North Carolina Newspapers

lf!f STANDARD ' i: ix) all kinds uk Tin: HIE STANDARD. LARGEST TAPER PUBLISHED IN CONCORD. rr'sr .u.LY:h' -AND AT LOWI-.yT JUTES CONTAINS MORE liEADING VOL. IV. NO. 32. CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 185)1. WHOLE NO. 188. MATTER THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IN THIS SECTION. 77 A' Y -p -r p v i"ii'sr iti:ri.t.rriox. ; WILLIAM STKVTHKK8. i-i Vi-iv tin- Mo-soms woo I Ml t in uravc i lie new, tlii:u'lts of summer's 1 i rt li o the carlh. ivses Mow, io sweet best row l.t dire and lane uorcs the rain. A:. 'Il.i in v. arm July mi's full, limpid eye j: - ,.H' wita pleasure sirou , r, ; n.auy a silvered knoll. r.i,: w in n the August he;it -: , e:u h fond retreat, -u. liers through the day, 1 j :nits the night away '. ,.K sM r IHV1S' LET TT.It TO HIS i i r ilk. iai c-mtlk. rtifii Vtlnlo He Hiw a I'rlsonrr in I'orlre Monroe. V , u'.iem m f this city, say tho Vii:.:t -ton Messenger, semis tho f0 1 ' mii, accompany in a: it with ,-v introductory remarks: In these days of hi so try and sleep tioiv'. it is refreshing to read this ,'.;.! our !ato President, if irvn.i: ' wa- wanting to show the .rial tiei'o's nobleness of soul, it is v n ! letter to his chil.l. Here is in his Creator, love lor his Aid MI. I U lM ir ty .ii -i- s: ' t'" those who pel: t;.:i. t r.tr.t mill. i ':', i o, comes i . ,nst i t 'vir submission, , t wl.A ii we -.- iiuie in tue press t.j,t rising genei a don. We are thinking of building a ni.iir.mient wortiiy of him. It cannot d .i e. Neither genius, gold nor uileetion can do the great man jus tlt'e Tie following hitherto uupub l; j . .1 1, tter. savs the JackaonUliss.) I'iai io'i Ledger of June 4th, will be real with special interest at this time " Littit Pollie," to whom the letter was advl.tsaed, is now Mrs. H ives.who honored by her presence the unveiling or" the Confederate meunneut: FORTKF.SS MONROE, A., f 22d May, ISCti. v Mv Dear Little Daughter: Your welcome letter was duly re ceived, bavins been forwarded by t e.Kirt.'&v o: the Attorney-General to '.l...in von enclosed it. Your i ,.!l'er and little Yi nie are well. Ti;e:r arrival was a great pleasure to i;;t., thougn 1 had ur;.-d tnat ti -y !.... sld s-tav with vou uli ULtil t-oti.e .ii in mv condition had ti.keii r'.aee. 1 desire i that jou should til U ther and have eompensatiou ir vo ir lo:i2 and sad separation. Y,-: it was a great pleauif to me to !.;.'. . f you more lully than 1 eon I 1 iv, done wutioat seems sotue one who eaiue dntetJy frein yen, and ii v wearv Lean revived at the sight of mv a ar wife and eheer, infant Uitt.ie is very bright, and sings and laughs, and seemed to recollect me a3 soon as we met, ami is utmost as loviug as my little Poll e was, whtn, in hpu:g accents, she welcomed my i-i:i.:.s at evening and grieved at my iroiLir in the morning. I a:u much pleased by the account k'iveii of your improvement, but still wish when I see you again tolind von my little child. You will always he to ii. e my own little Poliie. To otters you may be what years and education wilj make you. I wish my dailtug hu:g'.Ur to be all to thi iu wli-eo lime v,:l, make l:tr. I look with pride on join Lade for sood com! ct, ; ud then I look awtiv to see the inctuve always in my nu-mory ol my baby daughter. In Jitaiiis you come to me, the same peiit.e, loving chiid, from whom I never received anything which is riot Lappiuesa now to remember. I a:u truly glad that you have bo utiiieiu.e I yourself as to make your ttai id s love you, and that you have Let failed to regard them as you sL. u d in the light of benefactors. Si.u.e children forget that their teu i-t is are labor ng for thtir good, and take more trouble to bre, ik needful rules than would be requir ed to obsf-ive them, and try to learn u- ,ut.e a.-, tut-y can. Such deserve I'umsiiiiiHit. They will know fco httie wl.-u they leave school that their parents will Le grieved by their bad imputation and ashamed of tht ir isuoraiicc. JIow it makes me lej 'ice to be as uied that my little d -.lighter wiil never cause in a either paui. 1 aniiot tell when we will meet a;.';, in, uiit I pray that our sepira u ju may soon be terminated, and tuost earnestly do I pray that the Lord may guide and protect you, and by such paths as to llim may seeui best, lead you to that better life which is the reward He has pro mised fo all who believe on II m and obey His commandments. Give my Lve to your grandma, aunt and brothers when you see them. Thauk jour kind teachers for their care of you. You can write to your mother diie. t. but when vou write to m 11 you will, as heretofore, inclose yo lett.T t Attorney-General bpeert. Farewell, my dear little daughter, -lay you be us happy as you are bei-.ved 1 y your father. Jr.hTKUsoN Davis. Mugaret Davis, Convent of S.iered Heart. Kliyint' Willi KonHoii. b gm the minibi'r.who would dare to ? e all ti e iiis that tlesh is heir to, T !. m r the half you could not bear to; Ai: i i'v.-!v woman has her share, too; she i haw- some lesi if die'd repair to Mr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription For "run-down," debilitated and overworked women it is the best of all 'v.-torative tonics. A po'etit fpecilir: for all those chronic weak m.-s-es aad diseases peculiar to wo m n ; a powerful general as well as uterine tonic aud nervine. It imparts ivj.-jr and strength to the whole sys nii. It I'romj) Iv cures weakness of tic- stomach, nausea, indigestion, Lloa'ing, debility and sleeplessness in eith. r sex. It is carefully com pounded by an experienced physician am! adapted to woman's delicate organization. Purely vegetable and perfectly harmless in any condition "f the system. The only medicine k-r women. Bold by druggists under u positive guarantee of satisfaction iti every case or price ($1) refunded. .-rotary of State Iliggins, of Lansas, is out in 'a letter declaring prohibition a dead issue. Higgins Las been for several years a leader of tin; prohibition wing of the republican party nr.N vi:k pet p.. Tho day had been eveu more than usually prolific of vagrants, and the big ram pasture in the rear of the! station was packed with unforiu- natt'S of all sorts ami ages. There ! trait of Cen. Albert Sidney John were red-shirtcd and heavy-boote 1 1 son, the distinguished Confederate fellows from the lumber country, who lost his life at Shiloh on April robust, b -ai'ded men, who Seemed j th, l,s;-, while bravely leading his disgusted at their ill luck. There 1 tiv.ons ;iurainsu the advance of (Jen. were old men and young ones, mike ragged and hungry-looking, and they crowded one and all around the big stove as though they never ex pected to see another. Among the unkempt and ill-smelling herd there were some striking characters. "Denver Pete," a big, muscular man, with a, face resembling that of Mill Sykes, and a voice that might be likened to the rasping of a doable edged file, sat in a chair with his cap down over his eyes and both hands pushed deep m his trousers pockets. lie was talking about the Chnst- mascs of his boyhood, and of a little brick house he remembered away bark in Oaio State, when tho door ot the tramp room opened for the entrance of a new guest, lie was a youngster, this new-comer. There wasn t a hair on his face, and the clothes he wore showed that he had not been, tramping it long. The lad looked at the crowd around him, and theu turning to the jailer asked if tin re were any beds. A bourse laugh from the old timers, in which the officers joined, told that beds wtre not among th- luxuries of life in trampdom. The door closed, and tha boy found himself heir to the sof tiesc spot he could find on the floor. He was picking his way through the recumbent vags to a far corner of the place, when the voice i of "Denver Fete bade him stop. "Come here, you !'' The stranger drew near, as though expecting some new gibe at his mis fortune "Where'ie ye from 'i" "I came from Hardin County, Ohio, and worked in a commission house on Iiobert street until two montns ago. Then I got sick. I was just let out of the hospital and haven't anv money, so I had io come here." Where's your folks."' "At Kenton. Ohio."' "Abie to work now, ain't you Yes; I a:n going to work as as 1 can get something to do.' "Ever been tramping before "No, sir." "Shut up and let folks can't vou veiled a voice soon leep, from across the room. "Ho to Jericho!" responded the questioner, at the same tnn uiMiig Iroin a pockci lnsiue nis s:iv, a '."iv- . greasy leuthtr wallet, lie ure.v forth" a live dollar bill, crumpled and torn on the edges, and handed it to the youngster with the remark: "See here, pard, I guess you ain't used to bummiu'. Thciv ain't no beds here nothin' but boards, an' l-vo.-',! h.vinlj ;if th-ir. i'hV il i hey ilon 1 1 erve breakfast reg'lar, :; i" the place j am t your style nono.v. 1 teres a bill. You go out and tell the hotel keeper the lodgin's ain't tu to the mark. The five" 11 keep you through the week, aa' then ve Kin .ook for a job." "Mut maybe I can't get one right away," broke in the other. 'fWel!, niebb. ye can't, but try. My mother used ter tell me there wasn't nothin' like try in'. It didn't never do me much good, but you take her tip an' try." "I'll pay you back as soon " "All right," broke iu the lender. "You jest address the letter 'Denver Pete,' Police Station, .St. Paul, an' Fin liable to get it." The sick man thanked his deliver- er profusely, shook his hand, and withdrew. "Got any more jokes Pete?"' asked a grizzled to scatter, veteran of the road. Pete got up and looked at the crowd before him. "Yonse fellers," he said, "icckou I done a fool job ou that kid. Well, 1 knowed him. I came from Ohio myself, down around Kenton. 1 knowed his sister, too, ami used to take her sleigh riding behind my old dad's grays. She wouldn't have me, of course; couldn't expect it nohow, but I ain't going to si e her "ii i . n u Km nromer going uuuj;i). "Where'dyou git the five?" asked a consumptive looking listener. 'Urea savin' it fer a month to celebrate on," and with that reply "Denver Pete" curled up near the baseburne. for the night. A !W-w Iil-a in Siirwrer.v. Dr. Iiobert Wiesendanger, of Hamburg, liusjust patented a meth od of employing carbonic acid to pr dttce intense, cold, for the pur pose of causing insensibility, which will prove particularly useful in dental operations. It is used in the form of a p ncil, iv'A any part of the body ou being rubbed with this pencil loses sensibility, without the freezing of the skin ; and slight surgical opi rat ions can then Le per formed without causing any pain. Dr. Kruinmel experimented in the Hamburg Hospital on a boy of 13, who, without the slightest sign of flinching, allowed him to make a long and ery deep cut in his leg, the doctor having rubbed the place with one of these pencils. The process has the advantage of great cheapness, for fifty or sixty operations can be performed with it at a cost of a dollar or so. Georgo Washington s nearest living kin is Mrs. Fanny Washing ton Finch, of Washington, D. C, LM-i at-giand-niece of tho Father of His Country. She is a tall, majestic woman- F.X. ALIiEST SIDXEY JOHN TOX The State Library has mad.; an other valuable aciuisition. Through the k'ndncss of Col. W. J. Greene it has received a handsome cravon por- Grant. The following letter accom panies the portrait : Fayettevili.e, Aug. IS Mr. L'ir isoi'g, State Librarian, Ii ;l figb. N. C. 3Iy Dear Sir, Pleas-.i aeeepfc for tho gallery of th i State Library a crayon portrait of that supurb sol dier and gran. I man, General Albert Sidney Johnston, which I express j on today. Although a sulking likeness, it nevertheless does not do iuslico to ''jm lor whom tho original was m ended, as none of his pictures do to my thinking, lor lie was as faultless in port, form and feature, as he was in character, iu plain words, symmetrical and attractive at all points and in all regards. As I have elsewhere written: "Ilis peerless, blameless life was loug enough lor glory; and but one brief day, perhaps one hour only, too short for liberty. One hour more for him in the saddle an I the Con federate State- would have taken their rdace ,-it the council board of nations' His life by his son. Am sure that you will concur in the piopiiety of the suggestion that its proper place is by the side of his chief, for the following leasons: First, a m itual and life long friemlsiiip. amounting to more than brotherly love, and uuihigging trust and confidence e::ch in tho other. Second, he was the rankinggeneral in the held. With Davis iu the centre and Sidney Johnston and Leo on the other sid.', wo may point to the group with exultant pride, i nd eminence i;auss or country to niatcn that immaculate triumvirate iu all the essential tieim nts of true hero ism: such as purity of life, unsel fishness oi aim, holiness of aspira tion, grandeur of conception and fitness I'-r execution. Modest olo. Cooper, the indispen sable adjutant, and Jackson, erst whiie the Stonewall, ami later on the Sledg' :i ihimit, would add lustre to the gio.iiTt Let tho group be completed. Thanking yon for originating and can yiug out ti.e be.uit.ful idea of m iking our St .'e Library a t ort ot l'iiiitheou fur patriots, i am with irgii us ad, youis very truly, W. J. GiitEXE. li-trlollc llO-l II. Winston, X. I Aug. 12. Tiieed- iters, togeih'. r with ahout one hun dred other invited guests, banqueted at the Salem Female College last nigh:. It was an eiegiut affair. The hall was handsomely decorated and the repast consisted of many expensive delivacies. The Salem uiv.u stra 1 urn l sued excellent music ...i.; ,i. i.,.;'i;.,,i,. which brilliantly inspired the exer- c.scs. The annual oration was delivered by F. K. ll.llard, ol" tin- Scotland Neck Democrat, on "Draw a New L'ir le." It was an able sj.cvch, deep, strong and logical. Tne poem bv F.ditor Wall, of the LockMignani luCtiCt, was ex- cepllonally well read and delivered ; subject, Human virtue should be eqiul to hum in calamity." These wolds were- spoken by iiobert K. Le" to his surrendered ;oldiers at Appomattox on the eve of their dispersing to their respective bonus and S'utes iu response to that plain tive appeal, "What shall we do.' What shall w" do':'' It was a beauti i ul and touching poem. After routine business at today's session, the election of officers re sulted as follows : J. A. Thomas, Louisbuig limes, president. John H. Sherrill, Concord Times, secretary and tieasurer. V. W. Scott, of Lenoir Topic, elected orator. W. F. Marshall, of Gastonia Gazette, poet. F. M. Williams, Newton Enter prise, historian. After a spirited contest between Charlotte aud Newbern, Charlotte secured the next anmiual conven tion. The following delegates were ap pointed to attend the National Press Convention next Julv : J. P.Cald well. Josephus Daniel Thad 1! Manning, and D. J. Whichard. Al ternates Jl. Jl. llilianl, .James r. Cook. Jane, Kobinsoii and C. L Stevens. The following resolution was unanimously adopted : Hesolved. "That this Association urges the Hoard of Managers of the World's Fair and its officers to use every proper eiiot t to secure a hearty rep.esentation of the State at Chi cago, and that it Mould regard a failure ou the part of the State to take her place in the ranks of her sisters on that occasion as a calain- l"iilli ol .Mrs. .lames K. Folk. Nashville, Tenn., August Id. Surrounded by a few loving friends and relativesMrs. James K. Polk, relict ol" the tenth .'resident of the Ui ited States, departed this life at ;:3) o'clock this morning peacefully 1 and quietly and in full possession of her meutal faculties. Mrs. Polk had been in perfect health until last Wednesday evening, when, on re turning from a short drive, she was taken 'suddenly ill, from which she never recovered. Had she lived until b'eptember 4th she would have been eighteen years beyond the allotted time of three-score and ten. The cause of her death was simply ex haustion from old age. Throughout the city bells arc mournfully tolling, and sympathy and regret are heard from many friends, and many gazed sadly on the bulletins which an nounced her death. As yet no ar rangements have been decided on regarding the interment. a ;oo investment. One 'Hint W. If. nl 'ni'liiH Vnn Ivrliilt lti'4Kiilzi-l t!ie Jflcrll Of. When such men as Win. Nible invest $150, 000. W. H. Yande. bilt SIOO.OOO, ,iohn Wanamaker S81.000 and the Do Iges SlOO.tMJO in an en terprise ordinary people ordinarily begin to conclude tb.fc.ru is "some thing in it." i'he-ttoove gentlemen have invested the above amounts in the New York and Philadelphia Young lien's Christian Association buildings, and then T. W. Mavfuand erected a building and presented it to the Brooklyn Association which cost him $;3(X),l;00, and Corne lius Yanderbiit one to the depart ment of tho Association in N'ew xork, devoted exclusively to rail road men, costing him $11)0,000. When men see in a work devoted exclusively to the interebts of you;.ig men, that which calls forth such magui iceut gifts, the work cannot bi t have sterling worth. lhen there might bo mentioned the fact, that the L'nion Pacific railroad erected six buildings ou its line for the liailiOitd Departments Y. 31. C. A... and annually appropriates 12,000 to the Association's current expenses This road, as has been aptly said, "is in no sense a benevo lent organization," either, but ap propriates the money as a business investment from which thty see sure leturus in the lessened power and popularity of the saloon ar.d brothel, ami consequent iucrea;ed elheiencv of their employees At Huntington, lib, one point ut I which tho Union Pacific Kaiiroad sustains an Association when the Association was organized, there was no church or Sunday school, nor was there a christian man in the place. That was about one year ago. Today u Sunday school of 140 scnolars meets each Sabbath ; there are 23 chri tian men in the town, they have on hand 1,01)0 toward a church building. And these things only go to prove the wisdom of those words embodied in a recent decision of the Supreme Court of New York, vix : The Yov.ng lien's Cbristign Association is an associa tion "useful and deserving of en couragement and support,"' 4 aniKlii was In v:il'l. It is a fact not generally known that a few years ago an armed force of Americans invaded the 1'iitish possessions. It occurn d in the early part of IS, 7, during the pur suit of Sitting Hull's baud of rene gades. A few troops of the Second Cavalry were hot on the trail f the ! Indians, and we hoped to catch j them. We had been wandering about for several weeks, and did not know exactly where we were. Just i about dusk one evening the mayor, in command, who was riding at "the! he..d of the column. ante upon one i of the iron po.-:ts that marked the Hritiih boundary. 1 never heard a! man swtar harder in mv life, for the trail was not mi l he was hope-i f,, ,.f m-'twr'nn- .1. . Tn.l'.inz t. ;i f, .ht. II.. rai'.al the officers around him and held a council of Avar, Hoth hu-ses and men were worn out ami it was twenty miles to the n-arest water on one snb of the li-i,. Tmh-r 1 1 e ciroii instances he tie cided to take the risk and camp with his command on Hii'ish soil. ) e went about three mile; into Hritish Columbia and spent the night there. Next morning, however, we w re up early and slipped luck to our own side" of the frontier very quietiy Fortuna'ely no one saw us, and the maater was not nro-ight to the knowledge of the Canadian Govern ment. I have often wondered what would have happened if the Indians had ati'ieked us on Hiitish soil, where we had no kind of right to be. ( i lobe-Democrat. 4 ottiHry ;irls In I In Mly. I have heard country girls talk of coming to the city for employment, and they have given as one reason that they wanted more s-ocial life. Well, that is just what they will not get. The woman of business is not a woman of leisure and she has no time for society. She will find more social life in her own home, even if she be a aorker, than she could ever have in the city, and there is no lonesomc ness more absolute than the loneli ness of a stranger in a crowd. Salaries are not large enough to permit of such relaxation in the way of recreatijn, and after the day's work ii over one is too tired to go in search of enjoyment. In the country home, in these days, the daily papers and mag't zincs come, so that one may keep in touch with the wor.d, even if she be at one side of the bustle and con fusion of city life. The fashion ar ticle tells her how to dress her hair and make her govn ; gives her the latest notion in small toilet details. Few towns are so small that they have no town library, wh.M-e all the new books come, and the lecture and concert tire not infrequent in visits. Mail ways and telegraphs have brought the corners of the earth together, so that one is never far from the center of things. There is occupation, too, for the girls who stay at home, and particularly those who stay iu the country. Do not g to the cities in search oi employ ment, as vou will be doomed to dis appointment. Cincinnati Commer cial Gazette. News and Observer: President Winston, of the University, has ap pointed as his private secretary and stenographer, Mr. A. li. Kim ball, of Hargrove, Granville county. Mr. Kimball is a worthy young ram:, who has completed the course at Oak Ilidge Institute, employing his leisure time in learning stenography aud type writing . He will have an opportunity to get n University education, and thus fit himself for anv statiou iu life, supporting i.im seif and paying all expenses by a few hours labor eachEdaj-. AVe are glad to see such a spirit developing among our young men, and glad to see it recognized and rewarded at the University. M'KYE AT THE I.KVLIt. lion nu Eisxincrr Avnlilcl it Collis ion Willi iinpoiKlcr Will; oil-. Xathanifl W. (Jookim was a man of large stature. In manner he was quiet, always polite and obliging, but always impressing those who came iu contact with him with a consciousness of his nerve and self reliance. On one occasion, while running on the road, he was bringing a train from Philadelphia to this city; When he was Hearing the crossing of the road leading to Dumont's Pier on the Delaware Piver, a few miles above this city, he saw two loaded powder wagons approaching the railroad. The foremost team had become unmanageable and was run ning away, followed by the second team. Engineer Gookin calculated that he would meet one of those wagons at the crossing. There were no air brakes in those dsys, atufif he slack ened his speed he might avoid the first wagon to collide with the sec ond one. A collision meant an explosion, death to himself, the fireman, ami the destruction of his train. There was but one chance of (scape. That was to increase his speed, outrun the horses and pass ahead of the first team, or perhaps between the two wagons, ile accepted the issue quietly, threw his engine wide opeu and waited. A stranded fireman, who had beg ged a ride from Philadelphia to Wilmington on Giokin's engine that morning, told the story of that trip, to the" writer. lie "said: "That was the most thrilling c-xperieuce of my life. I saw the wagons as soon as Gookin did, and made ready to jump off. I heard the click of the valve and felt the old engine jump t.3 if she was trying to shake herself loose from the curs. The train held lu i to the iron or she surelv would have left it. "Gookin's eyes were fixed on the crowing. His countenance, except for the flash of the eve and the compression of his lips, was as im- movable as if cut from stone. The train seemed to be living. The horses were evidently ahead in the race to the crossing. They would get Uie.e first, bur would they get over ? "On they came, running as horses wud w ;th fright only can run, and ou we fped as if them, collide with wagon load of ' . -MwJer. Great eott, now t hose horses did run . It in I only been a minute or two since w e first saw the wagons. It seemed like a lifetime. W ' ad only run a I inilf or t wn. but it . i med :is if we I ' had run around the world The j space betwen the engine and wugon j cW-d. They were apparently at J the crossing together. The Second team was so close mar us nors i"re i and wagon must be pi.ed up on 1 wr, ck of engine aud cars in a Set oud collision the horses of "As the feet of tne hading team touched the track at the crossing I shut my eyes iu horror to await the collision and the explosion which I was sure would follow. The train flew over the crossing in safety. The first team had beaten the engine and cleared the track. We had passu! between the two wagons. I op ned my eyes and looked back to note what had happened. "I he first team was passing to ward the pier; the second one was still on the west side of the tracks, with the wagon overturned. It had been so near that the horses, turn ing suddenly to avoid the rushing .. ., i.n.-o Hi.! .v.,.-r.n '"Thar tm n went inlo Wiliiiinsr- ton at full speed. Gookin blew for brakes aud shut off steam in time to stop a; the station, but when that was done his nerves gave out and he was helped from the engine." Wil mington (Del.) News. I'fXM'lis of Hie American I'ress. There are published today in the United States some 17,000 news papers, trade papers, literary week lies and monthlies and other periodi cals, devoted to every iuteicst and order of any importance. Every settled couuiy in every State and territory has now two weeklies, at least, which represent the two prom iueut parties, while nearly every village of 1 ,000 inhabitants has its own local publication. It is esti mated that 220,000 people find em ployment in the production of these periodicals, and that 200,000,000 is investtd in these enterprises, says a writer in the Newspaper. In the history of the American newspaper there have been so far six epochs, each marking well defined eras in th : advance of the country and of the press; these may be in dicated in this way : First The first American news papers, 1 090 -170-1. Second the colonial press, l0-t-17."). Third The revolutionary press, 1 755-1 7S3. Fourth The party press, the reli gious press, the agricultural press, the sport'ug press, the commercial press, etc., 17S3-1S33. Fifth The cheap press, lS33-'35. Sixth Tho telegraph and inde pendent press, 1835-1S90. P.oston He i aid. i t Af-heville Citizen : S. T- Kelsey, the great to wn builder and hustler, of Liuville, is iu Asheville. llr, Kelsey is enthusiastic over the fu ture of Liuville. He tells the Citizen that within the next month Lands will be throwing dirt on the railroad from Cranberry to Linville. When his railroad is finished, llr. Kelsey says, Linville will grow faster than ever, and everybody will be wanting to locate there. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Amang ye Takin Notes and faith he'll prent them." He i:-stvmI Slanly. A few day3 ago a citizen of Stanly was a little how-come-you-so, or three-sheets-to-the wind, and was miking of the greatness of his native county. At last he leaned up against an elm tree and said : "Now yer see, gentleman (hie) once upon a time (hie) the devil went uper into (hie) a mountain to tempt the Saviour, (hie) and offered him the kingdoms (er hie) of this world, but by iove he kept his foot (hie) on old Stanly for she was too good to give er way." (hie). Mill Strange Things. A reporter dropped in the Regis ter of Deeds' office this morning and found Patterson and his assistant busily engaged in the adding busi ness. 11 r. Patter .on raised his head aud advised us never to be elected liegister of Deeds until we could add figures without any diffi culty. We found that, by the last assessment, the county has gained about $158,000 over any previous estimate. Every township in the county gained considerably except Nos. 5 and 9. There is no excuse for No. 5 falling behind; it is just outside of town and naturally it should have increased considerably. The falling off iu No. 9 can be ac counted for by the Phoenix mine shutting down and a great deal of the machinery being taken away. This new estimate is subject to a few slight changes that may, and may not, be made. The county has gained considerably at all events. A ;ol Cnrvrr Waiitrri. The man who has been driving the vttill on this sheet for a week or two has at ranged to go to the county after Saturday, hoping thereby to iind a place where he will not be harassed by delinquent subscribers promises, and to rest his eyes and patience from the actions of those j )sno ceem l? 111 nK uiac.a newspaper i fs reach the climax when it turns uscn into a puit-snop, anu are grum when an issue fails to have their name in it. A place where one unbroken quiet reigns supreme, and a happy rest can be found all the day ! Hut knowing the influ ence ot such a move has a tendency trvinff to meet . lu ui:itl 11 miU' LU &l L 'azy anu muo nd" explode the ' lt"t"' no nas f'eu upon an idea that ... .. - i L 1 .1 1 - j prohuhly avert an eternal loss. lie wants some one w ho can do good carving work to cut his name and date of turning loose ou his back terrapin fashion so that if he is ever found some friend will take ! fe for him Soiu' I'laiu T lii ii us The man who thinks he is the only man in the world who has a i rvL t0 'J's keif. is cither a fool or a rascal, ami it uoes not matter j which. If he is in politics and that I )vnX h.e iry likely a rascal, and if ne is in me cnurcn anu mat way, he is very likely to be an unbearable scoundrel, an unparalleled hypo crite, and certainly an inconvincible fool, w ith a big sight more churchanx i ty in his brain than Christianity in his heart. Now which would some of you rather be? If you have spent all the money you could scrape up to educate your son or daughter, you should not think that jou can add to their happiness by trying to match them in matrimony. And you should not think that thev owe you a debt that can never be paid only by allowing you to make that great and living choice for them. If your children havc u!'-v sense they will submit to no such outrage, and so if you want to measure their mental calibre this is a pretty good way to go at it. What Shall W e Do ? During the summer season it is impossible to keep all kinds of filth from gathering on the street. Wa ter melon riuds, fruit feeling, pa pers, dirt and in fact something of everything collects around the stores and cannot be helped. If the busi ness iinn put it in barrels or boxes and set it away till they get enough to curry off, the sanitary policeman, who does all he can to keep the town clean, conies around and informs them that they must take it away instantly. Of course there is noth ing left for the business man to do but to follow his edict. For them to carry it off as fast as it collects would cost so much that most of them would go out of business And to leave it would cause a great deal of sickness, ami besides, make our town look hoggishly nasty. It has been going this way too long already. Hut the question arises "What will we do?" There is one plain and simple dis position to make of it, which will be satisfactory to all, and that dis position is the one made by all cities. The storekeepers should put their rubbish in boxes and barrels carefully preserve it, and each Satur day morning let the town, which has two good animals of locomotion find these boxes sitting on the side walk, and haul them outside of the corporate limits. This arrange ment, we have no doubt, would prove satisfactory to all concerned. Had to Let Em Go. Highwayman "Hold up your hands!" Hicks Mauson Smithers " You can't rob us." Highwayman " Why not?" Hicks "I " Because we've only Mauson 5 between us, and Smithers J you can't take five from three." Xew York Sun, Street Grading-. Mr. W. A. Smith has a large force or nanus working on the South Main street near the Fair Grounds, ml t . , . iney are grading tne strees now and will follow shortly after and macadamize it We are glad to see the work going on, and believe if Concord had voted the bonds long before she did we would have had a bigger and more flourishing town now. Hut let the good work go along. .Let everybody reioice in Concord's prosperity, and she will some day be an honor to the pioneers ot ner progress. AH at Storehead. The State Farmers' Alliance met yesterday in Morehead City. The day was spent in the opening pre liminaries, and the convention got oown to business today. The State Dental Association and the Southern Dental Associa tion are both in session there also. They have gotten down to hard work and are having a good time. Drs. 11. C. Herring and W. C. Houston, of this city, are there, Dr. Herring has won the name of beiDg an able officer, and proved nimseli to be the very man to pre side over that body's doings. Cotton Dropping. The New York cotton market dropped down five points Wednes day. If it last keeps on a little while yet the price of cotton will be out of existence. There is still a large amount of cotton in the country, and the report comes that the crop in most of the cotton States is abundant, in fact, the larg est for yaars. Now we can readily see that we need expect no great rise in the price before next Christ mas a year. And we can see one other thing all too clearly : That we can no lODger afford to depend upon the cotton crop for our living. Let us raise more bread and meat, and then as much cotton as we can. But let the cottton be a secondary matter, and we will be a happy and prosperous people. A Safe Fantener. This morning a little mule, that wa3 hitched in the lead to a wagon with three animals to it, amused a large crowd by kicking and jumping as the dummy passed. For a while it looked like the little fellow would do some damage despite the efforts of the driver to keep him straight. Then he tried iuroning forward, and the driver realized that the mule would go through his col lar and make his escape. With wonderful presence of mind and with bright conception and daring execution, the driver leaped forward seized the donkey s tail and hastily tied a knot in the end of it. He had no sooner got the knot tied than his muleship shot through his collar, but the stubborn knot held him. The scene from this on was hide scribable and so we drop the cur tain. Good News, If True. It is now being whispered around that Trinity College is soon to be made the recipient of a splendid endowment amounting to one-half a million dollars. No one has it straight but it is talked secretly in circles that can he nothing else than reliable. Some have it that northern men will make the donation, but others, who are more probably correct, have it that Col.- Washington Duke, Dur ham s millionaire, who has done so much for Trinity, will be the princi pal leader in this generous giving, If the report proves true, and we hope it will, it will put Trinity on an equal basis with the best institu lions of the country, and we Bhall expect to see her flourish as no other southern college has flourished. More About the Roads. A good old farmer came up this week and gave us his views on the horrible condition of the roads. Said he: "You have been blowing them up in the newspapers, but you have never suggested a single thing to do. Now I will admit the roads are horrible, but the reason they are not worked better is because the workers have no tools to work wi'h." That was a new idea to us, We had not dreamed that there was a tool famine. There is a law to make men go and work on the road or pay for it, but there is no law to make them buy tools to work it with, and no law to force his neigh bor to Joan him a tooL Here is something for the county to look in to. Of course it would not pay for the county to attempt fo furnish the rood working tools. That is impossible, or would cost more than to macadamize the roads It all points to one fact unmistakably That it would pay the county, and is the only way to have respectable thoroughfares, to issue bonds of sufficient amount to macadamize the roads within her borders. Put I'p and Put Down. I want a word to rhyme with ills, I have it now: I'll put down pills. Excuse me, though than put down pills i u rainer suner some Dig ills. To put down the old-fashioned, huge, bitter pills, that griped so and made such disturbance internally, is more than a wise man will do. He will not put up with such unneces sary suffering. He uses Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. As a liver pill they are unequalled. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to take. Put up in viais, hermetically sealed, hence al ways fresh and reliable, which is not true of the large pills in wood or pasteboard boxes. As a gentle laxa tive, only one pellet for a dose. Three to four of these tiny, sugar-coated granules act pleasantly and pain lessly as a cathartic SIXTH AX.NTAI, f'OXVEXTIOX Of the Women Home and Foroie MlHNionnry Society ol the Norlli Carolina Synod ol' the Lutheran Clinri-li. Special to the Standard. Charlotte, N. C, August 13. The Convention assembled in St. Mark's chnrch, Charlotte, Wednes day, August 12th, at 4:30 v. M., and proceeded to open the Crst business session. In the absence of the pres ident, Mrs. Rev. W. R. Brown, the vice-president, Mrs. A. C. Reisner, of Salisbury, conducted the opening exercise. Responsive service from the Manual No. 14 was read and prayer onered by Mrs. Keisner. Hymn 24 from Manual, "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken," was then sung by the entire assembly. V ords of welcome were said by Mrs. James H. Willis on the part of the scciety of the city church, and a very appropriate response wa3 read by Mrs. A. C. Reisner on the part of the visiting auxiliaries. The recep tion of delegates and visitors by the Charlotte people was very warm aud cordial. Report of the president for the year ended was then read by Mrs. A. C. Reisner. I he leport was care fully prepared and was filled with the characteristic thought of Mrs. Rev. W. R. Brown. It contained many valuable exhortations and sug gestions. Report of the corresponding sec retary, Miss J ulia Shirey, was brief and zealous of mission work. All necessary committees were appointed and the business session closed. PUBLIC SEKYICE. At 8:30 P. m. the public service of the programme was opened with Scripture reading by Rev. W. S. Bowman, D. D., after which a prayer was offered. An address was then delivered by Rev. W. R. Brown on the subject of " Home Missions of the Lutheran Church in the North and West," in which was set forth the great work of Lutheranism in these two sections of the Union together with the demands resting upon the Southern Synod in the face of an average of 500 Lutherans arriving in America daily ! Hymn, "Go, Iabor On, lour Hands Are Weak," was sung, after wh eh Rev. L. K. Fropst, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the General Synod, South, (without in troduction being necessary, so well is be known in the mission field), de livered an address on the sub ject, "Home Missions of the Lutheran Church in the South." A collection was then taken and the doxology sung, when the service was closed with the benedic ion by Rev. Propst. 1 . The Fateful Knot. This morning a couple came walking up street. The boy was holding the girl's hand, and both were the picture of innocence. But it was their first visit to town, and knew nothing beyond the beauty and grandeur of the surrounding of their home down on lower Rocky River. They wanted the tie, which i3 stronger and more enduring than a neck-tie, fastened, but they did not have their license and were hunting the courthouse. But they were not finding it fast, for they went up to Fisher & Loman's beef market and inquired if that was the "temple of justice." They were informed that they were mistaken, and the boy said: "Well, one thin? is sartin, if the old man catcFes us before we get married we will just steal away again, and the girl replied: "Dad knows better than that an way, John. lhen tne two hooked their fingers in a big red pocket hankerchief that had their duds in it, and walked off in the direction of South Carolina. Send us your job work. THE GREAT HAIR-RESTORER. The use of various uuguents to dress and beautify the hair is a custom as old and universal as the race ; hut prepara tions to prevent the hair from fulling out, or for restoring it to its original color and fullness, seem to be of modern origin and confined to the limits of the higher civilization. Probably the fatal istic and superstitious ideas of the ancients and of most barbarous people would forbid their interfering with what seems to be the course of nature, in thinning the locks and sprinkling them with gray, as life advances toward tho close. The ancient Hebrew poetically termed white hair "a crown of glory," and so it is when it gracefully adorns the brows of the aged. But when a person in tho full vigor of life becomes gray, his gray hair, so far from being a crown of glory, is rather an indication of weakness and premature decay. "What may bo 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 Lair 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 for 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 ball, but without claiming for it any more than its just due, we assert that it certainly promotes the growth of hai r, restores color to faded and gray locks, heals humors, keeps the scalp cool, prevents dandruff, and im parts to tha hair a silky texture and a lasting fragrance. It will not stain the skin or clothing. Though Ayer's Hair Vigor has been before the public many years, it is still in greater demand than any similar preparation a convincing proof of its superior merits and exten sive popularity '