North Carolina Newspapers

I V It : B 1 'I !:F ii i a- I "t THE STANDARD. JAMES P. COOK, TlIl'ltsPAY, - .hi V A io; i K.ii r. ! WH, it wasn't ado- fight exactly : ! but it was all about a. uy. which i not materially different. The fae': are related in r.n article copied else-: where in this paper. A citizen of; Paie county owned a i'oy Ne ; does not own a dog now ; that is to say, l e do.:s net own the came deg now. The itag is tK-ad. A neigh. : bor kil'e l i The citizen aforesaid ' was r.ngry : he was rigliteou-ly an gered, lie Sent word to the do jlayt r t! at he must p-y lea dollars for taking Hie canine's iifi , or b.ht a whipping. Is ,-e-nied preferab!v to rav the renak. in the cum t.n realm rather than submit his lodv ;:,.,! ;,k;Pr ,!,,. And ; the obituaru and the resolutions- j Jf it ;s trl!(,. faJ. It is report J interFreted the speaker's remarks to torture: so the man who rashlv : lievia- tha Mr. ( ouker made a mis- h;i oa tLo g-'- H receives t)j ,hut Dr El.?ene Grissom who j this way is a mystery. The Y MC cut off the gentle beast's uiort! l:iko by hi.5 ...r.Io-tic tone (as we vet I il ia In0CcS ns li- RS y-,urfora long time was superintendent j tie'ther needs nor makes any apol career, .helled out the rocks. Af- it)";;:ul i hat his allusions to club i thuu;b- of the EaEih Insane Ashmi, has ogy fr llS ex,itcnce' lognizmg a - - 1 i. - - n - -i - .1 - l. .. I i l. - 1 , lerwaiu ne reuecieu iun uic guous came too high killing a dog w;:s not satisfaction enough for the dol lars; 0 he went over to see the owner of the lamented purp, first taking the precaution to 1 ad up h.s '22 calibre pea shooter to the inutile. The citizen who had o'.vn-;d a dog, but is now dog' ess, suspecting war like intentions on the part of hi. neighbor, leaded up his ai.inery. which was of the same calibre ui that of the said neighbor. They met on the field of lnttle; a arky ensued; but nothing bat goto wou'.d atone foi the injuries of the select ive warrior.-; so they Icr.ged :r.v.y. At the first fire, strange to relate, no oae. fell mortally wounded: neither did either die in his boots r.t the second or any s'-.bsop.ctit dis charge of weapons. Stranger still, every shot but one of the live sinns apiece, took effect: ; but an investi gation showed that the p .diets only penetrated the cuticle of the o un-batant-. Th history of the numaii rac i, . i ,,i . r.,,,1, . i eeoi tia iiu uiu;e ue-ivji .i;ie i.iet ti.i:t men will fight about dg when scarcely anything else wiil arouse their thirst fjr bleed ; so it is not 'at all surprising that the two citizens of Davie fought, b'- d at.d survEtd, all on account of a pr-ciors cur. "What a b. autifui exr.mple I hey at by using toy i op guns to c -ttle th.-ir difference-', instead cf the deadly revolver of the variety tha' is calhd bull dog. v. i! r n,n m: j ? II. . Barn broken Earme: State Bank, a has been arrcsti pr- -I.;-. M of the i.vA Merc!;.;;.!,' a.--, ran r... t-ivii'g 1 f. posits w !u ii he km insolveu. Severe .v the bank v as put irhuient ;:i his ca.e, upon cniic?io:i, might have a salutary ciik.ct as a warning to others. Exchange. If by special pleading and schem ing this fellow should btc-onie libe rated, would lie net be following suit ly trying to make hi-i s If cen spicuou? in church matters and c stitutiu .; himself standard morality ': Let Barrett and other imps like him whistle ti the music of jusrice. srit ir.i. The newspavxr fraternity today stands high and dry stranded. On the 3 1st day of J)icomUr,,the Free I'asrs expired, by limitation. Every editor in the S'a'e of North Carolina is at home t-hiy; if he isn't ; he ought to be. The gentlemen have nn idea how the man of this til feels the way you feel now is the way we've felt for one year provided you have a good conscience. The standard, in its humble way, extends its sympathy to the pas--issuer, at Ilaleigh lie will get a letter from the boys to this dlct: 'In consideration of the publiea'ion of the schedule &c. &c, 1 hope that you v ill issue r.is auotla-r paa terly pass." Yours Truly, no is LAW. The Standard is Very mach grat ified to see our esteemed neighboring sheet", the Charlotte Chronicle, speak j out if gainst mob law. ; 1 he time lias come when tie press must exert .'. -.-it : ai:. tio growing power in 1 1 of chronicling acts gesting there is a lynching, vhn sir hind, i I..-.: . , and th,:-- eug- probali'.ity if h a tbirg wa-i not thought of. Some of the p-ipe: afraid and were not W ...-M . -e r..J I ei. -.: the dic- tates and pleasure of a pow rbel.i; them, used the Mot;: cao- as a gub in condemning mob law, approval of justice beiu iUl ill oftt thwarted in onr courts. Just about that time, some papers were tilled up with defense of the defense (lawyers included) and es says on the conduct of boys and girls, when (he case propar was side track d. Mob law will not curvive if the powers that be do their full duty. This is a day of Jokists. The biggest one is in llileigh. He joke jvith th f legislators and tueh like. THE PKE tI n.lTTin. The Standard tlK-erf ully makes )' C'?si f- r the communication of ' :,ry P. E Hrris. As tat.V. Ml .-it. 1K;;1 isciK', what ve s-u.: o .:( eruii;g Mr. Coulter's tA :ress vusdonoin u friendly way. Xot- v.ii nsLaiiiiai the lengthy c-ommmn- c !0n fron, jrr. Karris (he does desire a controversy, tli Standard on the neither Y M C A cuestion (his llii itution i:e-'ds (j. i .o oeiere ut apoiogy-r.s net ore sui iae eh: ta:.d.irl sees no reasons to its estimate of the sj etch of ay night. The Stand. rtl be i that Mr. 'Jciiitt r is a swd c c an Ll 'U It Me- a:;d it s t'.. l' e; -S tilit t'i i.eeJ hi, Y M (' A '"3 .- "O. e. .'e (d' Concord elfur:?, and see that i:i:v i viri.-!i h- re, out it '. j -: !'o'- 1 ;ve liiat 1 l 5 ilil;tL!10le not cipa rooms in g- neral weie too broad, we ; ai l ;.. r.nd ni a way v. e thosight ;enteel mid courteous. The Stlia- i..-. ire5 il.er, t! no con roversv over C A, which it pei Wi.i .-O. - IAV.S At; A IX. Tlie Charlotte evs or 'i t-.e;;..'av 1 d in its eye Eu e:te burglar. Ti;e -jnclttiiotiS are '-tar they have, ro in the imaginative ! ) rvi , th, Cha ise h" ; it " 1" ;,, r tiou, save mind of the Xc-.vs editor. ; Firstly, there is no evidence that Lhi'.vs.s. when captured, had even a ' pocket knife to cut anybody with ; he did have a syringe, a hyperdermic syringf, bat ;-s EaTi.s was not a doe'or he didn'c know how to kill ! people w th tueh a weapon. lie stole it th.'t night and had not had time to practice with it. SeeOiiviiy, the press that has op pose .1 the hanging has not advocated turning the 'airg'ar oat on the p?o- (.ip;e or Liiar.otte, uanvnle or any Dauville - t oiner town, xsnv na-e aavoea ! impEs oni; ictit for life, or for a term : discn tionary with his ixcellency, I the i overuor. 15y such a change j Charlotte citi.ens, IEuivil'e ciiizc-tis I or ar.y other towii's citizens will not be piaead ia j.-opardy. i 'I he News goes further, and say s ' that burglaiE-s still continue to be c'j... milted in Charlotte. I'oes the .'.jU to linko D, ivvns 4v t.. s committ d wh ;le ;S Id t.i of death: E;1ua! la.:' im. I i.iaider at. ck Sentence ' , i to is a ; iO'.Viedi o , nie; ick ot to on ! .. :i . v.r..ug fv!'o;y. Som- men charged v, hh i.r.r.e.-r f -r p.t cuniary gain, go rcOtt i'l'. e, ;.!i:j'U;gll the v;.1.. h;s own c-'iiduct point t- his guilt. L. t j:.s;h'e !.-; meted cut with topial i .or. t s'!ur. ; 'Seven ir ndr.-d million cigarettes were anele at luri:am last year, b the Duke.-.' L bat s tne sta'ttnent a 3 it is circu- j la', d to the world. hundred million what ? Little papers tilled witli tobacco, n ) ut into Service amounts to !:re at o;.e end ami I e: sou at the other. a misguided T-, y are gone to smo'-e now are associated with the vapors iir, the nothinj. l t ne Yv'cre th. y plac- end to end they uouhl form a line 27,0;! 1 miles long, or reach around the world with 2,fJl miles left. .Money dhieiislons represent sonie thir.g grea!. The retail price rep resents :;:),ooi),oih;, fur more than the value of t'on-ord's and Cabar rus county's p- r:y. They rpu-.-etir, in add i; ion, sore torgii,.--, yellow tinkers, sore throats. nicer of tiie h-r maladi tongue, insanity and hoiioio for cigarettes! More ian is c-ontiibuted to the support of t! e schools, churches and religions and benevolent org uiizations of the fta'e. The cigarette ousiness is a bi; ; the men who control it are be coming immeii?ely rich, and the :n"sf;uided youth and others are b!ov, ing the smoke to the four winds Of the earth. There's a law against selling ci 2 li'ettes to boys under 17 the boys smoke as thev always did, notwith standing the dealers observe the rr.KK ii ieKs . M ioi.i. tax. A laacher writes a letter to the I j uoir Topic, and write3 it under this head, '-Should Preachers Pay Poll Tux "r" Th- y l ave been reijuired to do so h' retofore and are expected to do so this year? Why shouldn't they? The pr. acher argues : lit. Ily our efforts the jail is kept from filling up, for we make law-abiding citizens by the principles v.e inculcate; 2d. We ii.e -.i-.'o. s and cTj bans, and i r.lciate when "Monster Death" has dote his wo; k : ! Then our con- ferenc s, synod.?, ac, meet, an extra force U not riml ; 4th, i po lb. ml.'.v us i-nino co:rr;?ie.s, jcc. Ti:i?is the euie as nude up by the lirnisivr. Wh.-it, hp s.uvs id true. but he ought to be taxed like other I men. The Slandard has an opinion ht here, and here it goes: While prtaehers s should knuckle to Li e law a? other men do, yet are they tre-retl ngtit A great many people are acens totii ;1 to look upo-i the ministry as a necessary evi'.. At East, they pay the. ii ih;it way. There is not a minis ter in Ciharrus coumv th .t rtceives a fa'ary triual to the woik he p.-r- j form- He baptises the l-.by he. marries the jotmg lady he oiiieiates : at li..r f'lm-ral. He preach- s every; Sundav, vEits the s-ek and writes j Tax the preachers, but pay them p.y them well: There's cot a preacher in Ceaer rd but that d-. Serves at hast 1,500 j er year and a bouse to live in. Whether any get that much, the Standard do-, s not ku-'W. When people begin to look upon the preacher us first before side issues, evangelists and worthy oi a livieg, it will be better. fay him well, he'll preach well, or try to. Tre .t hini like a citizen, by taxing him: trea", him like a man, by sup porting him a his work and calling demand. a (ir tHui ri i) oi: a aiii msr r V, e see a oispositioa among some editors of this State to call their hivthr n of the quill names which are usually applied to a familiar 'p.iadruped of this region, when tin-y wa;it io argue a point, or iancy tney have a grievance. This kind of work is unmanly, and is g-neraliy indnlged m by a man who feels the weight of his own ears. Charlotte Chronicled 1 he above paper, losing its temper some mouths ago, called a respecta ble ami cnnsti.in gentleman an ''anarchist.'' Does tho Chronicle think it better to be an anarchist man io oe a iamiaar iuaiirupea . ; When the Chronicle called the g-.-u- j thiii .-i an anarchist, did the editor) feel: lie w-.igiit of ids own con-1 tcier. :c 'i ! a ii i .i i n it ii:t: t'. ii i. E-v. T . i.;t, v. ho 1 nias Eei le'--. the evar ; pre iehe.1 ar-nuid ia E-ra'.i! v mid w ho was ius ir- Srate con . , . !:cu;ariv a' i. .-.(' it. i ....... .-a ,. El-evil!,., Mer-k';,!.! !10! are icked. on t of an An-' ve- k for Wing drunk! ta hoi '1 i;is is the s-ea'awa.-, reeenr'y i ,J fr-en the slum.? of the e.i'tii, and to 1 wu ch: ch- en ne n, lit pe-c. isti .n i.. s returned, t nat abn-. d ac-K: is'ry assd tl; tch may iiot le cithers, V. ii'i V Jl-.aklng sti l i.,.i'ft a!.: i wiii r ! iv to -ill tl.e let-1 fiim'lcs t " 1 be .i'!lte!lj!U :-! ::: seek toij''!1! erne and!l'Iib'i, I.e a ; run the r:; mrire tne clinrcii ai.u t.,!,e dec,-; :re;.d a: d free ii the luouliis of the I v reactie; wimvs mr, aim:- The basin fi.il -i I'eS ( f ls-ttl were more than is shoun liy any I year s: nee 1 ."7. 1 n-,t'j t'.e rr.i;r.n f.r ..11 f'.,ia wrt ck '? TliO country is prosperous, we are tola. Jhit we are told lots of things tmr are not true. I t 1L I St'lt'' affa,rs ,ause, wlnchis; There must be some cause for this every effect has a j accepted as true. They tell us that the country is prosperous, and yet the f.i lures in dicate something else. If people would not allow them selves to be deluded and see things as they are, possibly the cause might be seen. It has come to this, when reforms are mentioned you hear criticisms and fears that some institutions are being endangered. There's a cause for all this what is it? a n uiKti) niFrr.RKM a:. To the F.d'.tor f the Morninx Advertiser. Ill a chat with a friend yesterday we undertook to Jetine the differ ence between a politician and a statesman. I said that a certain man in public life was a statesman and he raid he was only a politician. These teitns are by no means sy nonymous, but I Can't exactly define them. Cn yon? llmvAKi) Homer. Xew York Jan. 2. Some one has said that a states man is a nan who seeks to legislate for the future, while the politician legislates for today. The same idea has been expressed in a better form, perhaps thus: "A Statesman savs 'what can I do for the people?" The politician says: 'what can the people do for me?' " En. Any. Their name is legion those who are anxious to know "what Can the people do for me?" The truth of the matter is, the wcods are full of 'em ; while the cemetery holds most of our statesmen. We provide oar tuj piuess ; other j people Io k after our p ea -ure. STA X D A R OIS3CK. Mr- Grimly, 'he father of the msa whose wife u a.j kissed by the ! parson. vnl'A-a letter to the public' j The Standard pub'ished the letter jof the kissing shepherd, and the Standard publishes the letter of the other side. Men do not hear alike, neither do !the.v fe'-1 alike. Strange what dif ferent impressions follow. This journal ha3 the authority to say ttut a part of 102 is gone flurry up! The managers of the Atlanta Journal made C. F. King, of Char lotte, a Xmas prtsi-nt. It was a fine geld watch. The Standard present ed i.aeh of it.; printers with 25 cents, a-.d they appreciated it. b en placed in an insane asylum in Denver, Col. It is further staed th.it bis case is not hopeless. Eovc is the axlegrtase that makes the wheels go round. Mouey does some, too. Charity finds the steps to heaven by keeping h .reyvs on the ground. The Gastonia Gazette slu-vs con siderably more activity, editorially, since the poet has decided to contri bute his entire time to it. B D.tvid B. Hill is getting nice com pliments just now. But, oh how long shall Xev York dictate ? Give us a Western and Southern man. In years gone by Home had a cir cus tha1- would accommodate 159, people. Tin-re are larger cir cuses in this country. If you meet a cabbed person, re member it's due to some resolutions he's formed. Why don't military 'C'. :iLTr or ' lUUl g00d be" E -solve your resolutions, but let the most iron clad one be: IJesolve : not to break thereunto. a res uve. words ronigat at 1 o clock, uitn tne old ye-ir sluioles o'l its last gann--nt and is lo.ng np for good well, bury all diHtivnces, put a good t iste in your moatii towards all humanity 'an 1 put tiie devil to sh mie. Tio I.lllleSlu--I I- iiiiicl-.s I to t: my many friends j and J r- ad for their gen- crons sy n;,i; hy m freely f xpres-t d ju,irii ni irouiue. as soo.i as i j e ieeiu-d. I am lik Iv to ei 0:1 leisure to reply to I desire to thank the s for tiie fair mil g-ne- on tr atnient it has given me. One papi r alone has attacked me person ally a little sheet in the western part of the State. For me to men tion the mune of that paper would be to give it a wider notice than it is likely to attain on its own merits. All other papers in the Sta'e, so far as I know, have treated me with all the fairness and courtesy that I could expect. Reporters cannot al wavs get exact facts and the wildest rumors have been afloat." The above is a part of (Rev) J T Abernathy's letter to tie pnbbc. lie ought to have named the little sheet," for charity sake if nothing e'se. It is not christian to withhold a simple act that will "give it a wider notice" in the State4. That's not a very good spirit on the pirt of the broth r. - m c- - . . A PBODI'CTOF 11IK I.AM. S. S. JolniHtoii. ol No. 2. Urines an Hem of X'ctts. in n Ii.ivr. lo Hip Stnn t!ril. 8. S. Johnston, of Poplar Tent, is a humorist, anyhow. lie came into the Standard office, ou Tuesday, with a bag across his shoulder. Throwing it down, he said "there's some news for you." It is an "Indian Potato." It looks very much like a rock in color, but in weight it corresponds with that much wood- The Dotato whether it is of the Imh or sweet variety our janitor does not know weighs ten pound- Mr. Johnston found it near his houao, about as deep in tha ground as a potato ought to be. The Standard h )S been told that 1st, the thing gi-ows spontaneously without any perceptible connection with mother earth ; 2 ad, that it has a vine similar to a morning dory ; 3rd, that tin patato starts on the root of a dea l tree and with the re maining vitality of the root as a nu cleus the potato forms. Jut what the origin is, this writer ruder conflicting authorities, caunot tell. Tiie potato is not good to eat. ; except for tho-e who are fond of Tn i dian relics (?). j It is to be regretted that the great .Southern Exposition adjourned j before this thing was found. Will not our subscribers each get ns a new one at 00 cents ? SECRETARY IXAiiKIS See Fit to Write an Artl-Ie About State Secretary Conlter'M Speech Sunday MthtKca.l What Mr. liar- Mr. Editor: The Standard, as a rule, ia eminently fair in its utter ances, and Eits the nail Ecpuarely on the head. But it must appear to any unprejudiced mind in reviewing the case that in its report of the joint meeting in the Presbyterian church Sunday night, a most unfortunate mistake was made, in that it places Mr. Coulter in an entirely false light not only before our own peo ple in Concord, but throughout the whole state. Accepting your parenthetical re marks that your criiicism wa made in a kindly spirit, let us brielly take up some of the points at issue. In the first place, as to the apologetic tone; How the Standard could have that it must stand or fall upon its merits, the speaker presented the claims of the oeiat,'-in in a clear and manly w.tj , ."-hnviug not only what it proposed to do, but what it had actually done, in its grand work, namely, .aiding the church in the salvation of young men. This is the one great purpose of the organization, ami the sptaker showed very clearly that in accomplishing this work the Y M (J A was an ally of society, in that it made young men purer and more ie!iued; of commerce, in that it nude young men faithful and conscientious in the discharge of every duty, and;with especial empha sis did he dwell upon the fact that it was an ally of the church, in that it made younjr men to see more clearly the beauties of the Christian religion and developed them ia Christian work. Ihis leads us to consider another error in your curi ous misunderstanding of the speaker, in accusing him of estimating the importance of the Y" M C A as equal, if not superior, to the church. He listinctly emphasized the fact that the association was an ally of the cnurcb. An ally is never the prin- ! cipal, but an aid, a subsidiary, rec- i ognizing tne supei lority ana leaaer- ship of the other. This he set forth more clearly still in endorsing heartily the clear cut, well expressed remarks of EeT. Mr. Blair, that if i he association proposed to supplant iiie church he not only had no svm pithy for r, but was its avowed enemy. This sentiment Mr. Coul ter not only endorsed, but reiterated with etupha.-is. In regard to club rooms: The speaker neither made nor intended any reflection upon the Xew Souih Club of Concoid lie alluded lo the luxurious establishments in our large jei'ies (his exact words) where vice is maae auracme hj young meu in ire heautirtil ana e;egant oars, ana tne Tabling rooms, connected with them, and the dissipations necessari ly incident thereto Thns your de fense of tl.e club here was en.irely gra uifous, as it. had in no way been alluded to, nor was its haracter rp-.c; ioned by the speaker. The writer hopes the Standard will pardon this lng trespass upon its time and space, but he i3 led to it by a feeling that injustice has been done our guest and filend, un intentionally, he believes, but none the less potent. This is sll the more unfortunate, as owing to the extensive circulation of the Standard, the speaker, thus reported, will be crippled in his great work. Yours respectfully, B. E. Harris. Copal (irove, X. C Christmas is over, but it remains cold as ever ; and still they marry. Mr Jonas Peninger and Miss Mat tie Moose, of Cabarrus were mar ried at the Lutheran parsonage by Rev. C C Lyerly, last Thursday. They can easily remember the hap py day the last day of Dec. 1S91. Two rabbit hunting parties went out Christmas day ; cue company killed 19; the oth-r went to Cabar rus and killed 30 of the cotton tails. It looks like a few such hunts would exterminate the cotton tail race, but there are some left. A man informed us that he would buy beef cattle, but when ore was sent him, to fill his order, he had every excuse for not taking the cow, but a livery man informed us that the cause was lack of prop. r finance. Documents was the cause, and the beef was returned to his stall. Con cord has plen'y of money, street cars andaXatioual bank, factories &.c; and seme good and substantial men, and it seems that tne beef man ought to have caught to some friend's coat tail. M. It. Our correspondent has an eye to beef. When the Standard man ordi rs a cow our correspondent can fetch her. The beef dealer ought not to have treated him so badly. An Agril I.nily Dead. Mrs. Samuel Philips, the mother of Mrs. M- E. Pastor, died very sud denly, Tuesday night, at the home of her son-in-law, Mr- M, E. Cas tor's. Mrs. Philips, though nearly 80 years of a,'e and feeble, was not j thought to be dangerously ill. Grimsley's Chat. THE OLD MAS PIT AXOTIIKR FACE OX IT. Tb Rrporli. if This Be True, Were Doctored lo Suit the Klwsins Sliep. herd. Correspondence News and Observer. Snow Hill, X. C, Dec. 31, 1891. Motives of delicacy which, I am sure, a just public sentiment will duly appreciate, have thus far ope rated to prevent the publicati n by me of any statement in connection with the two attacks of my son, William E Grimsley, on the Eev. J T Abernethy. I would now spare the public this additional infliction after so much has been said and written about those affairs, if I could j feel that a longer silence would be compatible with my duty to those who are near and dear to me. J It ha3 been published tint I and ! my entire family deuounceel the con- j duct of my son in attacking Mr. j Abernathy. This statemeut is ab soiutely false, and it could not have been given to the public for any other purpose than to give a colar of excuse for the wrong doing of one whose holy calling should have made him avoid the very semblance of evil, and especially t! e tempta tion of the innocent. So far from denouncing William's conduct we have felt all along that it was nat ural and excusable and, indeed, jus tifiable, in an honorable and high spirited man under the provocation which led to it His pure and stain less wife joins us in this sentiment. In this connection I beg leave to say that noble and devoUd wife and Christian woman, all through these unfortunate circumstaces, has not suffered any diminution of the re spect and esteem and confidence which have so long been accorded her (as it surely was her due) from my entire family and all who knew her Her nusband ana all witrun my gates'' and thi3 entire communi ty with one voice and one accord ac quit her most freely and fully of the slightest purpose to do wron g A trusting and conflding nature, zealous in the cause of religion and the advancement of the interests of h r church, simply failed to detect criminal wrong in the approaches of one Ivho wa3 her pastor and spiritu al adviser, when she herself was too pure to suspect a corrupt motive and there was no open disclosure of actual criminal purpose. We earn estly beg that no blame be visited upon her unoffending head. In due time I feel confident that my son's conduct will be successfully vindi cated, but his vindiction will not be (for it caunot truthfully be) at the expense of her honor and her good nam-. i W P Grim lev. ! We Divide the Frolits. Perhaps you think that's a flight of artistic imagination ! It isn't. The artist is light as tar as he goes, but he cloesn t go quite far enough Whmvou split a thing iu two it doesn't always happen that you cut it exactly in the centre and we are not dividing our profits in the mid die. On the contrary, the divijon is overwhelmingly in favor of the purchaser. Ihere'a a good reason for this unusual iroceeding. The time for reducing ur enormous stock of clothing, phoes and furnish ing goods has cohm, and big induce ments pave the Tiy to big reduc tions. Here are bme facts which will show you tbit the matter of profits un t bothefcng ns at all: If you come to frir store with in teniion io Duy a aiic oi ciotnes. you will surely go awy with one lander your arm if prica have anything to uo with it. Uurline of shoes is still in the lead, and,Jvill, if prices count for anything, coitinue there. We have a line of laiieds' fine $3 kid dougola button Imoes that we sell for S 1.50 and n6crumblins Dont forget that bight of children's toy's ana lathe s caps it less than vhole sale prices. Eyry thing in ouiBtore will come down: co your figures! As is Xew Year, wiewill do better than ever before. So come. We shalll be ever so glad b see you. J Wishing you -i happy and pros perous ew ieir, we are as ever, i eaay to serve, ; Cannons 1 & ! Fetzer ADMINISTRATOR'S N3TICE. Having been duly appohted and qunhneJ as AnUtor of tne estate o P A. LoW(er dee'd All persons holding t.laiDs atrainst the said es.tat, wilfpJeJJ the undesigned dulv authenticated 5 davo Decern in 5J?t of ?h Jir BOtlCe willbe Plead persons owin? said estate vill mik- immediate payment. Dec. 5th '91. fiti' M. A. I sopst, Admr. A CLEAN SW AS WJ INTEXll TO Disc j THE sale or ill WE OI'FBR Pes L1 ill: rnif - - CJLL EARLY AX D ITi FETZER'SDBUGbSTORE. L -A- "BIG- XjOO? rhat NUST Be Sold If yuu need ordnt a D. D. J )EALER IX- PURE, FIIKSII DRUGS dad Uan wants but little here lebw, nor Uith us 'us not exactly so Ihit it is VE MOR ft 1,1 ! I We want you, and ifgo.nl goon! and low prices for any thing will yet you.; If yo-ir friends arc Kin- Join -1 io their id-.ls and you I feel etillvd ui.on to send' thorn a re membrance, THE FURNITURE STORE IS HEAOQUASTEfiS Special telegram from St. Nirk saying that ou or about .the 2.ith he will scatter some of his nicest and most useful pres ents in this town, and the Furniture Store has taken Fa. her Time by the forelock and has a copyright. Of course wo are headqnarters. Come and see. Cannons, Fetzer & Bell. YORKE & WADS WORTH HAVE TIIE LATEST IMPROVED - MOWERS, and they are cheaper than ever. Go and see thera, and yon can buy one on very reasonable terms. This is a machine that any farmer can afford to own, as the cost is so little. Now is the time to put in your NhiW COTTON GIN r-a' PRESS. Don't wait until the cotton crowds von YO kf & WADSWORTII Lave the most improved GIN'S this'vr that have been on the market. Go and get one right riwny. Where did you get that Silver-mounted Iiiio-o-v 9 ri,v.r xuiivc iv v ausHonu nave just received tiie Jinest lot of l',urr gies, Buckboards, Cr.rts, Hacks, and will sell as low uu-ilifV considered, as any dealers in North Carolina. TheiVlI VIN NESS line is complete, and thev are show hi a- n.,. "V1. f, IT'--J il. V finest samples of Hand Made tSsTThers will be an old-fashiened barbocne at the Fair but Yorke & Wadsw,.rth will sell vou tlie wa-,n or earth for the money. Get yourself one and u.kw the family !f. I R 1 T TCT17KT mh t A I begin the new year determined to CT'onto 5llfdl fi 1 v o ti f r rroa that my friinds who haven't and see my immense stock can stav at home and buv as satis factorily as if they saw the goods"on the lloor. 1 have out complete line of i)botos of FURNITURE, PIANOS AND ORGANS, which shows up Quality and saw the goods themselves. I represented, and if you do not goods to me and I be-3r the expense both wavs and REFUND louiv r-i. -oy oruenng i rom me through photos you save paying the big prices smaller dealers charge vou and your railroad fare to Charlotte. Write me fn- i.hntns of you want and I will guarantee money. 10, JVU -A.IsriDK,E"WS, Dealer in Furniture, Pianos and Organs. 36 and 18 West Tradf Street. CI' V! 5 TO CLOSE T 0 E 1 1 I SEXT STOCIv OF AT 1 Hit ItiJi! ;..;!! im i KNTS A PACKAtt:; r. L h 1 -0 - 0351 T. A MPS lamp, come'andsee'me. NSON, Druggist. AND RELIABLE MEDICINES wants tlnu little loi in our son:;. WANT CUSTOMERS IN i LLlLi hi') ... .'. Harness ever exhibited here rrn IXTXl A r . 1 1 cav far life?, Ef; tA - X X ' ---'- v - time to come il Styles almost as well ns if vmi, guarantee everv article just an find it so vou c:iti rotr.m th to both please i nd save sav pin !i t.?) ! i T. - 1 3