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THE HAIIDJRD. H WE DO ALL KINDS OF JOB "WOEK IN THE NEATEST MAjXNER AND AT THE LOWEST RATES. t-OXTAlNS MOIiK LEADING MATTKU THAN ANY OTHER l-AlM'i: IN THIS SECTION. VOL. IV. NO. V2. CONCOllD, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1891, WHOLE NO. 168. THE STIHDMD. LAK(nT PAPER l i r.LlsHKl) ix concord - Standard. M'I.I MII MIIOWIXU. n- industrial development of tbe 1 " , I ...... tlia foirv . . Tl. t il.-s 1 'I 111- I I'M!! l 01 . i i '.. ,i Wur U.tt H Ktnh-s ('.I'M' I1 I lit" V " " Nxhu-ti i. v .lt. M isf.-ama the I'e.lera (iovi i urn lls poor a social ami ,.;! : i ir 1 1 1 as evtii ft II to t he ,,t i f ltuiit-of auypiutof the woiid. l hni whole economic or .'nil, itiou ha I bee 1 agricultural. ("'otto:i. eultiva! I by slave labor, w is the stupi'' piior to the war, ami the ntire social ami financial or ts ni '.ti' n ws predicated on tha fict. '1 he war oisrupted the whole sv-iem lioin top to bottotu, and left imlv the relics of the preceding i ulcr of il ii i,"-- wliu-b, in fact, op ciated as a di i-' on the energies of tli.- people ofthit section. The m:ivcs weie free, t lie planters ruined ; lauds were unsalable and capital whs hick.iiu toiwik tlietii. The enersrie i.f ti e people weie exhausted by the wmi, and political complications aided in mai tabling the nuspense itnd uncertainty which is one of lie chief foes of i conoiiiic advancement. l'..r ten f ul . years the Soiith strug gled with these uncompromising Vw'.s, and in tbe end started anew iip.in an entirely new basis and a a l ite of progress which already rinses it to be tanked among the l'iost prosperous portions of the w iiole country. Agi i iiltuie 1ms not beeu without its lull share in producing this re s lit. Time l as resulted in bringing the system .-f i -ii'tivniion into har mony with the 1 1 urged conditions ,.f ti e i.if lab. r of the section. Cotton is stid t Bur the days of the huge p. nations have gone forever. Small holdings cultivated by their owners, white or colored, oi- rented or worked on "shares" are ll.eiule. In 1870, five years after the ciose of the war, tha cotton iiop -i the South amounted to ;!.liM.i"t) bales. By 1880 it ha.l had risen to 3,750,000 bales, and last .ar saw u total crop of 7,000,000 in'es of the Southern staple. The area of cultivation, too. has ex te ulnl. Vast quantities of land.es ptciillyjn Ttx.is and in the Missis s.pi i Valley, have been brought n-uU r t e plo v. Agricultural metl t d and production are more diversified. In !S70 the South pro duced 100,(H)0,000 bushels of com, or thirteen per cent, of tho total crop of th - United S'aies- In 1839 their yield was ?:, 000. 000 bushels, or thirty per cent, of the entire amount raised in the whole ountry. Simi lar figures apply as to other crops And what is equally notable, to bicco, once a Southern staple, but which is exceeding wasteful and ex haustive to the soil, has been largely fiban io'ied in tiieSouth, the pioduc t;i'!i of if in those States showing a decided decrease. Th- l.i'lr ' id development of the South clem aids attention- In s70 the South had twelve iho .sand live huu lied miles of railroad- At the dost- of last year they possessed n united mileage amounting to al most fortv thousand miles, or more liii't that of all the railroads in the T'nited States in IWt). The railroad n.i'eage of Texas aloue, between H70aud isn, rose from seven bun dled miles to eig'd tho sand five hundred miles. The investment represented by these figures for the whole Son t li lr. twenty years lias town from about two hundred mil lion to about two I ill on, and is irrowing f verv oav- But it is in the deveinp-.-n,.f f itp mineral resources t n- ti-.. el, if f novelty of the new iudu . i i d life of the South con,j,ts. And this has benth s!i ii". si cV i.ent i" case. At the c'o-e of the v i extent and value of the coal and iron fields of Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama were unsuspected. A few furnaces producing charcon iron w- re the sole forerunners of the immense iron industries of to d iy. Wastes or mountain hamlets, Hihabiteo; ly uamifu's oi poor whites," occupied the sites ol cities line Birmingham. Even iu 1SS0 the total coal mined in the four States of irginia. West irginia. Tennes see and Alabama footed up only three million tons. Last year the output of these States w;ts eleven million five hundred thousand tons. being an increase, with reference to the total production of the tinted States at large, of from less than seven per cent- o nearlv Cfte-uper cent, of the whole. But ti e. pro ducti ui of pig-iron has more than ken i nce with this. Twenty years ii o tho iron production of the South was infinitesimal, amounting to on!v a few thousand tons per annum, principally of the charcoal varictv. and in 1SM it amounted tc but tiinetv th u-and tons. Last year, however, the total production was one million two bundled and fifty thousand tons, or sixteen per per cent- ' f i ll the iron made in the United States- Enormous iron plants have been built at many places m the Southern State-". Lveti steel runs nienow produced there Constant additions are l-ein'r ma.ie to t lie proJucmg ci nacitv. .Southern iron makes its wav into Nortl.ern markets and un dersells the product of the miues find furnaces of l'ennst Ivania. hip I Oh o on their own trroutnl. Million of d 1 irs of Northern capital has lit." n transferred forn th North to He South, and soui" of the lead 4ii .r (Mritains l f industry " of th . itintrv l.ave.on examining the field f i'iiil'thit the Southern States nil')!.! the best cliince for industria expansion. Possessing toe two trieiit i ' o iireniriits of modern civi lization, i.n and coal, in enormous (l'lantiti-s. and. in cmnthss in- starsces. in immediate i ;xtaposition t he elements have been infaor of the S ) ith. and from the beginning of the luoveuimt toward develop ing its mineral and ma lufactunng resources Iheniaic h lias t een steady un l un . aned Whether, indoel as some en thus iasts claim, the center of the conn trv s industrial trnivity ca . sliifte 1 fioi-i north of Mason and Dixotfn line to its Southern si I mav be doubted. But n t in on in puntles'i, ways has Southern ije; elu,,';,.'"t n;'niieyted its powei and Lr diversity. Eveiy kind o manufacturing establishment has followed in the wake of the rise of the co 1 and iron industries. Al most every use to which iron can be put has its representatives iu th South. At t' e same time the cotton States themselves are dotted witl fac'ories which rival t' sizi and im poititice tho e of New England The statistics on the subject show a long, continuous and growing list of enterprises of this kind which from all appearances, are growing in prosperity and must inevitably lead to further progress of the same kind. Once A Week- WILLIAM N. PAKKEKSOX. William S. Parkerson, the man who issued the call for the lynchers in New Orleans, is only thirty-four pears ol I. is exactly six feet tall, heavily built; his head is large and rouu 1, his forehead broad, his hair brown and parted on one side, his -a- yes are intensely ilac, uud quiet enough iu repose, but suappiug lire moments of excitement. lhe most striking thit g about him is his leep voice. Mr. 1 i kerson is a law yer and a great favorite with those who know him. He lives with a sick wife and three children in a modern home on the outskirts of New Or- eans- His popularity was attested in 18K3 w hen he was made the leader of a body of voung men w ho upset the ring democracy, which ruled the city. He holds no office himself, having refused to serve as city attor ney when elected by the reformers. - LICK !.. A ROHIM. Ihe Toting- Mnn Who fenmfchrri the Wlille llouir WitKtew Likely I.nrNie. President Harrison's unwillingnes to wppear in the police (trt tomorrow as a prosecutor will result in the lismissal of thecharge against Harry Martin. Harry Martin, the stepson of Senator Vance, is the voting man who smashed the windows of the blue room in the white house last uighf, tae particulars ot which ap peared in tins morning's Herald. At the first precinct sta'ion house where he was taken when arrested, a charge of house breaking in the night was preferred against him by Mr. Dubois, the white nouse attache vvno arrested him. About 2 o'clock tliis morning a member of his fam ily appeared at the station house with an order from Police .iiisticv Miller, directing Martin's release, satisfactory assurance having been iriveii Justice Miller that Martin would appear in court tomorrow. I'he voting men was then taken home. Under the laws of the district the j charge of house breaking in the lit I c , , ,- , ,t . ,f occasion Mr. Martin an ui.T.-afaiit -xperienc u it were pio-eciueu I'here is little probability of the ! matter being pushed to the extreme, inasmuch as President Harrison j would have to appear at the police court m person as the prosecutor. vfr. D iho.a can not urge the charge of house breaking, for that can be done only by the owner or occupant of the hou.se, who, of course, is thr president. If the president does not appear the charge of house breaking will be nolle prosseJ. A chd'ire. of destroying public property might then be entered, but ihat vwmld require tlie presence or Colonel Ernest, the superintendent of public buildings and grounds. His reluctance to figure m the police court it is thought w uld be quite as great as the presidents. Ior that re.. son this latter charge will not be made against Martin. The only resource, then, will be the preferring of a charge of disorderly conduct. which Mr. Dubois can prosecute, and which will subject Mr. Martin to a slight line. Late this evening Mr. Martin wrote a letter of apology to the president for his conduct last night. The president, in view of this fact, will not probably allow further action to be taken in the matter, and it will be probably dropped. m II KAKT TIIKOBMAXD KEIXK'TIX By the Miisie-IIearted ami Flower Bedeekeri Henry llloiini.the .Noble Old Widower. Good biscuits are always kneaded. You can easily tell a dogwood tree by its bark. " The dentist is no rooster. He is always a pull-jt. A man may be full of ajrs and yet not be a million aire. A kiss makes the spirits light be cause it is the creuin ol ta ta aud is so lalicioiH. Ladies tire not supposed to swear, but they have often been knowu to " darn " things. Young lovers ouht to make good detectives 1 ecauee they are so in clineJ to inrest-a-gate. If you cannot wear diamo.ids put up with pearls; if you cannot afford neither, be content wiih what you have. Adaptability is iu itself a jewel. Kindness is that gloriously tuned harp, --. hich tiod (du es in linmanJ hearts, and when rightly touched by gentle lingers, it breathes those im peiishable melodies which listening angels hear with rapture and de light. " Will the hair grow after death?" is a question that is being agitated by scientific people. This depends a good deal upon whose death it is. We have known a man's hair to grow right along after his wife was laid away in the tilent tomb. AX Al'T To Anthorise the 'ommlitlonrrii for the Town of Conrord to Issue Bends. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Enact: Section 1. That the Commission ers for the town of Concord are hereby auth- rized and empowered to cause an election to be held at the various polling places in said town, at such a t me as saio Commissioners may appoint within twelve months from the ratification of this Act and to submit to the qualified voters ol said town the question of issuing bonds to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars for the purposes and under the provisions hereinafter named in this :Vct and levying and collecting annually a special t x to provide for the paj-inetHs of the in terest thereon anil to provide a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds when they shall become due. The said election shall be adver tised by the Commissioners for said town for thirty days prior to the day of election in some newspaper published iu said town, aud held by inspectors and judges under the samo nres and regulations pre scribed for the election of Miyor and Commissioner in the charter of said town, with amend nents there to- Those who are in favor of issu ing said bonds, and levying and collecting said taxes, shall vote a written or printed ticket with the words "for bonds" thereon; and those who are opposed shall vote a written or printed ticket with the words "against bonds" thereon. The result of said election shall be ascertained by the inspectors and judges of elections of there spective wards, and certified and returned by tnem to lhe Ceramis sioners for the town of Concoid within two days from the day of election, who shall verify and also certify such result aud cause the same to be recorded iu their miu utes. Sec. 2- Said bonds shall be divided into three classes and the proceeds. aiisiug from the sale thereof shall be at-plied exclusively to the follow ing purposes, t o wit : First, the oay ing of the outstanding debt of the tvWii at the time of the ratification of this Act not exceeding ten thous and dollars. Second, for iuiprovin the streets and sidewalks of said town not to exceed eleven thousand five hundred dollars, and a fair pro portion of the said eleven thousand five hundred dollars shall beapnlied to the improvement of the side wa ks. Third, the erection of graded school buildings not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars. Sec. 3. If a majority of the quali fied voters of said town shall vote for bonds, then the Commissioners for said town shall issue coupon bou is nDt to exceed, in amouat, t'ie sumof twenty -five thousand dollars, and iu denominations of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than oue thousand dollars, bearing interest from the date of bonds at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable st-mi-snnually at the Coucord National B ink in said town, on the first days of Janiary and July of each year until said bonds are pid. The said bonds shall be made payable at the expiration of thirty years frt ui the date thereof. Provided, 1 hat said bonds shall be issued and sold tor the purposes named and provided for a HctioT1 two nf this Act, and ouy as meje(i fol Kaid purposes; ani each class of bonds shal bear upon their faca the speci c puroose for wineli tney are issueu- 1'ro vided, That the bnds issued for the improvement of streets and sidewalks shall be one class. The bonds aud their coupons shall be numbered, and the bends shall be signed by the Mayor of said town, and countersigued by the clerk of the board of town Commissioners; and a record shall be kept of all bonds, showing the number, amount and to whom sld- The coupons shall be received in payment of ill taxes, lines and debts due said town. S tid bonds shall be sold for not less than their par value. Sec. 4. Iu order to pay the interest on raid bonds the Commissioners tor said town are Hereby authorized, and it sha'l be thei duty, to an nually compute and levy at the ti.ue of 1 vying other taxes of said town, a sufficient t-pecia. tax upon all polls and all property, real aud personal, anil other subjects of taxation men tioiied in the charter of the town of Concord and Acts amendatory th reto. which shall be returned or listed for general taxation in said town, always observing the Consti tutional equation be ween the tax on property and the tax on polls, not exceeding fifteen cents on the oue hundred dollars valuation of prop erty ami forty-five cents on each poll with which to regularly and promptly pay the interest on said bonds; said taxes shall be collec ed in the same manner and at the same time the other taxes of said town are collected, and shall be paid over by the town tax collector to the treasurer of sai 1 town, which ofti cers shall give justified bonds iu amounts amply sufficient to covet said taxes, the former officer for collecting and paying over, and the latter for the fiafe keeping and proper -lisbursements of paid funds. Sec 4 hat the taxes' levied and cobected for the purposes specified iu section four of His Act shall he kept separate and distinct from any and all other taxes, and shall be used onlj for tne purposes for which it was levied and collected j and any Mayor or Commissioner who shall appropriate by vote or otherwise, to any purpose directly or indirectly, other than that for which the" were levied any of said special taxes or any part thereof, or shall in &ny other way violate the provisions of this Act, snail bv guilty of a niisde nieanor. Provided, That if the taxes levied aLd colli cted for the payment cf interest shall in any year exceed the sum required for that purpose, the amount in excess snail be app.ieu to the credit oi in terest for the next succeeding year, and said Coinmis.,ioners at tn time of levviutr taxes for payment of in terest for said next succeeding year shall take into consideration said excehs. and compute and levy said taxes accordingly. Sec. C. For the purpose of ere - atinga siuking fund with which to nav the principal of tne bonds is- su a under this Act it shall be the duty of said Commissioners, at aud after the expiration of twenty years from the aate of said bonds, to an nually levy and collect a special tax in addition to that mentioned in section four of this Act; and the tax j provided for in this section shall equal in amount one tenth of the amount of bonds issued under this Act; aud whenever the amo int of taxes collected under this sectiou, together with the interest accutnu lated from the investment thereof as provided in s -ctiou seveu of this Act, shall be sufficient to pay oil the principal of all outstandnig bonds, then said Commissioners shall cease to levy taxes for said sinking fund. Sec. 7. That it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to annually in vest any and all money arising from the special tax collected under sec tion six of this Act in the purchase of any of said bonds at a price deemed advantageous to said town by taid Commissioners, but in case said bonds cannot be purchased as herein provided the said Commis sioners may lend said sinking fund or any part thereof iu such sums as they may deem proper, for a length of ti ne not exceeding beyond six months prior to the date of matur ity of said bonds, taking as security for the repayment thereof, aud for the payment of the ntei est thereon, mortgages, or deeds-in trust in the name of the Mayor, ou sufficient real estate; or bonds issued vunder this Act may by taken as collateral security for Rueh loan- The votes or other evidences of debt given lor any loan under this section shall be executed to, and iu the name of the Commissioners lor the town of Cou cord, and shall bear interest, pay able annually, at a rate not less than six per cent per annum. And in case the Commissioners for said town shall not be able 1 1 invest any or all said money annually as dir ected above, they may, and t shall be their duty to cause such part as they are unable to invest, to be de posited with some National bank, trust company, or safe deposit com pany, of undoubted solvency, at tho best obtainable rate of interest; and any and all interest arising from the investments as above directed shall be reinvested in the manner as above provided. But any Mayor or Com missioner of said town who shall be personally interested. directly or in dirett'y, in any loau shall be guilty of a misdemeanor Sec. 8 That this Act shall take effect from and after its ratification. Ratified this the 6 day of March. A. D. 1891. o Twenty.ae Mioeles ii'rs. An amusing contretemps, th ugh an awkward one for the persons principally interested, occurred on the Milwaukee train to Chicago one day last week. It was the regular train leaving St. Paul at 7 p. m., and arriving in Chicago on the fol lowing morning. One sleeping car leaves St. Paul with the train and goes clear through to Chicago. Another is added at La Crosse and dropped at Milwaukee. It had become a habit with the porters of the two cirs to take the shoes to be cleaned from the forward car to the rear one, where they would converse w hile puttii g on the necessary polish. Ou the par ticular night referred to both the porters had been regaled rather freely with drinks from traveling llasks. They fell asleep over the the shoes, and when the car was dropped oil at Milwaukee, two por ters' and all the shoes belonging to people in the forward car were drop ped off, too. The spectacle presented at the Milwaukee depot in Chicago when the train arrived wa?, to say the least, an unusual one. Twenty five shoeless passengers kicked vigor ously for their lost brogans, and a big crowd had fun with them. The railway management was equal to the occasion. A shoe clerk wss promptly on the spot ; each man woman and child was rapidly meas ured, and in less time than would seem possible, those passengers were newly shod at the expense of the Milwaukee Railway Co. Durham Globe. Tho I'lrfct Home Made Kebel Gun. The first gun made for the Con federate fO.ernmo;it is owned by Mrs. II. I. Miller, of Chattanooga. The owners of Lihby prison, now in Chicago, are in correspondence with Mrs. Miller for the purchase of the historio relic. The gun was made by Mrs. Miller's fath r, W. X M( Elwaine, at Holly Springs, Miss., in the Summer of 1SC1. It was car ri d through part of the war by a young man of Holly Springs, a friend of Mr. McElwainc Originally it had a rilled barrel. About the middle of the war the bairel was in jured by a ball, and the gun was returned to Mr. McElwaine, who cut it off at the injured point and bored it for a shot gun. Mr. McElwaine was a native of Pittsfield, Massachusests, where he learned the trade of a, mac'iinist, Afterwards was in a gun factory in New Yprk, and then moved to San dusky, Ohio, where he engaged iu the foundry business. In 1859 he went on a prospecting trip to Missis sippi. He eetthd at Holly Springs, and in a crudo wey began the foun dry business with two partners. When the war began the company had a well equipped establishment, which Jefferson Davis induced the owners to convert into an armory Small arms were badly needed, aud McElwaine planned and maae the necessary machinery for manufactu ring them. With his own hands he made the gun, which his daughter now preserves. When the battle of Shilqlj was fought n 18Q2 the plnt was turn ing out twenty-five ttands of arms a day and employing SCO hands. The armory was afterward sold to the Confederate government for $150, 000, in addition to the $60,000 paid for converting it into an armory. The plant was soon moved to Macon, Ga. After the evacuation of Cor inth by the Confederates a raid was made on Holly Springs and the build ings were burued. After an event ful career the maker of the first gun of the Confederacy died in. Chatta nooga in 188?. HE iOT IN. Just one week ago this distin guis led character, whose portrait is printed belo', succeeded in getting into our office. Between nine and ten o'clock our attention was called to a man climb ing an electric light pole, in front of our editorial room. We thought him only a member of the Electric Light Company's force, and paid but little attention to the matter. But when the authoritative voce of our policeman demanded his dissension from his perilous position, twenty feet from the ground, we became in terested. A second look revealed the fact that the gentlemen was 4 "'-Iv : m I. L RAMSfcY, who edits the alisbury Watchman. The editor was shown the stairway to this office, and he came in suffer ing intensely from fright and ex haustion. We gave him a quarter and a chair he soon revived and acted very nicely. The truth of the matter is, Uamsey gets into his of fice by means of a rope, like Brown, of the China Grove Dart, Elkins of the Stanly Observer, Fairbrother of the Durham Globe,", and Scott of the Lenoir Topic, Caldwell of the Landmark aud others. Coming to thi ; building, Ramsey found no rope, and proceeded to climb a pole and follow the wires into this o'lice. Ramsey is a small fellow, with brilliant hair and bright future he's always welcome. The publication of this item of news had to be postponed until his portrait could be manufictured. Vm TOO MF.AX TO LIVE WITH. Snndy miler Left His WITe nivd Now SIic'h 4ot Ilysterii-s and Wuuts to Hill Herseiriiud Her Children. Sandy Miller, of No. S, is only a colored man; but Sandy once fell iu love and his love led him to marrc a woman, whom he afterwards ceased to love and whom he began to hate. Sandy said she was crabid, mean, sour and ugly. Maybe she is, but Sandy is a sorry old colored man. He, in the dark of the night without a whisper, without kissing his own babes and his own wife, left her whom he promised to forever love, support, etc., thai'.- the way the tning reads. Now Sandy's wife has the hyster icsshe has 'em bad, very bad They have put her into a powerful lix. She loves her husband, her "lear husband"' now ; but he's off to other climes and percha-.-ce, the sorry fellow has forgotten her and theirs. Sandy's wife now poses in different rows; she wants to die. Death, it self, won't come spontaneously and she wants to bring the monster. Two colored sisters kept her from using the gun on her cranium, where there's all trouble. Sandy's wife then lay her own neck across a log and tried (!') to use with her own hands Mr. Ransom Black welder's axe in severing her own troubled head from her body that Sandy said had such a mean heart in it. But the axe didn't work, because the woman did not want to cut. She doesn't want to die. She's one of those hypocritical, hysterical people that try to work up sympathy from the outside world. The children are to be pitied, and they ate. It is a pity that such children are to live such a life. This old mad woman wants to kill her young ones. This is the bad part of life these freaks of this 'iiad couple. oi.. ji.n i.osu'.s mm. He Is ;eltins (iniv on the Face Ienf In IlisKanianil IVolilillnj; in His Walk. Col. Jim Long, ex-member of the State General Assembly, is never seen except when his little dog, "Roller,"' is with him. Roller is one of the two, the other having been poisoned by an enemy to the dog; not to the Colonel, for the Colonel has no ei.einies. Roller was presented to Colonel Long some nine years ago by an admiring fe male friend ; and the lice was then about four summers. Thirteen years upon tho faithful little dog's life have left their marks the dog is getting gray on the face, doaf in his ears and walks with a nervous and frail step ; indeed Roller has become very childish. The Colonel says his dog refused to partake of any food unless it is "kivered with gravy." Like Mary's lamb, wherever the Colonel goes, Roller is sure to go he went with him to Rowan county. STAM AKI S I X I F, This office has received the first number of the Hickory Mercury. It is a live column eight page weekly, h edited by J. F. Click and it is the organ of the Catawba Alii auce. The rejuvenated Brother Michaux, of the Greensboro "Workman, is a powerful man ; hs tells of a gourd that holds six and one-half gallons of anythiug. Philosophi cally the old gentleman, in a bea-ver hat" says; It would have been a grand thing before the day of jugs. New 4,4 star Hag received for gov ernment building, Raleigh. I ITTI.K UROPSOF Tar. Pilch Turpentine and Other Tar Heel Prodnets. Eighth Congressional district has 19".),:m opulation. Strawberry shipping begins April 10th from Wilmington. Eull blown pea blossoms in the truck fields around Goldsboro. Deniel that Richmond and Dan ville shops go to Charlotte. Fine early pea prospect through out the eastern trucking regions. A $25,000 company forms at Ral eigh to manufacture cotton presses. Railroad work, Jacksonville and New Berne, seems to have suspended. R. M. Phillips becomes editor and proprietor of the Jonesboro Leader. Supreme Court decides legality of New Hanover county elections in favor of Denocrats. A mammoth modern hotel is to be erected south of Nash Square, near the new Union Stati n, Raleigh. Books open in Boston for sub scriptions to capital stock Norfolk, Wilmington and Charleston Rail roads. S. II Gray Manufacturing Com pany pulp and wooden ware mills, New Bern, to be sold at auction May 12th. " Many Citizens " in 'Wilkesboro Chronicle, call on county commis sioners to refuse further issue of liquor license. Several wealthy medical men at the North are expected to liberally endow the Durham Trinity College Medical Department. Engineers force take the field Monday to lay off the lands of Car Raleigh Mills, Raleigh, locate factory site, operatives houses, etc. Four mess halls and pavillions, handsome and substantial, size 50x100 feet, are being built on the ground of the permanent eucamp uient, Wrightsvill. Clinton Caucasian: Esquire B. G. Daughtry brought down a man under arrest from Westbrook's yes terday and lodged him in the county ja 1. The name of the person is G. L. Bass (white) and th? charge is theft Red Springs Scotish Chief: The Iles-ian lly has again made its ap pearance. Up to this time no dam age has been done to the small grain crop by the lly, but fears are enter tained that it will attack the oat crop. Roc' y Mount Phfenix: We regret to no'e the death of Mr. A. J. Gar vev, which occurred Saturday, of kidney disease. He had been long a citizen of our town, has filled the office of commissioner for many years. New Berne Journal: A very sing ular and peculiarly shaped sweet potato wa3 shown us Saturday by Casar Williams, colored. The whole potato is gracefully outlined into the form of a seal, especially the head and neck which are almost perfect. The Kale of the Messenger. The Wilmington Messenger was sold yesterday. The Review says : "The" first bid offered was $1,000, but this was rejected. Then $4,000 was offered. After some little cry ing this was raised to f'4,250, then followed $4,400 and lastly $4,500, the whole being knocked down to Mr. Sol Weill, who announced that 'be bid must be entered in the iian:e of Mr. Pembroke Jones, for whom he appeared. The crowd then slowly dispersed, much speculation being indulged in as to what Mr. Jones would do with his purchase. The sale was a bona fide one. Mr. Jones holds c laims for himself and friends, aggregating several thousand dollars more than the price at which he purchased the property. The publi cation, it is said, will be continued and probably by a stock com pan . rders have been issued to the force to go to work and the paper is to appear as usual tomorrow morning." lO IT Slllt:s IIKIUIITLY. The Star, a thoroughly reliable, a readable and brilliantly spicy daily of Wilmington, has shone for twenty-three years and six months. Its age has made it brighter, wiser aud stronger. The Star is indeed a gen uine, honest and strong journal. May this welcomed visitor to this oliice live with its same management another t.venty-thrce years and six mouths. Several Items. A correspondent from Smith's rord writes: Mrs. J. D. Cox has been quite sick. ! Benjamin Barbee was thrown from ! a mule and has his arm broken in two places and is otherwise' badly bruised. There is an irregularity about the mails at Smith's Ford on account of high waters, (;old fever is 300 on a dead level. (iood lor Nary land. Parties passing through from Bal timore tell us that a bill was intro duced in the Maryland legislature yesterday (Friday) to put a tax on bachelors. This is no jo' e; and we notice that Egbert Harty is speeding South ward. He only remained in our city long enough to tell the tale. It is a matter of history that such a law ouce existed on the statute 1 books of Maryland. - If the idea spreads bouthward, what will be the policy of the Char lotte Chronicle, Salisbury Watch man, and others that are in the same boat with the Standard ? Echo answers, " What ?" THE NEW STATE. It will be remembered that about ten days ago The Globe exposed the cowardly conspirators, Colonel Rob inson, of the Asheville Citizen, and Colonel Scott, of the Lenoir Topic, two pirates who are trying to form a new state and trying at the same time to subvert, or something like that, the whole business to their own ends. Colonel Robinson, of the Citizen, thinks that he can at tract public attention to himself by fighting a duel and while doing that have Scott steal the state, but we are on to them. We shall let our janitor fight the duel and we will carefully guard t he interests of the people. ou bet we will. Colonel Scott attempts to make out that we wanted Farmer Daniels' place, but we defy him to produce the letter. If Dr. Caldwell has the letter he must cough up. Jim Cook, we understand, wrte a letter and signed our name to it This is what Scott says : The new state of Sevier is boom ing. The Durham Globe started out to "damn it with faint praise" just as the Statesville Landmark did. Since Dr. Caldwell was promised the second turn for governor, the Landmark has swung into line and is battling enthusiastically for di vision. Colonel Fairbrother will do the same. Indeed we may disclose disclose this much Yesterday we received a private, personal and con fidential letter from Colonel Fair brother in which he promised to ad vocate the new state if he could be insured the public printing contract with a $4,000 per annum bonus. We issued the policy of insurance and mailed it to him at once. Colo nel Fairbrotner requested U8 to burn his letter. We did not bum it but sent it to Colonel Robinson, "who will probably burn it. Colonel Robinson will, perhaps, regard as confidential certain other damaging admissions made in the letter by Colonel Fairbrother. We do not know what Mr. Cook, of the Concord Standard, wauts, but he can get whatever he asks for. If he has a good voice, how would reading clerk do ? Durham and Cabarrus counties will be included and even Pitt county might be hitched on if Brother Whichard feels like chang ing his mind. But such business will not be rec ognized here. If Jim Cook wrote the letter we shall prosecute him. We shall put him not only in the penitentiary but in the town well. We shall employ heavy men to jump on him and we shall put axle grease on his chin whiskers. The Globe's part in the state racket was only a successful attempt to save the people from the pirates bold and gay the same being Col onel Bobinson, of the Citizen, and Colonel Scott, of the Lenoir Topic. Dr. Caldwell and Plain Jim Cook are only hired to play their part. The real pirates are the two first named. Durham Globe. The letter was genuine ; Al. Fair brother certainly had the letter, though Al. Fairbrother did not sizn it he made hia mark "X," for Al. Fairbrother can not write. We know the mark, we saw it in muddy Asheville during the Convention. Al. Fairbrother sent the letter here for us to correct the spelling and to have it photographed, which has been done. Fairbrother need not act crawfish ; so long as he ia bold and fearless, we are with him, but when he crawfishes, we are fernent him. A GEOKIOl'tt DATE. A time that seems to act pivoted in dating events and happenings is Easter that precious festival to which children look for and count the days intervening. It has some importance in the temporal lives of us all. Sunday is Easter the joyous an niversary of that day made forever memorable by our ble.sed Saviour rising from the tomb, a rising that is taught as the resurrection and the life, Easter is observed throughout the extent of the civilized and enlight ened world. It is a joyful church festival. Music appropriate is sung; .flowers and odorous decorate; ser mons and discourses peculiarly set to the teachings and beliefs of this glad day are heard ; and choirs and glad hearts and all join in the in spiring song " The Lord is Risen." The history of his work, the story of his death and his rising from the grave have been set in prose and verse to suit all ages they have been taught from early childhood in all christian homes. The Lord liveth. His rising from the dead, Lis living, his life this is life to the world ever since that date. He died for the world. He paid the debt that otherwise would now stand against humanity an iron chain of eternal slavery, death eventual and eternal. The world jogging along in its glee, its busy bustle of commercial and social life, forgets to contribute as much thought and gratitude io Him, who gave up his life, as there should be. But Easter i3 full of joy to all the poor, the sad, the troubled, the rich, the young aud the eld, alike, reap blessed opportunities from this event. Conoho is the name of the junc tion town of the Scotland Neck and Albemarle and Raleigh Railroad. The Chronicle says they are put ting in some good work grading the streets at North Wilkesboro, work ing above a hundred hands, and are throwing dirt pretty lively. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Amanq y Takin Notes and Faith He'll Prent Them." SHORT LOCALS. Mr. llirani Bost, of No. 10, re ports labor scarce and very hard to get. Miss Laura Alexander has closed her school near Mr. Monroe Voils', in district No. 14. Salisbury in its election cast only 457 ballots fcr bonds and only 0 against that's good enough. The average weather prophet is ashamed of himself, and the public, has no patience with the predictions. The Orchestra have recrived a call to furnish music at the closing exercises both at Bilesville and Palmerville. Dr. J. M. Hays, of Oxford, and a very prominent physician of the State, is nsing Dr. Koch's lymph on three patients. The excitement has all died out at Forest Hill over the supposed small pox. Every thing is back in its usual place, Lenoir Topic says: Maj. G. Wi F. Harper becomes a director of the State Hospital at Morganton, in place of Maj. AVilson resigned. Capt. Profst, the contractor, has shown us the drawing of the new ; house Dr. Archy is to have built on his lot. The design is a beautiful one. M. S. Sloop, of Uarrisburg, was in town and reports the roads much worse now, the mud beginning to dry stiffens the soil, and makes th pulling much harder. f A colored inadame was overheard to remark in answer to a question to say: "Yesum I'se 'gaged" Just such "gagements" cause a deal amount of poverty and trouble. Caleb A. Robinson, just below town, has put his hens up to Bome devilment He reports a hen hav ing laid an egg with a neck of three inches in length. This is due to the hen's nest being in a gourd, it is thought. The Standard learns from the Raleigh Christian Advocate that the number of accessions to the Concord church during the last quarter amounts to 34. And that Rev. Dr. Smith is to spend a week in Concord the last of April. In the column of maudlin-rot which Plain Jim Cook palms off on Colonel Kestler, he speaks of Italy's daughters being bony. Of course he means bonny, and if he dare in timate that Durham'3 girls are bony he had first better consult a second hand undertaking establishment Durham Globe. A postal card from Z. V. Howell, of Bost Mills, says: Martin Bost was hauling rails across the river and his horse filling, Mr. Bost had a narrow escape from a serious ac dent. Mr. Martin Tucker's little boy caught a large fish measaring 18 inches in length, in water not over four inches deep. We congratulate Salisbury on the triumph of common sense within her borders. Two years ago one of her most intelligent physicians told us that he feared the town would never have good street sewerage till she learned wisdom from some such terrible scourge as yellow fever which devastated Memphis in 1878. M. P. Cline, a merchant of China Grove, and who buys eggs and such, like, came in from the big little town of China Grove, blowing about the capacity and ability of nis egg market China Grove is on the R. & D., and has a paper, called the Dart and edited by a school teacher, bachelor. The Cline has promised, to bring the old man a rabbit foot, but thus .far his efforts areon tho decline. TBS BLOOD IS THE WI. No portion of the human organiam has, within the past few yeara, been submitted to more thorough and InUlll . gent examination, hy medical scientists, than the blood. The result ot these in vestigations has been to clearly demon - strata that the general health is more dependent upon the condition of tho l)lood than upon any other thing. In making a diagnosis, some modem practitioners are not satisfied with merely determining the temperature of the blood : they test it by means of the microscope and other appliances, to ascertain if any foreign bodies have in troduced themselves among its minute corpuscles. Thus, for example, it has teen found that in persona affected with gout, uric acid may always be de tected in the blood ; while the cause of other disorders has been traced to the presence of germs, or microbes. These discoveries have thrown a flood of light on the causes of disease; and physicians now, in the treatment of many complaints, go directly to the root of the evil by endeavoring to purify the blood of its contaminating poisons. For this purpose nothing else has been found so efficacious as the iodide of potassium. But the best effects of this drug can only be obtained when it ia used in combination with other things, such as sarsaparilla, podophyllum, or yellow dock; and Ayer's Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla, being considered the most skilful union of these ingredients known to pharmacy, is therefore most highly recommended by physicians. Even if tho iodides were not present," the Honduras sarsaparilla alone, ot which Ayer's medicine Is the extract, would be sufficiently effective, in the majority of cases, to produce the most desirable results. But, "to make assur ance doubly sure," and to greatly facili tate the purifying process, the iodide of otaHsium lends its powerful alterative and detergent properties to the rest. The distinctive value of Ayer's Sarsa parilla is that, while it is quite as potent fur most purposes as the iodide alone, it is safer in non-professional hands; for, by simply following the directions on the wrapper, the patient becomes his own physician. Hence this medicine has long been recognized by leading physicians and druggists everywhere as the standard popular blood-purifier.