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HIE ST &H D A R D. we do ALL KINDS OK job -woirik: Standard. -L in try LARGEST PAPER -PUBLISHED IN CONCORD. - -IN' THE- .X EAT EST MJXSER -AND AT THE LOWEST JUTES. A IIAIIJIl.tHSl!OV. The following- song lias been written and sent to the News and Observer by W. II. Itobinson.who'isnow in the United States Court at Columbus, Ohio, having been sent there at the term of the I'nithd States Court held here, for his conne tion with the green goods ease. Tlie son carries a lesson : When I was young and helpless, Then 1 was throwed away. When 1 grew up to manhood 1 then grew very gay. And before than I was married I was not worth a cent, And after I was married 1 was a pleasant gent. Oli when I was but fourteen Mv father same free, And" what it has brought me to Oh now yo earn see, ()!i. brother, oil, dear brothei, I now would like to see, (Mi, brother, oh, dear brother, (h don't you follow me. "When I was five and twenty 1 was a useful man, Now I am eight and twenty They have got me by the hand, Oh when I was in business. Then I had much success, And when I got in trouble I had to take a rest. Oh keeping of bad company lias brought me to this pass, I hope, oh heavenly father, 1 will go to rest at last. To harm my friends I would not, Iiut then they would harm me. Oh what tiity lnne brought me to Oli now you c;;n see. To see my v:-V I cannot, My prayer i alt in vain, 1 know I cannot see her Until I come again. When I was in the court room I thought I would get free, Hut the Judge said you are bound For the penatenchia-ree. Oh eighteen months in prison I have got to go to stay. Oh friends I left behind me, Can't you help me get away, ' Oli brothers and my sisters I have one more "word to say, Remember me in your prayers So long as I stay. Peeping through the iron bars Has nearly blinded me, Oli my dear" wife and children I now w ish 1 could see. To hear from home I cannot, It seems to be in vain, Oh father please take care of all Until I come again. Composed and written by W. II. Robin son, w ho w as convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in the Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, by the Judge in the United States Federal Court, which convened in Raleigh, N. C, June lst.ls'Jl. A MILITAKY F.XEtT TIOX. The 1'nle of a Yoiihk Ollieer in Mrxiro The following particulars of the recent execution of Lieut. Estuper ron, a young Mexican officer, are given by a Times-Democrat corres pouueut: Monterey and the State of Nuevo I.eon has beeu the theatre of many military tragedies, but the shooting of Sahator Estuperron, second lieu tenaut of the Mexican Cavalry, was the saddest that has ever darkened the annals of the State. A brief history of the event which led to this morning's execution is necessary to a proper understanding -A the case. Last December a compauy of the Thirteenth llegular Cavalry was ordered to do special duty at Cade rey ta. a small town on the Gulf road. The company was in command of a tirst lieutenant and the deceased. A dispute arose between the officers, aud Lieut. Estuperron fearing, as his friends say, that his life was in danger, drew his pistol, but did not shoot at his superior. It is claimed that he snapped the pistol, but it missed Ore. Eor thisoffensa he was placed under arrest aud tried by a general court-martial and senteuced to death. There were extenuatiug circum stances admitted, and the case was carried to the highest federal courts. Peudiug a decision the first officer of the company was shot dead in the po tals at Monterey by one of the soldiers, and the soldier, while yet the smoke was curling from his weapon, was shot down by the cap taiu of the company. Whether these deaths affected the pardoning power or not will never be known, but the finding of the court was approved, and powerful peisonal appeals by persons intimately asso ciated with President Diaz were un availing. The death warrant was signed and carried into execution. That the officer was admired by the people aud dearly loved in his regi ment was well known by the author ities, as the precautions taken by the commandant of the. department were ample proof. The time of the shooting was kept a profound secret uutil the night before the execution. The cathedral clock chimed four. There was a sharp bugle call, a hurrying muster ing ef feet, quick commands and rapid evolutions and in a few mo ments the garrison fell into line. The gate in the rear of the barracks wa opened, and the Thirteenth Cavalry, in full marching order on foot, issued forth, followed by their hand with muffled instruments. The Fifth Cavalry followed, and then the Fifth Infantry. They formed a square, three sides of which con 8 -sted of the representative regi ments. The fourth was the wall of the barracks. The general com manding the department aud staff took up a position in the centre. When the troops halted the com manding officer called, "Attention !" "Fix bayonets'" He then an nounced the sentence, and added : "If any man moves in the ranks gives any expression of sympathy itu the prisoner or fault with the sentence he shall be committed to prison from one to five years, de fending on the gravity of the of teuse." The 8 lence as of death fell upon the soldiers and the few spectators who were allowed to be present. VOL. IV. NO. 26. Afar off the church bell tolled the knell for the dying. The early sun just gilded the mountain peaks that rise like giant sentinels around the historic city, .and one's thoughts went back to the dull gray morning long ago, when an American soldier knelt upon his coffin and met a bloody death almost on the same spot. Great white wreaths circled the higher hills. It is now 4:43. From oat of the gate issued a com pany of the Thirteenth, ac Ps head a prisoner, aud by his side a priest. With a firm tread aud a proudly lifted head he marched, never fal tering or halting, bat with a bright smile upon his face, he looked the least concerned of the party, lie halted at a small marked elevation twenty feet from the barracks wall. His company filed past and formed in front, four lines deep. Two lines advanced, halted, and one still advanced. There w re six men in each line. The firing party thus consisted of six men in the front line within ten feet of the prisoner, and the second line within fifteen feet. The other two lines formed a reserve. The death knell tolled and the clock struck 5. The officer ad vanced to bandage the eyes of the prisoner, but the latter waived the officer aside and said : "I have looked too often in the face of death to fear him now." "It shall be as you wish," said the captain, as he took his place at the left of the firing part-. Taking off his hat the prisoner surveyed the assembled troops, looked once at the suu-tipped hills, and said to the firing party : "Shoot straight for my heart, but do not strike my face Adieu." Aud bringing bis hands to the position of "attention," he awaited the end. There was a slight Hash of the captain's sword. The guns came to, "Ready !" Another flash. "Aim !" The blade drops. Six sheets of flame dart toward the prisoner, who sprang into the air with three bullets iu his heart The surgeon took his wri3t The captain gave a quick command, a soldier stepped from the ranks, and placing his rifle to the prisoner's head, fired. In less than fifty seconds from the drop of the sword Lieutenant Estuperron was dead. The bugles sounded, the troops filed past the body; it was put into a coffin and the grim tragedy was over and as brave a man as ever buckled on a sword had crossed to the "bivouac of the dead." Wooilrn Clothes. Wooden clothes ! Dresses made of wood ! Is such a thing possible, that wood can be turned into silk, for example ? It's a simple process, and not near as remarkable as it seems. Wood is chiefly composed of celluloid mixed with fiber. The wood is ground between two large stones, the lower half of which passes through water that washes away and absorbs the fibril matter. The later i3 dissolved through chemical substances and the pure celluloid obtained. This product has justly been called "a maid of all work." It plays a conspicuous part in the manufacture of paper ; it has a hand in the nia ing of jewelry; is an ideal collar and cuff material, besides being good tor numerous other purposes. Chardonnet, the famous French chemist, has succeeded in making from this same material artificial silk, and the new invention aroused w ide pread interest during the last international exposition. The silk was turned out bv means of a tiatent apparratus which looked like a sausaze mill. In the place where the latter sends forth the chopped meat Chardonnet has applied a mouthpiece with extremely fine apertures. Out of these tiny holes pours the silk in fine flossy threads. The winding, weaving and dyeing was done as heretofore. The artificial silk dyes much more easily than the natural, and the most wonderful color effects were achieved. Despite these great advantages Charbonnet's invention met with no success, for the reason that this artificial silk was highly combusti ble; but at the present day this evil has beeu overcome by saturating the celluloid in a fire-proof solution so that perfect protection against igni ting is guaranteed. We shall dress, therefore, in fu ture in wood and wooden material. Everything will be celluloid, from the handsome silk gown iu which my lady promenades Broadway to the dainty molar with which she nibbles her bonbons. St. Louis Post Dispatch. Killed by I lie Train. South-bound freight train, No. 43, which arrives at Lexington at C:55 o'clock a. m., run over and killed au old colored man a few miles north of Conrad Siding last Friday morning. The train was going at a very fast rate of speed, when the engineer, just after h had turned a curve, espied a man on the track, about 10o yards distant, walking toward the engine. It was impossible to stop i in time to avert a catastrophe. The engine struck the man, who proved to be quite aged, and hurled him several feet, killing him instantly. No one knows who the poor un fortunate was, but he told some railroad, hands, with whom he was in conversation Thursday, that his home was at Graham, N. C Lex ington Dispatch. One firm in Chicago in the cattle business did a business last year amounting to $66,000,000. The area floor of their building amounts to 140 acres ; cold storage area, 40 acres. I.IGIITMNG OX A FROI-It". The Extraordinary Phenomena of a Colorado Thunder-tit or m. Denver Republican, June 30. When the rain burst upon the city it was accompanied by an enormous amount of igbtn'ng, almost blind ing in intensity, and thunder. The most remarkable exhibition occurred on Fifteenth street. When the storm was at its height a bolt of electricity appeared in the atmos phere, as if it had been broken from a streak of lightning. At first it appeared circular, shimmering a few feet above the telegraph and telephone wires. The sphere then burst, and lengthening assumed the form of a huge, fiery serpent, traveling in waves at a remarkable pace above the wires. The whole atmosphere was saturated with electricity that was perceptible for blocks away, and a myriad darting tongues of ilame glittered about the pyrotechnic phenomenon. At r if teenth aud Arapahoe streets the electrical snake seemed to dart its tongue of a million forks toward the earth. Some men were at work on the new Mining Exchange Build ing and they crouched beneath the timbers from fright They expected to be enveloped iu the coils of the bright monster. A warning was sent for blocks in all directions. traveling along wires and sounding like contiuous cracks from hundreds of miniature pistols, or the break ing of the columns of a huge building. But, with a dive towards the earth, the serpent arose and made a leap over the building forming the block between Arapahcee and Lawrence and Fifteenth and Fourteenth. On Lawrence street, in front of Justice Palmer's court, was a large telegraph pole, much higher than any of the others, and crossed with countless wires that crossed the street and terminated in- the tele phone exchange. The top was snap ped clean off, as smoothly as if done with a saw, and the bolt was scat tered. The wires thereabouts were covered with a web of fire that di vided at the pole and disappeared both ways. Another sheet of flame spread over the track of the elec tric railway between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, and disappeared, as it seemed, on the rails. The con tact witt the pole was made with a tremendous crash. It seemed tnat the lightning had completely eaten up the part of the pole dismem bered, as nothing but a few charred splinters could be found to tell its fate. State Pensioner!. Attention ! Headquahteks Pexsioxeks Association, General Order No. 1. J All North Carolina pensioners who served in the Confederate army, aud who are able to go into c;imp, are requested to report at Wrights ville Sound, near Wilmington, on the 29th day of July. Transportation will be furnished male pensioners on all railroads in the State of North Carolina on their presenting a certificate to their near est ticket office or conductor of the train, certificate to be signed by the clerk of the Superior Court of their county, with the county seal at tached, and certifying that their names are on the pension roll of their county. Present this notice to the agent or conductor with the certificate from the clerk of the court. Pensioners will be met on the arrival of the train in Wilmington and carried to the camping ground free of charge. All those going into camp must be provided with three days' rations and one blanket or quilt For further information address Adjutant E. D. Hall, Wi'mingtou, X. C. By order of the Executive Com mittee. The Roanoke and Southern. If the Roanoke and Southern people will come to Monroe with a reasonable business proposition Mon roe will meet theui half way. We know that the G., C. & N. Railway, with its nearly 300 miles of road, traversing the finest country in the South, is the key to the situation, and that Monroe ia their objective point. But we want their road and do not want to be niggardly with them, and we believe the citizens of Monroe are willing to treat them fairly and squarely. It is no necessa ry for them to threaten us with any funeral expenses by running pre liminary surveys around us, for we are not vet ready to die. We are waiting for them to come to us, as we have been told all along they would do, and we are ready to meet them to the extent of our ability. Monroe Enquirer. Like a Good Conundrum is life, because everybody must give it up! But you needn't be in a hurry about it! Life is worth your the living! To prolong it, is worth your untiring effort! Dou't give up without calling to your rescue that grand old family medicine, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medi cal Discovery. Many a wornout, exhausted body has it made over good as new! It strengthens, builds up, invigorates, assisting nature, and not violating it. Cures liver disease, indigestion, and all bloodtaints and humors. Sure and lasting benefit guaranuteed, or money refunded. All druggists. Lucy Snowball Look heah, Missus Johnsing, I loaned you two aigs yesterday, and you has only brung m j back one. How am this ? bailie Johnson am dat so? I muss ter made a mistake in countin' 'em. CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1891. MTTLi: I HOI'S OF Tar, Pitch Turpentine antl Other Tar Heel I'rodiietH. W. A. Curtis has retired from the editorship of the Franklin PreFS. Dr. E. Burke Haywood has re signed his position as a member of the State board of publie charities. Max ton Union : Mrs. Effie Wil kinson died at her home (the old Leath place) near Floral College, on the 28th inst, aged CO years, Mr. J. B. Taylor, mayor of Leaks ville, has instituted criminal pro ceedings against Mr. J. T. Darling ton, editor of the Leaksville Gazette, for libel. Durham Sun: Durham people have faith in Durham dirt. Mr. R. II. Wright has purchased real estate of Messrs. Manning, and Morgan, to the value of $12,000. William Fansler and Charley C. Ruthfield have been arrested at Winston upon the charge of being implicated in the double murder of John Smith and Mary Goins in North Winston. Notices are being sent to each of the 1,581) soldier pensioners to at tend the encampment at Wrights ville, July 20 August 4. It is roughly estimated that half the number will attend. Weldon News : The best market crop that we know of is figs. They are always in demand and last season netted as high as six dollars a crate. At this rate an acre of figs will yield from five to six hundred dol lars. Fayette ville Observer: Mr. E. F. Moore, late president of the defunct People's National bank, wa3 arrested and tried here Tuesday, charged with getting money under false pre tenses, and was bound over to the Superior Court in a $2U0 bond. Tarboro Southernor : J. T. Stew art returned from Washington a few adays go whither he had been to ob tain a patent on his new peanut sheller. This invention of Mr. Stewart's is a simple and useful one, saing a vast amount of labor and expense as well. The trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical college have decided to expend $5,000 for boilers, engines and machinery, all of which are needed. The dormitories will be of brick, two in number, each 40x45 feet, two stories high, with accom modations for forty students. The Southern Railway Construc tion Company, of Chattanooga, which has the contract for building the Carolina, Greenville aud North ern, expects to begin the grading this month. I he surveys have been completed between Hot Springs, North Carolina, and Estillville, Va., a distance of eighty-three miles. A new experiment is being tried at the penitentiary, the working of long term and life convicts outside the prison walls on the railway to Caraleigh. This road is in sight of the prison. There has been no sort of trouble with the convicts, who have worked rapidly and willingly. They will get the road graded be fore August 1. llillsboro Observer : A drunken white man called a sober white man a mulatto last Saturday morning. Result : The man who used the in sulting language was knocked down. The Mayor fined the man 5 cents for knocking the other man down. And the man who used the insult ing language and got knocked down, was made to pay $5.00 and costs. Winston Sentinel: Mr. Mathew Fulford, of Davie county, is quite a notable citizen of that place. lie is now 85 years of age and has voted the Democratic ticket since he was twenty-one. He has been a resident of the same place for 02 years past and has attended every annual camp meeting at Smith Grove since they were started in 1831. He was also elected treasurer of the county for fourteen years. A Minnie Ball In the Flesh 2 YearM. Mr. Wm. II. Bailey, of Concord township, was wounded at Kinston on the 14th of December, 18C2. The ball entered his left thigh aud though the surgeons probed for it they could not find it It has given him much pain at intervals ever since, causing suppuration at two spots in the thigh. On the first day'of June while he vai working in the field he felt what he knew to be the ball catch in his undercloth ing, and he stopped work and picked it out. It was a minnie ball, mashed out of shape. It had worked down and around the bone and came out on tli3 other side of the thigh from that it had entered. Thus after 28 years, 5 months nnd 17 days, Mr. Bailey was relieved of this almost constant reminder of Burnside, and 3 a consequence he feels a good deal better. Statesville Landmark. With health and beauty laden, A rieh and priceless thins, To woman, pale and wasted, My precious gift 1 bring. Such the object and such the miss ion of woman's valued friend, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Dou't let unreasonable prejudice prevent you from sharing the health and beauty proffered, in good faith, by this most excellent Reme ly! None of the almost countless weakness and diseases peculiar to women, but that readily yield to its magical power! Manufactured, recommended, sold through druggists, and guaranteed by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, X. Y., to give satisfaction, in every case, or money paid for it cheerfully refunded. A 'Hope (Ind.) cow gives fifteen gallons of milk a daj". Coolly and Calmy! IIEXKY KRACRAH, THE HIRER EK, PAYS THE DEATH PEXAI.TT. II an iced In Jail A Few TleketMV.arfre Croud Oulhlde'-rou(enHeH II 1 CrimeShowed Xo Fright. Kody Sent Home. Special to The Standard ! Charlotte, N. O,, July 2. Henry Brabham, the negro convicted and sentenced to death for the mur der of John B. Mocca, in this city, on the 11th of April, was hanged in one of the corridors of the jail this morning at ten minutes to 11. Tickets were issued in limited num bers ; not half the crowd was ad mitted. Brabham, through his spiritual adviser, confessed the crime of killing Mocca. Brabham showed no signs of fright, not a muscle moving. Dr. II. M. Wilder pro nounced him dead eleven and one half minuter after the drop. His body will be. sent to his parents at Charleston todav. LOST HIS LIFE IX A VOLCAXO. A Krazilian Fnlls Head ForntoHt Into the fritter at Mount Venuviu. Dispatches from Naples give meagre details of the terrible acci dent which occurred Thursday on Mount Vesuvius, by which a Bra zilian traveler lost his life. Another Brazilian was rescued with diffi culty. Mount Vesuvius has for some months past been showing signs of activity at intervals. Within the last week or so, however, Vesuvius has been somewhat quieter, but yes terday renewed signs of activity were noticed and travelers were told it would be advisable not to ascend to the crater. In spite of this warn ing two Brazilian travelers, accom panied by a guide, determined to make the ascent They did so and reached the top of the mountain iu safety. There they were noticed to be standing near the crater, gazing into its mysteries. Suddenly the whole party was enveloped by a dense cloud of sulphurous smoke, which so stupefied the travelers that one of them reeled about for a moment, then staggered forward and fell head foremost into the crater. The guide who accompanied the Brazilians had in the meantime caught hold of the second traveler, and half dragged, naif pushed him into a' position where the crater fumes could not affect him, thus saving the travelers life. The victim of Mount Vesuvius was Dr. Silva Jardin. He was a highly esteemed journalist of Rio Janeiro. He feli 170 feet sheer into the glowing Java. He left a wife and family in l'.uis. Medal Content. Tin re was a Demorest medal con test organized at Stallings' school house last Saturday evening, 2'Jth inst. Tlie following officers were elected : Prof. D. J. Little, general manager; Miss M. C. hhinn, record ing cecretary; D. M. Stallings, cor responding secretary; M. L. Stal lings, treasurer. The first contest a ill oe held on Saturday before the fourth Sunday in July, exercises beginning at two o'clock. Speakers and subjects are as follows : " The inspiration of prohibition," Thomas M. Bost; " The coming down," Miss Rosa Tucker; "The result of prohibition," Waiter F. Stowe; "Legal suasion the only remedy," Malgum C. Tucker ; "Pro hibition the only hope of our coun try," Daniel J, Bost ; "The bugle is calling," Miss Jennie Stallings; "The martyrred mother," Miss Sophia Tucker; -Our national curse," Miss Maggie Shinn. We do sincerely hope that a'l the boys and girls will join in with us in this noble work. Our band is small yet, and we need you. D. M. Stallixgs, Corresponding Secretary. A boy stood on the burning deck, Unwisely, too, 'tis said, For, with the fast approaching flame, His elders quickly fled. So, many now in peril stand, Unmindful of their fate, Till, step by step, O rim Death comes on And then, alas! to late! Far wiser, surely, would it seem, When his approach we see, With "Pierce's Pellets" well in hand To vanquish old "G. D." Pierce's Pleasant Pellets have re markable power to corect all physical derangements, thus warding off disease tnat would surely follow. Purely vegetable, pleasant to take, perfectly harmless! With a little fore thought, they'll be a present help in time of need cheating the doctor aud robbing the grave! As a Liver Pill, they are unequaled. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to take. One a dose as a laxative, three or four as a ca thartic. Tiny, sugar-coated gran ules, in vials; 25 cents. The Georgia College Gets K Money, Secretary Noble has directed that a proper certificate be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury directing payment to the treasurer for the use of the University of Georgia of the first and second installments of $15,000 and $16,000, under Agricul tural College act of August 30, '90. These funds are to be expended according to the ratio that the colored population of school age holds to the white population of school age. Bardnley Gets a Heavy Sentence. Philadelphia, Pa., July 2. Ex City Treasurer John Bardsley was sentenced this morning by Judge Wilson to fifteen years' solitary con finement in the Eastern penitentiary and to pay a fine equaling the sum to embezzling which he pleaded gniltv. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Amang ye Takin Notes and Faith He'll Prent Them." To Go to Iturhaui. Miss iA'lia King has been elected a delegate from the Concord Y. W. C. T. U., and Mrs. L. P. Cole from the W. C. T. U. to the State Con vention of these unions, which meet in Durham on July 14th, 15th and lGth. Both are good selections, and we hope they will attend. - ' imihorn CritlclNed The Statesville Landmark says: "When Mr. Wrilliam Fife said he understood he was to be attacked, and the crowd responded, 'They will have to attack us, too,' up rose Mr William Horn, the singer, and added, And Jesus, too.' It was doubtless worth going miles to hear. Got the Xame Wrong. There is a minister in town who years ago had a funny experience it was painful to him and the couple. After performing a marriage cere mony he discovered that he called the groom's name incorrectly. So to prevent trouble (the couple being a runaway affair) he went through the ordeal again. From that section the minister has received no more calls for such work. Vanished ProMpeetM. The Standard state3 that there is a prospect for Concord to secure a steei car manuiactory, employing 700 hands. Monroe Enquirer. The Standard, with large and damp tears, announces that the "prospect," like all good things, oiea in its infancy. The carcass of this prospect has been laid to rest forever, so to speak. Treasurer's Report. Mr. W. E. Bevill, treasurer of the Committee of Arrangements of the Fife meeting, reports as follows: For expenses $ 410 00 " Mr. Fife C50 00 " Mess. Bilhorn & Prince 50 00 Total $1,110 00 Greensboro Workman. This is probably more than any preacher in Greepsboro receives for his year e work. Mit Ilornbiickle Get the Watch. Wednesday the vote3 for the most popular young lady at Cannonsville were counted by a committee con sisting of Messrs. Eddleman, Bacon asd Kichardsou, who were appointed by Superintendent Duval. Thirteen hundred votes were cast. Miss Marv Hornbuckle received 715, Miss Anna broad way 5h9, and G9 were scatter ing:. The watch is a beautiful one. and has been presented to the happy young lady. It will be remembered that Can nons & Fetzer offered two watches to the young ladies at Cannonsville and Forest Hill who should receive the largest number of votes, each $1 worth of goods bought at Cannons iretzer s entitling tliepurcnaser to one vote. The votes cast foi the Forest Hill young lady were counted today, and Miss Maeraie Earlv wins the urize. she having received 470 votes. Miss uzzie Kichards received 454 votes, with about 100 scattering. We congratulate the happy girls upon their popularity and upon their watches. Muslo in IIIh Feet and a Desire to KuHtieate. E. M. Babbitt alias Brown alias Moses alias Montiago alias most any name, started towards the setting sun Wednesday evening. A strapping big fellow, claiming to be a musical instrument tuner, but an escape from a sledge-hammer occupation, registered himself at the St. James Hotel, on Friday, as " E. M. Babbitt, Columbia, S. C." Mr. Tuner did some work in town he tuned several pianos, hand organs, guitars, &c. Wednesday evening, abou- 4 o'clock, with grip of tools and tickled "half-to-death" in escaping the payment of $6 for his board, he started out to tune his appetite. Some time after his de parture his august presence was missed. Joe Cruse, the best and most faithful porter in the State, made the discovery and set up a young war-whoop, with double-quick time. Joe went half way to China Grove no gleanings ; he came back to the depot ; he borrowed a Smith & Wesson breech-loading shooting iron and started towards Coddle Creek. At Dr Lilly's place Joe captured a mule and rode on, and five miles further Col. Babbitt and his vallet (a little boy) were over taken. Slinging his pistol about in the air and feeling cold streams run ning over him, Col. Cruse began : "Hello, mister! where are you go ing? You haven't paid your bill. Xow I must have six dollars or you, the former preferred. Come, out with it." Col. Babbitt, the musician, in an amazed manner, informed Cruse that " he intended to return, and that he was only going to the country a few days to do some tuning." " Let me have six dollars," said Cruse, "or you go back." Col. Babbitt " ponied " up and went on his way with three dollars left thought he : " It might have been." Cruse paid fifty cents for the mule, and got back in time for the evening train. It is said that this fellow beat Salisbury, and i3 really from Win ston. Look out for the music man ; he's n. g. Some farmers left home with the blues, but by the time they reached Concord they felt better. They found that other farmers were enjoying (?) similar hardships. WHOLE NO. 1S:2. The Glorious 4th ! JTST 115 TEARS AFTF.lt THE GREAT HISTORIC EVEXT, As It was Celebrated at the fonsoll- naieu rarellnlnn Mine in . 7. I. a r ire Crowrtn Speeche. IHlllier. do A 111 men lv ami Oth er Sports. It was an immense crowd that assembled at liural lietreat, Xo. 7 township, to join in the celebration of the glorious 4th, the 115th anni versary of the Declaration of Amer ican Independence. At the call of a Northern gentle man, at his own hom2 and bv his own unbounded hospitality, a large number of Southern people gath ered Southern soldiers, their wives, sons and daughters. In a nutshell the behavior and the order were perfect not a jar, not a cross word, not an intoxicated person and n thing to cause pain or regret were seen or heard. Col. B. S. Cotes, of New York city, as i3 known, purchased this niininsr property from John A. Misenlfeiraer. He has provided a home a pleasant and comfortable retreat for himself. His life thrown among them, his efforts and enter prise active in their midst, and from pure social reasons Col. Cotes de sired to make his neighbors and their neighbors feel that no barrier existed to alienate them ; he desired to kuow them and he desired that they feel that he wa3 in their midst as a citizen and engaged in the development of resources, the suc cess of which meant good for all. THE PLACE. It is rather amusing to us now-a-days to see what tastes were exercised in the selection of sites for the location of dwellings, &c. Here at this place a comparatively low place was selected and the dwelling house was there located. This was done, too, when just one hundred yards distant was a five-acre knoll, the top of which rose seventy-five feet above the level of the site selected. This knoll is beauty to perfection. There is a marked though easy decline on every side from the summit of the knoll it overlooks miles and miles of surrounding country. And from a distance the native oak growth in rearing their heads heavenward presents regular and symmetrical steps. There is not a prettier and more romantic looking place in the whole county. The structure Col. Cotes has ereeted for himself is of no preten sions, but with a rustic appearance set off by its elevation and the ro mantic spot there is comfort on the interior. 'Tis elegantly furnished; the walls hang thick with the fruits of the brush by skilled artists. The hospitality that reigns there, the ease, comfort and joys a visitor is sure to find, is superb. THE DAY'S PROGRAMME. Constructed some twenty yards from Kural Retreat was a stage facing a large number of seats, specially prepared for this occasion. At 10:30 Col. Cotes, preceded by Grand Marshal James E. Moose, together with a number of invited friends, mounted the stage. In a very appropriate address, though short, Col. Cotes extended in beauti ful and warm and touching expres sions a hearty welcome to his neigh bors and friends who had gathered to do "celebrating" on this 4th. The cheerfulness of his remarks, the most splendid welcome given at the hands of Col. Cotes, was loudly appreciated by the large number in the audience. There was a bag iace, an apple race and other amusements. The dinnei well, that was complete, full and needs no further remarks. THE ADDRESSES. In the evening Grand Marshal Moose introduced to the audience, which had assembled around the stage, "Gen." Paul B. Means and "Col." H. S. Puryear. The gentle men (the Standard man will not and cannot give even a short notice of these most excellent addresses, pa triotic, stirring and full of beautiful thoughts and brilliant gems of truth,) enjoyed their newly won titles and the lapsus linguae cf Marshal Moose. For one hour and a-half these two gentlemen enter tained the audience, and what they so happily said was received by rounds of applause. A part of the exercises was pecu liarly interesting. Col. Cotes has been conducting a school on his premises. This school has been under the direction aud care of Mrs. Mcintosh, & most highly cultured and competent teacher of New York. Mrs. Mcintosh had several of her little pupils to recite. They did well they manifested a spirit of enthusiasm and patriotism to a de gree worthy of older persons, and they showed splendid training. We cannot refrain from speaking of tiny little Ben. Mcintosh, who in bis Patrick Henry style and spirit cap tured the audience. Mr. and Mrs. McPhail, of Boston, Mass., are making their home at liural lietreat. Mr. McPhail is pre paring to open out a stock of goods, a small supply of groceries having already been received. These people are happy in their cosy and delightful home on top of the prettiest hill in No. 7 township. THE MINE. The mine is not being operated at present. Work i3 suspended for a while. The vein 13 between Beven and eight feet wide, and the quality of the ore ia said to be very fiue. NOTES. John C. Wadsworth spent Friday night, Saturday and night at Rural Retreat. Thev accuse John of be- CONTAINS MORE READING MATTER THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IN THIS SECTION. ieving that the 4th cf July is Washington's birthday. The audience enjoyed the fact that "Col." Puryear persistently refused to use "1775," but made it "July 4, 1S75," every time. Several gentlemen, who have heard Col. Means and Mr. Puryear at the bar, said their addresses were the best they have ever heard from them and on a July 4th occasion. John C. Wadsworth discovered a spring right on the top of an eleva tion. It is evidently not a winter spring, as it would have surely failed long ago. The Standard man, not desiring to be the last on the programme, refused to sptk except in undertones and privately. Salisbury, Concord, Gold Hill, Mr, Pleasant, Bilesville, Nos. G, 7, 8, 0 10, 11, and in fact every township except No. :i, were represented in the audience. The assembled audience gave three cheers for the cheerful and hospi ta ble Col. Cotes. That picnic at Rural Retreat will be long in the memories of those present. mm i HE WANTED NOME WHISKEY And Gave a Colored Man 25 Cent to Get It -He Got Water, and the Colored Man Got the Money. A rural gentleman, who lives about twelve miles from town, came here and he wanted something for " stomach , sake." He made some enquiry about how to get a little whiskey. So he gave a colored man twenty-five cents to get him some. With parching lips and dry throat he waited. The colored man re turned with two small flasks and then left. The thirsty fellow secreted himself and did honor to one bottle. It failed to have the desired effect ; shaking it, he discovered the painful absence of a " bead," and ne dis covered that the bottles were filled with pure aqua, vulgarly called water. Now that fellow was mad his feelings were hurt. Besides losing twenty-five cents, besides gorging himself on water, besides the hu miliation, besides getting no "stom ach sake," and besides the affair in toto, he was simply besides himself. He applied to Justice Willeford for a warrant. After examining the code and Battle's Revisals, Justice Willeford informed the gentleman that there was nothing on the stat utes to prohibit the retail of aqua without license. While true, this is a good joke. Something About Vaeation. John C. Wadsworth had his at Tarboro. N. F. Yorke took his some time ago at Miseliheimer & Lentz' springs and at New London. W. J. Swink is now off on his vacation. James n. Gibson has been granted, by two judges, permission to take two weeks off. Dr. Fetzer may go to the Pharma ceutical Convention; Dr. Johnston may go, and Dr. Gibson may go. The Standard guesses here. Mayor Means can't go. If he goes out of town hi3 office will be declared vacant by Clerk Jim Fink, who Gan't leave either. The hotels will take no vacation this summer. The doctois dare not leave. The cotton-weigher, R. S. Harris, has to 6tay at the platform, or in sight, to discharge the duties of his office. The bank has decided to take only one day's vacation July 4th. Dr. II. C. Herring will stay in town, so will Dr. W. C. Houston. Teeth are always with us, and are liable to an ache any time. The courthouse will not be closed during the summer. Here our interviews end. As the vacations develop this leature of the Standard will develop. THE GKEAT IIAIR-KESTOUER. The use of various un'K:nts to dress and beautify the hair is a custom as old and universal as the race; but prepara tions to prevent the hair from falling out, or for restoring it to its original color and fullness, seem to be cf modem origin and confined to the limits of tin higher civilization. I'rohaMy the fatal istic and superstitious ideas of the ancients and of most barbarous people would forbid their interfering with wh.it seems to be the course of nature, in thinning the locks and sprinkling them with gray, as life advances toward the close. The ancient ITebrew poetically termed white hair "a crown of glory," and so it is when it gracefully adorns the brows of the aged. Hut when a person in the full vigor of life becomes gray, his gray Lair, so far from being a crown of glory, is rather an indication of weakness and premature decay. What may he ad mired in "John Anderson, my Jo, John" at eighty, is to be deplored in John Anderson at thirty or forty. It has been observed that early bald ness is more common now than former ly. Whatever may be the cause of the early loss of hair, there are few but would avoid it if possible. Some attempt to conceal the loss of their hair by brushing what is left over the vacant places; others brave out their misfor tune, as did the fox when he lost his tail; but the majority of the "too pre vious" ones look anxiously about fur something that will restore lost youth fulness and hide their tell-tale phreno logical deficiencies. For this purpose, nothing has as yet been discovered that surpasses Ayer's Hair Vigor. We do not pretend that this prepara tion will cause hair to grow on a scalp that has been denuded for years and polished like a billiard bull, but without claiming for it any more than its just due, we assert that it certainly promotes thegrowth of hair, restores color to failed and gray locks, heals humors, keeps tlio scalp cool, prevents dandruff, and im parts to tlm hair a silky texture and a lasting fragrance. It will not stain tho skin or clothing. Though Ayer's Hair Vigor has lcen before the public ma:.y years, it is still in greater demand than any similar preparation a convincing proof of its superior merits and exten sive popularity "