well to her laure a to beat such men as Ben Terrell, of Texas. c. 1. Mus finds from one to five pennyweights of gold every day he works. old Uncle Bynum Small is feeblo n health. Really the whole thing is a riddle, this weather is. During the few days of sunshine last week many farmers of our neighborhood sowed oats. wereral men in this vicinity are buyiDg corn on time. Teachers are blue over the general shortage in the school fund. Almost all the milk cows evince a dislike for too much cotton seed. nineteen dollars is what Bethel parsontge rented for, when put to the highest bidder last week. ay before yesterday it was re ported that Mrs. John Measinier, who has the typhoid fever, was not expected to live, but at this writing be is thought to be some better. Aridity to make money without honest eflbit, even among many farmers, seems to be on the increase. mainsey, of the Salisbury Watch man, has extended the circulation of bis paper to Clear Creek post office. ampness in the cellar caused your humble servant to lose several dollars' worth of sensitized photo paper, having stored it away there to keep the light from it. Cor wrack ih. Item fcy " B or 11." Mrs. Ii. M. Krimminger has been quite sick. Mrs. R. M. Blackwelder had a nice pig to die last Thursday. Mrs. Martha Robinson is improv ing in health. Mr. W. P. Litaker, who had his leg broken sometime ago, wi'l be ole to walk in a few days. At R. M. Blackwelder and son's well last Thursday a rock was acci dentaly dropped in the well. It just missed the head of a colored mail. One of Frank Boger's (col.) chil dren took a mouthful of sort lye Boap. One mouthful was enough." There are a great many doga at the dog kennels superintended by Mr. C. A. Robinson. Martin Propst is administrator of the Aunty Lowder estate. Mr. J. A. Litaker caught a hawk in a bird trap by placing a dead chicken on the trigger. The hawk had killed the chicken. The young people had a singing at Mr. Joe Fisher's on last Saturday night The instru mental music was furnished by Asa Blackwelder playing the violin and "B. of Xo. 11" with the mouth harp. On last Sunday, (March 15,) two persons were admitted as members by confirmation, at 11 o'clock. Rev. Prof. C. L. T. Fisher preached a highly instructive sermon from St. John 16 ch. 8 to 11 verses iuclusive. Immediately after the sermon the holy communion was administered. The pastor was not present on ac count of ill health. The congrega tion was not very large because of roads being in such a bad condition, fio they all walked. Last week Mr. Asa Blackwelder cut himself ou the head, cut his leg with a piece of glass, and got struck on the head by a piece of timber and knocked don. " B. of No. 11." ftafa k'a Letter. Miss Carrie and Joe Walter are visiting their grandmother, Mrs. L. K. Phillips, in Concord. John J. Cook and Willis Misen heimer are spending a week in Char lotte. Mr. Willie Stapleton returned last week from Guilford county where he baa been spending a few months with the home folks. He will spend the summer with Mr. C. P. Cline. 7 be dwelling house of Mrs. Alfred Walter was left alone on last Satur day night for the first time since it was built sixty years ago. Who can beat that T Mrs. Alfred Walter, Mrs. Moil'.e Pleas and Master Charlie Pless were visiting friends and relatives in Concord last week. Mr- Wash. Earnhardt is scared. His wheat and oats are in joints and 1 is afraid it will freeze. His .vbeat and oats crop will cover an eight year old rabbit, ears and all. C. P. Cline is keeping a country boarding house in No. 5. A rare thing for the county, but his board era are still coming. Look out for his ad. soon. Communion services will be held at New Gilead on the second Sun day in April. Preparatory services on the Saturday previous at two o'clock p. m. The Hileman mills, wheat, corn, and saw, are all running on full time and are doing a satisfactory busi ness. . , J- C. Daywalt is teaching singing school at Alt. Michael. Our old farmer b say the farm work for the coming year is later than ever known. This is the first time in 18 years that I have Jailed to plant my early eorn by the 20th of March. Mrs. Martin Barnhardt wan!B her name entered on the swelling roll for the Standard. Mr. Simon Barnhardt claims to Lave a white snow-bird, white as snow. We have had on and around our farm a white jay-bird for the past two years. Miss Emma Phillins, of Concord, U viuitinff B. J. and P. O. Cook. Last Monday while C was driving cow and young call along the public road near E. K. M i sen bei til er's, the calf fell into a pit six feet deep that is in the bounds of the nnhiifi road, covered over with a tew briars. That was the first calf I ever saw hanged. Messrs. Dan and David Carter were present, and by means of a rope and manual labor we drew the "critter" out. That pit is a dangerous place, and it henld be remedied. A. F. Hileman says be is getting tut line ht baa come home and gone to work. Ob laAt Tuesday Mr. P- G. Cook had lWg barn moved and rebuilt, mA lira. Cook had an old time bat- f ardiog and quilting1. At night the young people had an old time "ifisses candy pullin'-" Master Willie Long is dangerously sick with croup. Itufus Krimuiingpr says he boiled three wash pots full of hard poap from 8unrife last Monditr till 11 n the same day. We wonder which is the strongest, the l(y)ie or the soap. Mrs. It. F. Cline is very sick- R. F- Cline, one of the most noted pipe-smokers we have ever known, has quit the " cussed'' habit, so he says. It is thought by those who know Bob, that he is going to die sooner or lattr by so doing. Clay Yost is quite sick- C. 1.ITTI.K lHMH'SOr Tir. l'itrh Tnrpenline mill Oltu-r Tnr llrrl lrolnrt. Union Staion work at Raleigh progresses. An Alliance paper begins at Hick ory in two weeks. Revenue raiders destroyed a still in Durham county. Greensboro votes on corporation extension April Gth. Early pea crop, Goldsboro section, not injured by cold. Raleigh electric street car tangle being straightened out. Walnut Cove Sash and Blind Fac tory again in operation. Every Evening is the name of a new daily at Henderson. Morganton insists upon making her fair a big success this fall. Gen. Rufus Barringer gives $500 to Charlotte Library Association. Duke, of Durham, has bought the Louisburg Female College property. Henry Clav, a noted Franklin county horse, lias just died, aged Xi years. Arrangements completed for a medical department at Durham Trinity College. Richmond and Danville 11 R. Co. pays out $10,000 monthly to em ployees at Salisbury. Wilmington cotton receipts 180, 000 bales since September 1st; gain of 47,000 over last year, A company, headed by J. S. Carr, has bought 12,000 acres of iron ore land at King's Mountain. George Nelson, Greenville, out hunting robbins, accidentally shot himself and died instantly. Dunavant Cotton Mills, Morgan ton, have put in a new hundred lamp Edison electric light plant. Contract for painting Davidson county court house has been awarded by the county commissions. The Haw Bud Farmers' Alliance cornet band will play for the public Easter Monday on Sauratown moun tain. Thomas Reditemus Christopher Holmes Peter Calvamus Trubamus Jones Patterson resides at classic Lenoir, Caldwell county. The Walnut Cove Advance says that Mr. Harris, the coal miner, is taking out as lino cottl US i foil nil anywhere in tne United States. Berta Lowdermilk, of Burke, has regularly tended his lish traps on the Catawba for forty years, and takes a new live years lease. Walton and Wilson Morganton are awarded the contract for build ing the Belt Railroad at Middlesbor ough, Kentucky, the Cumberland Gap City. Widow of Col. A. Davidson, Portland, Oregon, niece of " Old Hickory," is in Charlotte looking up relatives. She is a connection of the Davidsons, of Mecklenburg. Davidson county map, an elabo rate and valuable one, prepared by Professor Johnson, of Trinity Col lege, is now being distributed. Every coHntv in the State should have such a map. The Mutural Insurance and Aid Society of Wilmington, chaitered by the late Legislature, to insure persons between 7 and ;0 years, ac cident, sickness and death, ha3 organ ized. Survey of the Wilmington and Southern Railroad to Southport has been surveyed by way of Masonboro. The incorporators are the names of men of Wilmington that always mean business. Tobe Mathis, convicted at Wilkes court of the mnrder of Thomas Henderson, and sentenced to be hung April 22, appealed to Supreme Court, which cannot review his case until after that date. The plaid manufacturers of the State had an important meeting at Charlotte. Steele, of Rockingham, Cone, of Baltimore, Holts, of Ala mance, and Graham, of Asheville, were noted as present. Sum JeneH' Dangliter Dead. Mrs. Mary Mays, the eldest daughter of Rev. Sam Jones, is dead. She died at her home in Car tersville, Ga., yesterday. Mrs. Mays was married not quite one year ago to Dr. Mays, a promis ing young physician of Cartersville, and her untimely death will be a se vere blow to the great evangelist. She we 8 nineteen years old and it is said her father's favorite child. The many friends of Mr. Jones in Char lotte sympathize with him in h.s great affliction. Charlotte News. -m- Old Itnldy " 1 I'il. "Baldy" Harris, better known as "Old Baldy," who for fifteen or twenty years drove the Central Hotel 'bus, died yesterday morning at his home in Log Town. " Baldy " was about 73 years old and was only deposed from his lofty seat on the 'bus after he became too infirm to drive. He was a good man and one of the best drivers the eity ever had. He formerly be longed to Chas. J. Harris, of Cabar rus. Charlotte Chronicle. General Mahone is said to be backing United States Jud?e John Paul tor one of the new circuit judgeships- Horrible as it may appear, i' is an unquestioned fact that the Chicago man who paid nearly $15,000 for a Bible did so because it's the only book of the kind that is to be found in that hopeless city. Chicago is a little late in getting into the field and ii evidently paying interest for all the years it has neither bought nor read ordinary editions of the Holy Writ. A Strong Speec h ox qi r.sTioxs or the iav i:v HEX. TEKHEM.. Xotvn Tnkcii iir' Wrlllni Out ill SnU NtinrA Two Hnr AildreN Hint Held it Well t'llli'd IIimiho lo eery Word IMnln.l'rur Itrnl nnl ! crl ill lr nlnllon of fix-!. The courthouse was full. Every section of the county was represented bv men of all occupations and all callings. There were men fro'ii wall to wall, of both colors, and several ladies were present. Outside of a hotlv contested political convention, a bigger crowd has not, been seen in the courthouse in a long time. The occasion was one of an Alli ance nature, though the doors were open to all. and many men were present that do not belong to I lie Alliance, and some that are not i litnlile to the order, but hev were there bv a kind invitation. It is unfortunate that the speaking had to come otT when it did right in the middle of the day when not many business men can be away from their places of work, yet not a few were there. Captain Charles McDonald, in a few well chosen remarks, introduced Hen. Ben. Terrell, of Texas, and the lecturer of the National Alli ance. Mr. Terrell is probably not more than 45 years of age, of low stature, heavy built, bald, no beard except mustache, a splendid coun tenance and a man of very line bear ing. Among other things and in sub stance, Mr. Terrell said: 1 am here, ladies and gentlemen, to discuss matters and conditions from the farmers' standpoint. We want to discuss the conditions that confront us in a plain and practical way and without any feeling as to classes. The object of the Alliance is not a complicated one, it :? plain and clear. The object is to discuss matters and conditions which effect us as agriculturists and thereby effect others, for all are directly or indirectly dependent upon the farm er. To remove such conditions as are hurtful aud to fortify and nour ish such as are pood and useful. When you think that the Farmers' Alliance is here to pull down this government and to wreck our polit ical institutions, you .are sadly aud fearfully mistaken. Who ever heari of a move on the part of the farmers that damaged the government of any country? Such is not possible from the very nature of the conditions under which we live. The farmers, generally speaking, are a very intel ligent class of people, and certainly they are very conservative in all their actions, both in State and church. Indeed the farmers are a great part of the population, and by right have much to do with the conditions of this country, and they, too. must assist in keeping up and sup porting this grand civilization of ourj. Farmers mnsr organize, but they have done but little of that tiling in this country, up to a few years ago. Have the farmers ever taken any position that worked in jury to this or any other country? Have they acted so as to effect dam age to this country, morally or other wise '? It seems not from the records we have before us. Indeed we have been very quiet all along, leaving nearly all matters toothers to adjust. We are thoroughly amazed that there should be any opposition to the organization of farmers, especial ly when it is a known fact that we have never done any damage. Rut there is opposition and it can not be doubted at all. The speaker during his address quoted quite a number of times from Jefferson. Said he: " Men who control the currency con trol the property. I know this o be true." As it is in most cases the men who do not plow, hoe and mow are generally the ones that have the power to dictate and they generally use it to their advantage and we can not blame them for that is human nature. We are not satisfied, the country is not satisfied, and the age is not satisfied with the couditiou of affairs in this country. No patriot could be, if he but give a few honest and careful thoughts to the conditions that uow confronts us. Just think, seven-eights of the farming class are tenants. The ownership of the land is getting into the hands of a few. He who owns your land cer tainly owns you. This is xorae than African slavery. There is dan ger when the land gets into the hand3 of a few. When Rome went down 2,800 men owned the laud. When Greece went down 550 people owned the land. This same state of affairs is seen in the history of every coun try that has gone down. The Alli ance demands that no foreigner shall own the land in this country. We want the lauds owned by Americans American citizens, if you please. We are not alarmists. We have gone and studied these questions and we find that 01,000,000 acres of land in this country are owned by alien ists men who have not even seen this country. Corporations own 150,000,000 acres, insurance compa nies own 150,000,000, and 154,00 000 acres are owned by foreign cor porations. This looks like the farmers have spoken too soon? In 1850 seven-eights of the farmers owned the land on which they worked. In 18!0 seven-eighths of the farmers are tenants. What does this look like ? Have we commenced to think too soon and to act too soon? Certainly not. When the constitution of this country was framed, the idea was not to make nobility in the owner ship of land. It was not intended that land owners should become land-sharks. It was not provided that a few mn should get the com plete control of all the land over which its intluence acted. Its spirit was not to encourage monopolies in the ownership of anything at all ; it was devised to give protection and do the greatest good to the greatest number of people, indeed to do jus tice to all. That is what we demand. There is a difference betwiea the private ownership and that found in a corporation: The large landed estates owned hv u citizen will event- ually be divide! between his ?o:.s, and again it will be sub-divided and soon: out a corporation never uics. A man may die but the business is not closed, the concern goes ou and on. The death of a member of a corporation does not affect it. We violate the spirit of the con stitution and betray our trusts when we allow the land of this country to get into the hands of foreigners, men w hose interests are not identical and in svmpithv with ours. Foreign corporations getting hold of the land does not mean good for us or our interests. The mission of the Alliance is not to light the merchants, the hankers or any other class of citizens. W care.M per cent of the population and pay So per cent of all the taxes. And does this not mean that it is our duty to study the questions of the day ? It is our duty to do it and by so doing we have discovered some things that are not so wholesome for us or the country. The question of transportation is one that concerns us no little. We claim that transportation lines ought to be owned by the government to such an extent as to control them. The railroad corporations are in a great degree but trusts, but Blaine says that " -rusts are private matters that the country has nothing to do with." That is strange. The gov ernment has created them, has given them life and existence. Can a cre ated thing become too big to be con trolled by its creator? Is the created greater than the creitor? Certainly not. The object of this government is to protect, but not a few to the ad vantage of the many. A railroad is a public highway and the govern ment ought to have control of it. We can not afford to insult your in telligence with a long recital of the manner and shape in which the ra 1 roads take advantage of the people. You know those things veil, indeed to your injury. They have combined against you in many ways. They have succeeded in bleeding you. What man could dare offer himself for Congress or any legislative body and favor and endorse the measures and practices of the railroad trusts? Could the people afford to support the man "hat upholds the robbery that is perpetrated upon the masses by gigantic monopolies and trusts ? If you do not want the railroads and monopolies to ow n you, then you had better commence to controlling them, the sooner the better. The Fanner' Alliance is here and here to stay. This, please, remember, for it will be to your advantage. It is not democratic, it is not Republi can, and it is not partisan, and it is not in the interest of any one man In Kansas, Dakota and in the ''outh the people have learned by sad ex perience that something must be done at once. And before the rail road commission begin to operate, the cujk uluiii; thccelltrd Western States had to pay two dollars to ship a bale of cotton to New ( h leans and only fifty cents to Massachusetts. This has been remedied. The rail roads have almost absolute power the way it now stands; they can nuk- or ruin cities they do it. It has been discovered that most uf the grain elevators belong or are under the control of stockholders in rail roads. They bleed you with heavy freight charges and then dictate the prices of grain at their own pleasure. The history of the Standard Oil Company may be well known to vou. It has stood in with the railroads; indeed it is a part of them. Such corporations intluence legislation and generally carry things to suit their own convenience. Some claim that if the government owns the railroads that it will work injury to the public. This cannot be. If the government owns therailr ads will that hurt he merchants, your doctors, your law yers or your homes? To a thinking mind the fallacy of such a claim is patent. The speaker here showed in a very clear way how the people were humbugged by railroad com panies right at the beginning of the roads' construction. It is right that we make a solemn protest against the whole thing. It is to our inter est to do so for the "good of Katie and the baby.' So soon as you be gin to question their right o some practice they and their friends jump behind their charters and cry a whole bundle ot torn-foolery about infringing upon their rights. The government does not seek to do for some what it can net afford to do for others. All this "hocus-pocus" vested rights are no more they are back numbers a dirty rag baby." We have no use for it, and let us throw the thing away, and the Alliance seeks to do that for the people. The speaker told of the railroad practices in Texas and how the people put an end to the robbery. Xorth Carolina had some bonds hanging over her. She repudiated them. A corrupt legislature cannot make such laws that will forever bind the peop'e and cause other legislatuics to let them stand forever to the it rnal injury of the whole people. A bad law can be repealed and must Ic. The Alliance does not seek to harm a single honest dollar in a corporation. It is the dishonest one that the Alliance is after. The greatest good to the greatest number is all that we are after, and that is Democracy. The money question is another one that demands the attention of the Alliance. When it comes to the consideration of this we aiv called cranks, but we are honest about it, aud the name "crank " does not af fect us. iNot much was said about us until this thing began to be dis cussed pretty freely, and then the opposition began to show itself very freely. The Alliance has taken a very radical position on the mouev question, and it is this that has pre C pitated a very enthusiastic discus sion. Every act'by Congress in ref erence to money has been in the in terest of the government's creditors, the bondholders. When the question of any change in the curie icy is raised the bondholder figure very largely in it. But little legislation on the money question is made that ' lifts any direct bearing upon the i general pbblic. And to be sure when i tne jrovemim-nL o nf frr t ho nennle are not in it Against such legislation we are opposed, and must fight it. We are compelled to do it; it has "gotten down to the ground-hog, and there's a preacher in the house." In 18G5 the money in circulation amounted to $52 per capita, and in 181)0 it '- as just $10 per capita. How is that? It is true that tne population has increased, but there has been more than a corresponding increase in the production of the country. My friends, the war is over; the Farmers' Alliance is the mo Hum for erettine the people to- gether the people of the North, of the Fast, of the West and ot the South. We have gotten together and compared nctes. We have de cided that the war is over and that its issues are back numbers and are dead. Politicians can no more raise the battle cry; we are done. They must talk about the presen". and the future ; these concern us. The debt was $2,800,000,000, wtich could not be paid by all the money in ' id, for there is not enough, i.. j.. ...iunis, interest and on the principal we have paid just $l,;oo,000,ouo already, and we have had a tough time at that, and yet we owe 1,553,0110,000! This thing must stop, and right here, because we are hurting and that bad. In a number of years we have increased the production of cotton from :J,150, (MM bales to 8,000.000 of bals, and there is less money in circulation per capita. One hundred and sixty-three thousand merchants have failed, and $:5:8,000,000 worth of mortgages have accumulated on the farms. Is this encouraging ? The interest last year was more than the value of the entire production of the country. Now, unless you make an increase in the circulation of the currency there is a decrease in the circulation going on because of the increase in popula tion and that of production. This thing is becoming very serious, and it must be faced. I had the honor of being a mem ber of a comnvttee that called on Mr. Harrison. He said that he was proud to see us, that he was glad that the farmers were taking so much interest in the study of jiiblic and political questions. He said that you demand one thing that is unjust : "The increase of the circulation of money." We discussed the matter w ith him with but little result. We told him of the great changes that had come about and the hardships that were being met by the people. That property that cost one hundred dollars years ro would cost tw ice as much now. That his salary now would buy 48,000 bushels of w heat. And quite a number of other things were spoken of on which the Alii ance was making a decided demand for. Mr. Harrison said " good bye." We demand that all money shall be the same in value and importance. The creditors of the United States demand the payment to be in gold. 1 tie tan Its and customs are paid in gold, too. Vou have tc take what vou can get. Kansas, for a long tune the follower of high tariff notions lias come out from that : the legisla ture has declared that all debts are payable in any kind of money. And this we demand of the National government. We do not want one money for the bondholder and all ot l.er kind for the farmers. Just lure the speaker made some remarks about the money, whether it should be gold, silver or paper. We demand that all money shall have the same value. The making of money. The gov eminent has a right to make money, because it has done so heretofore. It is said that the government can coin money but that it cannot make it. This is stuff. They try to make a difference in these two words, but with the government thev mean the same. If the government has the right to coin money and to declare it legal, it most assuredly has the right to make money of any mate rial ami declare it legal tender. If the government can make money, and we claim that it can, we assert that it is the duty of the govern ment to make enough for the use of the demands. There is not enough money to do the business of this country. We have borrowed from Europe until the interest paid amounts to $83,000,000. Muqh is being said now about dis tributers. There are three distrib uters only; they are: The National banks, the gold mine, the holders of United Sfati-s. bonds. These do the work of the money lending. Not one of them adds anything to the wealth of the country, they simply distiibnte the values of wealth cre ated by others. As the government now stands the banker is an absolute necessity. The Alliance is not op posed to the banker, but it is opposed to the system. The Alliance is not opposed to anybody, but seeking only to correct those systems aud meas ures by w hich a few men gain manip ulating powers and carry on a business that is not to the bst interests of the country. The gold and silver miner does not add a cent to the wealth of the country. If you owned a gold mountain it Wv,uld do you no good unless it was stamped by the government. The Alliance favors a change and a great one. We demand the right to distribute. The farmer alone creates aud makes and yet has noth ing to say to the maimer and plan of distribution. We claim that we have a right to do that, and the Alli ance demands that this right be lecognized. Those who control the money market can at will contract the Cur rency ; this is generally done when our products ar;i thrown upon the market.; When these measures are pressed you hear some men say that they are unconstitutional and un- democratic. But is ifrundem norfi.fi ft and unconstitutional to give o the farmer as' maiiy privileges and rights as are given to the bondholder? It ought not to be, and it is not. When vim hrive n mule to sell the price is down, and when you have one to buy fhpn tho nnce is up ; tnese umig .ire true and cannot be denied We do not ask you to take our se curity unless you tbiuK it is goon. But we want, as producers, to be on equal footing with the rest of man kind. When we have anything to sell we do not want the market brought down by speculators and com bines w-e seek to get it beyond the manipulation of anyone. The mer chant is a good friend of yours, but he will rob you if you give him a chance; and you will .o him tne same way on some potatoes if yon get an opportunity. The Alliance favors the sub-tres-uryjitdoes this because we think that it is right fnd because we think that it is needed for the sake of the country. The opposers say that the sub-treasury is paternal ; it is not, it is optional. Ano'her class object to it because of it only pro viding for a warehouse in a few counties. This is only the bill ; that can be and will be changed. Every thing cannot be arranged satisfacto rily at once. It takes time to effect all such radical changes. The bill is in a crude shape yet, but the principle is there and the plan lies under it to give it character. 'The bill will be perfected and made to work justice to all people and all counties. Some claim that it can not be done on ac 001111; of the expense of building the warehouse and other necessary buildings. This amounts to no good, for the government can spend thousands of dollars for public buildings where they are really not needed. The cost in constructing buildings for carrying on the work ot the sub-treasury plan will be a very small item. Parties from Wilming ton as ed for $200,000 to construct a shell road out to a national ceme tery. This was asked to ge' money into circulation. Not that they had so much love for the dead Federals, but that they desired to get $200,000 turned loose in their midst. The benefits of this arrangement can soon be seen in the renewed life in the life of the South. We want to see the cotton of this country manufactured right here, so that our products will bring the very highest prices at the start. And the foreigner, instead of buy ing it in a raw slate, will buy it in its most valuable state. Kansas, for instance, sometimes pay three times as much for cor i as it is sold for. It is shipped to St. Louis, stored away, held, prices run up, and the Kansas farmer by some failure is forced to buy the corn he raised at a figure three times greater than he sold it for. We want a home s'or age. Why shi it off, then back ? This is useless expense. This is not partisan, it is patriotic. They say that this is not democracy. Well, if this is not democracy, they may go to thunder with their democracy. W are in the midst of a great revolution. This cannot be denied. 'People "hive "commenced to think for themselves, and thinking has caused them to feel that some changes are needed. This is a rev olution, not of bullets and shot, but of ballots of an earnest and deter mined people. Cleveland is getting a great adver tising for his opposition to the free coinage of silver. Mr. Cleveland has a right to entertain his own views; this is a free country. But if Cleve land is a Democrat, we are not ; I claim that Ave are Democrats and that Mr. Cleveland is not. If Mr. Cleveland stands w here he does the people do not want him. The merchant buys in the lowest markets and sells in the highest; go do likewise, my friends. Do not tight the classes; they are with us and are a part of this civili zation, vt e are not called upon to tight men, bui to tight unwholesome systems and practices. There is not all the meanness to be found in one class; you find it in every class; the litnuei uas bume, ine meicnant lias some, the preacher sometimes has some. Some farmers are noble men ; s me are rascals. So it is with the balance of humanity. The fellow that runs about saying, " When i take a fling to market I have to take what I can get, and when I want to buy I have to ask what he will take for it," and talks and whines about this, is a demagogue. This is the law of trade, and the merchant cannot help it, nor can any one else. The fault lies in the sy6 iteuis that grow out of legislation ; mere is the place aud nowh re else. We want to change legislation, and mat we intend to Uo. We want to remove" the powers that let a few men contro' the market. Mr. Terrell closed his a.'dress wHi good advice to all. He thiuks that the niei chants ought to be with the farmers in this struggle for relief. It cannot hurt them, but.will benefit them in like proportion with all men. This move is of the people, and it will stay until the ch-inges are effected. The Standard regrets that we have not the power to publish Mr. Ter rell's address in lull. It would be most splendid reading, indeed. We are free to say that it was in all respects the iiuest address that, we have had the pleasure of ever neannjr. Mr. Terrell is mi man, a strong and forcible orator and very conservative in his views aud thoroughly sincere and earnest. Such addresses do good, and it would be a great blessing to the people at large could they hear such very fre quently. Men went to hear the address that were predujiced because of their non-approval of the Alliance on gen eral principles. They came away very much changed in their views The Standard heard one mau say he was hotly opposed to the Alliance and he is a farmer, too, a good one "That I am well pleased with the speech, and, if that is Alliance doc trine, then I am an Alliance to the very bottom of my heart." Many men heretofore on the fence about the Alliance have been caused to get down from the Btraddle. Durham revenue collections last week $7,855.57. MILLINERY ! ANNONS A MAIL S FB I E G- Ginghams at 5 Cents, FORMER PRICE 8 CENTS. S2TREMEMBER OUR MILLINER WILL BE IN WITH A FULL LINE OP ALL THE Latest - Styles - in - Hats ! Come in NEXT WEEK and see her before you buy. CANNONS k FhTZER. I'1,ITICAL POINTS. The majority of Cleveland's ene mies are thoe who oppose him for personal reasons, but his record as administrator of the people is clear. He is still the strongest man with the people. The next Democratic Convention will show that unless there be some mighty change of sentiment. Ilicbmond State, Dern. The fact that Senator-elect Palmer of Illinois is a free trade Democrat and not extreme on the money ques tion, while, at the same time, in high feather with the Western farmers who advocate silver free coinage, makes him a possible competitor for the Presidential nomination of his party. New York is divided between Hill and Cleveland any way, and the impression somehow prevails ther that the success of either in control of the State machine would destroy the chances of both before the Na tional convention. Hence the atten tion of some Democrats is already turned toward lien, i "aimer as a candidate. Wash. Star, Ind. California rtsuUtors recently nanjed the wrou m in, aud then sent a letter of aoolosjy to his W1..0W. CONCORD MARKETS. COTTON MARKET. (Corrected daily by Cannons & Fetzer.) Liow middling 8 Middling 8i o liood. middling gj riiuuitii MAKhfii. (Corrected daily by W. J. Swink.) iiacon 3 Sugar-cured han.8 Bulk meats, sides Beeswax 7 14 7 18 20 20 15 & J2 75 & 12'. 8 50 70 CO 4 70 Butter Chickens Corn Evgs Lard Flour (North Caroliua). Meal Oats Tallow Salt . 10 5 80 lour jresence is most earnestly ufsireu at my GRAND OPENING Tuesday to Saturday, MARCH 24th TO 28th, when I promise to show you the linest selection of ever displayed in Concord. I have taken great pains in eelectina the VERY LATEST AND MOST STYLISH PATTERNS while in the market, such as I am confident WILL SUIT THE TASTE of the most fastidious. Bkaj"Be sure you corr.e and see. Respectfully, S J Ji special mm FASHIONABLIj millinery Winn daw IIM MILLINKHY X D FETZE L. M. ARCHEY, M. I). PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office opposite St. Cloud. Got to Come at Once ! THE TAXES I'm going to colhct at once; if not one whj- tiien another. If the amouute are not settled with in a few days I shall advertise and collect not only the taxes but cost. 8SSThi8 is business WM. PROPST, mar o f Tax Co lector. R1 ECElVEIt'S NOTICE Havinir U ( n appointed receiver of and fnr"Tlie Cabarrus County Co-operative Siore sociation," I hereby notify all persons indebted to said corporation, or to .lnlm A. Cline, agent, or to JJt-11 & Sim, ajcut of said corporation, that prompt pay ment of said indebtedness must be n;uii' lo iue as receiver; and all persons hav ing claims against said corporation uml present the same to me. December 22d, 1800. EL AM KING, 23-d A w2m Receiver SAL EH BRICK A N D s, I have BRICKjon hfind at b11 times. Parties needing any will do well to see ine before purchasing. I also TAKE CONTRACTS to do small or lartre jobs in brick work in ny part of the country. W rite me or come to see m. R. J. FOIL, 0- -'t-I- ' nTord V. Ci Fine Farm For Sale. As administrators de bonis non, with the will annexed, of the estate of John 8, Donnt'U, deceased, late of Baltimore, Maryland, and under authority vested in us by the will of John S. Donnell nnd the laws of North Carolina, we will sell for CA S H, by public auction, at the door of the court house in Concord, on AT I" It DAY, THE 2d Of MAY, 191. about two hundred and thirty (2:10) acres of land, belonging to tlie estate of John . Donnell, lying on Uutch iiuffalo creek, near Foil s mill, in No. 0 township in Cabarrus county, on which Jacob A. Cline now resides, and the description and bounda ries whereof are fully stated in a deed from C. N. White to John S. Donnell. recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus county in Book 21, page o. .March 2th, 181)1. JAMES SWANN FHICK, Administrator d. b. n., c. t. a., of John S. Donnell, in Maryland- PAUL B. MEANS, Administrator d. b. n., c. t.a.. of John S. ponudl, in North Carolina. mcli 20 no UMISSIONER S SALE.-Ht-w ing been duly a; pointed a com-, missioner by the Suneiior Court. of Cabarrus county in the cause A. J. liost vs Li. . Jjaseiter, ex rof Same Pitts, dee'd, C. A. PittH, Mary E. Pitts and L. C. Lassiter, I as such commissioner will expose to public ale, at the courthouse door in Con cord, ou Monday, the Gth (fiy of April. 1891. at 12 o clock m-. all that track of jaud lying and being in the county ot Cabarrus, on Coddie creek, adjoining the lands of P- M- Jloms, J. Jti. Morrison. . J. Jiobt aud others, containing two hundred and fifty (250) acres, more or leHH. and known as the home place of the laie Moses Pitts, dee'd. Iekuhof Salk: Ouw-fourta cash, one-tourth in twelve months and balance in two years; note aud ap proved security requiied; eiyht per cent interest from di.te of sale. Contractor lie March 3, 1891. JAo. C. GIBSON, I tJs Couiimasiojier inch 9t27
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