! . Trr Standard is Only One Dollar Per Year.
Largest Circulation of Any Papef ifi tHis Section.
SI,
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v V PAl'KU FA" KU
oij now PUB
LISHED IN
Tlli: COXTY.
t rirki.i- rs with si.
j t ltWAI.D.
V,!- .-h mre opprest.
in"l of woo.
, .!, iu:tid a rest.
,'t L' lil I" M' llll 10 l,';lr ?
,', '"tun tlnd. H" ''aim,
: tu in Him who doetii well,
,'1'il.,l . .j Mosed calm.
iiii- yoarninir. for
h a know s not w hut ,
,,'ut tin' ilv-. it of our life,
, ,-.unc -i fertile spot.
,.' anxious wrestling, for
' 1 i i, , - to he en,
ii ii'st. "Now lot nie go,"
1 "' that soi'tiw of heaven.
.y,'-of wau bin.: to the end,
'" V "i v Liner on 1. may le.
.., . iu n-aini.l the dark ami gloom
...m liirlit I sec.
,"v .- pain, i" weal or woo,
' '. . ili first tlie tost,
f 'J .,, Mi laiili. of hope auil trust,
'" 7,1.1 "Then is i:iven-a rest.
' -i. r ihe-t. how d.us the way,,
'"pUn.v showers fall,
w .,vrwnr-l the cloud disperse,
'' ' UA li-'Ut is ivt u to all.
,. i r,i one vour burden share,
' n,l u iu.-lil- vour pains can ease,
,i'ttl;; be there-ami afterward.
' " U,- civi tli perfect pence.
1 Mrs 11. M. Anpehson.
p ,,;::im.V.r.. CM. 17.11.
- c -
red" in Chic:i:o Oct. Htli.
lV';v
1. 1 It -!' "
War is t
;)
I'll- tOHst. ihe
i'.A IT fo Peace."
. ::. SlllStllll-
1!. ' !V
tu! v :
1 l,-l
hu'-'ws :
it ve that
tiiis moment, the
L'uiUd Siatos are
1 1
o ti
bridges buruf J ve,'.y avenue of
, ' v.e cut olV. I aai rot in the least
V.- avt'd or alarmed. On the
'lii-WI never felt safer, or imp
or'nore :t l.oir.e.
Vv i have 1 e u tol ! tliat the war
is over. I think thnt I uivself have
h.-iodth ;t observsitioti. I am Kiad
;t Koses siiiril swevter than
..'V '.-juer ; f'Teveiy day u-e thf
; knife is preferable to the
. ". . .7- ..v ;.. siher. lud :a h ci-
t. ! I
l lli'nt cboice hcf.M en e,i'iiu.u j
anil
pre.
, 1- e . il ! s i i..: t in--
V l l
.Klice
in I ivur li t j
I v v.-v is over, and it is wr-..
t , li vi r. and the s.ver';:
i ;i-:t at V. ii-i i:iton still lives. 1
icu 'i: a 1 '.f that. I can CO- ce v-l-.'t
ti:iirf worse for ourst-;ex', : ;
j: wi.'r-e for oiu- children. iL i
v'b . iu:;r!.t havo i-een if the w.a '.. ...
tailed utlu-rwise, leaving: tvv e:c
Lausted combatants to b-ome the
- f,.i.-ii.Mi intervention an I
diplomacy, setting tbe clock of civ- 1
j i.-.inon lack a ceiiturv, aud sp.it-
t:ti
the noblest ot tue conui.e as
into nve f.r
i w eak and w iirrieg re 1
. hi-., those of s-outh Amer-
l. :l. t 1 li pent HI tbe J-tW WOliU lUC
lii'.stakes of the oid.
he w.ir is over, truly; and, itt :
i ierep.eat.it is weil over. If any-,
tLiu ' was wanted to pi o-.-hum its
tt-ruTiuatioti fr..ni eveiy housetop,
tL.l doorpost in tbu l:md that little I
1 rub we Lad ht s;'.' with Sig- 1
Macaroni f.n Ltshes it. At the touch
of an electric bed thewl-:..;.- ;!' ej
nillied to the brave ') i tii":
.Secretarv of Stut( , and fo. tb.r wo
uieht ct o-iU ,;.- 1 uarti-.s sank .out
of sigut aud ti.' '.ignt in one over-niM-teiing
sentiment of raccuood,
wii-.j ioi and nationality.
I -ball not stop to inquire whether
tu- wur mid- us belter than we
wer" I' - i :'-1 -iulv ma le us better
fuqL. , u,dou 1'J whole it
.o:,.ii:etU W S-VQ llOue th:-
. .1 .... ......innuiii-Q
WO.m- ...C lUAl Oi'liei rij.jumiuvi. ,
TLe t'i. lb is the trouble between u-'
wu 1.1 ier more than kkin deep, and j
tU curious thing about it u that it ;
wa- not our skiu anyhow ! It was a ,
b..-k skin, Lot a vhiteskiu, tn at .
bii.Utfut It uboilt- . j
A- I s.ti it, t or great scctiona'
cohiiovi-rsy wus, fioi!) first to last, j
tlie gradual reolutiou of a r.eopie I
f:o:.i datkness to light, with n
;::.! ts or bunns to guide them, and 1
.li ixprijerice to lc-iid the way.
J in.- f-'iu.yioof our coi-stiUtion
f i,;:,.! tLtmstive-; unable to lii de-eiMvel-.
and tC deline aoclt)at'.'!y the
i suet relation of the Slates to the
1 e l-i al government. Uu thut point
tJiey left what may hu decc ibed as
mi 'open clause," and through tj;.it
ru clause, as through an open
hor. the grim specter of disunion
stalked. It wa8 attended on one
band by African slavery; on tb
other hand by sectional jealousy,
aiivl between this trio of evil .-pint
the household flower of peace was
torn from the lintel and tossed into
the llameB of war.
I 1 the beginning all of us were
cui.iy, and equally guilty, for Atri
c i'i shivery. It was the good for-tiii.-of
the North first to liud out
tin; slave labor was not pro .table.
1, very hitisibly, it sold its slaves
to mi- South, winch, very dissatis
:act .ii y, pursuetl the delusion,
in. .- at last has done i s perfect
wii k ; the South sees now as the
Norm saw bt fore P, tint the sys
tem of slavery us it v.-as maintained
by lis was the ciuiusiest utd costliest
labor system on eirtb, and that
!ii:iwe took the field to light for
it v., set out upon a fool's errand.
I i.d.-i- slave LiLcr the yield of cot-
t-m never reached 85,0 0,000 bales
In
b r ttee labor it has never fallen
I ..-I
it 1
bu
'J
1. it
v that figure, gradually ascend
j six iino sovo'i, uu'-il this year
dowut to it eh neatly ft.OOn.O-JO
. .-. tells the whole story. I am
i.eie to talk politics, of course,
I put 11 to you whether tint is
. orettv eood showing for free
ii it
'; labor, and whether, with such
ow;i.g, th Southern whites can
I any other thau j.ist and kind
m.. n"t to the biacks, without
:i, mdeid, iho South would be
u pitch, and naif our nation n
, i. e une a gipin; hole iu the
.i.i
i.'.l
tu
W I
a I
U
C!
. '.tjeme.11, I beg that you v.i..
1. 01 nppn hensive. 1 know tub
1 a u.is -s neith- r a ti.i:e nor
-a Hosiiitct ecoii- nneN, I
u 1 gomg to idH.ei. you with a
i .- 1 o.ou upou iiee tradfc or liev
Miv ,. 1 came, piiuirtiiiy, to bow
1 tad an I to pay uiy measure ol
h' .: i .'e to the statue that was 111
ve., I 10-diy. i'iie eaicer and the
1 1 that sLaine eo'iinieiiio-
1 . no 1cm man t
v v ... 1 iO.M-. tu lh' glilVe
,im ii i, .:,ti I'i hiM .o .iqil -,
tbwii;;u as tne obscurest of lUOau
who iore any ollicial part then iu
I felt that I was helping to bury not
, .. ! t.'u'et'.t-r, in all that eonsti
, -t s kr'ln.l fe.-, inn and interest,
an te"y urn' !"en at any time
sim-e the adoption of the Federal
i, citation. If it were not so I
v ,u' Lard'v venture to come here
IU "ta'.k to" you as lam coiajrto
VOL. TV. NO. li.
only a srreat man, but a true friend.
From that day to this th story of
Gen. Grant lias nure and mote im
pressed and touched me.
I never alb-wed myself to make
hi acquaintance until he had quit
ted thj White House. The period
of hi i political actuity was full of
uncouth and unaparirpr partisan
contention. It was a kind of civil
war. I h id my duty o i and did
not dare trust myself to the subdu
inc influence of what I w.is sure
must follow lriendly relations be
tween tsiich a man as ho was and
such a man as I knew myself to be.
In th si was not mista! en, 119 the
sequel proved- I met li ,1 for the
tiist time beneath my n vine and
liijtree, and a happy sr lies of aeci
dents thereafter pave me the oppor
tunity to meet hnu oft'Mi, and to
knuw him well. Ho was the em bod
imeut of -simpHcity, Integrity and
courage, every inch a r neral, a sol
dier and a man ; but i.i the circum
stances of his last iPii .ss a figure of
heroic proportions for the con tern
plation of the ages. I recall noth
ing in history so sublime as tbe
t-pectade of that 1; ::V.; sphit, bro
ken in fortune and in health, with
the dread haiui of the dark angel
('bitched about his throat, Strug'
gling with every brealutohold the
clumsy, uufamiliar weapon with
which he sought to wrest from the
awsofdeatii alitt'p something for
the support of wife and children
when he was gone. If he had dore
nothing else, that would have made
his exit from ihc world an immortal
epic.
litt'e while after I cime home
from the last sceue of all, I found
that a woman's hand had collected
the insignia I had worn in the mag
niheeut, melancholy pageant the
orders p.ssigning m to duty aud tne
funeral scarfs and badges and had
grouped and framed them unbid
den, silently, tt uderly, and when I
reflected that the hands that did
this wtra those of a loving Southern
woman, who.-e futher h d fallen on
the Confedi 1 ;i:e side in the battle, I
said: "Tue war, indted, is over;
let us have peace!" Gentlenun,
srl hers, c ! ;rades, the silken folds
that twine tbout us here, for all
ib.ir soft and careless grace, are yet
as strong as hooks of steel! They
bout together a united people and
u gieat nation, for, realizing the
truth at last, with no wounds to be
lr-a!od and no stings of deleal to re
member, the South says to the
Nui ih, us simply as was said three
iioKsand years ii0 111 that far away
m-:ulov upon tue margin of the
mystic sen: "Whither thou go'est I
will go, and where thou loiiiest 1
v. ill lodge; tuy peopl.- shiillie my
; cople, and thy God my God."
Somel tii:iu up ' miiSxr
Mr. John Vi'. Kirk, th.- w lute
hair., d veteran who with Morse
wiMi the first working telegraph j the country. I often wonder why
line was stntched, and who stood 1 there are so many god people in
beside the great inventor when the tow:;. They are there, thousands of
fii t r.let-ae was transmitted from j them, as good Christians as walk the
Annapolis Juneti .p. to Washington, j earth ; and especially our good little
hits undo, during his life, a great i towns like Concord and Monroe and
many interesting calculations in I Charlotte.
numbers. The tw.-, most remarka- riu when we come to look at the
b!e i.entiers in th-. world are 3 1:; numerable temptations for mis
aii'l 7. I quilling our young people, and old
'The numbers," tays Mr. Kirk, i Hues, too, that most towns afford, we
'the Arabians got from India, and .uv made to wonder what a strain
al! following have taken it from t he j the moral proclivities of some people
Arabians It is conspicuous in Vh can endure without totally giving
heal tare, l.i'ing mentioned over -30U j Wav.
times in the Si-rip' nrer, ekb-r alone I Some people think that gown peo-
or compounded with other words.
It seems a favorite numeral with the
divine mind, ontMde as well as
inside the Bible, as nature demon
strates in many ways, and aU other
numbers Ihow to it. There Ss also
another divin-' favorite, the mm her
;i
the Tiinirv. Tins is brought out j
Lv fioinbina' io:i of fi
g tires that is
somewhat remarkable,
- It is the s'x
li 'tires 14'v'So?
""M ultiply
this by 2, the answer is
"Multijilv th;s by 3, the answer is
4271.
('Multiply this bv 4, the answer is
571,423.
"Muhiplv this by the answer is
T14.-2S.3.
"Multiply this by 0, the answer is
8.o7,15.J.
'Kach answer contains the tame
figures as the original sum and no
other , nd 'hat thr.-e of the ligures
of the sum reir.ain tojether in each
answir, thus showing that figures
preserve the Trinity.
'TlH!3 285 appears in the first aud
st
,-ond nnnilh jj, .71 in the Second
ain
third, 428 in the thud and
fourth iXy:A 14 111 "e touriil a,Kl
fifth.
"It h also interesting to note
that, taking out of any two of these
sums thegroopof three common to
both, the otlnr three, read in the
tisu d or 'er from left to right will
also be in the same order in both
sums.
"Take the first and second sums,
for example. The group 285 is
common to both. Having read 2S"
out of the second sum, read right
along and bring in the first figure of
the thousands last. It will read
714. Ad the others will read in the
same wav.
' Again, nolo that the two groups
of three ia the first sum are the
same as the two groups of thrcs in
the fourth, reversed in order, and
that 1 he same thing is trne of the
se.-oml and third. The last tnulti-
plica'ion has i s groups of threes
the same as those of the original
number, reversed again.
'Examine these results again, and
vou will see that in these calcula
tion all the numerals have appeared
save he !. Now multiply the orig
inal sum by the mighty 7 the di
vine favorite of the Bible and of
creation and behold the answer!
The last of the numerals, and that
one only in groups of three the
Trinity!
1 4 .',8 -7
"No oth r combination of num
I trs will votlucc the same results.
Ioes not tins show tl.a imperial
multipoteut numeral 7 and its divin
ity r n. y. sun.
TOWX ASn COISTUY.
Cornrrnrkrr 'Moi-Hllzew Oh the Com.
I'orlN ami 1'oarp of I.lle Kenl
lit rxprrirure and II In
OINOrlltiIIN.
Clear Cheek, N. C, Octooer 15,
lS'.U. Among the great multi
plicity of vital questions that are
discus.-ing in the pulpit, from the
prohibition rostrum, by the press, at
the Alliance Lodge and in the great
i Am Congressional hall, I know of
no other hat concerns all alike
more than the one I am going to
wiite about. Now, I want to say
before I go much further, that a
newly replenished stomach and a
good warm fire on a cool night may
have set my enthusiasm to a higher
pitch on the following theme thau a
fellow ought to have. Sometimes a
fellow's steam gauge gets out of fix,
.011 kno', and then if he is not a
careful hand he may burst the
" biler." I knew a man over in
Kentucky that burst his boiler when
the steam gauge was in full head
way, but generally that don't hap
pen. Well, I know that the moat
ot your readers are very busy men,
aud have no time for reading fool
ishness and thiugs that don't help
aloug their money matters and such
like, so w ill tell you wiiat it was I
was going to say. You see, most of
people hive some points of resem
blance, and iu the majority of cases
everybody is about alike. But this
fellow that I am wanting to tell
you about is built on an entirely
different rule from a great many
other people. He has notions and
opinions of his own, of course, may
be two notions to our one,! He lives
in the country, but wants to "go to
town" to live. He says town's the
place. We tell him town will do
for some people, while for otper peo
ple it will not do. Most people who
have been rais d in the country
don't know how to get along iu
town. They not only don't know
how to make money there, but they
don't know how to behave them
slvcs when they get there. As a
general thing, a. nun that stands
high in the country as a literary
genius, or for scholarly attainments,
tinds when he irjqves to town that
he is just ten years behind the times.
We are uot discussing why this is so,
but it's true. A man can be an
honest, Christian gentleman, either
in country or town, but it's harder
to do right in town than out here iu
pie are mi entirely uiifercnt species
of beings from the country ones a
superior people. But those who
have good sense don't think that
not een those who have the mis
fortune to live in town think that.
Before I had ever traveled anv, ar-d
my knowledge of the world was yet
claimed to the narrow compass ot
the little neighborhood of my child
ish delights I was happier than I
have ever been since. My mind is
not capable of eonceiwug of better
davs than those were. You may
talk as much as you please of city
life and the attraction of tow-n, byt
give me the quiet seclusion of rural
life, with neighbors that will go for
the doctor w hen yon get sick, and
will come and git "up with you and
whil& away the tjtne talking about
their good crops, and Jersey cows
.nd B ikshire pigs and frisking
lambs. There is nothing to my ear
like the doleful notes of the turtle
dove or the tinkling of tne cow bell
There is ho air like tlie exhilerating
breeze ot" the country homes, no
nourishment like the cool, rich milk
that faithful oaM "Tide" gives us,
no perfume like that of the new
mown hay, no comfort lik? the
warmth and glow which the old
time hickory log lire lmparti on a
winter night, no genuine human
sympathy like that which is born of
manual toil amid the toiling yeo
manry of the country, for city life
presents to us such varied and fre
quent scenes of misfortune and suf
fering among men that .we become
insensible to the ever recurring
claims upon our sympathy, and in
stead of growing: to be better men
and women, we "may find it difficult
to lend a helping hand, even in time
of soecial need. If I did not thiuk
that the better impulses of men
could be wrought upon and blunted
and destroyed under certain influ
ences, I would not write thus. " l
have said what I have said." What
I have seen I have seen, and see now.
I have seen boys who would shudder
at the thought of using an oath, go
to the citv. and iu three months
learn the whole category of pro
fanity.
Boys, like our illustrious Wash
ingtou, who would rather get 1
spanking than tell a story, go to
town, and the next vou hear of
them tnev are taking a special com
fort in the thought they can tell
you the biggest tale with the lest
grace ; boys who would ratner thrust
their right hand into a rattlesnake's
den than to allow tbe fiery serpent
whiskey find its way down their
throats, go to the city, and there iu
In-very flush of approaching suc-
I'css, surrender his hopes, bright
prospect?, his all, to the demon of
the dram shop: boys whose morals
and fidelity to virtue before going
Stan
CONCORD, N. C., TIIU11SDAY, OCTOBER 22,
to the city were unimpeachable,
whose every thought was pure and
chaste, and now, with morals all
gone, his former elegance of speech
turned into the veriest blackguard,
he is stranded on the drift and
slush of despondency, and his last
unheeded cry for help, from an un
friendly world, is only a matter of a
few more hours. Only a few more
black clouds will gather around
nim, the surging billows of remorse
will lash a liitle harder, the poor,
pitiful wreck that wa3 once the idol
of a doting father, looks out upon
the world, imploringly, but in vain,
for some friendly hand to reach
down ani lift him up again, into
the light and joy of one more happy
day on earth, where he would be re
cognized by friends, but no, there
are none to pity. His career in gin
and folly has been so impetuous, so
swift, that even those who would
help him could not kep in sight,
and now he finds himself beyond
the reach of human powtr to save.
Surrounded by base criminals, or
polluted outcasts, whose utter insen
sibilities to the dying man's wretch
edness, is all the comfort he gets,
as the spirit is taking its flight.
The clouds have vanished, and he
no longer feels the lashing of the
dark waves the spirit has flown.
The eyes that took one longing,
wistful look upon earth for the last
time, are now closed. A coroner's
inquest is held, and the oft repeated
verdict is announced to the world.
This is a sad picture, but we had
better study it than to have to con
template the sad reality of such a
scene. II. T. B.
A Pica for Democratic Harmony.
State Chronicle.
Islington, N. C, Oct 12.
Unity in the ranks of the Demo
cratic party is greatly to be desired
by every lover of the gaand old
party, born more thau ninety years
agoand whose fundamental princi
ples have withstood the tests of tal
ents and of time.
There is unity now in these fun
damental principles. But ou a
mere matter of policy, extrinsic to
them, there are, unfortunately, divi
sions which threaten the very integ
rity qf the p.arty.
These divisions grow out of the
financial system of the general gov
ernment. Indeed, there is unity on
almost all questions connected with
that system. It is agreed that there
are radical abuses and evils in the
ibanpes of the country. But there
is discord in the mode of plan of
correcting these abuses and of erad
icating these evils. So it will be
seen that there is a unanimity of
sentlmeut iu the party on all funda
mental principles and on all ques
tions of policy except one alone,
and that one a meie abstraction.
Now, ought this party that has
fought aud vanquished all other
parties since its birth, to disinte
grate on u mere abstraction? A
thousand times no. Then what is
the duty of its ny-udiers? It is
pl-iin to. everyone that will stop and
think.
PLAN OF SETTLEMENT.
I suggest this plan of settlement.
Let the whole Democratic party
the discordant element and all
meet together in a spirit of patiiot
ism and concession, w i h one com
mon purpose to adjust, within tne
party, this one question or policy
(for I have shown that they differ
only iu one material thing), and
embody this purpose iu resolutions
something like the following:
I. Kesolyed, That the financial
system of tha seueial government
s radically defective, and the laws
in relation thereto should be changed
or amended.
3. That wp wU biippon any legal
and constitutional plan or measure
that will provide for the people
sufficient sound currency to meet the
wants of business and trade, and to
give financial relief t,o the country.
1 he nrst resolution declares that
there are radical defects in the sys
tem. On that all agree. I he sec
ond declares a detepni nation to cor
rect them- On that also all agree.
It goes further. It reveala a spirit
of concession in that it expresses a
purpose to support any legal and
constitutional plan or measure that
may be devised to effectuate the ob
iect sought.
Then let r.u agree to relegate tne
whole matter to Congress, the only
tribuual that can give relief. Let
the Democratic members devise na
many plans or measures as thev may
deem proper and by bill or bills,
introduce them into the House of
KeDresentatives. whioh is Demo-
cratic. Let Hoods of light he turned
.. -. ......
on them. Let the critical test of
debate and elucidation be brought
fully into play, Thia ought to be
done, as the question of liuance is
universally admitted to be an ex
ceedingly abstruse and intricate one.
Then alter a plan has been matured
and agreed 00, whatever that plan
may be, and to carry it into iliect a
bill has been perfected by discussion,
amendment, &o, let the House oF
Uepreseutatives pass it. Let it be
sent to the Senate aud if the Repub
lican Senate refuse to adopt it, let
the responsibility lest on the Repub
lican party. Or if the Senate should
pass it and a Republican President
should veto it, still the respons'bil-
lty would rest on the Republican
party. The Democratic party will
have done all it cqqld for the time,
and until auother appeal to the peo
lie. Now, Mr. Editor, is not the above
reasonable ? Ia it not fair to all ?
M, II. PlNNIX.
The farmers say the frost a1 night
and the hot sunshine in day is doing
the cotton good.
dard.
PIJiVGEMT HITS IIT SAM JOXES.
Rev. Sam Jones is doing business
in Wilmington now, and the Star
catches up these:
"the difference bet.veeu a dead
man and a dead church memb r is,
you can bury a dead man and plant
flowers on hi3 grave and he'll lie
still ; but a dead church member
can kick like a steer!
There is not a difficulty in this
town that has lived twenty-four
hours that has not been kept alive
by somebody's talking.
How can a church member keep
straight when he is winding in and
out in the church, keeping feuds
alive ?
Of all the things a church was
ever cursed vith, one of the worst is
internal feuds and dissensions, and
the preachers mouths are locked.
If he says anything, somebody will
say he "tuck 6ides."
My experience in the matter of
bapfism is, it's not how much water
you pot on a fellow, but the kind of
fellow you put it on ! I've sprinkled
some that turned out a heap better
than some I dipped clear under.
If my watch don t keep time it
isn't worth any more than an oyster
shell in my pocket, and if a man
don't keep time religiously he is
worth no more than au oyster shell
in the church.
If all the preachers in town were
in the pulpit we'd get along better.
There ain't a fellow down town but
what is preaching. I'll tell you
what I think about it. A black
smith working on a watch.
HIS OPINION OF PREACHEHS.
I believe in preachers. No such
class of men live on the face of the
earth, and yet of thousands of
preachers that I have met and shaken
bands with, I cannot name you
twenty cousecra'ed preachers that I
have met in this country. JSow
don't understand me to say that I
have met thousands that were not
partially consecrated. I want to be
perfectly understood, because 1 would
rather lay my head ou that steel rail
out yonder and let the old mogul
engine run over it than tell a lie on
a preacher. (Laughter.) But, breth
ren, before Uod, if 1 have met and
know personally twenty thoroughly
consecrated preachers, so help me
God I don t know what 1 am talking
about!
A COMPLIMENT TO BROTHER CREASY'
And now let me sav, before you
blame a preacher, brethren, you had
better look upon voursell, maybe, a
little. There is an old fellow out
there, a member of the Bapcist
church, aud there is another, a mem
ber of the Methodist church ; as soon
as we get on the whisky question,
for luttjnee, you have a iittle prop
erty and so you are afraid, the taes
will be put up, and for fear of that
you will absolutely vote for whisky,
or else you won't vote at all. You
pusilauimous puppy : (Laughter')
That is the Lowes, down of all the
fellow who won't vote at all. I ought
not to have said ''puppy ;" I would
have said " dog " but they aiu t big
enough. (Laughter.) A fellow asked
me the other day, and suid ; "Jones,
what do you mean by calling people
puppies aud tools and hounds:
" Why," I said, " because that is their
forgiven name ; that is the only came
they w ill ?jq by." Laughter.) You
have, got them in your church,
Brother Creasy; if you would only
call their forgiven names in public
they would quit your church,
wouldn t they : Brother Creasy 19 a
little more sassy than, he was latt
year : he hu pnly got a few more
days to stay here, and he is getting
right independent. (Laughter.) lie
13 talking out a little better than he
was before; 1 5m irlud of it. It won't
be more than about four weeks or
six weeks before be will pack up his
blacking brush and call his dog and
go. (laughter.)
is.;H1M 1 .
Ibe Letter That Came at Lant,
Some strange things are discovered
about the postoffice department, and
the dead, letter postoffice ia a vast
Storehouse of epistles full of wit,
humor and pathos. Dory Cool is a
farmer who resides "i Saunders
county, Nth., a few miles south of
Fremont. Sixteen years ago his
sweetheart, a Miss Harris, of Tort
Bryan, III., wrote him a letter which
Dory did not receive nntil long
after it was mailed, tt was evi
dently impossible to find him or the
letter got stuck somewhere in a pos
tal car or fell into an obscure corner
in some postollice. At all events,
the epistle found its way to the dead
letter office where it remained for a
period and was then staited out on
a fresh io;;ruey,
On the 3'0d of this month Dory
Cool drove into Fremout, Neb., after
his mail. Among the letters given
to him was that written by Miss
Harris years before, on the 8th of
May, 1875. It had been sixteen
years, four months aud thirteen
days reaching its de tination. The
strange tart of this story is that
Mr. Cool and Miss Harris have been
married several years and have a
number of children, the 4eldest be
ing upward of fifteen years old.
European steamers arriving at
New York briug additional reports
of heavy gales at sea. A number of
passenger? on the Umbria and Au
gusta V ictoria were nurt.
Frank Melbourne has contracted
to produce crop raius in Northwest
ern Kansas during June, July and
August, 1892, at 10 cents an acre.
Mr. Melbourne will attempt to make
a similar contract with twenty coun
ties of Colorado, claiming that he
can easily water every county in the"
oiaie. 1 lie unguium uuuipauico iu
Ccdarado and Kansas will light the
scheme.
1891.
"I HAVE SO MORE CONFIDENCE
In tbe Democratic or Repnblicaa Par
lie than I Have Uot iu a KogruUb
Siegrro."
The Standard announced a few
days ago that Dr. L. G. Broughton,
a prominent physician of Reidsville,
and one who stood high in the tied
ical Society of North Carolina, had
turned his back on worldly honors
and joined the Baptist ministry.
He delivered his first sermon last
Sunday night in Reidsville, and
from some of his utterances he went
off like uno an excited school boy.
The Doctor has room yet in which
to tone down. From the Reidstilk
Weekly the Standard gets these notes
about Rev. Broughton's first attempt
at preaching :
Dr. Broughton preached his first
sermon at the Baptist church 3un
day night. Despite the inclemencv
of the weather a large congregation
turned out to hear him. His sub
ject wa3 " The Fear of Man vs. The
fear of God." Text: "And fear
not them which kill the body, bnt
are not able to kill the soul : bnt
rather fear him which is able to de
stroy both soul and body in hell."
Matt, w.'zu.
The sermon was able, original.
attractive. Some parts of it were
eloquent, tender, others witty, sar
castic, severe, and the whole bore
the impress of the genius of its
author. The burden of the discourse
was that men fear man more than
they do God. Man fear rules the
world. Society ia corrupt, politics
is corrupt, the government has de
generated, the press is no longer the
voice or tne people, and the pulpit
is not as brave in declaring the
whole counsel or uod as it should
be. There must be a reformation.
Men must fear God more than man.
He was severe on the Democratic
and Republican parties, denouncing
ineir nypoeney ana cowardice in
dealing with tbe great questions
wnicn concern tne welfare of the
American people. They are afraid
to take a decided stand upon any
thing for fear that they will lose
votes. The people go to them for
relief and they are told to keep quiet
or they will ruin everything. When
1 was going to school in Raleigh I
lived next door to a Republican
noser, and the prejudice wa3 so great
against the internal revenue system
that l thought it was a disgrace to
live in the same neighborhood with
him. By and bye the Democratic
party came into power. Did it abol
ish the iniejuituou8 system, as it had
promised to do r Not much. Why
the old folks actually became
gaugers and nosers and said that
tho system was not so bad, after all !
As it was with the internal revenue.
so it would be with the tariff. It is
only a subterfuge to blind the people
to tne real problems which demand
solution. Give it the power and the
Democratic party would not dare to
reduce the tariff in conformity with
its pledges.
President Harrison was given a
lick for his timidity in the Diaz
matter. He wa3 afraid of offending
the Catholic vote and permitted an
American citizen to . be uujustlj
imprisoned in Cuba. He merits the
execrations of Christendom, and not
because he 13 a Radical.
From this time forward I have
no more confidence in the Demo
cratic or Republican parties than I
have got in a roguish negro, declared
the speaker with gfeat emphasis.
Ihe speaker confessed with morti
fication that he had been a party to
the deceptions which politicians
had practiced upon the people, but
from this time forward he proposed
to stand up for God and right, let
party go where it pleased. He
cared not what people might think
of hiru. He had conquered self and
proposed to live in the fear of God
and not in the fear of men.
The congregation waa more deeply
impressed with the Doctor's earnest
ness than his words. His oratory
was thrilling at times. Some
things he said were rash and intem
perate, but they were tittered upon
the spur of the moment. Too much
should not be expected of a begirL
ner. The Doctor is 6t a nerrou'sj
impetuous temperament and puts his
whole soul into his words, lie will
sober down with experience.
All Hands and Ihe Mare Overboard.
Ed. Miller, of Shiloh township,
and Pink Lackey, of Alexander
county, were going home from
Statesville in a buggy some even
ings ago. when, at a point just be
yond Iredell station, on the Junebug
Railroad, one of the w heels of the
buggy struck a stump and the young
men were Epillea out The mare
ran away, and iu looking back to see
what had become of the young men,
didn't notice particularly where she
was gomg and fell, head over heels,
into a railroad cut, 9 feet deep, and
was bo bunged up that she hasn t
been able for business since. The
fact that Statesville is a dry town
protects the young men from the
suspicion that they had on any ben
zine. But this was the worst wreck
that ha3 ever happened on the J une
bug, Statesville .Landmark.
Considerable interest is excited at
Roanoke, Va., by the discovery of a
large vein of zinc glance in the
mines at Bonsacks.
Ihe Nashville American wnB
burned Tuesday night with a loss of
$ 20,000. Many of the typographical
force had narrow escapes.
The juiy in the case of Ashley V,
Howell, on trial at Warrenton, Ga.
for the murder of Capt W. J. Mc
Grath, failed to agree, and the pris
oner will be tried again in January
The jury stood five for acquittal and
seven for conviction.
WHOLE NO. 197.
TOWN AND COUNTY.
"There's a Chiel Am anq ye Takin Notes
no faith He'll Prent Them."
It's Dan Blvens, Hare.
State Chronicle: A colored man
yesterday brought here a pure white
possum.
Here's Information.
A lady writes us thusly : "What
do you mean by the word 'fernent V
The dictionary does not contain it,
nor can any one tell us." That
word is peculiarly at home anywhere
about two miles from the lady's
home. Fernent is a good word; it
means opposed, cannot approve or
endorse, not in sympathy with, &c
The next edition of Webster's book
will have fernent.
Is It a Member of tbe Cbatn Gano; T
The Standard published a ghost
story which has some truth in it.
The chains that rattle created much
excitement. Some time ago Eli
Miller took leg bail from the chain
gang and left in the direction of No.
7. Some think he is the fellow that
is rattling the chains to his leg.
They believe that he has become a
wild man of the woods, subsisting
on berries, acorns and mice. Is it
Eli?
Tbe October Circuit.
It is law-for the sheriff, to visit
each township of the county during
the month of October, to collect
taxea. The sheriff is on his rounds.
He has visited Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Up to this date he has not collected
" nary cent" He would have gotten
one man's tax in No. 1 had Uncle
Johnnie Davis not gotten impatient
and gone back home before the
sheriff reached the point. This is
useless In the first place it is too
early, and in the second place people
like to come to town to do business.
Iron In Cabarrus.
From what the Cabarrus men say
the only talk over about Mt Pleas
ant is on What they think is a rich
una of hrst-class iron ore. The
hill that is composed almost entirely
solid iron is located near Mt
Pleasant, and will be easily reached
by rail. There will be something
good for Cabarrus. Watch. Char
lotte Chronicle.
Thi3 4-pager has never before
been called" Cabarrus men." That's
an ingenious baptism.
Sbe is Dead.
Mrs. Robert Rose, of Mt Pleas
ant, w hose illness was announced in
this paper some days ago, died
Wednesday evening. Mrs. Rose has
been suffering sometime with dropsy
of the heart. She was a kind and
christian woman. Not more than
ght months ago a son and daughter
were stricken down by death. Mrs.
Rose was probably fifty years of age.
She has a son, Mr. Boon Rose, of
Winston, a salesman of a tobacco
factory that come here frequently.
He Writes tbe State Chronicle.
Dr. II. C. Herring, who stands at
the head of the State Dental Society,
has been very much interested for
some time in the methods used in
institutions for the deaf. On a re
cent visit to the State Institution,
Dr. Herring was interviewed by the
State Cnronicle. His remarks to
the Chronicle struck the keynote of
reform that is greatly needed, and
the Standard hopes to spend what
might it possesses in impressing this
pon the public mind. ur. Herring
is right when he contends for the
oral method in teaching the deaf.
Matches In Trnnks,
Mr. A. T. Vernon informed a
Greensboro Workman reporter of an
affair which should serve as a warn
ing. A trunk that was on its way
from Salem . to uanvuie, ana was
being handled in the baggage "de
partment here, was found to hate
- - . m . i rtiv . j -
smoke issuing irom li. xnere was
fire on the inside, and when the
trunk was opened it wa3 found to
have originated from a box of
matches that had. been put in 'the
tray of the trunk. In a little while
longer there would have been a don
tiderable fire, and perhaps much
damage. It was only because the
smoke was uiscoverea so eanv mm
the contents of the trunk were not
consumed. It is dangerous to carry
matches in trunks, and the practice
s ho aid be abandoned.
Collision at the Depot.
There was a small sized collision
at the depot at 12 o'clock last night,
aava the Salisbury iieraia. oras-
Benger train Na..9 is due to arrive
here at that nour, anu it ia vuoto
mary for No. 10, which leaves here
for Ashevine at la.oo io yuu uu
the Bide track beyond the Mt' Ver-
nnn hotel iust before the other train
onmixi in. niieu lUC uoiu awuj
1171 1 1 i.nln tvnm
AabAville came in last night
brought the special car or superin-
tendent lonageru m auumuu vv
far uaasenger and sleeping cars.
Both the special car auu me oiwi
e . . , ji x i .i,
hoA hfl nut ou Biae uacAB, huh-
T- - A Ia. malrinir tVlf
me tWO ITIPB -
first trip to tne Biue-ia-i;. iuc mv-
man who was in cnarge oi .touhw.
in Mmi flown to take the usual
place at the depot and the result
waa that the engines came together
with considerable force.
tu uVt of both engines were
displaced, a draw-head pulled out of
one car, ana two or imn
Irnrlrod OHt 01 PlttUe. aw
ncic uvv- . . i
passengers were on either train and
rt. The damage to
the engines and track was slight
alrpadv been repaired One
of the engines that collided pulled
out the passenger train at noon
today.
THE STANDARD
-TIIIS 4-PAGE It HAS A
BIGGER CIRCULATION AT
EVERY POSTOFFICE IN THE
COUNTY, SAVE ONE, THAN
ANY OTHER PAPER.
PIT WATER IX OCR EYES WITH 81.
EAST BIRMINGHAM.
Some .More Development that Are
Interesting.
W. A. Smith spent Wednesday at
Mt Pleasant. He has been making
further efforts to develep the iron
ore discovered there.
He is assured almost beyond a
doubt that ore is there in inexhaust
ible quantities. Examination of
other property wa3 made there, and
fine traces of iron i3 shown. Arrange
ments are making for a thorough in
vestigation of all these veins of
iron ore.
Sarrleil.
At the residence of Robert Miller.
father of tbe bride, on Sunday ct.
4th, by Rev. A. L. Cobtirn, Mr. Lo
renzo Walton to Miss Bettie Char
lotte Ingo Narcissus Sissie Belle
Fannie Salome Caldwell Mil'er.
Salisbury Herald.
If that man survives with such a
load to him, he deserves a chromo.
Wanted Bad.
A writing master to teach travel
ing men chirography.or words to that
effect Such a gentleman might do
a profitable business by opening out
such a school here, if the knights of
the grip desire to remedy a defi
ciency. Eighty per cent of them
cannot- read their own names as they
appear on the hotel registers.
Salisbury Fair.
The Fair this yar promises to
have a better attendance of visitors
from other counties than did the
last one. Jim Cook promises a big
delegation of people from Concord
and Cabarrus, and we can look for
equally as fair representation from
Stanly, Iredell Davie and Davidson
Of course the attendance of Rowan
people will be immense. Salisbury
Herald.
They say they are going, and we
hope they will.
The Cotton Seed Bimiiie.
A few years ago it would have
been a novel sight to bee a load of
cotton seed on the streets biddiug
for sale. Like everything, a change
has taken place. It is a question
whether there is economy in selling
the seed at 14 cents per bushel. It
is evident that the great syndicate is
making a big profit out of its busi
ness. But the question occurs to
us, could not the farmer derive
more than 14 cents benefit from the
seed were they used on the farms?
m
Rev. J. B. Davis, D. D.
The gentleman, whose name is at
the head of this article is well
known in this county. He made
many agricultural speeches in the
county. Ihe church
Messenger
speaks of him as follows
Rev. J. li. loavis, U. L.,now resid-
in at Salem, Va., has reached his
86th year. He has been in the
ministry 57 , years. Ilia life bus
been divided between the parish
and our higher schools of learning.
He was a member of tho faculty of
Roanoke College for nine years ; and
two years President of North Caro
lina College. The more recent years
of his active life were passed in
Ohio, wher he served a3 pastor.
He retired from the ministry in
1889. He wa3 among the most
prominent of the ministers in the
Lutheran Church South, an able
preacher, and a devoted student of
natural science, lie is passing ine
evening of his life in quietness, re
taining his interest in the church
which he has served so many years.
His excellent wife is still living,
and waiting with him the time of
their departure. She ia now, as al
ways, the warm friend ot her pastor,
encouraging him by her sympathies
and kindly words. God is leading
them gently in the way ot tne me
eternal. Church Messenger.
Fend us your job printing
PREVALENCE Ol' ILL-HEALTH,
""ill-health ia a very inatti-r-nl t
affair it is no uncertain und problem;. :
kal condition. The nec;s.itj-, at tin: ,
for medical treatment is as evident uul
pressing as any other uM-i;sity, ;el
it Is lor this reason that wo wo-.i':-'
earnestly caution our rt-ailers u'iiin.l
the use of any but the most ajiprovi 1
remedies. Irrepurable injury is oiteii
done by placing .confidem-n in iin di
cines which, although new and pn-t. n
tious, are often wortnlc:--;. 1: is .the
almost inevitable failure of tl.e.-i ci.m
pounds that throws discredit ui"ii I'Lar
macy and medical sci.-nce iu jrem nil.
Physicians are now of the opin'-m th: '
many diseases are the result of a morbid
condition of the Wood, either lliroiif;o
inheritance or contusio". ami that ti.
only rational and effective way i f err
ing these complaints is to proi'.u.-e u
radical change in the vital fluid. Ti e
prevalence, for example, of o. rof il.i is
the most prolific cause of cousimi;.. i' :.
A specific that expels the L.-n-dit iry
taint of scrofiil:i from the b!o.ul i-,
therefore, a preventive of eoiiMimption.
That Ayer's Sarsaparilla Las repeated
ly proved itself such a i-p.cilii; is a
well-known fact that cannot be too fre
quently and urgently proclaimed.
A distinguished physician has re
cently recorded his belief, foui!il. il
on the most satv factory and reli: Lie
evidence, that " the faithful use
Ayer's Sarsapari'da will thoroughly
eradicate scrofula." ire further asserts:
" I have used it as au alterative und
Wood-purifier, and must say that I
honestly believe it to be the best blood
medicine ever compounded." This tes
timony, which has lieeu re-affirmed Vy
hundreds of others, should lie sufficient
to induce all who are of scrofulous habit
to resort, without deLiy, to the use of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
Another malady very prevalent in the
United States is catarrh. This is also a
blood disease, and one of the most stuli
bomwith which physicians have to con
tend. We have been repeatedly as
sured, however, that the persistent use
of Ayer's Sarsaparilla effectually ex
pels from the system this most dis
gusting and dangerous complaint. In
a word, the way to health is through
thefpurification of the blood which
nourishes the whole system. Try Ayer's
Barsaparillft.