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;:: The Standard from Now Until January 1, 1892, for Only Twenty-Five Cents. Subscribe At Once.rS unt. r r a e sta.iipirp v, - pn Al.Ii KIN OS OF H LAIUj est vwun -PUBLISHED IS ()XC()i;i). J IN TllK- Vi-JTEST M.tXXER -AND A I - -' HWr HATES CONTAINS MOUi: i.KADiNG MATTE II THAN ANY OTIIEU PAI'EII IX THIS SECTION. VOL. IV. NO. 39. CONCOltD, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER S, 1SD1. WHOLE NO. 195. Standard. nit: i nil ok. i ii. i'. nonoi:. , n Ui -.-olden throne w usually do ; " " . , ., tii'sed; his diamonds , , ' j i riiinu'.l the air with cologne .' ;, ; was tin" editor blue, For blue, , ;:v wa- i he editor blue ? ,. ; : sub-cribcr. a few had forgot, r , . :, their bills when due a , ! for tliem how 'awful their ; ; 1 , in futility rt't'linj so hot : nil in :i sort of a stew, A stew, 1 him in a sort of a stew. -i ( 1 :1,' cried the editor, marl. A' I hammer them till tliey pay." : u VA do,' sighed the editor, sad, v- :n like head debtors, j-0 to the !-i.l there w ill he the devil to pay, To pay. ;.;,:ll of the editor jrav." Vt OKSllirlXi KTIIM. l'i ult:ir ii.Imii Hint 1m 4Ms r'l l llii'M(lll IlKlians. A!: ii 'Wgii worshiping: stones is a , , custom anions the Sioux 1 ; a in South Dakota, little is j,.,, !i i the mysteries connected ;t .t:.f cm ions practice. As this ,. t--:n i :iuiiot. universal anion; t, t i i if poun'i; i ti e unbapdzed , ; '.. .! liuVu:.," us they are , . .1 M-ripti'-M nl" thfir manner ,! wothipiiir meii siouy god may Pr if ut ist to those who hate j., v, r witnessed the ceremony. Alter Chri tn.n t-ervices, which conducted by native catechista, v ::t !: L) is Oi the congregation nt'..n:cd to their homes to forget .n - .n as possible the good lesson t , ..;.'h they had just listened. y.:,:.- of the unconverted Indians ;,-.;t:: i 1 1. cse services through list i , i;i :o-iiy. Tliev are interested il l. CLnstian religion and admire ! ; !.. V i 1 i. : P'!U' U;e i'.r i! i.e.C , ; s i.f it as we do the (-reek . .. :', I nt they cling tenacious tiii'ir heathen doctrines. It was :c tnv minutes alter they had , ,1 their homes before some of Indians bucks repaired to a i piece of ground anit begin to u:io stones into a pile. They ;, i l some sticks piled around s:oi.es. After the stones had i , :; co:.Mvratfd the tire was lighted i..it w;is to endow their god with iLuman povv is. The casual i.:vr would doubtless have t. '.t a trreat dog feast was near While the stones were j g the Indians were construct : . ;i : l iii f of saplings, the poles ini-i bent into a semi-circle and 1 ;:. tinls stink into the ground, j; -itucts. ii'u'.ts and every itn:tgina- if oi sv aringappvrel compos- tt.fii" limited wardrobes were t imv.ii over the frame. When the ... Lc w is liui-bed it resembled, in . a litmispiieroid about live in t m diameter lit the bottom nnd 1 ii itt hitrh. Dy this time ten -:i .! :':i"wy and robust Indians 1. 1 i a.--:-jlIed. Among the partici ; .ti.'s wi-re several medicine men : ;V!:.- u..'ie than local reputation. ; : i. )t long before they had shed ti.eirelotiiingaud began to enter the : . !.-.. i iic lirst one who entered a i 1 v aeh one of the rest as Ir.'tiT, uncle, cini-i", brother-in-J.-ttt, etc.. and aii followed the exam )... i..-;..tf mtiiuig th" i.'-r-. As each otie was aidn svl i " ic.-laiu-lit.l "Ho." ihis word la supposed l v niaLv to I) a contraction ot ' llo.v ih w. ! v?"' but from its in ii vand peculiar meanings it un d luhtf ily belongs to their vernacu lar i.iiii,-uage. It was impossible to di-i over the object of these prelim iuaiies. ia ii the last one Lml entered the .(..i,-.- tl.f-v tilled their pipes. Every one toMin addr.-ssedeach of the rest I v appellation of relationship Itf. : smoking. In this way the p:pe was handed around in. the most soh inn manner. Anyone witnessing a m'.jic of this kind must realize ti.at ti.o worshiping of pagans is tt ari a mere idle pastime. When ib-y aie endeavoring to i ei.ncile their gods the ceremony is I'll in.iu with solemnity ami every i i! .vai.l appeaiance of revenge It :..ii.-t iiae been with the utmost re . i ; i:m-.' ti.iit the hearts that had i . i generated abjured the faith, wi.i.-h t iiey had been taught in i .lai cy, cherished by them during y.'ii'u and manhood and become im iiei .ib.e ere they reached old age. l i e little inuiau boy who attended t the various wants of the worship ers was now engaged in eanv ng the stones to the .odge, wheie they were received by one of the Indians u'i I placed in the center of the circle 'imed by the worshipers. They . ere very particular that their god s' .iuld not be desecrated by pieces ot charcoal, which weie carefully removed. So particular are they th it once the entire pile was torn i.vn to i,'et a piece which had fallen a :, ! : the stones. Why they should .-.( particular about this is rather ': as woo. I or unythuig about m: i they may dream is worshiixd i .'.--lii winie they .ire in the lodge. i I.t In vt; it is the spirit of that '.i-i ii.it coiikm to them while 'ii. ; ; iiids alt; f:ee fronv.tli cares i ;. .- world, tn Ik nl their alllictious, : 'i i i i ver ulterward considered i i.f sbmes had been placed in the ' 'ijfs i'i the shape of a frustum of ; ".me. The loy was then told to s ! i.nii.iliiik. n mixture ot t . oi 1 1'.,: I wihow bark, smoked '. .Sk.ux Indians. This was ' ; w. upon tin lne to take away I; .' mutual (iiopeities of the rei ! .. stones, which were too ... t t be carried on the nay fork i -'. I in transporting the larger cues. '' : boy handed them the hallowed .' i i'ii had i eon prep ire I for t c, i.sion. Ihei-e wire nall Ii uu-iies painted brilliant e . K k;:i stick hail a S-uail bag i. ..!' ca.no tied to tho end. i :rs ct'Ltained a mixture of i . ;;i :.iu iiii't kmniknik. The skin . . i . v nr, fioiu the arms or 'dei.-, ! this constitutes tin . i::i. e. Afier the sticks have been (:: t riated they are placid on the ) ) to pacify the evil spir.ts that 'i." a ,d cause ail troubles and laii.t uoii. Furs, food and many e:i.. i tiiiii?-j which make man more i. iliaiory are often put on the f-'o uid among the sticks. i " nl td water was then put into dge and the entrance closed 1' ' , f ared impervious to the gen ! I .'.'tf, but occasionally one of j.-hipp-rs would call to the I -.. i M.io.x something over a cer tain place. At last they seo'ued 1'H'pared to enjoy their situation. After every man had again repeatod the custom of addressing each one of the rest as a relative, they begau their prayers, which were inter spersed with thrilling experiences and hairbreadth escapes. s the Christian's prajer is characterized by supplications for spiritual bles sings, just so is their prayer charac tenzed by entreaties for temporal aid. From time to time a small quantity of water was poured on the red-hot stones. The steam arising made them more enthusiastic- The songs which followed each prayer be came louder. This continued until they were completely overcome by the intense heat. Wheu completely exhausted they called the boy to open the lodge. Here they were found resting in the same position as when the lodge was lirst closed ; all kneeliug around the pile of etones- Perspiration was trickling down their heated forms, moisten ing the ground where they knelt, as typical Indians, perfectly calm. Not a muscle of the face moved while they bore the, torture of the heat, which was intense. The inevitable pipe was atrain tilled up and passed around with the same solemn cere mony as at first. The boy was then told to bring som hot water and cayenne pepper. When brought the pepper was mixed with the water, which they drank with apparent relish. The pipe was passed to the boy, who was told to replentish it and lay it at the entrance of the lode. Again the lodge was closed and, as tney thought, they were once more secluded from the evils and temptations of this iniquitous w oild, to allow the steam to pene trate their bodies, thereby healing their afflictions. There they remain ed for a half hour, praying aud sing ing. Then the sides of the lodge were again raised, and, after smok ing once more, they came out to breathe the pure atmosphere. While they sat on the grass for a few min utes before dressing, perspir-dion flowed fro " their bodies in perfect streams. Their limbs were scalded and burned. The scene they pre sented as they crouched their nude forms in a huddle was so horrible that some of the young Indians who were playing near the lodge, ran away in fright. Although they look ed weakened by the torture they had borne, they professed to be stronger and more industrious. This they verified by going to a field, where they worked as men do who had determined bo try again with renewed vigor and determination. Now they are perfectly contented, and look forward to the tiino when they expect their prayers to be au swered, one expecting a new red wagon, another a pony, one trusting his seed potatoes will not be flavored with kerosene, another he ping he will receive onion sets in lieu of seed, etc . Itice o riiniiln;' Out. A Morning News reporter inter viewed a number of the mill nit-n and rice planters yesterday upon the condition of the rice crop around Savannah. The prospects of the crop are not marly so bright as they were an nounced to be a few weeks ago. Iti is now said there will be a short1 crop. The planters are disappointed at the way the crop is turning out. One planter said where he had expected a j ield of fifty bushels to the acre he only reali.t'd 3S$ bush els. This is from the early rice, too. The late rice is known not to he near as good. A large part of this year's crop on the Georgia and Car olina river3 is late rice. One of the best posted rice mill men in this section said that the rice is coming in very slowiy and the receipts are behind last year's. "I am satisfied the crop will he a small one,'' he said, "because the acreage on the Ogeechee river alone is cut down 1,500 acres and on the other Georgia rivers about as much. Both the Georgia and Carolina crops w ere set 'a:k by the spring freshets and there is a great deal of late lice which h always liable to be cut oil by frost. Planters from South Car olina report that the crops on New river, the Ashepoo, the Cumbee and the Ponpon rivers were very seriously damaged by the spring lloods. The yield to the acre is no larger than last year and many say it is not so large. Most of the tarly rice is now cut and in shocks, and is being threshed and sent to the mills. The harvest ing of the late rice has not begun yet. The new rice is turning out a Vcrv fine grade. The price is about three piarters of a cent off from last year on high grades Tae planters, however, are holding for higher prices. .. So tn Kprnk. Wonnn is wonderfn'ly made! Such bauty, grace, delicacy and purity are alone her possessions. So has she weaknesses, irregularities, functional derangements, peculiar onlv to herself. To correct these and restore to health, her wonderful organism requires a restorative espe cially adapted to that purpose. Such ;m one i3 lr. Pierces favorite Prescription possessing- curative and regulating properties to a re markable degree. Made for this purpo-e alone recommended for no other! Continually growing in fa vor, and numbering as its staunch friends thousands of the most intel ligent and refined ladies of thelano. A positive guarantee accompanies each bottle at your druggist's. Sold on trial ! A Novel I'luii. There is a line plan got up at Atlanta, Ga., by which people with -mall means can get to the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and at no greater cost than $75. They pay 75 cents a week for one hundred weeks. It is got up by the Georgia Excursion Club, of which Maj. T. H. lilacknall is Business Manager, Maj. J. C. Courtney, Auditor and Manager of Iran portation, and John Y. liankin, S'cretary. Maj. lilacknall is a native of (Jranville county, N. C, and is a personal friend of 'the editor of the Messeuger, who has known him from his boyhood. Wil. Messenger. lit: vitr unions. That aro Throliliini; lu I lie Bwnoiii of llfiiry liluuiil. The optician is the eye deal trades man. Willi the base-ballist the comc-bat deepens. Pirds never quarrel over a differ ence of a pinion. Eddie says that a married woman never comes a-niiss. A m itch-safe is u suitable present for a bridal present. A draughtsman is generally con sidered a designing man. A dumb wife may be said to be an unspeakable blessing. A man's funny bone enables him to laugh in his sleeve. And now, Eddie wants to know if boycott means a cradle. It is a paradox that of all shoes a felt shoe is the least felt Eddie says the hardest kind of pork is made out of pig iron. Eddie thinks a hen is like an hon est man when she is on-nest. Wrinkles arc the furrows of time, and billows are the wrinkles of old Ocean. The love that never speaks until it does it on the gravestone doesn't mean much. The best way to get rid of the blues is to try to push the clouds away from the windows of other people. Everybody is on the strike now, strictly at mosquitoes and hitting them not, for their notes are so de ceptive. An educated, refined woman who does her own house work, fully comes up to the standard of true heroism. The average woman is considered too delicate to shoulder a musket, but nobody questions her right to bare arms. A woman's beauty is most perfect when it is backed up by intelligence. A newspaper hustle is just the thing. Puth was not a designing woman, and yet she managed to get just as good a Poaz ;h any of the otln.r girls who sewed and reaped. It is said that the newest trust is Honey Trust, but there may bee some cell in it, and we therefore will not vouch for its truthfulness. An agricultural exchange thinks that the old-fashioned plow is soon destined to become a thing of the past. We have often thought it was being run into the ground. They, who 'nave never known prosperity, can hardly be said to be unhappy; it is from the remem brance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. The rarest and most fragrant blossoms unfold their beauty only in the bosom of the night, so many of the richest and most priceless blessings of our lives are borne to us under the wings of shadowed sor row. At the breakfast table the other morning the affable and polrte Major Weaver held up a boiled egg to his bright and hopeful Bennie, and said ; "Son, do you know a chicken comes out of this?'' "No, it don't; an egg conies out of a chicken," re sponded the bright boy, and then the Major walked sadly away, won dering if that idol of his heart would ever descend so low a3 to become a paragraphist for the columns of a newspaper. A Colored Man" Work. One of the most industrious and succesful colored men in Oconee county is Samuel F. Maxwell, who lives about four mi'es West of Wal halla, on the Coffee road. lie owns a farm containing 215 acres, 100 of which is in a high 6ttte of cultiva tion. The farm is valued at $2,000. A nice new residence of four rooni3 has just been completed at a cost of over $200. It will have glass win dows and will soo.i be painted. The house is the workmansip of Cato McFall. Sam can show eighty acres of corn, from which he expects an average yield of twtnty bushels per acre; also twenty acres r.f good cot ton. He owns some fine mules and cows, too. He has made it all by hard work, and owes only $20 all told. This speaks well for the possi bilities of the colored brother in Oconee county, for he has made his home here ever since the war. What he has done others can do. As an upright, law-abiding citizen Sam tears a good reputation. We hold him up to the colored citizens of our couutv and State as an example worthy of imitation and emulation. Wal'kalla (S.O.) Courier. iHllant Km I iin (home. On a pretty girl saying to Pul'us Choab , "I am very ead-you-see," he replied, "O, no; you belong to the old .Iewi-.li sect; you are very fair-I-see!" Nothing adds so much to the beauty of a fair girl, as a clear, bright, healthy complexion, and t secure this pure blood is indispensa ble. So m.tnv of the so-called blood purifiers sold to improve a rough, pimply, muddy skin, only drive the scrofulous humors from the surface to some inter vital organ, and dis ease and death is the inevitable result. On the contrary, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery strikes directly at the root of the evil, by driving the impurities entirely oat of the system, and with a fresh stream of pure blood llowing through the veins, nothing but the softest aud fairest of complexions can result. ARE VERY GOOD. James P. Cook, of the Concord Standard, is developing some fame as a siiort-hanj reporter ins re ports of speeohes at Concord are very good. Burlington News. IAN ItlVIXS" XEHH Telln Sown From Manly County. The News is a "dan"-dy this week. Will U. Morris, formerly with John Sherrill, is the News' devil. Dr. Anderson has two cows that give each live gallons of niilk per day. W. A. Marks pressed a bale of cotton that weighed 870 pounds. Mrs. James Cook aud two children are visiting at S. II. Mel ton's. A cucumber ten inches long and twelve inches in circumference, weighing three pounds, was shown to us by Mr. 0. II. Whitley this week. I'ervMl It In I'nle. Onco upon an afternoon in the year of blessed memory, 487 B. C, (so run the Persian chronicles), Darius Hystaspis, which was the great king, did summon his multi tude of minstrels into the august presence and unto them all and sev eral did cause to be issued the inquiry whether that they could sing or wliistl'j forth that melody named and entituled "Maggie Murphy's Home." Whereupon each shame faced lyrist did, with muc!i confu sion of excuses aud divers fears and tremblings withal, confess himself of hia unableness to do so. Then spake the great king by his own terrible voice : "Fetch Nephouitis, our chiefest musiciauer, hither." When that Xephonitis, he of the silvern thioat, was come into the royal presence, the great king de manded to know whether it was within his power to sing or whistle forth the lyrical relation of the peculiar entertainments given at Miss Murphy's domicile. Whereupon Xephonitis did grovel in the dust and modestly make reply, saying: "O, king, it is far from my pur pose to boast of my poor accomplish ments iu presence of my worshipful sovereign, but if I may make so bold, I would in sooth say I can both sing and whistle this melody w hich hath taken so potent a hold upon thy people. Nay, if it seem not imprudent, 1 would add that 1 can play it upon the lyre and upon the clavicitheria and can pick it upon the tam-tam and the cymbals, not to speak of breathing it forth from the tuneful conch." 'Enough! Enough!" cried the great king by his own terrible voice. 'Away ! and make preparation for the death." "But, O, most righteous king, if it likes the not that I should give this melody forth, believe me it shall never more escape me," quoth the stricken Xephonitics. "Nay," sayeth the great king, condescending answer, "we may not trust thee. There be sons which dwell within the ear and so unseat the reason that men do sing them unaware. Nay ; it is enough that thou canst sing this 'Maggie Mur phy's Home,' for we have far and near observed that whosoever can the same will. Therefore thou diest the death." And with that the head of Xeph ouitis was stricken from its place and rolled away upon the gleaming sand, the multitude raised up its voice in grateful praise and cried : "O, wise king! 0, merciful king." Were Yon Etrr Jilted ? Were you ever jilted? Peally, truly, emphatically kicked over for another fellow in the very height of ycur love and adoration? If you evei were I wish you would write me an account of it and tell me how you felt. Of course everybody knows that luxuriously miserable sensation of a row with the young lady, and feeling proud of yourself for not having reminded her how often you paid for theatre tickets and stood ice cream and oysters. Everybody knows the delicious feel ing of Hinging an intense, hurt, painfully aggrieved expression at her, picking up your hat, bouncing out into the cold night and reflect ing as you go home what pangs she will feci when she finds you at the opera next time with hei deadliest and prettiest rival. Some people know the peculiar sensation of hav ing the deadliest and prettiest rival retuse the invitation, and the hope less fiasco of trying it on with some other and plainer young woman. And any way most of us experience the humiliating reaction of doing the humble explanation business, and being forgiven for thinking we could get away with the young wo nnn. But I never met a man who would stand right up and say he had been thrown cleir oyer the young woman's head. . m - M'ii 'I'll lit Jump at conclusions, are generally "off their base." Because there are num berless patent medicinis of question able value, it dosen't follow that all are worthless. Don't class Dr. Sage's Cattarrh Remedy with the usual run of such remedies. It is way above aud beyond them! It is doing what others fail to do! It is curing the worst cases of Chronic Nasal Oa'a rrh. If you doubt it, try it. If yon make cured case, sary N. Y. a thorough trul, you'll be , $500 forfeit for an incurable This offer, by Wor.d's Dispen- Medical Association, Buffalo, At all druggists ; 50 cents. The Faj rt tcvillc l'ost iiiastershlp. A report reached Fayetteville, by telegraph from Washington City, yesterday, that George W. Shurlock, a colored man, had been,- or would be. appointed postmaster of that town, to Bticceed I). F. Wemyss whose removal was recently recom mended by his bondsmen. George is a nephew of old man Bob Shurlock, of Wilmington. Wil. Star. A iiiMj as w as a not;. They were talking about hunting dogs up on the shores of one of the interior lakes in Michigan by their camp lire, when old Micajali, the guide, put in : "Talk about your modern huntin' dorgs all you please," he said, with a vein of sadness cropping out of his voice, "but they a;n't none like old lien Egg, a p'inter dorg I nseter have something' like forty years ago. That was when the west was farther east than it is now and I was liviu' down in Illinois on a farm. Fine huntin' in them parts, too; field huntin' for partridges and all the feather kind, and lien Egg was busy most all the time in the season. Xever missed anythin' neither, did that dorg. When he sot his nose out to'rds anythin' it was thar whether it waz er not. That was that dorg's style. And he'd stay with it, too, till the cows came home. That's what got him at last. He didn't show up one night after a hard day's hunt, and beiu' tired we went to bed without lukin' him up. Next day he was still missing,' and the next, and the next. Wasn't no fun huntin' without that dorg, so we gradually quit off and kinder went inter mournin.' But that didn't bring the dorg back, ner nothin' did, and atter weeks and weeks of waitin' we give him up as stole er killed er somethin' onregilar a3 had happened to him. One mornin' about a year atter he had shuck us, and we had forgot him, that is, as much as you kin forget a dog like him, I was pluggin' along through a thicket on the river bank about fifteen miles from civilization when I come acrost a skeleton of some animal standin' squar on its four feet. I got down off my boss to see what it wuz, and I stepj ed in an old nest filled with egg shells, dried up and crumbly, and not ten feet frum the skeleton. That was enough fer me, and I retch out keer ful and picked up them bones and started home with 'em like a funeral percession. It was Hen Egg's mor tal remains'. The old dorg knowed them wuz partridge eggs in that nest, and he knowed it wuz his bus iness to p'int them partridges when they come out of ther shells ef he died fer it, and by gosh he died fer it. Ain't no dorgs like him now any more." And the old man wiped his eyes aud was silent. awi Shooting ii Well. Messrs. Worth & Carmical, says the Charlotte News, have for some time past been drilling an artesiau well, in order to oblai;. a free supply of cold water for the large ice machines they n re erecting. After reaching a depth of 230 feet the drill caught fast at tha bottom and all efforts to recover it have failed. Ves'erday it was determined to shoot the well with dynamite in order to loosen the wall around the drill so it coiill be grappled. Mr. Kobert Chap man's services were secured to man ipulate the dynamite, and Manager Donge, of the Electric Light Com pany, agreed to furnish the electricity for exploding the cartridge. Thirty pounds of dynamite were placed in a tin can, in the middle of which was placed an incandescent lamp filled with rille powder. Insulated wires were attached to the lamp. The can was lowered to the bottom, when the switch from the electric attachments was thrown on and in an instant a column of water eight inches in d'ameter and the length of the depth of the well was shot into the air, taking about ten feet square off the roof of the ice house. Some stone was also thrown up. The shattered rock is now being worked and it is hoped that the drill can be recovered aud work progress to a finish. lie's Truiii-is Now From reports Governor Campbell is a verv eiiectuai stunip-speaher. quick at repartee and humorous. In reply to Senator llorr s claim "tnat the increase of duty on certain farm in implements had made them cheaper," the Governor replied: "Well, now, how nign would tue tariff have to be for you to get your tools free?" and to the "half veiled claim" of McKinley that "the for eigner navs the duty." the retort is equally pertinent : "Why not abolish the internal revenue and make tile foreigner pay all the expenses of the government? Why s op at a billion dollars in appropriation if the for eigner pays r I he Republicans are afraid of the tariff. It is where un shoe pinches most. It is the weapon with vhich the Democratic part can conquer its political enemy the enemy to the best interests to the country. But our Democratic menus snoum not be too sanguine of Governor Campbell's re-eiVction. If he suc ceeds in polling as large a popular vote as at the last election, it will bi a victory. If elected, the defeat will be crushing to the Bepubhcaiis. The first l'ellow lit the I'ni verslly. Mr. Howard A. Banks, a graduate of Davidson College, has been ap pointed a Fellow at the University. This is the first appointment to a Fellowship; aud we hail it as the beginning of a system whereby our college graduates n ay receive special hi'dier training in 'North Carolina. Mr. Banks receives his tuition and -200.()0. Hurrah for Davidson! mtl Hiirr:i h for the University. We hnna soon to see one Fellow at the University from each college in the State. We lose this mouth sixty-seven minutes of daylight. It goes, sum mer time does. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Avang ye Takin Notes nd Faith He'll Prent Them." Xol Safislie.l. A. Walter Moose, proprietor of the drug store at Mr. Pleasant, left Wednesday evening for Baltimore to enter the Maryland University of Pharmacy. Mr. iMoo-e is determined to be among the top in his profession. During h:s absence the drug store will be in care of Dr. M. A. Foil and Mr. Hoke Peck. Doet II liu iiootl. John 1). Cannon, who clerked for Cannon & Fctzer last year, is at Oak Fudge Institute hard at study, lie writes this: "You have no idea how much good your excellent paper does me." Yes, we have, Johnnie. And we hope you'll be a good and nice little boy, besides studying very diligently. MM .Marriage l.ieeiisc. Marriage license was issued to the following parties during the month of September: Charley Cress to Miss Ida Clitic. liobert D. Joyuer to Mis3 Fauuie Maxwell. John D. Freeze to Miss Susan E. Ilonevcutt. J. M. Ballard to Mis3 M. C. Boss. John J. Smith to Laura L. Dry. John E. Brown to Josie A. Dea- ton. Caleb Cruse to Sarah M. Cruse. License was issued to only two colored couples during the month of September. ItiKht Sort of (iracr. "The Daily Herald came out Mon day. It is neat, newsy and no doubt will merit a liberal support. We trust that, our people will appreciate the importance of giving it support. Nothing can be a success if patron age is withheld." The Salisbury Watchman said this about its neighbor, the Herald. That is the wav have the manhoou and common courtesy that should exist. No one expected other than this, because it has pride enough in its home to wish well for such an enterprise even by a competitor. But we don t find it always thus, everywhere. (nl linns. Good health and fine weather pre vails, but little cotton picked out. The Stock Mill Company at Glad stone will go to work next Monday putting up machinery. I he Barringer gold mine, in this township, is expected to go to work soon, and will be of ereat benefit to the surrounding community. B. I). Bangle has gathered fortv bushels of hickorv-nuts this season. Oats is up and looking well. Fodder making is over. A negro boy was put in jail last week for larceny. Ii. I.intloss Ciifloii. Mr. H.T. Fnrgeson, a farmer of Spartanburg county, S. C, has by experimenting produced a lintkss cotton, or in other words, a cotton plant the balls of which only con tain seed. This cotton is said to be more valuable than the lint-uearing variety, as it yields from 400 to 500 bushels of seed to the acre, which sells for considerably more than the other crop. The new plant has created quite a sensation and will probably work a revolution in cotton fariniiig. Mr. Furguson, the dis coverer, passed through t?aiisoury this morning for lialeigh, where he will exhibit his remarkable plant at the exposition. Daily Herald. To Have nil Assistant. Some one has sent out the follow ing telegram from Salisbury : liev. F. J. Murdoch, who tor nearly twenty years has been rector of St. Lukes Episcopal church, and has had under his charge thirteen churches in this parish, announced to his congregation on otindav morn ing that the press of his secular bus iness has been growing on him so greatly that it has become impossible for him to properly attend to his duties as pastor. He stated that he could not trust his business to any one else, and therefore asked the church to procure the service of an assistant. At a called meeting of the vestry last night, it was decided to extend acaii to Kev. Mr. White, at present the assistant rector of Trinity Chap. I, New York. Mr. Murdoch is pivdden:. of two coiton mills, secretar. and treasurer of another, secretary d treasurer of Salisbury Kniiting "ills, and sec retary and treasury ot the Salisbury minding and Loa i Association. An AtrocioiiH Miiriler. Henry Blount, tells this: The other evening, alter r.uiue nan oeen irving to induce bis be.t giri to be more confiding and deiuonstative and af fectionate he exclaimed in wild burst of phrensicd despair, .), my pass ionately iovtd ami most fondly wor shipped idol, I have been pouring out the idolatrous love of my heart in passionate streams of warmest devotion for three nights, and these surging and billowy heart beats have made no more impression upon your icy nature than a raindrop would make on the arid sands of the parch ing Sahara desert, and notwithstand ing all of my protestations of affect ion you remind me of an Alpin floweret, chaste, pure, exqusite, and beautiful, but oh so cold and chill ing and freezing in your manner. You must be a Laplander." The girl became suddenly and deathly sick ; she fell into a swoon ; she tin-w gradually worse, till death claimed her fair form aud laid her out for the undertaker aud grave digger. Now, i3 Eddie a mourner? MAJOK liUlf.S LETTER. Below is a letter that has the nail hitting character about it : PAi.t.ioir, September 2".?d, 1801. Mr. W. J. S'.vixk, Secretary and Treasurer, Concord, N. C: Dear Sir, I enclose check for $750, Peabody money, to be applied to your city public" schools. You will bear in mind that this money cannot be used for any other purpose than the payment of teachers for both races. The intention of the l'eabody trustees is to help such communities as will help themselves and will so conduct the schools as to be most helpful to the general public school system. In some communities in which annual taxes are levied to supplement the general school fund I have not found such support to the general public school system as I thought there ought to be in the use of the State list text-books. This, I think, is an important matter. The State list books are non-se tional, fair to the South, and as good as any books published. As far as they meet the wants of the city schools I think they ought to be used ; in fact that is what the law contemplates. The city boards ought to add such other hooks as the additional length of school and the additional studies desired indicate to be necessary. I take it, of course, that your board will add the high echool course. There is a disposition on the part of publishing houses to press into the schools of the South books thai are entirely unfit for use by Southern people. You may set it down as a fact that it is impossible, in the very nature of the case, for a Northern man to write a United States history that will be fair to the South. Even if he were disposed to write an im partial history the probability is that he would be ignorant of the f act3 or would lay less stress upon them than is due. As an instance, I refer to Eggleston's history, which has not in it even a reference to the Meck lenburg Declaration of Independence nor to the battle of King's Moun tain, which Jefferson said was the turning point of the Revolutionary war, and it has not even a copy of the general Declaration of Inde pendence. This is 011I7 a specimen of the sins of omission that North ern authors are guilty of in reference to the South. You will find the same thing running through their geographies, readers and all other common school books. The houses that publish these books not uufre quently secure their introduction by unfair argument and other unfair means as well as by pleading specially their fine mechanical execution, etc. Some years ago, when I first came into the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1 negotiated for the revision of Holmes' readers, and one request that I specially made was that the books should be thoroughly non-sectional and should contain 111 the selection of the matter as much recognition of the South as to its products, character, resources, etc., as of the North. Upon examination I think you will find that this request was complied with, and, besides, that the books pre thoroughly well graded and adapted to our schools. The proof-sheets passed under my own eye. As to Maury's geographies, trey certainly have no equal in this country. Holmes' history contains more facts of United States history than can be found in any book in the same compass and at the same price, and it tells the truth iu a fair and impartial manner, and is well written. For higher classes I thin'-. Stephens' history cannot be excelled. Sauford's arithmetics are the product of a Southern man, and are most excellent books; indeed it may be said that all the books on the State list are excellent. Upon examination I think you will find that the prices at which the State list books are to be sold to the children are low, and that the business arrangements by which the books can be obtained from one depository by merchants all over the State and at reasonable dis counts to tnem, are all that can be desired. I send you a marked copy of the school law for information on these points. I would not write so much at length on this subject but for the fact that when the city schoo's and country schools use the same books there is harmony, much less contu sion, anu 1 the public school interests are thereby better advanced. I do not, know who your supeiintendent will be; if 1 did I would write him in the same strain. This is an official letter to jou as secretary of the board. Do me the kindness to lay it iiefore them and your superintendent when he is elected. TriistiiiL that vour schools will o meet with abundant success, I am, very truly, "S. M. FlXflKK, Superintendent Public Instruction Considerable I.wsm. Mr. Ed. Kiniels, the clever repre sentative of the wholesale estabhsh 1 1 1 e 1 1 t of S. Wittkosw ky, of Charlotte, N. C, says the Norwood Vidette, was in town Moi day, and from him we learned that the naval stores aud lumber company's store, at Can dor, Montgomery county, with its contents, was destroyed by lire last Friday night. The cause of the fire is unknown. The loss is e.-ti mated at about 3,500, but, fortunatel;, half of this is covered by insurance. Capt. S. Usher, t he head of the firm, in company with Mr. M C Stan back, was absent on a bnsine-s trip to Alabama ut the time of the dis-a.-u-r. m There is a mellow tinge coming over the face of nature. AIM AM i: DAY At IhcXentoii I'air Some N'ie'e!ies. A telegram from Newton, dated September ."50th, to the Stale Chron icle reads thus: The fourth annual f;.ir of of the Catawba Agricultural Association is being held here. Today was Alliance nay, the speaKers being .iuulv Weaver, of Iowa, and Col. l'olk. Iu the morning Judge Weaver addressed a large and appreciative audience, treating on the Alliance principles and demands. He especially referred to the banking svsteni ; he made no allusion to the Alliance going into the third party. Col. Polk in the afternoon spoke to an immense crowd. He repudiated all the charges that have been reported about him and other leaders 111 reference to the third party, lie spoke very treelv. In concluding his speech he said, "If the Democrats want Alli ance votes, what they will have to do is to treat us fairly, squarely and honestly, and give us a clean man notcounected with Wall street, and one who stands upon the principles of the Ocala demands.'' A vote of the audience was taken as to how many would stand upon the Ocala demands wheu put to the test. Almost the entire voting part of the audience rose. This is sig nificant. thicken I'nnnle. A colored woman, known 'here in other vear3 as "Chicken Fannie," has been living at several points con ducting a grocery business. She is doing business in Portsmouth, Ya , and came here to look after a suit she has instituted for a piece of laud. When "Chicken Fannie" did business here, no one else could scarcely get hold of a chicken. Bout-lit n I arm. Dr. John W. Moose, who was for several years located at Mt. Pleasant and a native of Western Stanlv, went west several years ago. The doctor has purchased a plantation. In speaking of its fertility, in a let ter to a friend, he says: "It will produce fifty pound watermelons and sweet potatoes of the size ot a wagon hub. That is line hind. Hear .Me, Soiih ami llnulilers 1 The Odell Manufacturing Com pany are making a shipment of "Forest Hill" plaids to Guatemala, Central America. To trace these popular goods, you would have to go to every country on this continent, perhaps, '1 his company, the Stan dard knows, makes large shipments to the far Western States. But if (Sen. Barrio3 were living the present shipment would hardly be made. lie Jumped, ami It Onsheil. Dr. D. D. Johnson, like the rest of us, got cold on Thursday even ing. He made a wild leap, and great was the crash following it. The story is a stirring one, and runs something like this: Jim Hur ley has a bicycle he had one Wednesday morning. Now Dr. Johnson has a neighbor that has almost ruined the doctor by way of setting some dangerous examples. As the story runs, inasmuch as the bicycle can't, Jim Hurley dismount ed his 'cycle and Dr. Johnson put the thiug in an upright steady man ner and made a leap to the saddle. It was a terribly demolished wheel that lay beneath Dr. Johnson. Wil liam Swink ought to be held respon sible for the damage he's been ex erting an influence around town thusly: Everybody thinks if he can ride a wheel, all can. Dr. Johnson thinks there is a painful fallacy about this latter-day reasoning. Wait for another bicycle catas trophe I Send U3 your job printing. THE BLOOD IS TI1E LIFE. No portion of the human orf-rtnism has, within tho past few years, heen submitted to more thorough and intt lli-p-iit examination, hy medical scientists, than the blond. The result of these in-vestij-atioiia hau been to clearly demon Btrato that tho general health is moro dependent upon tho condition of tho blood than upon any other thin?. In making a diagnosis, some modem practitioner!' nro not satisfied with merely determining tho tinperatur of tho blood: they test it hy means of the microscope ami other appliances, to ascertain if any foreign bodies have in troduced themselves among its mimito corpuscles. Thus, for example, it has been found that in persons iiiTcind with gout, uric acid may always ho de tected in the blood; wliihs the cause ot other disorders has hen traced to tho presence of genus, or microbes. These discoveries have thrown a flood of light on the causes of disease; and physicians now, in tho tr'-at ui nt of many complaints, go directly to the roof, of the evil hy endeavoring to purify thn blood of its contaminating poisons. J .r this purpose nothing else has been found so el'tii'iK'ioiis as the iodide of potassium, put the best effects of this drug can only be obtained when it is used in combination with other things, such as sarsaparilla, podophyllum, or J-tllow doek; and Ayer's Compound Extract ot Sarsaparilla, being considered the most skilful union of these ingredients known to pharmai y, is therefore most highly recommended hy physicians. Kven if the iodides were not present, the Honduras sarsaparilla alone, -of which Ayer's medicine is tho extract, would lie MiflicienUy effective, in tho majority of cases, to produce tho most desirable results, liut, "to make assur ance doubly sure," and to great ly'facili tate the purifying process, tho iodide of potassium lends its powerful alterativo and detergent properties to tho rest. The distinctive value of Ayer's Sarsa parilla is that, while it is quite as potent for most purposes as the iodide alone, it is safer in non-professional hands; for, by simply following the directions on the wrapper, the patient becomes his own physician. Henco this medieino has long been recognized by 'leading physicians and druggists everywhere as the standard popular blood-purifkr.