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THE ST1RDIBD. LvliUKiST PATER j.nujsin'i) in concord.- TflESUHD H T AND ARB. WE DO ALL KINDS OF job "woirik: IN THE .ONTAlNS MO UK READING MATTKK THAN ANY OTHER rM'KK IN THIS SI-CTIOX. what i worm im. 11Y WILMS I'.. HAWKINS. Tool- bov ! lit' loved the very ground On which liis ilarliliLt trotl, A inl. kneeling at her feel, lie found It joy to kiss the sod. TIii- he mistook for love of pelf, Ami thus she sealed his fate : ;:i wed with one who lovss myself, And not my tea! estate." Poor lioy '. hud he but been :i man ! Were 1 in such : plact Well. I've a vi". diiTerent plan t f treating such a case. Pd Lrrab her in both my arm-:. And let her scream and siiurin ; I nheedtul of her false alarms. Pd hold her i le and hrm. Pd glue my lips to hers, and there In grip t' iron I'd hold 'er Until shf yielded fair and square, lkr head upon my shoulder, I'll hug 'er yes, sir: that I'd do Vniil she ceased lier strife. I would ! and I can prove it too, P.y her who is my wife. WHAT A SAIL IHSOI.OSEIK I rlli (nroliiia I sin ml rikI Its furl oiiw IIIMorv K.ixht Milvn Klde Iroiii norrlirHU liy t'llM Mllt ll. Among tho many points of inter est i:i the vicinity of Morehead City anl l'eaufort, on om eastern coast, 1,0:10 is belter oili the trouble (?) of a t. hours s.i! man ilarkers Islau abot:! which liis in Core Sound, froai the Atlantic Hotel. 0: a bright summer morning not many weeks since a guy party of visitors at that popular resort tooK their places in the " Mena Branch," one of the most comfortable of the little sail bouts which ply in those waters, and were carried smoothly across the lloyne several miles out into the broad Atlantic and down the Core until anchor was cast on tiie shore of a green island, which we were told was our destination. Nothing but the spire of a small white building could be seen from the lauding. .Many were the sur mises as to the reception to be ex acted from the people about whom suc h strange tales had reached us, and not a few misgivings tilled our minds as we tiled along the narrow .-.Italy path which the boatman told 11s to the residence of Miss Mary Bell, the most interesting person on the island. A walk of eight minutes brji'.ght us to grounds enclosed by a plank fence. A gate stood open and we entered. Surprise was pictured up en every face at the scene which i;;tt our eyes. It seemed like fairy land. Coming, as we did, from out the glare of a mid-summer sun, the dense shade of the semi-tropical shrubbery was most grateful. Walks of whitest sand wound in and out between flower beds and foliage r :mU .if ..V..I-V v.hmuM- (Ivor. th...ii walks boughs of dwarf palm and palmetto met so closely as to allow only occasional sunbeams to trate. In the midst of this pelle- hi abv- rinth we caine upon a wi..-. white, j vine-girdled cottage; but, -list .King i U intrude upon the iiouaeliold lu j Cw.li l.li , . . I . ,. I, ...... in U n v:iivi uujiiiric luci v civj ten in me pat ty w e passed on, curiosity and w onder increasing at every turn. As we stood in groups discussing the beauties of this island homeawhite haiivd old lady came out of one of the summer houses near, and, intro ducing herself as Miss Mary Bell, cordially invited all to walk in and rest awhile in her parlor. This in vitation some of us accepted, while others went on to examine the school house and other buildings which stood near. The room where w? soon found ourselves Seated on rock ing chairs and lounges was furnished iike the sitting-room of any lady of good taste in comfortable circum s:ances. Books, pictures, magazines ;i-id oric-a-brac, shells and curiosities of the sea covered the tables and shelve. Our hostess seemed pleased to answer our questions, and kindly gave us the following facts about herself, the island, its people and j.er connection with them: bhe is a na tive of New Brunswick, where her family still resides and where she makes a visit once a year. In 1SC3 the was teaching in Beaufort, N. U. Many of her Northern friends were endeavoring to establish schools for the negroes, but she, hearing of the ignorance and destitution which pre vailed among the inhabitants of this region, made a visit to Ilarker's Isl aud and there found a call for her service more urgent than that among i lie black.. Without loss of time she took up her abode here, receiving no encouragement from her relatives, who pronounced her mad, and being looked upon with distrust amounting to hatred by the people she came to help and elevate. A few children were collected in a little log hut, with dirt iloor and no windows, and these were ta-ght through the win ter i;j an irregular fashion, their pa I'liti being entirely indifferent to tli'ir attendance. It is impossible to t. ve a detailed account of the al-inu-r hopeless discouragements under wlncii tfie work was carried on, but t! .-.lory from the lips of the aged "iiioiL.ry sounded like a romance. 'I 'he island, which is live miles h"'g and one-half as broad, was named for its first owner, JObenezer J'aik.-r, who came down from the " u Knglatid colonies in 1725 and 'U'ht it from the India.is for a cutii,,. and a keg of Jamaica rum. " J habitants, who are descendants i.' irker, number now about 300, f w horn 80 are children. Several f;nn;!ies possess considerable wealth, "'id have educated their sons and ''ihters at lirst-clasa schools iu -Wui Carolina and other Southern vUtt.'i. Two young ladies, Miss Mewart and Miss l'otter, who were J"'iU of Miss Bell, now teach the VOL. IV. NO. 27. two schools which continue eight months in the year and are well patronized. They receive, of course, a share of the public school funds of Carteret county, of which Marker's Island is a part, and Miss Bell sup plies the rest of the means from her ow n fortune. She has not been able to teach herself for live years, but still superintends the work. While the people exhibit the same general characteristics as thirty years ago, their condition is so vastly im proved ;:s to almost make us doubt the talcs of their poverty, supersti tion and utter shif tlessness at that time. Miss Bell says her sympathies are entirely with the South, and she does not co-operate with the Northern Methodist minister who holds ser vices in u chapel tw ice a month. She is an Episcopalian. That she is a person of many ecceutrieities of character, cranky, many woull say, we do not deny ; but that she has exhibited wonderful euergy, firm ness, judgment and skill in the man agement of her work is equally cer tain. She ha3 done a hard task cheerfully and successfully. I it 9,000,000 nortKSie? We have seen this statement often published: "Tnat the national records show the existence of 9,000, 000 of mortgages on the farms and homesteads of 03,000,000 of people, a mortgage to every seven individ uals, or a mortgage for every four families out of live." The state ment is misleading, and should not be allowed to stand uncorrected. The facts are: That from 1880 to lSl'O the number of mortgages placed on record were about 9,000, 000, and that in this number are in cluded every class of mortgages, w hether on peisonal'or real property. Now it is probable hat some of these mortgages where discharged during the decade named, and, if so, of course they should be deduc ted. It is probable too that some of them may represent two or more sales of the same piece of property, and certainly these whould not be counted as different mortgages in the sense meant by the extract we reproduce. And further, that many of thes mortgages are 011 city business or manufacturing prop erty, and cannot properly be in cluded in any statement intended to show only the number of mortgages on farms. If, for example, we take the State of Illinois, and, counting the mortgages recorded iu that State, it will no'doubt appear that the majority of them are on property in the citv of Chicago. In Alabama t'ie same principle would apply, as nearly all the borrowing and mort gaging is in Birmingham. It is not just to American farmers to present them before the world as money borrowers, and ever ready to mortgage their honiiS. lhe state ment referred to is unjust to them. A siriinsre Siurj-. The eccentricities of fate are curiously and painful iy illustrated in the experience of a ..lr. larring ton, who has natural y become very much tlisheartened. He was at work in Jonnstown wnen trie big uun broke. The Hood washed away all his earthly possessions and one of his children as drowned, lie then moved to Arizona aud was getting along successfully when another flood carried away everything he had and drowned another chi'd. Once more he removed, and he Gxed upon a spot in the Indian Territorv,where he thought he was beyond the reach of disaster. But a third time a flood swept through the town and he was beggared. Moreover, he lost a third clidd by drowning. He is almost crazed with grief at these repeated bereavements and losses. N. Y. Herald. Hew to tct it lIulHome II ulniil. "When'er some lucky Indian maiden Found a red ear in the husking, 'Muska'.' cried they altogether: Muska!' you shalf have a sweetheart You shall a handsome husband." The handsome man always ad mires the beautiful woman. Then simply make yourself beautiful. Remove all blotches, pimples, "forked signs of turkey track" from your features, by the use of Dr. I'ierce's Favorite Prescription, a tonic to the nervous, circulatory and procreative systems. Its use brings roses to the cheeks, and sparkle to the eyes. Take it, and you will, like the Indian maiden, find a "red ear" in good health, an omen of future happiness. Guaranteed to give sat isfaction in every case, or money paid for it refunded. nig M or I (j aire If ol. The largest mortgage ever re is tered in Davie county has just been made at Mocksville, says the Times. It was given by the North Carolina Midland Railroad Company to the Central Trust Campany of New York, and was to secure loans to the railroad company, not to exceeed $15,000 for every mile of road bed, and is to run for forty years. The mortgage fills fourteen pages in one of the large Poks of Mortgages in Register Sheek's ollice. Winston Sentinel. One of Joe Fnliluell'N SanlerN. A dog of unknown species, with the appearance of a cross between a sky. terrier and one of the "yaller sheep killing kind," is winning a reputation in our community as a lover of comfort. He stepped into one of our stores on yesterday, took a light wooden butter dish in his mouth, walked into the rear yard of the Piedmont Bank, placed the dish over his face to keep off the flies and "laid him down to pleasants dreams." Morgan ton Herald. I O i n F.I.EITKOCXTEW. WholeNnlc Ex-rnlin at King; King by EIrrfrU-ily. j Sing Sing, N. Y., July 7. The killing of the four murderers, Slo cum, Smiler, Wood and Jurigo, was done this morning. Slocum was killed at 4:42 1. Smiler was put to death at 5:14. Wood met his doom at 5:39. Jurigo was killed at C:0fi. One of th witnesses briefly tells the story of the executions as fol lows : About 4 o'clock the witnesses and jurors were let into the death chamber The experts had pre viously examined everything and said they were satisiiied the machine ry of death would work successfully. At 4 o'clock Slocum walked into the death room accompanied by Father Creedeni. He seemed to be making a tremendous effort to keep his compourse. He had received Father Creedem's last office and had declared himself ready to die. He was then firmly strapped into the chair and the death current applied. Death was almost instantaneous. There was a sudden contraction of the nerves and then all was over. Smiler followed next and llev. Mr. Kdgcrtou cheered him up. Before Smiler had time to think, he was strapped into the chair and in an in stant later the current of electricity was Hashed through him that sent hiin into eternity. Next to follow w as Wood, the negro, lie had been worked up to a state of religious en thusiasm and it was while in this frame of mind that he was fastened into the chair and killed by the fatal shock. Jugiro was stubborn to the last There was the general ferocious look on his face, lie was closely guarded, and short work was made of him. There was no ap parent hitch in the four executions, and they were pronounced a success The death of the four men appeared to the observer to be painless. Death erne like a Hash. It was one awful shock and then oblivion. The doc tors took charge of the four bodies immediately af tr death, and began the autopsy to discover, as far as possible, how rapid had been the killing and the precise effect pro duced. The electrodes were not applied as iu the Kemmler case to the top of the skull and tne base of the spine, but were bound to the foreheads of the condemned men and calves of their legs. The current was turned ou in each case for twenty seconds. The voltage was about fifteen hun dred and sixteen hundred. In each case there were apparent evidences of revival, as in the Kemmler case, and in each of these four cases the current was turned on the second time. In spite of the fact that the sponges were Kept constantly wet, all of the executed men were burned by the current, and especially about the calves of their legs, lhe medi cal men present agree that death came on the lirst contact and that the seeming revival was merely a reflex of muscular action. Tin- Dciaot i ats mid Hip Farmers. How can the farmers and Demo cracy be separated ? They have been one party here in the South. Their interests are the same and so are their principles. The farmers have voiced no prin ciple that is not one of the essentials of Democracy. As the Chicago Times puts it, whn the farmers decry the rapid aggregation of wealth at one end of the social scale, and the extension of poverty at the other, they only repeat the warnings ot the purest patriots, and recall to Democrats the teaching of their early leaders. When they deny the right of the Government to make possible a life of ease to one class as the result of heavier burdens borne by another, they put forth a declaration that cannot be controverted in a Demo cratic platform. When they demand the re-establishment of justice and the abroga tion of law by which special favors are bestowed on a class, they utter a fundamental Democratic principle. How can men with such giiev ances and such principles leave the Democratic party ; and on the other hand, how can Democrats leave them ? In all this upheaval of the farm ers there is nothing but Democracy in action. Wise counsel and united action will turn it into Democracy at its best Atlanta Constitution. Remarkable Coincitleneen. On the Fourth of July, 182(5, John Adams, the second President of the United States, died in the I ninety-first year of his age, and i 1 Spinas Jefferson, the third Presi dent, died on the same day, at the age of eighty-three. Jefferson on the 3d of July, asking those around him the day of the month, had ex pressed the wish to live to see the dawn of the fiftieth anniversary of the great Declaration which he "had drawn and signed ; while Adams, on being asked, when the bells rang and the cannon fired, if he knew what day it was, had replied : "Oh, ves ; it is the glorious Fourth of July ; God bless if!" It is remarka ble also that James Monroe, the fifth President, died five years lafer on the Fourth of July, 1831, at the age of seventy-three. The death of Madison, the fourth President, which occurred after another five years, in 183G, at the age of eighty five, took place during the week pre ceding the nation's birthday anni versary. News and Observer. A crank is a man who has spent his life turning the wheel of a for tune, from which other men have taken prizes. CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1891. LITTLE DBOl'S OF Tar, IMK-li Tiirncillneninl Oilier Tar iter 1 rrouiii'in Warrington Gazette: The grow ing tobacco generally seems more backward than it was at this period last year. Wilkesboro Chronicle : A t James Combs' store last week Lee Mathis severelv stabbed Jim lloberts in a difficulty, one gash on the back being l'i inches long. Wilkes bears the distinction cf being the pioneer field of the bark, root and herb business in North Carolina. Mi. Cilvin J. Cowles, of this place, was the first man in thj State to engage in this business. Washington Progress : Many new dwellings are now going up in our town. Mr. W. II. Swindell, one of our most highly respected and thorough Christian men, died on Friday morning last. The potato season, which practically closes this week, has been the most remunera tive for many years, and will no doubt excite our farmers to devoting more attention to truck in the future. Elizabeth City North Carolinian : Thomas E. Winslow, of Belvidere, Perquimans county, died in the Asylum at Raleigh, on the 24th nit., from softening of the brain. A few Sundays ago the steeple of the Methodist church at Columbia was struck by lightning during the ser vice, rending it from top to bottom. It caused geeat alarm and a rushing out of doors and windows. Fortu nately no one was more than shocked and scared. Smithfield Herald : Tieports from different parts of the county are more favorable as to the pros pects of the crops. The farmers are nearly all through with the grass and a good many have hilled their early corn, which is generally good. A good many of those who paid the Direct Land Tax and have kept the receipts find that the copy and their receipts do not correspond sometimes a difference of nearly half, always in favor of the Govern ment. Rocky Mount Pha-nix : Grape crop promises to be very luxuriant The new passenger depot has been finished. A negro woman killed another in Wilson on Monday night. She walked up behind her and her husband, a colored preacher, and fired, killing the woman. A shoot:ng scrape is reported from Bridgers, a point near Wilson, on the Fourth of July. A difficulty occurred between a white man and a negro in which the latter was shot four times. Winston Sentinel : John Miller, a farmer of Bethania township, ran across the turtle in his meadow a few days ago upon the back of which he cut his i.ame iu 1 SGI. The let ters are as plain as the day they were made. Bob Ross, col., who lias f een iu the employ of Dr. W. C. Calloway, was arrested Saturday levelling upon the charge of stealing 130 in money from the Doctor. When arrested Ross was iu the act of leaving town on the Roanoke and Southern road. Fifty-one dollars and a ticket to Walnut Cove were found in his possession. Rockingham Spirit of the South; Col. Alexander J. McQueen died suddenly last Wednesday at his residence in the extreme lower end of this county, aged about 70 years. During the prevalence of a thunder storm last Wednesday morning lightning struck the resi dence of Mr. Samuel G. Covington, near Roberdel, in this vicinity, but no serious damage resulted. The bolt passed down a chimney ana utterly demolished two bedsteads in one of the rooms upon which two of Mr. Covington's children were lying, without, however, injuring either of them. Several articles in lhe build ing were scorched, but there was no fire. Morganton Herald : The market is well supplied with apples, peaches, watermelons and beans of various kinds. Burke's fruit crop will be a magnificent one this year. The young man Randolph, who was in Morganton a week or two ago, with his pocket full of recommei.dations and who met with some old friends' here, who knew him when his repu tation was of the best, va3 arrested in Marion last week on a charge of forging and was carried to Asheville jail. It seems that he is charged with forging the names of V. S. Lusk, Collector Tiollings and other prominent Buncombe Republicans to checks and obtaining money on the same. Laurinburg Exchange : Last Monday the County Commissioners and list-takers together raised the valuation of the real and personal property of the county an average of 12 per cent. Mr. Key Ritch has made another invention and is now applying for a patent on it. Buggy tops will get loose and shackly by continued use, and his invention is a simple sliding catch or arrange ment to continously take up the slacks and keep the top as tight as when new. Last Wednesday morning, Mr. C. F. Law lor, Superin tendent of the Alma Lumber Com pany, shot Sol. Smith, colored, who was in the act of striking him with a piece of scantling. It was caused by Sol. disobeying the orders of the Superintendent, for whom he was working. The ensuing excitement became so great among Sol's friends that, as a means of safety, Mr. Lawler was carried to Lumberton jail, leet his continued presence at Alma might irritate fomitn s sym pathizers into impulsively murder ing him. Smith's wound is not serious. Mr. Lawyer is a Northern man. New Berne Journal: Two dis reputable women- of Kinston Matt Gardner, white, and Mary Conner, colored became involved in a diffi. culty Saturday afternoon while un der the influence of liquor, which resulted in the death of the latter. Elizabeth City Economist and Falcon: he artesians are still boring. At over a hundred and twenty feet they came to a rock, which made their progress slow. The water was from a sulphur vein but the How was not free and they now seek a more abundant fountain. Louisburg Times: Within the next two months at least five new prize houses are to be erected in Louisburg in time for the next crop. Some of the farmers are quite blue over the crop prospects this year, while others take a very philosophi crl view of the matter and hope for the best. The large crop of last year, as a farmer said to ug one day this week, "spoiled" us. At Roanoke College, Va., last session, North Carolina, with eleven students, ranked next to Yirginia ; and of the three gold medals awarded at the commence men, June 10th, two were won by young men from this State. Two members of the Faculty Dr. L. A. Fox and Prof. W. A. Smith and the Instructor in Pennmanship I. W. Lamm are North Carolinians. The record for general scholarship was the best ever nude in the history of the College. . Max ton Union : At their meet ing yesterday the Board of County Commissioners made uniform re duction of 20 per cent, in the valua tion of property in Shoe Heel town ship, outside of the town of Max ton. A most lamentable accident occurred near Rowland last Sunday afternoon. Mr. James Ward, who lives about one and. a half miles from Rowland, left his pistol lying on a window sill, and some one in passing knocked it off. When it struck the lloor the weapon was discharged, the ball striking his ten year old son in the left breast, pass ing through his heart and killing him instantly. Carthage Blade We hear that hog cholera is prevalent in some sections of the county. 'Squire McLeod tells us that at least two hundred hogs have died in Pocket since June 1st. A friend from Mt. Carmel neighborhood tells us that the wheat and corn crops are very good, but that cotton i? back ward. Hogs are dying with stag gers Last Sunday, just after dinner, McLean Bros' saw mill, lo cated about three mile3 from town, was consumed by fir. . . It caught from a pile of saw dust. Besides the mill it burned about 40,000 feet of lumber in the yard, ar d about two hundred acres of timber. A BLOODY AFFRAY Ht'tween Rev. T. V. lientlall unit Two Nun mill VV. 'I hitman nul I nn Noil. The Wadesboro Intelligenger gives particulars a bloody affray that occurred last Monday in the Long Pin 3 neighborhood of Anson county. The weapons used consis ted of pistols, bras3 knucks, knives and weeding hoes. The belligerents in the affair were Rev. T. W, Ken dall and two sons, V. II. and Pearl, aged about 23 and 15, respectively, and Wm. Thomas and two sons, Charles and whelton, aged about 23 and 21. All the parties engaged in the affray were more or less hurt, V. II. Kendall being dangerously wounded. Bad blood existed between the two families for some time, dating from a quarrel about a negro woman the Thomases claim the Kendalls enticed from their service. They met Monday morning about sunrise in afield tended by the Ken dalls and the trouble began, ending only with the utter exhaustion of the combatants. The casualties are stated as follows : V. II. Kendall shot in side with pistol ; cut in side with knife; arm cut open with a weeding hoe : wounds dangerous, Wm. Thomas shot in head with pistol ; shot in arm with pistol ; hit on head with bras3 knucks ; flesh wounds and not dangerous. Cnarley Thomas shot in one arm; other arm broke by a lick from a stick. T. W. Kendall Badly bruised on diiTerent parts of the body. Pearl Kendall hit on head with hoe handle; not seriously hurt. Rev. T. W. Kendall is a local Methodist preacher, and is well known in Anson and adjoining counties. Wm. Thomas and his sons are men of good character in their neighborhood. Make aKote of It! Read it over and over again, spell it out and sing it, until it is indelibly fixed in your mind, that Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is an infallible cure for chronic catarrh of the head, with all its distressing complication. Im paired taste and smell, offensive breath, ringing noises in the head, defective hearing, nose and throat ailments, are not only relieved, but positvely and permanently cured! This is no fancy of the imagination, but a hard, solid fact, proven over and over again, and vouched for, under a forfeitune of $500, by its manufactures, the World's Dispen sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. "A word to the wise is sufficient. There is always room at the top for the big strawberry. The mind need3 a bridle sometimes as much as the tongue. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Amanq ye Takin Notes and Faith He'll Prent Them." A Narrow F.Heapc. A thirteen-year-old son of Henry Lefler was thrown from a dog-cart on Wednesday afternoon. The horse became frightened in front of Scotia Seminary and ran, causing the boy to oe tnrown with great force upon the ground. It was thought that his injuries were very serious, but thi3 morning it is found he had es caped with severe bruises and no broken limbs. A Terrible Announcement. The Charlotte Chronicle cf the 10th, under the head, "The Lost Found," 6ays something about an "oxen" that was stolen, disposed of and recovered two weeks ago. The Chronicle says of "it": " Mrs. Alsie Mendlmg, of Union county, lost an oxen several days since. It was found Wednesday, in Concord, having been sold to a party there by a negro who stole it." A 83,000,000 Mortgage. The Richmond and Danville Rail road Company has filed a deed of trust to the Central Trust Company of New York, giving the company a mortgage on the property of all its line3 for the amount of $2,000,000. Not many concerns can give such a mortgage, and 6till a fewer number could ever pay it. Step by step this gigantic company is widening its influence and tightening its cold iron grips upon weaker vessels. At the Alliance Meeting. The Standard man was hauled out to Poplar Tent on Thursday by W. J. Poythress, who sells a sewing ma chine that is a Singer. We shall never go with Sheriff Morrison to another Alliance meeting never. Sheriff Morrison divulges thesecret3 too easily, and there is too much pleasure in pursuit to have the se crets dished out by wholesale. The gathering was by far the largest for a year. We preferred not to go into the meeting, hence can't report it. The beauty and gentlenes3 of Poplar Tent was there that meant, besides the pleasant company, a most excel lent dinner for all. Those are great people around Poplar Tent. A iool Selection. At the joint meeting of the County Commissioners and Board of Education, Monday, Prof. R. G. Kizer was unanimously elected County Superintendent of Public Instruction, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mayor T. C. Linn. This action was a graceful compliment to Prof. Kizer, but it is well deserved. He is a man of first late ability, a teacher of experience, and possesses in a marked degree the cjualitications necessary to a faithful performance of the duties of the position. Our congratulations are extended him in the honors attained The county also is fortunate in hav ing secured tne services or sucn an estimable and worthy gentleman. Salisbury Herald. a Death ol Mr. D. M. l urches. Mrs. Eliza Furches, wife of Hon. D. M. Furches, died at her home on Walnut street Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. She had been very sick for a week, and from the re ports given out for forty-eight hours before the event regarding her, death was not altogether a sur prise. Mrs. r urcnes wa3 a daugh ter of the late Lemuel Bingham, Esq., of Davie, and was an admira ble character. She was greatly be loved by her neighbors and her intimates, and was held by all who knew her to be a model woman. The tender sympathy of the community i out to Judge lurches. It is a dark day in his home. IIi3 grief is sacred: Ave may not invade it; but the Landmark, speaking for itself and for the town, extends to him its respectful condolence. Mrs. Furches was a member 01 the Episcopal church and the fu neral will take place from that church at 4 p. m. today. The rec tor, Rev. E. A. Osborne, arrived last night to hold the service. The interment will be at Oakwood ceme tery. Statesville Landmark. South Rowan IteniH. Some sickness in the settlement. Drs. E. L. Lefler and M. J. Foil, who have located near Heilig's Mill, nave been busy riding for a few days. Mr. Lawson Fisher, of South Rowan, died at his home near Grace Reformed church Sunday about 12 o'clock. Mr. Fisher was a good and faithful Sunday-school worker. He was a member of Grace church, and will be greatly missed in the church and bunday-schooi. lie naa Deen a great sufferer from consumption. We are sorry to learn of the sick ness of Miss Florence Shive, who has been confined to her bed with typhoid fever for the last several davs. Rev. P. L. Groome, who has been traveling several months in Europe, Egypt and Palestine, will deliver a lecture at Oak Grove school house at 8 o'clock Monday night, July the 27th. Mr. James Yost sold out his half interest in the machinery of Yost & Harris, containing saw mill, cotton gin, corn mill, lath saw and other fixtures to Mr. James O. Barringer. It will be run by Harris & Barrin ger. These two young men are about twenty-one years of age. We wish them much success. Jlly Sam. From the tobacco belt the report comes that the crop will be very short. There is plenty of time for a 1 great come out. WHOLE NO. 1S3. WHOSF. IHI.n IK IT? Rrother. Sinter. Ilalf-Rrother and Hall-Sister 4 onientl lor a Thir-leeu-l'ear-Ohl ( liild. Almost a sensation at Poplar Tent on Friday ! The Alliance had nothing to do with it, except that the magistrates among them put a quietus on the boiling spirits of the contenders. There is a family moved out near Poplar Tent from Stanly county. A widower with children and a widow with children. So in this family there are brothers and sisters, half- brothers and half-sisters, step-sisters and step-brothers. A separation had taken place. After so Ion? a time the gentleman at Poplar Tent, by content, had brought up from Stanly a half-sister, thirteen years of age. In the course of time things and sentiment changed, and the sister in Stanly wanted the child. She came up. lhey all attended the Alliance meeting at Poplar Tent. About dinner time, as the story goes, this sister was sitting in her buggy with the child; the brother was on the ground. All of a sudden the horse dashed off, and some parties, believing that the horse was running away, made efforts and succeeded in stop ping the horse. The child screamed and yelled, "I don't want to go!" The woman got angry with the men for stopping her horse, and then a regular volley of words set in. Finally a number of magistrates in the crowd took the case in hand and decided that while the sister may be entitled to the child, yet the half-brother had possession of her and was entitled to her, at least temporarily. Here the story end3. It all shows the contentions and dis agreements of this life. They Worked. Old and young, big and little turned out yesterday afternoon to see the town bovine and a match to him in size hitched together to the new road machine. Under the manage ment of the Mayor the work was a success. The machine worked right and the bovines proved them selves equal to a four horse team. We venture to say this team and machine is equal to fifty hands per day. That Machine. Mr. Wells was here with his road making machine. On Wednesday evening on East Depot street the machine was tried. The place was a good one to try any machine of that kind. If it did good work there it would be master of ceremonies any where. Four horse3 were attached to the machine, and they, not being used to work together, were not a satisfactory team. The rain inter fered with the trial. Nearly the whole business part of town was there, and it goes without saying that every one expressed his opinion about the machine, and even the small boy put in his mouth. A KuriotiK Kritter. Jim Cook saw a News reporter in Concord, and thought he had met the " Djvil." Stanly News. Well, we don't know what we saw now. That "reporter" is a mon strosity, a something like a phenom enon. Several people enquired what that kritter was. The idea of claim ing to be a reporter and return to his miserable job and not inform his readers that he had been in the world the wide world once ; that he had seen a thriving town of 4,200 inhabitants, electric lights, street railway, (well, he saw the dummy and bepame frightened and ran into a jewelry shop,) water works, hotels, stores, depot, churches, factories, barber shops, dentists, and many other things never before seen. No, no ! He's no reporter ; he don't know enough names. He saw a dummy standing in front of R. E. Gibson s store and raised his hat to the dummy ; and he became inter ested in a soda fountain, believing it a natural spring throwing out its tiny stream. To avoid a catastrophe (the sights too much for him) ne staid only ten hours, and when he left, the Morris House he paid his bill, and left his note book, which contained this and this only : " My name is J. D. Bivins ; if I get lost, return me to the Stanly New3 in five days." They Leave Effects that Are Whole. Home. Every county that has had one or more fairs within its borders has been materially benefitted. Anything that draws a people together, that introduces them and makes them feel a common interest in a common cause, does eood. lhe people ot a county should know each other, not for political reasons, but for social pleasures and industrial advance ments. There is nothing that draws peo ple together and makes acquaint ances and friends of them to i greater degree than do fairs. Outside of these features there are other benefits. Where people de light iu coming together on such occasions and exhibiting the prod ucts of their farms, stock and vege tables, a great stimulus to greater effort is jriven. Uetter stock is se cured, improved eeed purchased, a desire to increase production to acre is cultivated, and a general and wholesome rivalry is wrought among the people of a county. The good accomplished by the old Poplar Tent and the old St. John's fairs will never perish ; but when they met, united strength and powers and formed an association for the county at large, a greater work was guaranteed. But let us all think about this. Send us your job work. NEATEST .MANN EE AND AT THE LOWEST EATES The MitlcJ's Got "Km. The Lexington Dispatch mourn fully says: "The cows have taken the town this year, it appears that the mayor and constable have abdi cated in their favor." Peculiar Animals. In speaking of the large wagon drawn by 11 animals, that went to Misenheiuvr's Springs some time ago, the Stanly News says : " It was drawn by 14" horses ten of them mules and carried about 75 people." The Koaiioltc ami Soinltcm Snrv-.v. It was learned from parties who came in from Waxhaw yesterday that the surveyors of the Roanoke and Southern were at Waxhaw Thursday, aud now at J. S. driers, 12 mils from Charlotte. They will reach Charlotte in a day or "so. Charlotte Chronicle. Getting Rich Raiill.y. "Capt R. A. Carter," fays the Stanly News, "takes in ten dollars here to where he took in one iu Con cord, and he further adds he had a good trade in Concord. This shows what inducements Albemarle ex tends to pushing business men with capital." A t'oulrast. Good land and lies well ; the cotton will average three leaves, and is a poor stand. (5 ood land and lies well ; the cot ton will average knee Illicit, ami full of squares and Moonis. This is what the Standard man saw on the road to Poplar Tent. Nothing but the big road separated them. The Rail Report. A report goes out from Washing ton to the effect that the cottou crop in North Carolina is 77 per cent, of what it should be on the 1st of July. Having seen the crop of the county, and having seen reports from the cotton crop of the various counties of the State, the Standard is sure that these reports that furnish an estimate (77 per cent.) are perfectly unrelia ble. If they are not true for North Carolina what reason have we for believing that the reports from other States are correct? There in these bureaus of farm statistics and for reporting condition of crops, &c. lies no little cause for bad markets. We Told You So--Read ! An advertisement of Dilworth, of which Charlotte is one of the ad juncts, conveys facts corroborating the views entertained by the Stand ard to the effect that Charlotte wa3 virtually boycotting summer resorts. The item is : "My little girl had suffered greatly for two weeks with cholera infan tum, due to dentition. I was ad vised by the attending physician to give the little darling fresh air and plenty of it. For a minute or two I was at a loss to know where to get it if it were not already around my little home, which stands rather isolated. But I began to think that the doctor wanted a change also and the thought struck me that I would go to vour beautiful park. I did so, an 1 for several afternoons have been taking the child there, and my experience is that the girl has been greatly benefitted and in deed I too. I trust some fond mother will read this that she may be able to relieve any sick baby that see may have in the economical and successful way in which I have re lated." Some people give much thought to the poor. That is as far as they get. A train of pure thought will only rnn on the track of a well-graded mind. A couple at a picnic near the North Carolina and Virginia line concluded to get married, went to Henderson, j. C, aud were made one by Rev. Alex Sprunt. rilKVALKXCE OF ILL-IIKAI.TII. Ill-health is a very in:ttir-f-f;nt affair it is no uncertain ami ludlih iiiat iual condition. Tlio necessity, :it times, for medical treatment is as evident and pressing as any other necessity, ami it is for this reason th:t we would earnestly caution our readers against the use of any but the must approved remedies. Irreparable injury is often done by placing confidence in medi cines which, although new and preten tious, are often worthless. It is tho almost inevitable failure .f these com pounds that throws discredit upon phar macy and medical science in j.( uei; 1. Physicians are now of the opinion that many diseases ant the result i f a morbid condition of tho blood, cither through inheritance or contagion, and that, the only rational and effective way of ci.r iug these complaints is to produce a radical change in the vital tuiid. The prevalence, for example, of s'-iolm.i is the most prolilie cause of con.-nmprion. A specific that expels the hcrcdiury taint of scrofula from tin- blood is, therefore, a preventive of consumption. That A yer's Sarsaparilla ha- n-p-aicd-ly proved itself such a s i .tie k :i vell-luiown fact, that cannot betoofic jucntly and urgently proclaimed. A distiiigui-lied physician has i -reiitly recorded his belief, fotii':' d on the most satisfactory and rcii: ole evidence, that "the iaitiiful ue o. Aycr's Sarnaparilla will thorough!;. eradicate scrofula." lie furlhcrasserts: "I have Used it as an alUrative and Mood-purifier, and must say that I honestly believe it to be the host Mood meilicine ever compounded." This t s timony, which has been re -afiirmed by hundreds of others, should he sufficient to induce all who are of ycrofuloiis habit to resort, w ithoiit delay, to the use of A yer's Ear.vipar'lla. Another malady very prevalent in the United States is catarrh. This is also a blood disease, and one of the most uttil) born with which physician have to con tend. We have been repeatedly as sured, however, that t lie persistent use of Ayer's SarsaparilU effectually ex pels from the system this most dis gusting and dangerous complaint. In a word, the way to health is through ttmpurification of the blood which nourishes the whole system. Try Ayer'a Sarsaparilla.
The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
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July 16, 1891, edition 1
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