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tie mum. JAMES 1. COOK, Editor. BUEVA'Kl) K. H.VUK1S, COUUESl'OXD IVG EDITOU TIlKYCil.T 1 11 I KE F.Vl'.KY TI3IE. Chicago is a peculiar spot in the ma) of the world. In fact it is so peculiar that it gets the World's Fair in ltt'tf. 'Phut is strange, very strange, when you remember that Chicago is powerfully dirty its si reels are in a frightful condition. Sometimes you see many things about Chicago women. That makes ii difference they are industrious and have a notion as to the "eternal iitnes of things." The authorities the street, department neglected so persistently a principal street un i'.l the women themselves met with brooms, rakes and baskets and made :i frolic cf cleaning the street. This put to shame tho authorities, who at once appropriated 10,000 for extra street work. When the women start somethinir must result. v;no is tin: m:vt ;ovi.uo:i? .This question : Who is to be the next (lovernory is puzzling Kme people. Scarcely had the lamented Fowle's remains been placed in their last resting place and Lieutenant Governor liolt took up the affairs of the State's government, until the question was asked and answered in many different ways. That's the trouble with us. We are not at the ri rht place. S onie are living m the past they are cranky, and back numbers; some are altogether in the future the are building air castles, living in pas tares green and fresh, and forgetting the duties of the hour, the living present. There is no need of trouble over who is to be Governor of North Carolina. When the time comes, there will be a man to accept the position. The office will scarcely go begging, Right now you haven't fingers and toes enough to count the men who are crazy to be Governor. Wait for the nominating convention in lS'Ji. ('HOOKED STI FF. A dipatch from Halifax, X. C, to the Richmond Times conveys this about the funeral of a young lady: The day was calm and beautiful a perfect May morning but the I'ccusiou was one of deep solemnity aid sadness, a the deceased was greatly belovi The text of the discourse was, 'i Know mat My Redeemer Liveth.' in the midst of the sermon the church was died with a briiiiant light, as if a Hash i.f lightning had streamed in from every window ami lingered in the building, and a gleam of brilliant radiance stood just above the head of the preacher for a minute and then disappeared." This is the woit kind of a fake. There has nut been any lightning or thunder during May, until recently. And the preacher might have caused tears to well up and hang about on the eye-brows and eye-lids and the isunlight penetrating the big drops of water and thereby made rainbows which this lying correspondent either maliciously or ignorantly took for a brilliant li-ht." Such stuff does harm only to the extent that fools believe such tom foolery. But correspondents to the large city papers are humbugs. T "T " m I i T JIlSTOilHAI. FACT'S (OVdlUMMi .o::au c akomx i. That most excellent paper, the j Wilmington Messenger, contains the following editorial about North Carolina. Let students cut it out und paste it in their hats. Let us ull learn to think of the Tar Heel State. The Messenger says: North Carolina has been modest in tisserting her claims wLeu others have been blatant and boastful. Viien applied to communities and commonwealths, it is not true that "real worth requires no mtepreter,'' and that glorious deeds and noble words will secure proper recognition and form the blazonry of a State, whether asserted or not. It is high time that we should take the velvet from our mouths, and speak out from rostrum and printing press boldly and uumiotaUably in behalf of our own people and State. We unhesi tatingly and positively assert that the truth of the history fully war runts us in claiming for our North Carolina the following facts in which she is first: 1. The first English settlement made on the American continent was on Roanoke Island on July 4th, 1581. 2. The first Indian whoever re ceived Christian baptism was Man-, teo, a chief, lie was baptized Au gust 13, 15Sl. The first white child ever born on the .American continent was Vir giuiaDare, daughter of Anancitsand Eleanor Dare. She was born on Roanoke Island, August 18, 174. 4. The first revolution in America by which a tyrannical and untight-, eous government was overthrown was in Albemarle in 1070. 5. The first tractate or paper ever published in America in resistance to tyranny and oppress on wan writ t, n in Granville county, in 1705, and is mentioned by Herman Husband. C. The first blood shed on tte Anient v n Ci ntinent in resistance to jiritish tyranny was at the battle of AUiiiancn ou .May KJ, 1771, between the Regulators and Tryou, the Royal Gov rnor. 7. First men w ho were hanged by Uiitish authority for taking up arm's in defence ot Liberty, was at Hills boro, Orange county, in the year 1771 probably in the month of June. The first opposition offered by &u organized assembly to the tax ou tea and the unjust rule of Great Uiitiaiu, was made by the first Pro viueil Con gress held at New Bern, urnt -3th, 1771. 0. The first Declaration of Inde pendence ever made m America was at Charlotte, Mil May UOlli, 1773. 10. Tho first Convention of the I'eople, to declare au open resistance to British authority, was held at Charlotte on 3ist May, 1775, when a new government was set up, 11. Tho first open resistance to TJritish authority occurred on tho Cape Fear liver, at Wilmington, under Colonels "Waddell and ALo. i' The first Colony to instruct her delegates in the General Congress to tleclare indep ndence of the British rown, waa North Carolina. This whs done on April 12th, 177(. at Halifax, where the Colonial Congress was theu in Hossior. 13. The first important battle fought lnwe n British and Ameri fan troops was at Moore's eeeek bridge, ui i lie tiow eountv of Pender, oil February 27th, 177(1, over four months I Wore the National Decla ration of Independence waa made. 11. The first State in the number of troops furnished in proportion to population, in the war between the South and the North, was North Carolina. She sent into service 121. 000 effective troops, besides nearly 1,000 on othtr duty. The largest vote (white) ever polled before the war was 112,500. In these foiuteen particulars North Carolina stands first. The events recorded antedated all other similar events in any other State. . THE FARM Kit MIST Kl I.E. For F-rCMidriit IWl, I.. Farmer. I,. rolkThe BY 1IA1IMON" 111 ATT. Mountains clad with stately trees, Lakes that waft a lovely breeze, Oceans, rivers, gulfs ami seas, Slake our prospects warmer. Help us " pitch the chorus higher, (Jive us c loven tongues of tire, bounding an immortal lyre," With praise of Polk, the farmer ! Hark ! We come, our millions come. Loud we sound corruption's doom ; Give the farm's irreat workers room, Make the "White House warmer. " ly the love of liberty, liy the hope of country free, By the pa:-t dread memory, We will choose a farmer! Starving workmen ! full of years, Mothers ! tilled with constant fears, Infant's hungry cries and tears! Jluke our hearts still warmer. '.onerous impulse tills our soul, Love, our actions will control, Good for all the ouly goal, When we elect a farmer ! Warrior's glory must contain, Orphan's cries and terror's reign, l'low we not through blood of slain, Poor man's rights seem warmer. Give to all the good we rind, Educate the humar mind, Love and labor there combined, Make up Polk, the farmer ! Lo ! the poor enslaved again, White men bound w ith galling chain, Wipe, O ! wipe away the stain, Treat your fello'ws warmer. See his farms extended wide, Calming passions that divide, Calling labor to his side, Such is Polk, the farmer ! Trust his love, and tears will gush, See our busy millions, rush, liear the voice of ivailing hush, Friends, he greets you warmer. Bursts of joy will rend the laud. Mountain, valley, sea-beat strand, Shouts of praise each laboring band, Gives to Polk, the farmer. " By our country's natal morn, By "our kindred tattered, torn," By the Gods, now be it worn, Our cause is growing warmer. By the hope we've cherished long, Bv the ties of country strong, ith our mighty surging throng, We will choose a farmer. Crawfordsville, lud. t OUt K. KKlt SLIS Subscriber. Itut He Semis Hi Seutluieutsk aiiti Ober niton. Cleas Ceeek, May 12, li'Jl. The stand of corn is bad. Very little little wheat in this country to grind. Nat Hough is up from South Car olina. It is so dry the rose bushes can't bloom. Prof. Cook is right; let tho Y. M. C. A. be. Last week was cold, but now look at it. Robt. Klutts has a dog that catch es snakes. The frost didn't kill more than half the cotton in this dominion. This is a good time to ditch, and some farmers are doing it. The crows are bothering the corn fields some. Wheat heads are just a size-larger than the straw- If anybody in this country has planted any watermelon seed they don't say anything about it. The waters of Clear creek, so say the oldest settlers, are the clearest they have been for a long time. Some women will walk all over creation for enough strawberries to make a pie. Spring oats are no go at all. This (Monday) morning looks as little like we were going to have a rainy spell as one could wish. Lots of people are not done plant ing, in fact not done breaking, and that's the truth. The person who informed you last week of the accident to little Reese Hough said that the boy's father lived on Dr. Caldwell's land. It was a mistake. Mr. Hough lives on his own land, and a good, cleyer fellow he is. Most of the farmers are laughing on the left side of the mouth- If anybody is thinking of marry ing it would be well for them to wait and see how the " craps " are going to be. There was some kind of service at Bethel yesterday, but as we were not there can't say waat it was, as people don't like to talk to a news paper correspondent. If Jay Gould and Vanderbilt and Bill Nye will condescend to talk with such a hungry-looking fellow as Ramsey, they certainly are "no respecter of persons," and ought to be commerded for a very liberal stretch of their social propensities in order to appease the insatiable hunger of this impertinent inquisi tor; but I reckon when our consti tution made provision for n free press it caused the editors and everybody connected with them to be privileged characters, w ith aright to go where they please, stay us long as they please, and talk to whom they please- These big fellows over at Asheville, that Itamsey has been having such a good time with, they have evideutly hear t the constitu tion read, or they would have pum meled the life out of him before now. It seems to fall to our lot to have to chronicle some sad accident every weak. Verily this old world that treats us so well is fraught with its accidents of disaster and bitterness. Today we bask in the richest happi ness and bliss; tomorrow we are suddenly bereft of this lightness of heart, and our buoyant spirits are clouded and darkened and weighed down by the startling announcement of some sad calamity. Every one has his troubles. Nobody is exempt from the common ailments of hu manity, and but few that do not meet with some accident to roughen the path which they frequent: and thus it was last week when Mr. Kiser was out in his field ploughing, little dreaming of what would soon hap pen to his little boy, who was then on his way to the field. It was not long, jhovever, till he heard the shrieks of his ljttie Johnnie, and on reaching the spot found that the little fellow had stuck a biiar in his tOO. POKNCBACKEil. OI K Xo.5 MAX 4 umeH Vp Willi One Subscriber This Week. Monroe Shank, while working in the field, threw a stone, and for a wonder killed a crow. liufus Krimininger tells us that the crows have devoured 22 young chickens, a lot of eggs, radish and other garden truck. Mr. and Mrs. Fowlas, of Franklin, Rowan county, are visit ng Mr. P.'s brother, J- C- Dayvalt, and others in No. 5. Mrs. J- E. Misenheimer and chil dren are visiting her father and friend" in Salisburv. Mr. M. P. Cliue, of China Grove, was here with his father awhile, Mr. .Tames Cline. Mr. Cliue says that the poultry business requires early and late hours to protect those who carry them at night. a icorx i c(n ( it.u ii eb.' A Jaunt t Ha In Aeatlemy l.PKtSutur tiit.rXoiet abort! Mint It ill. the irosieron- 1. idle Town on Clear Creek. Rain Academy is situated twelve miles from Charlotte and six miles from Matthews, and is one of the best preparatory schools in the State. It was founded by John Main in the year 1889, and was put tinder the exclusive coutrol of Prof. Union Lee Spence, of Bilesville, or New London, N.C. The situation is in one of the most prosperous sections in the famous old Mecklenburg county of revolutionary days. It was about 11 o'clock when your correspondent arrived at Mint LI ill, and when we came near the place, we found everything and everybody in a lively and jolly condition. Nearly all the young men had vaca ted the town to make pr parations for tiie commencement which will come o:f on the x'v'd insr., but while I sojourned I met a great many of my old school mates and many oth ers who had entered school this term. Each one of them was working hard to make the closing exercises a success, and also to make it pleasant for all who might chance to drop in. We will say that thf people around here are very sociable and hospita ble, as we were cared for kindly. The improvements which have taken place recently arc a large boarding house that will accommo date at least '5 boarders, and is managed by the popular townsman, Eli lkcderson. The parsonage of Philadelphia church will soou be occupied by an eminent divine. Mr. Dallas Henderson, the mer chantman of this vicinity, has a large aiid unlimited stock of goods, and serves the trade well. The most natural thing we saw was the pretty grove between the academy and ihe church; also the spring that furnishes refreshing drink to thirsty humanity, of which I lay down and supped from the cool ing fountain. Time and space forbids anything but a short aecouut, so we pass on, as there is some news which our in telligent " Corneracker " might get up. " Miss Carrie Reaver has been stay ing with Mrs. Henderson. She has beeu quite sick recently. A. J. and L. M. Crowell and Bud Moore were attendants at Unionville last Sunday. Cherries will soon be ripe. There is one boy down here that can eat a dozen raw eggs without stopping. We withhold his name for specific reasons. Mrs. Jane Beaver, who took sick last November, is not able to be about much yet. Miss Ella "Flow, from Monroe, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Eli Hender son. Prof. Morris McDonald and sister, Miss Mamie, went to Rocky Ktver church Sunday. There are 137 members on roll at Bain Academy. These young men came forward and gave Pea Jay a hearty handshake, to wiiich he writ's of them : John Luther Rice is a rather good looking young man, studies hard, loves the girls, and has no gold in his tcth, but can eat well, and wears turn down collars. Charley Robert Reeves has an ap pearance of a clergyman, but is too full of politics, is awful timid, has no moustache, and is from Stanly. Eddie Lee Morrison, sou of John II. Morrison, Esq., of Cabarrus, will be famous 6ome day, judging from the way he climbs up .n the world. He is a good boy, is liked by every body. Joseph Albert Spence is from Stanly, a brother of the principal, speaks like a Patrick Henry, wears a cheviot suit and a Derby hat. William Maxwell Moore is straight as a cypress shingle, and has a pros pective apptarance, studies hard, goes to all the comme icements, whether invited or not, loves pie, cake and the girls. Samuel Mack Crowell is a genuine debater, expects to run for Congress some day, wears a cutaway coat, don't sing bass, nor smoke cigarettes. James Neal Wilson is an honest boy, confesses his faults, conse quently he has no enemies, but is an eater. William Johnson Wilson is a steady young man, attends to his own business, wears a standing col lar and has relatives in Cabarrus. liufus Eugene Austin hails from Union county, studies Latin, wears a Prince Albert coat, has a pretty moustache and wants to marry. Dr. John Mack DeArmond is the clever docter of Mint Hill, has a good looking lady, whom he married last year. Pea Jay. Xo. ii stun. J. R. Brown was sick last week with something like the grip. Martin Barnhardt was thrown by a horse and received a severe fall. Alfred Litaker, who went imo the cattle raising business a few yea: s ago, says that he has succeeded well A crowd of young people went to Rocky river seining ascension day. They seined about ui) yards, when' they froce up and came out without any fish. Robert Litaker drove over, with a buggy, a dog at C. A. Robiuson's kenneif. The dog belonged to a gentleman of Coucord. His trio to i Synod was a costly one. 1 B. of No. 11. LOCAL MATTER. Lost. Mus Hope Sumnierell had the misfortune to lose a gold bracelet on Tue.s lay afternoon. It is a small band with a single diamond set iu it. Supposed to have been dropped near the post office. The finder will please return to J. P. Allison or A. i$. Young. p Tarsct Mioolimt. Several of the mili'ary went out to practice shooting. Among others were J. F. Heed, W. S. Bingham, W. A. Caldwell, W. M. Stuart, W. J. Poytlnvss and Young Caldwell. The shooting was at a range of 175 yards. Upon the whole Bill Cald well did the best shooting, though Bingham and Poythress sent balls with half an inch of the bull's ee. I.ei'N Semi I pit l'elition. Mail services are worse today than iu ante-bellum days. Why not re turn to the old stage coach that would beat Ihe mail facilities between Charlotte and Danville 'i No mail gets here for distribution after 12:30 p. m. until the following morning at 7. Just 18 hours pass without any mails. Who will carry around a petition and subscription list to bring out the old stage coach '1 The truth of the matter is the R. & D. and several other roads have this government by the neck and in the shake. We. the common peole, get our feelings pretty badly touched. i Aeknon leUifineitlft. Editok Staxdald: Please permit me, through your co.umus, to thank the generous donors of a splendid gift preseuted to me yesterday a handsome bicycle of th finest make and newest pattern. In the wLole course of my ministry I have never experieneed heartier kindness than that uniformly shown me by the people of Concord, regardless of church connection, but such a trib ute of esteem as this makes me feel that great as was my estimation of the kindness of my friends, their kindness was greater than I knew. When the premutation was made the complete surprise and my em barrassment prevented, me from thanking the givers as I wanted to, nor am I al le to do so now, but at least I can say that with all my heart I thank those friends for the gift ai;d the love that prompted it. WliUiHT Cahi-bell, Pastor St. -James. Xo Desire to .Misrepresent. We cheerfully give room to the following : Editor of The Standard : I informed you on Mond y even ing that you were mistaken as to the length ot my pastorate and the nuiu ber of accessions, and expected the necessary corrections to be made in the next issue. For some reason or other you saw lit to ignore the mat ter. You will therefore be kind enough to say for me 1. Th it I Hok charge of St. James June 1st, lf73, ant returned to Mt. Plea-ant January 1st, lssu. Time, 1 years and 7 monti s. Tnat the number of accessions, counting tho confirmations at Cold Water, was not leos than fifty. I ask you to make these correc tions iu the interest of truth and justice. L. A. Bikee. The matter was not ignored at all. Our frietid, Dr. Bikle, himself not being able to give anything definite, we thought it unnecessary to jump from one statement to another until the exact one could be had. The Standard has no desire to misrepre sent our friend; and, furtnermoie, the report we gave was taken from the church records, and the parr, where was obtained what seems to be erroneous statistics, was iu Dr. Bikle'sown hand-writing. As to the length of pasiorate, we simply took the time covered by his term us regular and supply pastor, making about six years in all. That there are some omissions iu the record we do not now doubt, but the record was our only guide. We have no desire to misrepresent or do injustice to any one, and we cheerfully give rouin to the above. ( opal Grove Items. Front made its appearance 1 st week and did much uamago to pota toes, beans ami other vegetation. Rev. C. C. Lyerly returned from North Carolina Synod last Wednes day. He reports a prosperous ses sion of Synod. Mrs. iiitchie has gone to Taylors ville to visit her husband, L. O. Ritchie, who is now in Alexander county selling medicine. Crops are needing rain, and some farmers are not finally done plaut ing We saw the editor of the Standard on the Yadkin railroad going south on the 2d iusl. passing Wiiesville. One store is iu oper. tiou at Wiies ville and another one ia buikling. A steam saw mill will soon be in opera tion, and a depot, postollice, &ic, is expected at an early day. The Ciassis of the German Re formed church was iu session last week at Bethel church, Stanly county, and continued ov- r Sunday. Some one from Salisbury in top buggy has been seen at the springs recently. Don't know just what his business was. R. Xo. 6 Items. i he continuous rain in the spring and the drought which followea caused the farmers to be back with their work. Some are not through planting, nor can't fiuish until it rains- Others that were through and tluir cotton up, and had even been worked once, have to plant it all again, the frost injuring it so that there was not enough left for a crop. Mr. Lawson Ritchie and Miss Ella Fisher were married at St. John's parsonage last Thursday even ng. The happy couple have our best wishes. A farmer in No. 5 started to Salis bury last Thursday, but did not go far up the road before he found a pistol. He went on a short distance and :ound a buggy cushion and whij . 'Tis bd when a man can't lind out when he lo -es property of so much Mary Trexler is now at Mr Jacob House's. Mrs. Keith, of Salisbury, is visit ing her son, W. C. Keith." Knn Awny. John Hess, (white), having con tracted to work for me this year, has run away from my tmploy. I hereby forbid ail persons hiring, harboring or in anv way employing him. May 12, '91. T.J. White. . Beeswax wanted ;t G. E- Fishes'. A tOKKKCTIOJf. Editor Standard: In vour Saturday's issue you copy an article by a Raleigh correspond ent to the Lenoir Topic relative to the new scientific law of our State wh ch is misleading, and not only rellects on Mrs. Hunt fs the prime mover iu putting the bill through the Legislature, but is calculated to damage the cause of public educa tion. As one officially connected with Mrs. Hunt in her efforts for the safety of the young, and having, as 1 think, correct knowledge of the whole movement, I ask space in vnur columns for a correction. 1. The "adroitly drawn act" re quiring scientific temperance in the rmblic schools of the State was written bv one of the ablest demo cratic lawyers in the State two weeks before Mrs Hunt came to the capital, and without any suggestions from her. It is one of the best, if not the best, law of the thirty-bix which has been placed on the statute books of as many States within the iast decade. 2. As to books: Eighteen revised and graded text books meeting the requirements of the law are now issued by seven different houses. In revising these books authors and publishers have made them conform to a standard of the latest results of scientific rc-eaich, bigned by over two bund" 'i;.g American citi zens, am, . r -ai are chemists, physicians, tuu. ...ors, ministers and statesmen of i ;tional reputation. In auy series of these endorsed books," three books cover the entire course of study, and the price for irtroduction rauges from twenty five cents for the piimary grade to fifty cents and one dollar for high school or advanced grammar grade. A wide difference, you v ill see, from " four dollar u pupil," as your cor respondent states. 3. is to copyright: Reference to the books in question will show that they are copyrighted by the pub lisher and only endorsed by Mrs. Hunt for scientific accuracy, adapta tion to modern methods of teaching, anel graeling to the capacities of the several classes of students. Mrs. Hunt is not in anj way a tool of publishers or laboring for her per sonal intt-rest. For ten years her entire time, wonderful talent and private means have been given to this philanthropise work, and her success has been iemarkable. Her report before me says " the burden has been heavy. No personal reim bursement has been received from publishers. That the books are being studied by thousands of children is a reward beyond monied computa tion." It may be of interest to the public to know that iu this matter of sci entific tt mperance in the schools our State haa only fallen into the line of progress with thirty-six other?, all the Territories and the District of Columbia; and that in our couDtry alone between twelve and thirteen millions of children are now under the ban of law for such instruction. Iu conclusion let me say that the men have not beeu again " fooled by a woman," the State Board of Edu cation will do its duty under the law, and the people of North Caro lina will gladly avail themselves of this means of training their children to lives of intelligent sobriety and usefulness. C. E. C. Without Sleep 13S Mourn lor 8100. The sleep-fasting contest which began a week ago at ban Francisco with twenty entries ended in W. C. Woodford, th only contestant who remained awake, being forced by the management to retire at 9:45 Thurs day morning. He had been without sleep for 158 hours and -48 minutes, and when finally obliged to clo.-e his eyes was pronounced by the physi cian in danger of becoming a mauiac. It is now Wlieved he will maintain his reason, lie broke the record of one hundred and 'orty-four hours and twenty minutes which was made in Detroit. Woodford re eived ijlOU, and Jackson and Harris, who re mained a vake over ninety-six hours, 50 and $23 respectively. The Nitnter. Lenoir Topic: Last Friday night Henry Harper and son, Sam, both coloied, s:iy they saw the devil, though we think it must have been the Saute r. Sam had been to a meet ing of his literary society in Freed tnan, and was returning towards midnight to his father's house on Arli igton Heights. As he neared the bridge at the foot of the hill be yoiid Mcltary's shop, a big black, wooly beast, about the size of New foundland dog, rushed from the roadside and rearing up placed his fore paws on Sam's shoulder but bore no weight. Sam was scared nearly to death and squalled man fully, pushing the animal down. Ic then ran all around him and be tween his legs, and though he kick ed at it, ke could not strike it. Henry was attracted by Sam's yelling and came to his assistance. It chassezed around his legs and between them, and he struck at it with a stick, but could not hit it. It then ran ahead of them and went uuder their house aud was not seen any more. T II IKS' (iEKHAX SALVE. The THIE GERMAN SALVE. when properly applied, is infallible in the following distressing and KVeior UicS' Old USorrs,' Burns, Wounds of all kinds. Erun tions, Piles, Caked Breasts, 'letter, Ring Worms. Scrofulous and Can ce ous Sores, Corns aud Bunions It will relieve inflamed points, lum bago, congestion a' d ntrii'8. Ih all these cases the SALVE lias been tested without a ease of failure. TESTIMONIAL. "I have used on myself and on o'hers CAPT. THUiS' GERMAN SALVE for boils aud take pleasure in stating that it is unsurpassed in efficacy in not only driving the boil to a head, but ia extracting the "core' aud the healing of the affected parts. S. WITTKOWSKY, Charlotte, N- C-" The medicine is for a.e at the drug stores of Concord, N. C. Milton Advertiser: Last Sunday a little negro boy, living three miles east of Milton iu a settlement known as Suatchburg, mounted an ox and set out for Yancey ville, whuh place was mere than fifteen lies distant. He passed through Milton about 8:30 a. in , with his beast in a trot. About 0: 30 p. m. the-boy was eeen returning home, having traveled with his Hteer more thau thirty miles in one day. Highest market price paid for but ter, eggs and chickens at G- E- Fjsheb's. J.ITTLE BROPSOF Tar, lMtcta Tnrpentlne and Other Tr Heel ProductM. The Western Free Lance, Marion, has been eularged from a four to tix page paper. The Board of Directors of the A. & N. C. R R. had a meeting in New Berne Friday. A town's greatness depends on the activity of its own citizens. States ville Landmark. The drought at Raleigh is becom ing serious. It has cut off clover about 25 per cent. The improvements to be made on the Greensboro Female .College will begin in earnest in a few days. Smithfield Herald: Cotton is com ing up very nicely, and our farmers will soon be chopping, xseany an are through planting. The grapes of Wake county are not hurt. At Ridgeway the grapes are reported to be badly injured and strawberries have also suffered. State Auditor Geo. W. Sanderlin will deliver the annual address of the Knights of Pythias in Greens boro on the night of June 1st. It is learned that the recent cold spell did but little damage to the crops throughout the State being protected by tne dense foliage. Mrs. J. I). Carpenter, a lady evan gelist of some note, will begin apro tracted meeting at Sandy Ridge, Stokes county, on the 17th inst. Large quantities of gold have been found in Anson and adjoining coun ties, and in some neighborhoods there seems to be a gold hunting fever. Rev. John R. Brook?, D. D., a leading Methodist divine and presid ing elder of the Greensboro district, is in Baltimoie for medical treat ment. Murfrecsboro Index : About $4, 000 worth of sawed lumber, belong ing to George E. Carman, wa3 burned at his mill, on Potecasi creek, last Thursday. It was a total loss. The granary and lumber house of Mr. Joseph Willis, near Leaksville, was burned a few days since; loss in feed stuff, corn, carriage, wagon, etc., about $1,000. No insurance. I he excitemeut over the echool hook quetion in Raleigh continues. Superintendent of Public Instruction Finger denies the charges preferred against him by the Biblical Record-r. Mr. Harris, foreman of the mining force at the Walnut Cove mines, says that work has begun in earnest, and thinks be will be taking out large quantities of coal iu a few days. Durham Globe: A telegram to T. F. Cheek, received here yesterdiy, brings the sad intelligence of the drowning of his nephew, Richard Cheek, at Little Rock, Ark., last Saturday. The new mayor of Raleigh, Bad ger, is already making friends as an officer, and it is believed that he will prove himseii as laitnlul and effi cient as his worthy predecessor, A A. Thompson. The agricultural department at Washington has sent a man to the eastern part of this State to investi gate the cause of the great numbers of caterpillars that have appeared in the swamps at some points. A telegram has been received from Rev. Dr. J. B. Boone, of Moberly, Mo., who was recently elected finan cial agent of the baptist State Uni versity, stating that he accepted that position and would begiu active work June 1. W. R. Henry, of Henderson, will deliver the annual address nefoie the Wilson Collegiate Institute. In making this announcement the Wil son Mirror pays a high tribute to Mr. Henry as an orator ornate and forcible. Mrs. Jackson, a daughter of North Carolina, and widow of one of the ablest of American soldiers. Gen. Thnnas J. Jackson, immortal as " Stonewall," is now in New York engaged upon a biography of her husband. The Governor has offered a reward of $200 for the capture ot Field Anderson, a white man who recently, wniie under sentence of death, escaped from jail at Sparta, in Alle gheny couuty. Anderson's enme was murder. Greensboro Record: Mr. J. F. Yates has placed upon our table a fine specimen of altklfa, which meas ures 36 inches. Mr. Yates has been feeding alfalfa for three weeks and is loud in its praise. The only draw back to its cultivation is the diffi culty of getting a stand. Henderson Gold Leaf: Tobacco plauts have failed badly on account of the frost and recent cold weather Mr. James Rudd. an old wpII kuown citizen of the county, died at homenear Brookston Aril !, in the 87th year of his age. High Point Enterprise: Rev. C. G. Wells, pastor of the Baptist church here, has sent in his resigna tion to take effect June 1st. The Modern Tobacco Barn company ship ped six barns complete to Ohio and Keutuckv as the result of the expe riments in those States recently. Wadesboro Messenger- In tel li en - cer: Ihis week the wife of Cl.-m Kendall, colored, brought a nusEret of pure gold to town, found on the old Jeel Gaddy place, six miles from town, on the White s Store road, and sold it to Mr. I. II. Horton for $').00. The land on which the gold was found belongs to Cap'. R. B. Gaddv. of Polk ton. Secretary T. K. Brunes of the tate Deiiartment of Agriculture, Friday issued the annual State crop report compiled from reports re ceived from 1,000 correspondents in ah parts of the State. The report shows that the wheat averaixe is 96 oats, 88 ; rye, 93 ; cotton, 84 ; corn, 8G ; tobacco, 82. he prospect for the average crop is 94 per cent One hundred pounds of butter wanted every daj at G. E. Fisheb's- G-I-V-E-N II BEAUTIFUL THIS IS ONE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT o,lY COME OXCE IN A LIFETIME TO GET A BEAUTIFUL STEEL ENGU AVJ GIVEX TO YOU, WHICH OTHERWISE WOULD COST YOU Five or Six Doll WITH EACH CAKE OF BMMMM Wm SQ4PT I WILL GIVE YOU ONE OF THESE BEAUTIFUL - ENdEAVINGS FOB TWENTY-FIVE ,C E NT S f 2 Come and examine them, ancy if you like a benuti ful picture in your sitting room, hall oriarlor vou will buv one. Everybody come. ( D. D. JOHNSON. NEW IN GENERAL. A Northern syndicate has pur chased the property of the Pacific Guano CtApany at Charleston, S. C, and will start up the faotory. It is commendable for Boston to organize a society for the education aud elevation of the poor Italians there, but they should not try the elevating process with a rope. The tobacco warehouse of F. W. Dorham & Son, Covington, Ky., near tne suspension bridge, was com pletely destroyed by fire Thursday. The firm estimate the loss at $28,000; insurance $16,000, in the Royal of Liverpool. , The Woman's National Industrial League has solemnly resolved that Blair's rejection by the Chinese is one or tne greatest compliments which the enslaved barbarians could have paid to him. Unfortunately for them Mr. Blair is not looking at the affair through the same eud of the telescope. A steel rail weighing COO pounds was laid across the track in front of the Newport express on the Erie Road, near Urbana, Ohio, Thursday. Ihe locomotive, going sixty miles an hour, struck it and fortunately cleared fhe track". A man named Suyder, charged with the crime, has been arrested. Twenty-live thousand Sunday school childred, divided into eighty parties, made a canvass of the city of St. Louis, Mo., Thursday, for the purpose of ascertaining how many children do no' attend Sunday school or church, and extended an inviia tion to all to visit p aces of wor ship. An inexhaustible bed of the ma terial used in the manufacture of s'ate pencils, was discovered ou lands just without the corporate limits of King's Mountain last week. More will be heard of this valuable find in the nt-ar future. Gone all the painful disorders and chronic weaknesses peculiar to the female sex. They go, with the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip tion. Periodical Dains. weak Kiel- bearing -down sensations, nervous prostration, all " female complaints " are cured bv it. It 19 Dlirelv vr (-ro table and perfectly harmless a poweniu general, as well as uterine, tonio and nervine, imparting vigor and strength to the whol It costs you nothing if it fails to give Batisfaction. It's guaranteed to do 80, in every case, or the money is refunded. It can be guaranteed i or it aoes it. iso other medicine for women is sold on such terms. That's the their faith in it. Contains no alco hol to inebriate ; no syrup or sugar to derancre digestion : a Witi ma to medicine, not a leverage. Purely vegeiaDie ana perfectly harmless in any condition of the system. "World's Dispensary Medical As sociation, Proprietors" No. 6G3 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. f i CONCORD MARKETS. COTTON MARKET. (Corrected daily by Cannons & Fetj.er.) Low middling "iqt Middling 8& Good middling. a hi PRODUCE MARKET. 4 (Corrected daily by W. J. Swink.) Bacon $ 7 Susrar-eured harLS 14 Bulk meats, sides 0 s Beeswax '4 8 Butter 15 20 Chickens 25 30 Corn 95 & Efgs ; 10 0 Lard S 10 Flour (North Carolina), a 50 Meal , 97 Oats 50 t Tallow 4 ( 5 alt ... 70 80 A-W-A-V STEEL ONLY- Dry Lumber! I have a lot of pood DRY LlilRFIJ for flooring, ceiling and (heart) fence railing. Parties desiring such lumber will call on nie. CONTRACTOR. I also take contracts to do any kind of WOOD WORK, and will guarantee sat isfaction. Work taken by the job or by the day. John T. Pounds. i Is equaled by few and excelled bv i none fr his politeness and good" 1 work as a barber. Clean linens, ! cups and brushes at all times.' j Office opposite Morris House. I CEE HERE .'There is no reason ; u why any one should die with I pneumoni i- No mtdieine required, j I work on the surface with ointment prepared by myself. 1 Lave treated some cases as near the grave as thev will ever get till they go there. I have never treated a case over six hours, never lost a case and never will. ja 6-3m DAVID SLOUGH. Got tu Come at Once ! THE TAXES I'm polng to collect at once; if not one way then another. If the amounts are not settled with iu a few davH T is hull oilTcrti u.l colleet not "only the taxes but eost. ZPayThis is business WM. PROBST, mar 5i f Tax Colleet or. SALE or BRICK -A N D- lip.? If I I .1 have BRICK on hr.nd at all times. Parties needing any will do well to see rie before pu'-chnsin- I also TAKE CONTRACTS to do small or larsre jobs in briek work in any part offSthe country. Write ineor come to see me. R. J. FOIL, vnor(l K. C Hear Ms for My Gauss ! I BUY AND SELL XjTT mbee OF ANY SIZE. I'm eppciaily anxious ;for a billot at this time. I keep on hand, at all times, a full line of FRESH Family - Groceries Call at my stand on INorth Main street, near the Odell Factory. u T. M. BURIv.AOK. J. HILL, CONCOI1D, N. C. Car load Stovo, Buggies and Carts, llames, Traces, Bridles, Spurs, Saddles, Collars, Bits, Blaiikets.CoUar Pad.-, Feather Bone Whins, best in world. ! Wagon Whips, tin Saddle Rags, Curry Combs, Horse Brushes, Buag:y Cushions, Barb Wire, Clothes Wire, Smoothing Irons, Andirons, Sheet Iron, Poultry Netting and Lawn Fencing, Ice Cream F-eezt-rs, Family Oil Tanks and Chamber Seta, Peaint Parchers, Sash Cords and Sash Weights, all kinds Agate Ware, Tinware, etc. Flue Pipe, Sewer and Stove Pipe, teAsbesto and Tin Booting, and all kinds of Tin, Copper and Shirt Iron woik at short m-tiee. I manufacture the best Fruit Evaporator on the market. Lightning Rods at short notice. The best Coffee Pot in the world for 10c. Please call and see me. W. J. HILL,
The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
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