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L Au&sa ye. Takin NOTES
';;.NT Them.''
r 1 on.
the wolves
tary lac ics
er.'ed, t :u h
vsoim times
.tus 0:1 the
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t-n i 1 t r .1 11 and toll
, fort ;il'K'. Tbe
mi. ad. l-i. l i" i
(!e i' in
" i rocio'as livas s.
:t doem'l S-'U .d
t.i) tll.lt ! lit'
: fl .00 cash, un-1
; - , u.i is luitfint"".
.-. ivVIo a citizen.-!
v. .i; i
,, Mr. lVur,."..
; .1 s k' of th" 1 1 i i II-
, :; !'..i,!:ni i- tor
iMt.rsm and W. II.
: inyoti.itinir, has
, .!. The-e fiei.tte!i:eil
... ;,!ul t!i'.' Stal'.datd
a in cxp:e-sing ivcre;
;t: tu;e.
oiiooril.
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A-'it;iie linuerat
; ;;-LU IV of Professor
: i.'ord is a c-erioiis
radvd seho.ds, of
.e.ii.ning, he has
i ;.!.(.! vsi-ful ofli
: ... - :.'.i:icrd upon
. i :.. ,- ngfttt i:g,
.uoiild k-.-ive Ashe-
Wili !: . nl.'.K '
!: t'ttimuiitt'tl ?
.. : that an iffoit is
Messrs. Kcatns a:ui
ur Alf Dawles, th-
tenced to be hanged
I ave his seliUi.ce
c imprisonment.
...-kid to sign the
l ...mutatie'n. Mr.
Louie was bur- j
.- t sign it. J I
v flionld tikis i:
Chronicle.
Th' S:
a widower in town
' a, r
a u i.U ur in town,
a . go .i t et eye
, :. i: u r-t sawed tht tii
widower in
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:-vt
li in
is
is a widower in to vn
no ane'.or; i. his
I -oon a a cou-
h a wi lower in town,
that a eolli-ion of
; a freiitlu occurred
i i.ear Da-i-...vs.in.
'I i.is wa-S.i'-,
inWi-v..r, col-:Tm'":-
ei;gine and
. d ow n. Four
-uslyh'M-f. Trats
r !. : i . , !;.
: J. ii0..i iutv.
S.il In I : '
. v Company, which
; would sippt-ar here
. : Jit, Jus decided for
i oi:s not to cine ht-re
i:'appiintwl, a-
,. i th" pi. asa.-e of
M .rii.-Gii on the stage.
!:ii''ii(!i:iri.iii.
;, t.ad thre- fir. s in
day nih' a barn
f r Mr." 1 :-vli n On
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ai:;e, of j.i'!en.
ai.'y C"U'. y, is
waik. N. J , for
iu "!:i..e- c
cm t n.M s would
1 i;
hei
Ami. ,i ,nm
I ii : was a load of wo 1 ) the
''. iai that is notldng. The
J"i.a! is tij'i, how V0U suppose the
to town? A team ma
ar.'.. horse,
i !) -ifer.
b.iv iii color,
We have seen
' ep, bat when a young
i- wmked into service,
. ioiii'iit upon t he milk
! i ii reii.
'. v ( 'nnnisi a;ei s order-
:i 'o take pl.ee in Nos.
i ii.-iii'S. J ney are
ir sal-scri;tiou to
N.'ilheru K.ailroad.
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'ivaui ot-ii); No.
(I, ;;a,'iuO.
. iike Ea-tcrii Ca
1 1
11.
rai
;i.
o il has a r. alio id
; it D., w it Si which
' fa n and trouble.
almost certain that
'iii..
: -; .led on it -11 mi -e
V. ir,M.:!. All t'e
ar i !i is h Sieved t hut
: i ntfi.d.'d going one
y wi-hin tne ns'al
O'leil arelli.d to g- t
A stub, m ai . ha
to the route via i
WaM Hill, Mt. i'ieasint
.''on and several town-
idson county, and Gold
M-j'gan townships in
-, o e en a cuhsc-riptiii
'! i i s he: t po-rrd . liisik
is t he
pota
to, or st iii
it.
SHORT LOCALS.
Court is jogging along serenely.
Next year is leu i year. Girls get
ready,
Have you got your Thanksgiving
1 n r key :
Will hite, of Rowan, spent
Sunday in town.
GoM communications don'i cor
rupt evil manners.
Brown Bros, stab'e was crowded
with droves of horses.
The shooting season is here.
".Johnny git your gun."
The dry weather has been of
adantae to the cotlou crop.
Th- United States Army of
tramps is tstimated at 3,000,000.
Kit 11 corn cribs and fat hogs are
th.- order of the season in Cabarrus.
As usual ou court week, Dr. J. P.
Mrong, of the Charlotte Democrat,
is lu re
The hofel clerk at the Mr. Vernon
Hotel, Siisbury, lends tjiuriers.
Tty him.
.!. B. Wiin-eoiT gave us on Mon
day, the tirst twin scaly bark we
h.iw ever seen.
Miss Frankie Lentz, of Norwood,
is spe
n.lip
the we
with her
i.i'i ther, . E. I.entz
dolin MeAuIfy has compU-td W.
F. ('ninon's ne dwelling in No. '2.
It is a splendid building.
Clint Brown, the Alliance corres
pond, nt of the Salisbury Herald, is
localizing on that paper now.
Is it. net remarkable that there are
so many cherries about over the
eo.iiitry this season, of the year?
The street railway of Charlotte
has Veil running six months and no
accident occurred, except ihe killing
uf a dog.
l'ink Norm in, who escaped from
the Cabarrus chain gang, has been
caught in Shelby, so our Sheriff is
informed.
Sour krant is now on the market,
and pedestrians are praying for
cold, real cold weather to benefit
ih' ir olf ictory nerves.
An exchange, says he always
envies a fat woman where he see3
her laughiug '"there seems to be so
much of her having a good time."
Ephraim Carter, of Albemarle,
.rent Satur lay and Sunday in town
Ephraim nas a tender spot around
the hearts of many Concord people.
A. S. L-.'htz a Cabarrus man of
No. 7, who has been teaching at the
Salisbury cotton mills, has resigned
a';d will return to his former home.
John A. Fisher, who killed Green
Hurley .n Stanley last April, was
co a vie ted of manslaughter and sen
teheed to live yars iu the peniten
tiary. (. II. Bell, of Dowd, Stanly coun
ty, is as.-istant. clerk at th-j Salisbury
I hotel. He likes it so will that he
doesn't sleep but two nights in a
week.
! The Salisbury Wa'chmui has a
j sign i'p thst reads : "Agent for the
Charlotte Laundry." Does .Baby
Miller wear samples of this institu
tion's work ?
Di- d Thursday evening at Can
nons wile, Sallie, daughter of Paul
W. F; rr. IL-r remains were .laid
away in the Baptist church yard
near ' 'oncord.
Mis. J. M. Br'vn is spending the
week in Charlotte, taking in th
en cus and Sam Joins meeting.
Mrs. Brown has not isited Charlotte
in thirty eight years.
Mrs. Win. Propstis visiting fri. nds
in Kaleigh and vill see the Exposi
tion. Before returning she will
visit her son, Deary, in D srhim,
and Mrs. Trice, of La-xlngUm.
Thomas Johnston, who for a long
time has been engineer at the new
factory at Forest Hill, e.r.es today
to take an engineers position on the
Iiiehmond and Danville railroad.
A Pennsylvania exchange of
extreme Republican proclivi'ies has
his editorial and local pages filled up
with one sentence, "Get ont the
vote " The G. U. 1 of that S'ate
nuist surely be in a bad strak.
J
Since the L'ceuui' president his
requested the discontinuance of bib.
lical quotations in the d-baUs, we
p.ny be terrified and ussa-sinated
with selections from the Congres
sional Records.
Fire t Chapmans & SitterthM
brick vard. Thirty four tires were
kindled before daylight hist Monday
morning. Ovir one hundred cords
of o'i ! and two hundred thousand
brick v. ere burned.
Court convened Monday morning
at the appointed hour. Judge Arm
Held delivered his charge to the
jnrv. A syoop-is of the work done
will be given tomorrow. Very few
people are in attendance.
Co!. Elam King hired a horse and
saddle It tickled him tremendous
ly when he found that the stirrups
had to be let out. Col. King says
that it whs Dr. Fitzgerald's. The
Standard has found out the inward
ness of the affair: It wa3 Ear!
Brown's, and Col. King is not happy.
There is a colored woman in Salis
bury, so J. D. Barrier told a re
porter, that has three feet and one
hand. One foo is at the end of the
arm, where the hand should be, and
is p-rfectlv developed. Instead of a
thumb she uses a big toe, with a nail
on it.
Between 12 and 1 o'clock Wednes
day niffut. two suspicious looking
n Km v;ir-r. r-i entered our office. The
o'd mm was unprotected. They
warmed themseU es, one even situn
th
e stove
for a f.-w minutes a
druggist is liable to do anything.
Tlie-e mi luight roamers ought to be
watched a ul arrested.
Sam Jones, the rich evangelist,
will ho! i meeting? in Charlotte for
the eext t.-ii (Itvs. While he is
rolling in luxuries, many a faithful,
zealous ministerial worker m ine
land is suffering for the actual neces
siii.. of life. The world never
fO(
.1 .
so far that it do-sn't come
back Mgidn Bynnd by these nam
wnrkb ir aehers, on poor misera
, piti .l ie salaries, wi!i be treat. d
light anyhow iuthe hereafter
Not rnueh cotton coming to town.
Not much cotton ou the market.
Attorney Wright, of Salisbury, is
here.
How do you feel ou the election
news.
Eight prisoners are still in jail to
oe irieu.
Twenty four arrivals at the Mor
ns House yesterday.
Miss tnmkie Jjen'z returned to
her home in Stauly today.
Go to the Opera House tomorrow
night. You will enjoy it.
We hear many compliments for
the work of the chain gang.
unty iorty nve men irom one
township, are to be lit this court.
Dr. J. P. Strong left on the north
bound train I'liesTay afternoon.
B. izzards and prairie fires are the
order . f the day iu the northwest.
The only street attraction is Drs.
Odom and Avers medicine wigwam
on wheels.
Stanly county is furnishing cross
ties for the main line of the li. &
D. railro.nl.
Sam Jones ought to convert the
Southern Express Company, if it is
convertible.
Esq. M. L Bamhardt, of Nor
wood, says that all the cotton in his
section is open.
The farmers generally estimate
the cotton crop at jus't one half
a general yield.
A six room cottage and lot for
sale. Apply at the Standard office.
This is a bargain.
C. G. Heilig, of Mt. Pleasant,
came in with his head wrapped up
in a rag. A bad cold.
Lieut. John Propst arrived last
night from Shelby with Pink Nor
man the eseapeu convict.
If you have a business, hang out
your Ein, then put your little ad-
ilr.ss in the Standard.
Be it remembered that Joe Good
man is the best posted, politically,
oi any person in town.
Clint Brown, the local editor of
the Salisbury Herald, devotes nearly
a colunm to a barn burning.
The reason it doesn't snow some of
these mornings Is because there are
uot clouds enough. Snow will come.
Don't forget the weddings. Xm is
will come, we all know, but you all
don't know tiieeo marriage predic-
toins.
Lots of people are going over to
Charlotte tonight to take in the
great 4-Paw combination and Sam
Jones.
Di. Sol Fun says if Campbell
1 ea's MeKii ley he will be 'he next
presidei.t and that teo by the Alli
ance vote
There is a grocery store in town
that has lace curtaius. A barrel of
saur kraut looks nice behind the
curtains.
Lots of people have gone to Char
lotte, presumably for the Sam Jones
meetings, but possibly many will
attend i-Paw.
In put'ing in the new curbing in
Mr. Litaker's well. Snell did not
move the locttion. The well is at
the same place.
The animal election of officers of
the tire company cine of Monday
i.igit. John W. Fink was elected
chief and Henry Kitz foreman.
I.-n'i this funny : A p?rsori may
marry a IVeler. Such are some
times borrowed or tolled away from
home. You see the point ?
The telegraphic line on the Yad
kin railroad between Salisbury and
Norwood will be opened, in about
ten days, for commercial business
Th a familiar face and voice of
nude Davie Parish is missed at the
co" it house door. Jack Bost, of
No. 10, is the witness caller now.
The penitentiary farm on the
Poanoke rher in Halifax county
cov.rsan acreage of 11,000 acres
and gives omploymtnt to 450 con
victs. ll.a not the railroad Commision a
right to require heartless expre-s
companies to pay decent ami honest
salaries? If so, let it step on this
grizzly giant and squeeze something
out.
The cierk of the Board of Com
niissioners was ordered to publish a
stttement of the ivceipt3 and dis
bursements of the county for tin
last year.
Dr. li. S. Young vas called out to
Poplar Tent in consultation with
Dr. Caldwell. It i3 thought that
Mrs. C. J. Haiii's condition is
hopeless.
It was a happy crowd that hear t
for a long time the reports from the
election. When it came to Ohio,
Esq. Puryear insisted waiting on the
Western Keserve.
Rev. Brother Michaux, of the
Greensboro Workman, went home
"wiih an ague." The Standard man
is young but does not associate with
such company ; we are surprised at
this brother.
The eastern part of this hustling
county is alive and whooping op
their railroad boom. They go even
so far as to say they will have a
railroad beyond a rea-onable doubt.
Miss Laura Booie, of Marengo
county, Ala. will arrive this week to
vnit relatives in Mt. Pleasant. Miss
Booie is a niece of Mr. Robert and
Dr. Rose of Mt. Pleasant and has
never, before this, been in the old
North State.
Drs. Gdom and Ayer gae a free
exhibition of glass ball shooting, in
the court house square on I uesday.
With their red dressed red man, and
shooting au apple off of anothers
head, there is some excitement on
$he part of the crowd.
Th people have no reason to com
plain against the dummy. It is
more unfortunate tor the com.pauy
that there ha3 been Q much delay
in making repairs than for the pat
rons Their hauling is being done
promptly by the railroad CQmpany.
The dum iy would have run before
this bur. some repairs from Rich
mond have miscarried.
GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.'
JOIIK A. riSHKlt (OXVICTtl)
The Following Report of 5!r.!pr
Trial in Mnnly County i Cliil
From The Albrmnrlft Se'.
The widespread interest e Tinned
in the trial of John A. risher for
the murder of Green Henly, justi
ues us in devoting more or our
valuable space th m is uatually al
lotted to a single case, even thong!
we boil down the voluminous testi
mony brought in by our reporter.
Ihe regular panel of seventeen
juror3 yielded but two, acceptable
to I emberton it Jerome who fought
so nobly for their client. A special
venire of fifty was exhausted in
securing the other ten. The jmy
composed the following well known
names: Tiufus Hatley ; J. C. Little
ton; S. S. Lilly; li. F. Crowell ; li
F. Leiler; A "I. Eudy ; O. L. El
kins ; N. B. Etird ; J C. Foreman.
solicitor J-iong s tirst inu most
important witness for the State,
helix Holder, told the story of tin
shooting on that fateful 2im of
April with damning circumstantiali
ty. On that day, he, Cale Barringer
aim me accused met at u lint Miller s
house. Fisher warned witness vs
Green Barringer and Green Ilenh
as the d est. meanest men in the
settlement They said, "Fisher will
be your ruin." On saying he
(witness) did not fear them, Fisher
exclaims, you had b-tter be afraid!
See what he told Philip Sell about
you. Cale. Jsarriiiger "reckoned
Green Henly indicted me, causing
me to pay $75 iu fiues." Fisher then
said, "If J get him on my land he
will never get off alive." I'll fret
him over there before I go home
says Barringer. On reaching mv
house we all drank whiskey. Just
then Henly appeared with a gun
Fisher remarked, "look at Henly !
see how he walks, there must be
something up." Henly came to
my house, refused to come in, pro
duced a half-pint bottle and asked
me to fill it with whiskey, which I
did Henly returned to his home
speaking to his wife who was wash
ing at a spriug, and to Harnp Ilearn ,
a darkey who was plowing near'
Heuly's house. Barringer wetit out
to put up some scarecrows and tind
out what Henly was up to, from
Damp Hearne. FUher asked me
to go home with him ; on our arrival j
there he asked Lou, his wife for j
breakfast. We both drank twice
r isher got down a large army re
volver. I didn't like his pistol ami
said so. He replied that he knew
his pistol and intended to kill some
d d man with it. We drank again ;
I got very sick laid on a pallet ar
ranged by Mr. Fisher for me. Bar
ringer and Henly came up.
Fisher held and Nourished
a pistol in his hand remarking a
he came that he had lived under a
d d lie long enough. "Now Henly,
tell that story about Sam Sell and
Mrs, Boger to 'Laws' the sime way
you told me. Henly refused, then
Fisher toid what he had heard
Henly relate, adding that some! ody.
meaning Baer I think, was a g d
d d liar. Fisher called him auo'li
er liar and as lleiilv started toward
him, Fisher tired point blank in
his face, the ball cutting Honly's
windpipe, splitting his collar button.
Henly sank to the ground and
Fisher walked li me got his coat
and gun and took to the woods. On
my overtaking him, Fi;her asked
me if 1 intended to testify that he
shot Henly. 1 said no, as 1 had my
uad down when the shot was tired
and didn't see who shot. AUmt a
week before the shooting Fisher had
told me that Heniv would report U3
for running a ati'd and that he
(Fisher) would never die happy un
til he had killed the son of a b .
Afrer the cross examination" of
the above named witness, Mrs. Green
Henly, on being sworn, testili. d
that she had prepan d dinner for
her husband and Caleb Barringer
on April 52d last, and that shortly
after they had left for Fisher's
house, she heard a shot and ran
down that way. She found her
husband lying in the n ad. I lifted
up his head and asked him who had
shot him; he said, Fish r. I then
rook a pistol out of Ids hii pocket.
My husnand died about (5 o'clock
that evening. On cros examination
stated that s!ie was twenty-three
years old but didn't know her late
husband's age ; was married in jail,
having been indicted by Fisher and
Barringer for livng in adultery.
P. A. Culp; Given Peeler and
Rufns Trout man testified to Felix
Holder's general good char-cter
though all had heard that he was
a bigamist and a 'blockader.' Case
closed for the State.
Defendant swore that he left
Henly, Holder and barringer at his
home. He went to the spring, saw
Henly approaching and avoided
meeting him ; went to see Boger,
with whom he returned, passing
through his own housn securing a
bottle of whiskey and a loud-d re
volver. After both took a drink, he
went with pistol in hand to talk
with TTcnlv. and suuatted down on
the ground near Henly, Barring-'
and Holder. Henly started towards
me threatening to shoot my d d
heart out. I tired, and on advice of
Holder and others, fled. Previous
to this ime Henly had shot at me
five times one night, and twice on
another occasion. On cross exami
nation admitted that he and llolde.
ran au illicit. ; the pistol had three
loaded chambers, it Iv.d been loadtd
two months; had been a witness
against deceased for selling liquor,
also for living iu adultery with his
wife, Carrie, whom he married in
jail: was tried in 1879 for stealing a
ha", was acquitted.
L. A. Boger stated that hi had
joiued Mrs. Fisher iu begging Kisher
to leave his pistol bemud but alter
some talk with Ilenly lie too i
along. Fisher started off, pistol in
hand. Ilenly laid his hand cn his
pistol threatening Fisher. Fisher
then fired the fatal shot. Saw no
pistol iu llenly's hand. Had heard
ilenly threaten Fisher previously.
Louise Fisher saw Henly draw a
starting to th Knr,..
"" imeiatil mee'in
at the log, saw Henly advance t
or una- fcieps towards Fisher who
reireaieu rnree sreps before firing,
ca.v vftinc ufuiy piCKlip a pistol
a-iu onji .i, iino neniy s lnp pocket.
Several prominent men testiuVd I
to the more or less good names of
risneranu omer witnesses for the
detence, at the same time cas:in"
doubts as to the entire respectabili'y
or tne much married prosecutions
chief witness Holder. On the other
hand, others no less prominent gave
Fisher, Barringer, and Roger -home-
what cloudy record.
After some unimportant rebuttal
evidence both sides closed. State
Solicitor Long's thank'ess position
or hangman was as it always is try.
mg. Uii one Iiav.d stood Duty. On
the oi her, Fishers wife and children
confronted him in his address to the
jury, lie claimed the attention of
Court, jury and audience.
Counsellor Jerome's long and mi
nute exhaustive recapitulation of the
evidence wound up with a pathetic
quotation irom Holy writ and au
appeal for mercy, such mercy as the
jury would ask for at the great bar:
mercy, the equality of which is not
trained but falls as the gentle dew
from Heaven. S. J. Pemberton
sprang into the ring with his war
paint on, he went for witness Hold
er s scalp forthwith and in a half
hour fusillade of expletive and
invective arraignment of the two
leading witnesses for the State and
ten minute confidential confab
with the jury, practically removed
the halter from the prisoner's neck
that solicitor Long had reluctantly
placed there. Judge Armlield
tersely but judiciously charged the
jury, leaving the case with them.
1 wo hours later a decision was
handed in of manslaughter.
lr. liny on the I'rliitiiigr Irc.
Yesterday morning Dr. Bays de
livered a very impressive sermon on
the subject of the Printing Press.
I here being only one more Sunday
in this conference year, the service
whs well attended. I will give a
few thoughts culled from this ser
mon.
The Doctor takes the ground that
none can ignore the influence of the
press, be he preacher, business man
or any one else. This is a reading
age, and the press rule's the world
it is the genius of the world. The
tick and type, says Gladstone, is the
mightiest influence on eartn. "Were
not a preacher I would certainly
he an editor," exclaimed tha speaker.
He impresseu upon all the impor
tance of newspapers, especially in
regard to the influence they exert in
home life. IL related an incident
where a home was blasted by vi'e
literature, lie stated that inform
tion was neeessiry to godliness, and
everyone should be" well informed
on trade, commerce, agriculture and
politics. He advocated no special
party, but said a man could be a
christian and belong to any party.
Great stresswas made against reael
ing newspapers on the Sabbath, ex
cept religious papers. He thought
by reading the secular papers that
the thoughts were diverted from re
ligious themes. He dd everybody
would read somethb-g and plead
for a purer press in ;; homes.
Next Sunday there will b a me
uioiial service held in the church.
Prominent n embers will read me
morials of all who have died during
the past year in the church. The
preacher will speak of the joys and
orrows of his year's labors from the
text, " what have we done ?"'
Keg.
The Stnlnrl Jolt Printing Company.
The Standard h,;3 the pleasure of
announcing dat it is in the field for
all the printing that comes along.
It has been favored with a fair share
of patronage', but hit herto its equip
meat has not beeu all that the man
agement could desire. The equip
ment type, machinery and printing
appliances is now equal to all de
mands and is strictly first class.
From this date, the job printing
business of this establishment wi 1
be carried on by The Staudard Job
Printing Company, of which Mr.
T. B. Eldndge is manager. Mr
Eldridge, who is a printer as Well as
an editor, has decided to devote li s
attention to the job printing busi
ness. He has moved his job print
ing outfit into the Standard office
and consolidated it with the equip
ment of the establishment, thereby
greatly increasing the facilities of
the ollice for doing all kinds of
printing,
. The management of the paper
is not affected by this arrangement.
Mr. Fadridge will have charge of
tha mechanical department and will
try to make himself agreeable to
visitors when the1 old man is out;
but he will havo no interest, in a
business sense, ia the editorial or
business management cf the paper.
Friends and patrons of the Stand
ard are invited to call and examine
specimens of job printing and com
pare them with similar work done
by any other priuter ; and wh. n
they want anything in that line,
they are a sured tnat 1 he Standard
Job Printing Company will t!o the
work a-i well, as expeditiously, are.!
as cheap as any other first class
printing establishment.
m
Copal (jrovc Itpmx.
Dry wia,thev prevails.
Farmers can hardly plow their
stalk land. Pain is much needed.
The infant child of John Fisher
die d a few days ago.
John Culp, of Cabarrus, died a
few days "ago of consumption.
John F, Morgan is very ill.
Corn crops are pretty good this
year, cotton will si on be all open
and we think a short crop for this
year.
Corn shucking and opossum hunt
ing is the night occupation of the
boys now, hut we have seen no large
opossums yet this fall most all
small.
Wild geese have been seen going
Nnrth this week. Tell us what
this 'means; they generally go
South in the Fall. R.
nistol when tfortirr . ... . . I '' . -- -
A ii: isio.
Th Allnnllc Rxprrss ('omniiiir ll
n.Bl.t VliUI, ill,. ,i,(,Zn,l"
li'ltt-t.
Thursday morning the railway
commission filed its decision in ihe
much talked of cas? of the Atlantic
Express Company of Morehead City
nr.,.;.. .s il. . 1l"l. . . - .
Samau me v iimnigton and Weldon
and the Uichmoud and Danville
railway for refusing to the plaintiff
company me lacilities for conduct
ing its business on their line.
F'rom the figures and facts the court
concludes: 1. 'lhat so much of ihe
contract which was entered into be
tween each of the defendants and
the Southern Express Company as
granted the exclusive t rivile"-e of
conducting a general express busi
ness over their limits to the South
em Express Company, which denied
to each of the defendants the right
to grant to the plaintiff enual f anil i-
ues ana rates ot transportation is a
violation ot the commission act
2. That the refusal of the defend
ants to grant rate3 and facilities to
the plaintiff, upon demand therefor
was also a violation of said act
That the refusal to thus srant rates
and facilities was an undue prefer
ence and advantage to the Southern
hxpres3 Company, and an uninst
discrimination against the plaintiff
also in violation of said act.
It is adjudged that so much of the
contract entered into between each
of the defendant railways and the
ooutnern Express Company as
granted to the latter the exclusive
privilege of conducting a general
express business over the respective
roads of said defendants, and which
denied to each of the defendants the
right to grant to the plaintiff equal
facilities awd rates of transportation
tor conducting, a general express
business within the limitt of this
State, with those granted the South
ern Express Company be declared
illegal and void. It is adjudged
tne rerusal ot the defendants to
grant to the plaintiff rates and fa
cilities for conducting an express
over their respective roads in this
Estate, upon the demand of the
plaintiff therefor, is an undue pref
erence and advantage to the South
ern Express Company and an unjust
discrimination against the plaintiff
in violation of the terms of the rail
wag commission act, and of the rules
governing the transportation of
freight and the regulations concern
ing freight rates adopted by the
Commission by authority of said
act. It is further adjudged, and the
co nmission 0 orders, that each of
the defendants grant unto the plain
tiff equal rates and facilities for con
ducting a general express business
over the respective roads within the
limits of orth Carolina, with those
already granted to the Southern
Express Company, or which may
liereatter be granted to it, or to
any other person, firm or corporation.
It is further adjudged 'hat eacli
party to this action pay its own
costs."
'I'osHiiui Hunter Fire.
Much complaint is being made
about the carelessness. of 'possum
hunters in scattering fire about in
their nightly peregrinations. A
cabin at the Gibson and Young
place came very near being burned
down a few nights ago, and around
Pioneer Mills fire ha3 got a headway
in several instances. The dry
weather has made everything easy to
ignite. 'Possums are good but not
worth a suit iu conrt. Hunters
beware !
Suits A ii i list the KnilruRtl.
The Statesville Landmark says
suits growing out of the recent
wreck at Bastian's bridge have been
instituted against the Iiiehmond &
Danville Railroad Company, West
ern North Carolina Division, in the
Superior Court of Iredell county, as
follows: G. W. Bowley, for inju
rie3 ; O. W. Lawson, for injuries ; O.
W. Lawson, for lost baggage; J. B.
Armfield, administrator of J. C.
Brodie, deceased, death claim.
The liriiml Jury.
Jonas Cook, Foreman ; It V.
Caldwell, Secretary; F. P. Boger, L.
A. Pharr, J. A. Black, John F.
Moose.D. D. Barrier, L. Misenheimer,
Caleb Cruse, L. B. Linker, E
Tucker, R. T. Iloneycutt, W. A.
Patterson, F. A. Brumley, V. C.
Lentz, If. A. Smith, Tu A. Gourley,
Jacob Freeze.
The Lyceum.
It promised to be a lively meet
ing and was lively as far as "it went.
Some filibustering was indulged in.
The resolutions introduced at last
meeting, and whose consideration
was objected to by Dr. Fetzei, came
up again and were referred to a
committee of the whole. That com
mittee doctored the resolutions so all
was stricken out except the numer
ous words of "whereases and the
word resolved." This report of the
committee was adopted by the Ly
ceum. The programme for Tuesday night
will be the same, as the Lyceum
decided to adjourn without the lit
erary exercises, on account of much
iuferest in election returns.
The t'oimiuNwiOiie r' Meeting.
The County Commissioners met
Monday, and but little business was
transacted except routine work. The
board did agreit deal of railroad
legislating and ordering bills paid,
hut did nothing aside from that.
I'otit Tuesday.
'I ha greater part of the day was
taken up a ith the case of the Stae
TV . T ' J m
vs r.rwin ljipe iorgery. The jury
stayed out all nightand up. to 10
i i- n-.. i i i ,.
o ciock. neunesuay, wnen tney
returned a verdict of guilty
Appeal.
i
A VnluaMe Iloott, -
James C. Fink has in his posses
sioh the diary and record of hh
grandfather, liev. Geo. Boger. It is
interesting and vaiuaoie. we are
going to have a long peep over it and
note many interesting things from
1800 to 18G0. Miitilf of this record
is in German, but with help we will
master it
ri:uiti
cosvicTs r.; n j r ;.
Tlie Mitiin;; )Klric;s ol I v., !,-,.,
l!l it iianf ii.
Knoxyille. No-.,2.- At u:i.. o'clock
' Lis morning two hundred matuite
men came in from the niountaii.s
and liberated two hundred convicts
that worked in the mines at Oliur
Springs. So quiet! v was it done that
people m the town knew nothin
about what had happened until six
"eiuoiv iin. morning v lien ir,
Vv a-
uncovered IMar, i .!., J
lessees was a mass of
ocKade oi
king rt.ius
-iu or in.' short; t
furnished with
".vi .n-!i;ier.s v eiv
citizen'. f.hiil.Wi...
and Wllal tue exevmba of a lew
captured, nil are te-w i-A Jar. e
This makes more than live 'hundred
penitentiary onvicts famed loa k
that location since l-'iitav evening
The Governor of the State v, s hi',
yesterday, b.ifc this luoriiiug k-ft f i
Nashville. It was given out afm
his anival hero that the force ot
gards at Olives had been lar-elv i
creassed and that the attack p.,,,;.
the stockades would be stoutly re
sisted. It does nor. amwn- !,,".,.. .-
ihat there was any resista-'r-e :t- -.li
and no one was hm-t Wit i..,. ,
mois prevailed, one of which is t!ia
. I - -" '" VI nil. 1.1 13
mmer3 will immediately proove
Tracy City and release convi ts
ed t
tla-r.
n.,. ... i, ,- -, , '
: l , i ...
ic- n nun no Well IOillM rc v
luence oi nil-. Jiatnoone can teli
what the miners will do.
Sale of I'uclaiiueil Freight.
The Southern Express Company
nas oeen selling today unclaimed
freight, which has accumulated at
the differeut offices in the Greens
boro district during the past year.
The crowd was laiire and the bid
ding spirited. It is wondei f 111 hoe
people will bid Oil things in which
there is such an uncertainty as to
whether they will get the return of
tneir money. A great many thought
they were going to get rich, but
when the packages were opened a
very few came out with their money's
worth.
Among the tilings found in the
packages were newspapers, pa ent
outsides, patent medii ines, almanacs,
circulars, &c, &c. Every ono was
in a goo . humor, however, although
his money was gone. Green shoo
Workman.
That is a kind of gambling, but
the Standard is not surprised. " This
company i3 liable to do anything,
most! A company that will make
a man work himself, his son, a
negro, furnish his own wagon and
his own horse, his own room and
work him like a dog day and night,
on a salary of au aerage of sper
month, when the ofiicrpavs bet ven
saOOand $3500 per year, will do
anything.
tnrt l'roooeitin-N.
On Monday the
were disposed' of.
following ease?
State vs .dac Goodican, larcenv.
no! pros with leave; Sta!e vs Bob
Taylor, cruelty to animals, nol pros
with leave; State vs Bob Taylor, r.
w. 1., two cases no! pro- witli'lcave:
State vs Bob and Mott Allison, af
fray, nol pros, with leave; Stite vs
Frank Misenheimer, afi av, nol pros
with leave; State vs Whit Cauhle.
a. and b., two ca-cs no nros with
leave: State Vs John Brown, cruelty
to animals, nol pros with leave":
State vs Frank Misenheimer, c. c w.,
nol pros with leave ; State vs John
Blackwelder, removi wood, de
fendant in custody for line and cos's;
State vs Byron Ingram, r. w. 1.,
pleads guilty, 5. and costs; State
vs Dolpli Bamhardt, assault, pleads
guilty, judgement suspended on
payment of costs: State "vs J. E
Henderson, assault, pleads gailtv.
judgement suspended on pawnent, oi
costs; State vs John Sumner am!
Adam Lee, r. r. v., Sumne-r p'ca l.
guiky, P3. and costs; State vs P.
N. Hopkins, f. r., pleads guilty. So.
and costs.
Promoted.
Mr. Frank rabbins, Jr., of States
ville, brother-in-law of our solicitor
has been elected Superntenddnt of
the mills at Forest IIilI vice, Mr.
Sam Patterson, resigned.
Mr. liobbins has been here long
enough to endear himself to both
the owners and employees of Fore.-t
Hill Factory.
You See the 1'oint.
An exchange tells of a person who
had a call i'lom a little count iy
p irish to a large and wealthy one iii
a big city, lie asked for time for
prayer and corsidera'ion. He did
not leel sure of his light. A month
passed. Finally some one met his
youngest son on the street. "How
is it, Jos'ah said his neighbor.
"Is your father going to B ?"
"Well, answered the younger, judi
cious), "Paw is still praying for light
but most of tne things is packed."
How Ton Nee It.
Older citizens tell the Standard
mai something. They say that not
more than ten years ago "at courts
that it was no trouble- in counting
intoxicated men right along; lut
now it is diil'erent. It is seldom
that you see a drunken man. It i;
good ; it is well.
Miss Sides, a voiing lady at Can
nonsyiile, died Tuesday night.
I'all Iij1 I.iix'.
Join the great proHidm! it
marches to victory! It knows no
defeat! Inscribed on its banners i
the inspiring battle-cry, '-Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery," Its line
of march extends auoss the con
tinent and around the world! A
happy illustration of the popularity
and success of this world-famed
remedy. 'Tis everywhere relieving
pain, inspiring hone, curing disease !
For all blood disorders it is acknowl
edged the safest, the most tiioronh,
the best! The liver and kidneys re
spond at once to the invigorating
touch; through them the whole
system is cleansed and built
anew.
up
If you are sick, indUpoaed, de
bilitated, weak, suiJeii - from mala
rious or othor poisons, you'll lind the
i . . . i .-,. . ...
"u , jULU":i" JlH fie
t remedy par excellence to restore
yCU.
;tf4 -u-3-s ii.
li-v. T. p.
a n: nmi
in:
01 tlhi .Mate, ha n,K-.,,
Cfd
a ue,i
-'A all
tii. vr
tnat will lj.'
es-sie'rly
owed by Mn ii'eat many pe.,pl0
,ved
w!,.,
.is h.eheu against tn
u 'etriiie
that ihe Caliein
bmgoliau, the egro and the In
were all descendants of Adani
ueiv all brut hers, so to snea V
iii a lee! is
New hern M
re recently delivered in
r. KicauJ. Meem-,i;i.,T
tiie Journal.
t'-soic the position--in, I
(':, ,!
nis MateinenN ami
!i's br scriptural
"g li
quotations
of mankind
lhat tlie inferior
"Kl htjt orio1!'!o v.ith Adam; that
s 'm.3 !V'CVS ',vtIV i existence prior to
an.i contemporaneous with him;
tint ti.e i' j;,,!, caii-aiv to the gen
eral.y r -.caved opinio;), eli,l not ex
end i . v r t e i.
whole word: th.if.
t !i'.)e i:c. s di-
not therefore boennio
extllle". hut til: t
the:r descendants
are nniabitauts of the world today,
and th.' separate origin of their
aucisfry accounts for the vast dif
ferences so manifest in the various
types of tiie human family today."
The pre-ht.storic ruins of Central
America, Mexico and the United
Na'cs, and the traces of nations who
had attained a high degree of civ
ilization long before the flood and
who, con tin ies bt fore the di.spnve
,,r u; i ,i j
o.i,i,ui ov me Europeans,
peopled the cities the ruins of whose
vast bud i in gs are being constantly
di covered in the semi-tropical .por
tion of tin's continent, are stroii" ev
idence in support of .Mr. Iiicaud's
position
The materialism of the age is
doing much to prove that Adam
was not the progenitor of the whole
human family, and such a position
; lhat taken by Mr.' Uicaud is not
inconsistent wiili the teaching of the "
Uilde. In the language-of a noted
"hard-shell" preacher of the Blue
Iiid:e, ''If Adam-ali uaw tbo fncf
mau-ah, whar did-ah Cain git his '
wife-uli 'r'
Go to the Opera House Thursday
evening,
with the
t ho road.
T'ot',000.
'.co Mrs. Tom Thumb
moit elegant costume, on
The jewels alone costing
Dn :-: Lumber!
I have a lot of.-ood DRY LUMKEIt
for
or ilooring, ceiling ami (heart) fence
ailing-. Parties desiring such lumber
r
will call on me.
CONTRACTOR
l .--; f.ae
WOO!) V.'O
car.traeta to do any kind 'of
and wnl mcarautee sat
taken byjlie job or by
i:-!"-a-:iea. Vi'or
the day.
Pounds.
I BUY AND SELL
Hi u
JVT IB IE
OF ANY SIZE.
Cm
it thi-:
pr eially anxious for a bi? lot
ime.
I ker-n on hand, at all times, a full
linn of ri!i-:sir
Family - Groceries
Call at my stand on North'j Main
Li-cot, near the Odell Factory.
-j. M. HURRAGE.
G.'or'e E. Fisher has received a
lot of candies, finer than anything
that ever sweetened any man's
tongue before. Hero are some
crystaiized fruits, piuo apple, apri
cot, .-ihiioms and all such. You will
iiud any and everything in the
tfrocfr ime n my store, opposite the
St. Cloud Hotel. G E. Fisher.
lotice of Sale,
I will s.'Il at public auction, for
cash, on Tues I iy, tho loth day of
November next, at my residence,
near St. John's church, the follow
ing person; property, viz.: Two
head oi' noises, two heael of mules,
a number of c ttt le, sh -ep and hogs,
a lot, uf com, wheat and oats; one
twoho -a' v,.i,'iii, a lot of farming
utensils, boa-.a-iold and kitchen fur
niture, an 1 muiy othor articles.
MILS. M. M. MILLER.
Oe
:: tds
Lost.
My little Lea .do bitch, Bell. Sho
is wiii to with deep yellow spots,
an 1 about 1-' inches high. Anyone
returning her or informing me
where sho is, will bo suitably re
ward a A, i'eport to Standard office.
FRANK LOST.
TIsEOOHNBGiCERy
F.vcrythi'ig good for h -a'th and
to i'1-d..j you eom'ortable can be
fo .nd at lay Htaud. Why I have
oi-kb :'., h mr, candy, tobacco and
lots of thcai.
Cour in - ihnv citizens-
JOHN A. KIMMOXS.
BENEHAL WOl"
Wo car. y e very variety of mer-chtnui-;
n l kinds to suit every
taste. Try us.
Do you want any brick, if so call
on us.
LII'PARDS & BARRIER,
HIP, THE RACKET.
The prices that tho racket makes,
startles tho community. You come
in and if we don't make 3-our eyes
water and your heart jump, we'll
give you something.
DAVID J. BOSTIAlNT.
John T.
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