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Standard is Only One Dollar Per Year. Largest Circtntion of Anv TV, 1n aJ S 1 . Tin; TIIK STANDARD. ,.4TII1S 4-rAC.KU II AS A ru;UKi: UKCULATTON AT 1.VKUV POSTOFFICE IN THE CvVSTY, SAVE ONE, THAN AY OI'HKli PATH 11. ri l WATI K IX or It r.YEN WITH SI. do:kii)I.i:xkkn cavkf. it? ,Mt week the Standard copied an csti ut from a paper furnished a n:;i. by a college professor, one ,'!!, shade farmers! We in-J tended to reply to ir, but here :s what the Wil nington Star sajs: Mr. David S:arr Jordan, presi-iL-iit ef the Inland Sanford Univer j;:v in California, has written an article on "Agricultural Depression u:A Waste of Time" for the October liumb.ref the For urn, in which he ., ;!i.taneially takes the position that i.io depression complained of by fanners is due more to waste of time a:,.l idleness by them than to any o! her cause. We don't know whether Mr. Jor i!.n. has ever given much time to plowing, seeding, harrowing har vesting, &c . but he is evidently one (.i those peculiarly constituted men who thinks he has made a complete dn.'tiosis of the farmer's trouble, a:;d thereupon proceeds to prescribe for him thus, in effect, "work more, ami stick closer to it." That has the merit of brevity, at least, but i.ot i'f originality, for there are a'out forty thousand advisers who thinU. they have made the same dis eourv and who prescribe the same remedy, so tint l he l-.arned gentle man wl is gnim: io preside over the big institution '.; the California and other young i .eas will learn how io shoot big guns, so to spjak, hasn't maie any discovery at all, but has Minplv stumbled into the path that these forty thousand other wise men had discovered and meandered over In fore he happened to strike it The fact is it has become sort of fashionable amoug some writers aud talkers, who set themselves up as public lecturers or educators, to tell tne fanner that all this agricultural depression of which he complains is his fault, and that if he got up and hustled, and crowded about twenty four hours into sixteen that he would prosper rignt along, the old farm woild boom, and he aud the old woman aud the boys and the girls wou'd be "as happy as big sunflow ers." As a general thing, about all the familiarity these gentleman have with farming they have acquired from the speeches and reports of eminent farmers like Lncle Jerry Husk, and from locking through the car windows as they spin through tne country aim taXe in tne larms at the rale of forty miles an hour. It was one of these very likely, who was admiring a field of sorghum, wmeh lie thought very tine corn, who was informed by a farmer sit ting near him that it might be very line corn if it didn t ha-e a con stitutiona objection to growing ears, It may appear an entirely satis factory reason to these writers and perhaps conclusive to some of their readers when they find the cause of agricultural depression in the idle ness and the thrif tlessnef 3 of the fanners, but it is not trv hM the Sim-. In iiidiudu l ;!-, it is doubtless true, and it nuy apply to a L'leat many individuals, but in general application it i3 not true, for as a calling, there is no more in diisrrious, or harder working b dy of men in the United States than the men whose wheat, corn and cotton fields feed and cloth the 03,000,000 of p -ople in this country and help to fen! and clothe tne populations of some of the countries on the other side of the sea. The farmers of the Northern and Western States, work more hours in a day, and s'ick closes to it from the time the melt ing frost unlocks the soil in the spring time until the frost locks it as winter comes along, than any other body of toilers in the land, and it is simply nonsense to say that as a body they are, in the depression which their business sutlers, only reaping the fruits of their own idle- lies--. And so in the Soufh. As a body the farmers work as faithfully and as bard as the men of any in dustrial pursuit. If this has anything to do with it the depression from which the farmers suffer is caused not by too little, but, strange as it may sound, by too much work. It is caused by the low prices, ordinarily, for th products of the farm, low prices caused by raising too much for the nui'ket which our farmers have to s"pply. If there were less raised there would be a more active demand und better prices, the price increas ing in proportion to the shortness of the supply, so that if the farmer didn t work half as much as he does and didn't raise half as much as h dos, he conld get as good or better Piv for one-half his labor than he has since this depression era be can. crofen for all of it. The farm er commits errors, there is no doub (if that: lie with some exctiVnns, pursues methods that are noc re inunerative. there is no doubt of that: he gets into ruts that it seems very hard to get out of, there is n doub- of that; but if he doe s not prosper and is not getting rich, idle iiess is not the cause. There are too many f irmers in this country rais ins food and cotton for the numbe of people there i;re to feed and to clothe, and the result is an over stocked market and consequent low price?, an 1 then on top of this out of these low prices the farni( is ruq-iired 'o pay heavy tribute to th- protected manufacturers for th various things he needs and has to buy. I hat s where the trouble is and not in too much idleness. A homicide in Duplin county, teD mileH from lit. Olive. Sunday even ing, is reported by the Goldsboro llea liirl:t. in which a white nea mut named Summerlin wa.-t killed ly Lis wife's two brothers name Kocoi b. Domestic troubles between Suuimerlin aud Lis wife caused the homicide. VOL. IV. NO. 43. THE CAM. FOK THE ARTICLES. Will the firntlemen. Who Rend the Articles, Ulve Heed. Editor Standard : In your issue of Wednesday you ay that Dr. Young was requested to llow the Standard to publish the essay read at the Lyceum ou Tues day, but that from a sense of timid ity he declined. The Lyceum as I nderstood it, was organized for the mprovemeut of its members and the citizens at large Now there have been several p ipers read there, that were well worth the public's consideration. Prominent among those were, How to Puild a Town jn Paper and Thoughts Suggested by the Appearance of a Woman Drummer in our lown. iney were edisfyiug and interesting to the Lyceum and would le to tne readers of the Standard. Do not hide your ights under a bushel, (my visits to the Lyceum has taught me to make Scripiural quotations, yon see) but; let n8 all have the benefit of your aings and doings 1 he author 01 How to Buill a Town on Paper has been before the public often enough to have become callous to the bick erings ot Moss lSacKs . ana tne author of, Thoughts Suggested by the Appearance of a Woman Drum mer in our Town, certainly has ufiicient Cerebral ertebraj to stand the attacks of the Women Suffra gist of the community. Let us have them, by all means. Admirer. The "Arizona Kicker. Last Friday we received word that a man ha$ appeared in Gulch town soliciting subscriptions to the Kicker and claiming to be our agri- ultural editor. This trek has been played ou us half a dozen times within a year Aud when we heard of this chap we mounted our mule aud cantered ovtr to interview him. We found him just as he had bagged his eleventh subscriber and was read to get out "What followed may not be re- orded in future history, but it was ively while it lasted. I he bold-faced imposter was of squatty build, weighed 200 pounds and had been eating Limburger heese. He, therefore, had a shade the best of it on the go off, but we rounded him up after getting our secoud wind, and he wou't travel on our shape nereatter. lie s got hrough taking subscriptions for us, and six months hence, when able to crawl out again he will probably look for honest work. e employ no travelling agents, give away no chromos, aud we don't take stomach bitters in payment for advertising. M. Quad. We. Mil st Have Ihe Konnoke A Soulli- . ern Railroad. The enterprising citizens of Lex ngton, those who have the interest of the town truly at heart, met again in the court house in a mass meetiLg here on Friday night, the 23rd instant, to further discuss plans for getting the Koanok? & Southern railroad -to and by our town. Hon. M. II. Pinnix called the meeting to order. In the absence of the regular secretary, V. M. Sherrill was elected secretary pro tern. Col. Henderson, Lapt. Kobbins and several others made short, but pointed and effectual speeches. Col. Henderson arose and moved that the committee on private sub soription be continued, and report at next meeting, tamed. Capt. Kobbins moved that a com mittee of three be appointed to con fer with parties along the line. The chair appointed Capt. Kobbins, Col. Henderson and James omith. Col. Henderson was added to the committee on private subscription After some business or minor importance, the meeting adjourned to met Tuesday night, the 27th instant Lexington Dispatch. Ibis will interest our neighbors, of Mt. Pleasant. Their only hope :s the road running by Lexington. NEWS IN GENERAL. Kev. Charles II. Spurgeon, pastor of the London tabernacle, is in Men tone, Italy. I he anarchists of Barcelona, Spain, will celebrate the anniversary of the execution at Chicago of the anarchists concerned in the Haymar ket riots. John E. Fiedmond, Parnel lite car; didate for Cork city, threatens to slap the face of Timothy Ilealy if the latter continues his abusive state ments about him. The new cruiser No. 10 ha3 been named the Detroit. Nine more war vessels at Brook lyn navy yard or vicinity are avail -ble for service in Chilian waters. The New York Central railroad has put on a train from Ne York to Buffalo which averages 52 i miles an hour. A number of well known New York independents and anti Tam many Democrats have issued an ad dress in favor of flower. Robert D. Morton, who had been treated at the Pasteur Institute, New York, for hydrophabia, died in great agony. From all parts of Mantioba come reports of a great crop yield. At Sbeppardsville fifty,. acres yielded 1,7CG ba-bels, and in another case twenty seven acres yielded 9G3 bushels. At Deloraine two farmers reports a yield averaging nearly fifty bushels to the acre. Buncombe county criminal court on Tuesday took up the case against Robert Dougherty, for killing Wil liam Torrence- A verdict of man (daughter was agreed on. Judge Carter sentenced the prisoner to twenty years in the penitentiary. VERY 1'IXTED, THESE. The Wilmlnictoii Wl nr'n Comment on Several NubJeetM. In Carnegie's steel work 3 the wages of employes have been re duced ten percent. It isnota"cut" however, but simnlv a "readjust ment" That's all Andrew Carnegie has sent Mr. Harrison eighteen gallons of fine Scotch whiskey, in which he may find something to brace his drooping spirits when the election returns come in. Poswell P. Flower, Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, can no longer be classed as a ''bloated aristocrat," as it has been discovered since the campaign opened that he is a poor man, worth not more than $1,000,- 000. Some men are very unsocial. There is a man in New Haven, Conn., who weighs 100 pounds, but whose better and larger half weighs 250. He is now asking a divorce from her, just because in her playf u mood3 she was in the habit of gath ering him up, tossing him to the ceiling and letting him fall to the floor. There are some mean men, who don't want their wives to have any fun. Cablu and Three Children Ilurned. Phebe Atkins: a colored woman who lives on the farm of Mr. John II. Howie, at Crofts, on the A. T. & O , road, a few miles rrom Char lotte, lost her cabin by fire, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning At the time the fare started, her three chil dren wre in the cabin. Two of them were burned to death and the third was so badly burned that there is but little chance of its re covery. 1 he woman had gone out to the cotton field leaving the three chil dren at home. She left both doors to her cabin open, but the fasciaat ing fire was burning ou the health. About 11 o'clock the hands in the cotton field noticed that the cabin was euveloped in smoke. Those who got to the house first, found the oldest child, whose age was 5 years, in the yard just outside the cabin door. Its clothes had been entirely burned off, aud it was then dying. Its death occurred two hours later. Crouched against the chimney ou the outside of the house, was the next oldest child. Oue of its hands was burned completely off, and it was burned on the head and body. This child was still living this morning. The baby has burned to crisp in the cabin. The poor woman is almost insane with grief. Charlotte News. Ed Won on (iold .Hineo. Mr. Edison was talking the other day about his experiments in the North Carolina gold helds. He said : "My experiments were all right. The trouble was the lack of gold. spent several months travelling over No th Carolina and I found in fact that every farm had a gold mine, but the gold, if it ever existed in large quantities, has been taken out. The mines had been dug down to the water level in slavery days and there was nowheie gold enough to pay. I found the country too far off aud too much out of the world for a civilized man to settle in, aud I concluded to come back to New Jersey and devote my attention to iron. 1 here is more money in iron than in gold, aud the New Jersey iron mines are going to produce some of the best iron products of the future." "Why don't you go to Mexico ? There's plenty of gold and silver there." 'It's too far off," was Mr. Edi son's reply, "and life is too snort to waste time in travelling rrom one place to auother. A Bad Preacher to Cool With. The News a few days ago noted the fact that its good friend, Major John Wilson, the colored politician, in addition to jining the alliance, had put another iron in the lire and was now dispensing gospel, in a cheap way, for anything, in fact, that the hat might bring in. John wa3 passing a fruit stand last night when a little negro tauntingly called out to him : "Dere you go, you five cent preacher !" John picked up a cocoauut and hurled it at the little negro. It missed its mark and was smashed to pieces on the side of a house, within six inches of the head of a white man, scaring the owner of the head half to death. John was before Mayor Brevard this morning, and the mayor said that inasmuch as J. hn was a preacher, and had set a bad example he would be fined $2.50 and further be required to pay for the demolition of the cocoanut. Thus another serious drain has been made upon the Republican campaign fund. Charlotte News. - Circuit Swindler Rnn In. One of the circus gamblers got caught A negro who was running a little machine went to stay all night with a town negro whose acquaint ance he had made during the day. The host went out for some. purpose and while he was out the visitor lifted $80 from a bureau drawer, But soon after his departure the money was missed and the thief caught and money recovered before he left town. The fellow is now m the Newton jail. Newton Enter prise, A young white man, Q. Pollard, who lives near Clayton, went to Smi bfield Tuesday to eee a friend in jail. Before entering the jail he was searched, a loaded pistol was found upon his person and he was commiitea to jau ior a monin. There are 110,759 acres devoted to tobacco in Virginia. Stan CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, Written For the Standard. AiTr.nx. There is a sadness in the air, The leaves are falling everywhere , In the grove down the lane ; All the night and all the day Winteis frosty fingers work away, Stripping trees of their leaves. Lyceum Member, THIS 1WOCRS. Leaves have their time to fall and so have I. The difference between the leaves and me Is I fall more harder and more frequently. JS?The above is poetry of the first water. Kallobnry Ham a II I b Fire. A big fire occured in Dixonville about sunrise this morning in which three houses were burned. The fire bell awoke many citizens, who hurried to the Bcene, to find all three in a big blaze. The fire de partment and the reel company were promptly on hand, but all ef forts to save the property proved futile. The fire originated in a small grocery store belonging to G. T. Mowery and W. A. Gallimore, and it is suppysed to have been in cendiary, or caused by spontaneous combustion. Messrs. Mowery & Gallimore inform us that when they reached the 6tore it was in a big blaze. No one knows the ex act cause of the fire. Parties who live in the neighborhood heard a loud noise li' e a blast just before the fire was discovered. This is assigned to the explosion of a small keg of powder or a kerosene oil tauk, which was in the store. A rumor is current that a colored man who was at the well for water about day light, saw a burning lamp sitting on the counter with the door wide open, and supposed Mr. Gallimore was in, but did not see him. If this is true tne store was probably set on fire to cover the traces of burglary. The bouse3 were very dry and burned like tinder, and had the wind been blowing like it did on Tuesday, Dixonville would have been swept away by the flames. All three houses were the property of Jack Mowery, colored, who sustained a loss of about one thousand dollars. No insurance. Mowery & Galli more's stock is estimated to be worth between six and seven hundred dol lars, aud nothing was saved. Their insurance is four hundred dollars. Salisbury Herald. The farmer I'ay the Freight. We will send abroad 250,000,000 bushels of wheat. For it we will receive say $250,000,000. This will be invested in clothing, in carpets, iu linens, in furniture, in china ware, in tinware, in hardware, etc., etc. When these, cargoes reach New York they are seized by Federal offi cers. They are weighed and meas ured and valued, and the owners are compelled to pay in duties 50 per cent, of the value of the cargoes. This will be a tax of $125,000,000. In otner words, the farmers must send abroad three bushels of wheat in order to get in return the ex change value of two Last year the exports of cotton amounted to 5,800,000 bales. One third of the return cargoes were confiscated under the plea of pro tection. On last year's cottou crop two- thirds were exported ; one-third was consumed at home. It required all the cotton sold to American mills to pay the duties on the return cargoes taken iu exchange for the 5,SOO,000 bales sold abroad. Here we have an object lesson illustrating the injustice and the oppression of our whole system, so called. The farmer, he pays the freight : he pays the tax ; he pays the pen sions, lo do this ne nas to cultivate three acres in order to have for his own use the products of two. it is the most stupendous system of iniquity and oppression to which any free people ever submitted, and yet the farmer who works three days for two days wages is expected to walk up to the polls in Pennsylvania, in Ohio and in the great North west and vote for McKinley and protection. Down with the war tariff! Courier-Journal. Graphic Description of a Kmanh-up. Just outside of town, opposite the residence of W. T. Brogden, a freight tram yesterday afternoon ran into a wagon and smashed things. James Thorp, a c dored man, was driving a one-horse wagon, and had on a seat with him a colored damsel in whom he was much interested. And evidently she was equally inter ested in her admirer. It wa3 a mash. They were engaged in earnest con versation when they reached the rail read crossing, and did not hear the thunder of the approaching train nor the repeated warnings whistled by the locomotive. The engineer tried to stop his train when near them, but too late. Then there was a smash. The pilot struck the rear end of the wagon, and the air was filled with broken wheels, splinters and the wild screams of the frightened couple. The horse ran away and completed the wreck of the vehicle. Thorp and the won.an were thrown to the ground, and the for mer was badly bruised ; the latter wa3 also bruised and one of her ears was cut. Their injuries are not serious. The horse escaped almost nnhurt The horse and wagon belonged to Mrs. L. G. Smith. Oxford Day.' Is your father a Christian asked the new minister. No, replied the boy, he sings in the choir. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Amang ye Takin Notes And Faith He'll Prent Them." The Thanksgiving turkey is the coming fowl. Ihere are 146 students at David son College. Wait for the two marriages that are coming soon. The China Grove Dart declares that Clevlaud is a photograper. W. A. Wilkinson, of Forest Hill, went to Raleigh. He too, wants rest. The Western North Carolina Con ference; convenes in Ashevillc ou Nor. 11. Business manager Dowd, of the Charlotte Chronicle, is a Baptist deacon. The WTeekly Standard gets a new subscriber on nearly "every morning zephyr." The Waynesville White Sulphur Springs property has been sold for $'J0,00O. About the only thing that can "equalize fatality" is the unstinted propagation of grip. Rev. A. L. Coburn, a Methodist minister laboring in Rowan county, spent Wednesday in town. The boys and girls are making words out of "The Concord Stand ard." See the rulss elsewhere. Some one has said that very soon the grunting, groaning and porky swine will be assissinated. Let him die. "WTby spend so much money for a wedding suit ?" This is a ques tion propounded by a widower of very marked proclivities. Since the dummy has been out of repairs, the public has suffered no lit tle inconvenience. The manage ment, however, could not avoid it because of the slowness of a Rich mond machine shop. Shelby Aurora: "Please help the poor editor by calling at once." Calling won't help some. Does it do old man Miller, the boss talker of the press, good by simply calling on him ? The unusual brightness, brilliancy and cheerJulness of the Standard is due to the invoice of a supply of fresh paste and a pair of i;ew scis sors, but the 4-paser is not a paster or cutter, but a stunner. Dr. N. D. Fetzer wants us to tell the fate of the resolutions presented to the Lyceum. The Standard gladly states that they went a glim mering, all because i.e objected to their consideration. The man that si prosperous times ahead is backed up by a de lusive belief that there is in this country a surplus of 250,000,000,000 bushels of wheat. Tina's the way they all think. Those who subscribe for seats at the Blumenburg Concert Company, formerly the Boston Quintette Club, which appears Nov. 10, will have the advantage of selecting them be fore the rush. Mrs. George James, of Burling ton, met her death Wednesday nirht in a very peculiar way. She weut into the yard for some wood, and, sLumbling over a wheelbarrow, sustained internal injuries that resulted in her death. A patent medicine man called on us for space. He wanted something lika quarter column for $12 per year. To gee this we would have been required to take medicine, which, trom our peculiar condition in life, we could have no earthly use for. Charley Black, of Charlotte, dreamed that his cinner in Cabbar- rus had stolen a bale of cotton. He kept thinking about it, so came over, and the Chronicle says that it is doubtless true. The pinner sold two bales pocketed the money and i in parts unknown. There will be four eclipses in 1892; two of the sun and two of the moon. An eclipse of the sun on October 20th is visible ; it begins 11 h. 54 m. a. m., and ends about 2 h. 55 m. p. m. A partial eclinse of the moon on May 11 'will be visible here. No lady cornetist ever created such enthusiasm as Miss Anna Teresa Berger. As a cornet virtuoso she stands by the great Levy, his equal. Miss Berger has just return ed from a two years concert tour of England to join the Blumenburg coucerts. Correspondent of the Methodist Advocate: "True and effective dis cussion consists not so much iu be littling the arguments and points of an opponent a3 in answering them." That's good sense, but some people have no other ability. "Prove all things, therefore, and hold fait to that that is good." The matrimonial editor came in and declared: "When a young mau proposes and - is accepted he rings the girl's hand. If he is rejected he wrings his own hands." Hp rolled his eyes wildly and then van ished, the matrimonial editor did.' - In another column is a communi cation signed "Admirer." He wants the publication of ."Thoughts" Sug gested by a Woman Drummer," by Dr. Young .'and "How to build a town on Paer," by Solo. These articles were read before the Lyceuni. John W. Creech, who lives in Mecklenburg, just .across from Har risburg, came in and told the old man aDout his crop and. about his subscription to this 4-pager. Mr. Creech says his corn is good, but his cotton is not more than two thirds of a crop. 1891. TWO AXTI.JOXKS JIF.X. Re. Mr. I'eschan and Rev. Mr. Mower I'ajtn Ihronich the 'ity They are Anxioim to Tackle Mr. Jones. Rev. F. W. E. Peschau, of Wil mington, and Rev. Jchn R. Moser of Monroe, parsed through the city at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon, on their way to Catawba county, where they are to do church work. Mr Peschau and Mr. Moser are endeav oring to get up anti-Sam Jones movement in the State. They were seen at the depot this afternoon by a News reporter, and were primed ready for the fight. Mr. Peschau, turning to Mr. Moser, said : "There's a man who is ready to take part with me in the proposed debate." Mr. Moser wants to get up a meet ing of ministers in the State. Mr. rescnau says that he still does not consider himself answered, and .is not only ready, but anxious to meet Jones in debate at any time. If Mr. Jones will divide time with him, he will meet him in Charlotte next week, on any day that Mr. Jones may suggest. Cnarlotte News. Wanted to Die at Home. Mr. W. E. Morrison found the old family horse of. the late Wm. C. Morrison, of Concord townshirj. lvin dead in his lot last Thursday morn ing. Mr. Morrison thinks the old horse had been traded npon by the court crowd last week and felt the degradation so keenly that he wan dered back into his old neighbor-! hood and died of mortification. Statesville Landmark. Even animals below man want to return to the old familiar spot to die. Several years ago, a striking proof of this was seen in the death of a very sensible horse in No. 8 township. During the fated night, the horse became sick (this is a con clusion), broke from hi3 stable (this the door showed) and went over a mile to the stable of his former owner, and where the horse had spent much of his time. There the horse was found dead. Two things seem proved here : First, the horse believed th it death was near at hand ; second, he wanted to die at his first home, where he had spent much time, though not pleasantly at times. . A New AgentMr. Hall. Mr. Frank R. Hall, of Monterey, Mexico, has been here for a few days and has made arrangements wi'.h the Kerr Bag Mfg. Company to travel in Arkansas, Texas and Mexico for the sale cf their bags. Mr. Hall has lived in Mexico for nine years and speaks the Spanish language fluently. He is the son of the late Dr. HjII, of Greensboro, and left here seventeen years ago aud bus been living in Texas and Mexico ever bince. Mr. Hall says that large quanti ties of bags are used in Texas and Mexico, and he has no doubt but that he will be able to do a good business sis all the bags are shipped into the Republic from the States. With the improved facilities which the Kerr Bag Mfg. Company have for manufacturing bags, we have no uoubt but that Mr. Hall will do well for them in the new territory. Xo Foolin" with Him. A workman in town was called on to repar the threads on an elbow for some pipiug, When completed, the owner asked the charges. "Twenty-live cents," was the reply "un, saiu ne, witn a little more emphasis than is pleasant, "I don't want to buy your tools; 111 give you JO cents. "It is a quarter, sir, "Well, you may just keep the elbow for your pay," said the owner. The portly smith reached down for s hammer, and with one . blow com pletely crushed the elbow. "Hold, man, what did you do that for?" said the owner. "I have a right, contemptiole idiot, to do what please with my own." . The Stand ard will not give names, but this i3 a true case. Jury will please re'urn a verdict as to the conduct. .liring-M Hi Cotton to Charlotte, A young farmer, of Cabarrus, living les3 than ten miles from Con cord, is hauling his cotton to Char lotte and does not hesitate to say he will continue to do so as long as the present difference m prices contiuues. lhis dulerence, on Saturday amount ed to about $1.C0 on the bale. Charlotte New3. Ah, my brother, name your man Mr John W. Creech, a Mecklenburg man, who, from the condition of the roads kc, lives nearer Chariot 'e than Concord, sells his cotton in Concord He called on us Tuesday after sell ing cotton on this market He eaid that he could do better here than in Charlotte. How do the two state man ts compare A Powerful Potato, N. D. Fetzer is no farmer but he is exhibitin-1 a ver 1: rge sweet po tato. It has thj appearance of seven or tight roots having grown together, or been pasted together. ThL po tato may have been doctored in th eaily season this we only suggest. The product weighs four pounds and ten ounces. The impression prevails that this potato came from Dr. Fetzer's garden, of this we have no assurance. They say his neigh bor, M. L. Brown, raises big ones too. Tight Ear I n if. "The doctors have decided that Katie Cole, a girl of eighteen, who dropped dead at Pottsdam, Pa., Tuesday, died from the effects of tight lacing." Had the right of voting been given hor, and the priv ilege of becoming a physician, drum mer or preacher been extended her, why, that girl would have been liv ing (?) now. WHOLE NO. 199. A Kinall Accident. At the depot the vestibule stop ped about 30 minutes this mom in r It is indeed provoking for this bar room whirling splendor to remain so long in this town where prohibition reigns, l'rouably suit will be baought for the violation of local option, if evidence sufficient can be nad. The Standard has to tell, however of a small smash up. A freight was backing up at the switch near the creek. A truck was badly split auu wnen tnat struck the switch he car was derailed and in its jerk, and fall it carried another with it. Railroad hands had to be brought from Harrisburg to get the car3 on the track, which required about one hour. The track was consequently block- eu up and tne wnirling palace on wheels with bar attachment was flagged down. The Standard goes on record again for getting in a big scoop of news tnat ought to be news. These that walk can write this stuff with a clear conscience, so to speak. The accident, be it remembered, was caused by no carelessness of the lo cal management. A'cirro Xo Balloonist. m Raleigh, Oct. 2S At the Exposi tion this afternoon iu the presence of over two thousand neonle. a shuddering accident occured. A balloon was inflated and men were holding it down by ropes. Among the men was Anthony Jordan, col., of Raleigh, who instead of holding the rope with his hands was stand ing on it. Suddenly the balloon with a parachute, in which was Mrs. Hawkins, rose in the air. Jordan's foot was caught by the rope and he was carried up between the balloon and the parachute. There were cries of "Drop, drop," and at the height of about fifty feet he dropped and came head foremost. His shoulders and head struck and he was perhaps fatally injured. His jawbone was crushed, his wrist dis located aud he sustained hurts on the head as well as internal injuries. nc balloon rose to an immense height and Mrs. Hawkins descended safely in the parachute. A Bad Ruling;. Public sentiment in the South will generally approve the action of the grand jury at Montgomery, Ala., iu refusing to indict Colonel Dun ham for the killing of young Cun ningham, ihe slam man several months ago wrote Colonel Dunham's wife an anonymmous note, asking her to make an appointment with him. Mrs. Dunham handed the note to her husband, who, by a de coy answer, detected Cunningham. To avoid scandal and trouble the young man was warned and allowed to co. With remarkable reckless ness and folly he continued to dis cuss the matter in public and to ex hibit the decoy letter and elaim tha it nad been written by Mrs. Dunham who had tried to meet him and been prevented. When endurance had reached its limit the insulted hus band empied his shot gun into the unhappy boaster and slanderer. The grand jury said he did right and the vast majority of our people will approve the finding, Greenville (o. C.) News. Afte,Kagefi, and Wagea. If you have a wife and a half-a dozen daughters, you can keep them all well by very simple means. Let them use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription. It is good for women of all ases. Yon will not need to spend all your wages for it. Those ancient sages, the M. D 's of a cen tury since, did nothing but dose and bleed their paiteuts. We do better to-day: use Dr. Pierce's remedies, For womankind, Dr. Pierce's Favor ite Prescription U simply indispen sable. The young girl needs its strengthening help at that critical period when she is blossoming into womanhood. The matron and mother find in it invigoration and relief from the numerous ills which beset their existence. And ladies well advanced in years universally acknowledge the revivifying and re storative effects of thi3 favorite and standard remedy. Scotia Reopened Scotia Seminary has reopened for another session. Every train that comes in, brings large numbers of girls. The Standard man was at the depot Wednesday evening when the train came in. The girls in a quiet and lady-like manner entered the 'buses. The desire to be attrac tive and to be otherwise foreign to what is right, was not seen in siogle instance. These girls have been here before and they are but putting into practice what they are taught by their institution Scotia, TWo Birds With Oae Blow. Janitor Surratt, of the new South Club, met up with an owl Wednes day night. The Janitor's first im pulse was to run, but with his cine delt It a deadly blow. The owl was dead and held in its mouth a dead English sparrow. This is the stone that kills two birds. Henry is so proud of his conquest that he carries the dead owl and the English spar row, which -is also dead, around in his pocket. The Mote Murder Trial. This case, which ha3 attracted interest all over the State, is being heard at Shelby. The crowds in attendance are simply immense People are there from the adjoining counties and are camping out. Send us your job printing TEE STANDARD. ULY T vv ICE AS wr.U READING MATTER AS ANY PAPER EVER , OR NOW PUB LISHED IN THE COUNTY, i TICKLE US WITH $1. A SMALL FIRE. Had Xot Promptness Followed the Uaiiinse Would Have Veen Ureal. A fire occured Wednesday nisrht wry after midnight. It was the "smoke-house" on the premises of Mrs. Esther Gibson. The building was not more than 12 feet from the ell to the residence. Occuring at the hour it did, not a large number 'found it out, but the hose and reel company was there promptly and saved, by "t heir splen did work, the residence. Had the main building caught, other resi dences would have burnt too. The origin of the lire was some ashes that contained live coals being thrown so as to get against the building. The loss is not great. A Romatic Marriage. A romantic mariago in which Lex ington people figured, says the Dis patch, took place in Salisbury on Sunday Morning. Ihe contracting narties wore !lr. Wm. F. Sink and Misa Arreny Kin dley, both of this place, and employ ees of the Weunouah Cotton Mill, s Miss Kindley's parents were op posed to the match, and the couple decided to run away. Their inten tion was to flee to South Carolina and have the knot tied iu that State, but learning that the enraged parent vould pursue them there, gave Mr. Kindley the slip, and stopped over at Salisbury. Mr. Kindley finally traced them there, and found Mr. Sink, but failed to find his daughter. She was kept in concealment until friends of all the parties concerned prevailed upon him to sign an agreement expressing his willing ness to allow their union. The happy pair were married Sun day morning by Rev. N- S. Jones, and the party returned to Lexing ton that evening. tioiiis From ExchaiiKCN- Salisbury Watchman : Mr. Jesse Barger is putting up a new dwelling house for Mr. Harvey Graber, China Grove. Lincoln Courier : Subscribers will please bring us wood before the roads get muddy. Wilmington Review: I found your Brandycrotinc for headache a blessing. State Chronicle : We have a new Tar received paster and cutter. Wilmington Star - i i to uarreis. Stanly News: Cider has gone down considerable this week. Durham Globe: The East Dur ham kid. Is it bj. k again ? Tlioy Hold Secret Session. The Salisbury correspondent of the Charlott Chronicle says : Fully a dozen delegates representing Lex ington, Gold Hill and Mt. Pleasant, have been in session all the morning at the Mount Vernon Hotel, in the iuterest of the Roanoke & Southern road. Another session will be held this evening. They have decided to order an election all along the route from Lexington to Monroe, so says Dr. R. A. Shimpoch, delegate from Gold Hill. Monroe is not represented here today, no, having time to appoint them. The meeting is a sly affair, as no Salisbury mau has been invited into the conference. Some (Hiding FignrcN. While not a local, yet here are some figures that have iu tense inter est in them ; Dem. Plurality. 1885 Governor 11,131 18SG Court of Appeal . ?;?97 1887 Secretary ot State 17,077 1888 Governor 20,527 ISS'J Secretary of State 19,170 1800 Congress 75,G1G New York is Democratic, because the majority of the people are so. Could the last Democratic plurality be reduced from 75,010 to 1,500 a3 some try to believe 'i Flower is not unpopular enough and Fassettistoo much under the thumb of Col. Tom Piatt to produce such a wrinkle in the state of results. "THE liEST." It is easy to k;i? of anything, especial ly ot a medicine, that it ii "the beet"; but to show tliu reason of its superiority to the satisfaction of the public, ui:t be quite another mutter. "When wo allirm, however, that Ayer's Sarsaparilla U superior to any other blood uiedieine, wo make no inconsiderate statement, but tell the plain, unvarnished trut'i. Other so-called blood-puriliers may pro duce a temporary exhilaration, which is mistaken for cure; but the cures effect ed by taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla are radical ami permanent. It not oily purifies the blood, but renews and in vigorates that tiuid. Ayer's Sarsaparilla lias been in use for the better part of half a century, anil has achieved success which is without parallel in the history ot medicine, l'eople early learned to appreciate Jta value as a ptirilier of the blood, and the lapse of years has only confirmed and strengthened the popular opinion of its merits. Only the choicest and most approved ingredients enter into the composition of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, aud these are secured regardless of cost It is on this principle that th- Honduras sarsaparilla root is exclusively used in this prepara tion. The domestic variety ia chep and abundant, being indigenous all over the American continent, but it has little medicinal value compared wtth the richer growth of the tropics. . There fore it is that the .extract of the Ifo'n duras root, solely, forms the basis of Ayer's preparation, the other Ingredi ents being stillingia, podophyllum, yel low dock, and the iodides of potaasiuui and iron. The effect .rod need by thfsa Ingre dients depends largely upon the pro portions used, and it is only by. the greatest skill in compounding them that the remarkable alterative and ; touic; qualities of Ayer's Sarsaparilla are secured. The appliances of Aye's laboratory fire unicpie and costly, ami experience khows that their Use results in producing a compound extract of far more curative power than can be obtained by any other methods. This fact, together with tiie most attractive, liberal, and original methods of adver tising, readily accounts for the world vide reputation and enviable success ot Ayer's Sarsaparilla. , ;""