I
81.
TheStandard is Only One Dollar
THE STANDARD.
JO-TIUS 4-PAGEU HAS A
BIG G Ell CIRCULATION AT
EVE II Y TOSTOFFICE IN THE
COUNTY, SAVE ONE, THAN
ANY 0 fllER PAPER
rCT WATER IXOCR EYES WITH 91
NTAK DA It IHS.M H.
The free wool bill has passed the
U. S. House of Representatives by a
Tote of 103 to CO. This important
measure which ha3 been the subject
of a long debate is now in the hands
of the senate and will in all pro1
aoimy oe ueieateu dv mat ooay or
vetoed by President Harrieon.
An exchange says: Mrs. Alice
Shaw, fair widow of New York, is
making a fortune by whistling in
Europe. Then that old saying
about "a whistling woman and
crowing hen" has come to naught.
A fine portrait of the late Gofer
nor Haniel G Fowle has been placed
in the Executive Mansion. It was
presented by James L Fowle, Esq.,
of Washington, N. C.
The Shelby Review says a young
Cleveland man was married recdutly
and when the minister named the
fee the young man was so astounded
at the amount he ejaculated, "The
h 1 you say !"
President Diaz has been elected
president of Mexico for a third term.
The vote was almost unanimous.
Mexico surely does not have as
many presidential aspirants as this
"the best government under the sun."
The New Orleans rice merchants
have organized a stock company
with $500,000 capital to fight the
rice trust. A new rice mill will be
erected, as all the present mills are
in the trust It is thought the rice
farmers will join issues with the
new company to fight the trust.
The Greensboro Patriot makes an
ugly charge against us, just because
the Patriot doesn't receive the 4
pager. My brother, let me give you
a piece of advice : If you cau al
ways have some good woman "to
love you as a brother," you'll be for
tunate. Some people make the mistake of
calling the Third Party by the AU
liance. It is not true. The Alli
ance can not be a political party and ,
remain true to its constitution.
There is an increase of twenty five
per cent of troops in the State Guard
but there has been no increase in the
appropriation for the encampment.
If we are going to have a State
Guard it should be taken care of.
It is estimated that if the 1,400,
000,000 people now living on the
globe were located in Texas, divided
into families of five, each family
would have house room and a half
acre lot, still leaving a garden patch
of 35,000,000 acres.
Judge Gober of the Georgia Sup
erior Court has created quite a sen
sation by putting in a bill of $18
for expenses whilst trying Steve
Ryan in Atlanta. The commission
er8 have opened wide their eyes as
this is the first time they have ever
been called on to pay extra expenses
for a judge.
An Atlanta lady, Miss G., has a
cousin who has mada a discovery
that will make the entire family
rich. She say3 he has discovered a
process to make eggs that have been
"the least grain sot on" as fresh as
a newly laid egg, and that in per
forming this change the sulphur ex
tracted from the eggs will go far to
wards running a match factory.
Atlanta Journal. Ve nave no
lrmVt hnt that she will be able to
realize a accent from each egg.
York Herald looks at
Senator Hill's dream thusly : "Me
teoric and rockety was the flight of
Senator Hill for the presidential
nomination."
Maryland is iu the column for
the nomination of ex-President
Cleveland.
mm
The number of foreign born sol
diers in tha United States Army
during the civil war wai according
to Gen. Franz Sigel, who has made
the subject a'atudy, about 500,000,
Of these 144,221 were Irishmen and
176.767 were Germans. The color
t-na nnmbprpd 186.017. of
VVA HWj'O " '
whom 125.000 served at one time,
And theu our northern brethren
have the gall to Bay, "Just look what
we did."
It is now reported that Secretary
Blaine has made arrangements with
Billy Muldoon the famous trainer of
Jno. L Sullivan, the pugilist, for
u series of lessons in physica
rnltnro. Are we to infer from this
that physical ability is all that pre
vents the "plumed knight" from
entering the ring iu the coming
YOL. V. NO. 15.
Another Plan for Financial Belief.
Hon. A II A Williams has a new
scheme for the financial relief of the
country. A Washington special to
the Richmond Times explains it as
follows: "Representative Williams,
of North Carolina, introduced today
a bill which, in his or inion, will, if
it becomes a law, relieve the existing
financial stress and distress and in
part satisfy free silver sentiment.
According to Mr. Williams there are
now about $400,000,000 of silver,
for which certificates have been is
sued ; of treasury notes in circular
tion there are $340,000,000. Oulyj
$100,000,000 in gold is held in re
serve to secure this circulation. Mr.
Williams' bill proposes that one
third of the government's silver be
retained in the treasury to secure
the outstanding silver circulation,
and that the remaining two-thirds
be deposited with the several States
as they may need without interest
in pursuance of a precedent set by
the Jackson administration in 1830.
lb silver deposited with the States
may be invested as the respective
State governments direct, and the
principal to be returned to the gov
ernment on demand of Congress."
Free cotton Barging and Tien.
The House on Saturday passed
the bill to admit cotton bagging and
ties free of duty. The vote was 107
to 40. Three Democrats voted with
the Republicans against the bill.
Otherwise it wa3 a strict party vote.
The following is the text of the bill :
That the following articles, when
inmn-tol cl,U 1, f., .!. I
.u... w cuut UUUi uuij,
namely: Bagging tor cotton, gunny
cloth and all similar material suita-
ble for covering cotton, composed in
wnole or in part ot flax, jute or jute
butts, cords, roving frames, winding
frames, softeners and other machine
erypurcnasea abroad, ana used in
tne manufacture of bagging for cot-
ion, gunny ciom ana an similar ma
terial suitable for covering cotton,
co' ton gins and parts thereof ; also
hoop or band iron, or hoop or band
m I fp 1 I'M 1. rn inrrn rv ithniiu rvr- I
, . .Q, ""v-j v.
partially manufactured into hoops
ur uee lor oaung coiron, wun or 1
without buckles or fastenings.
ittTuieiif " " irom
lleuieui.
Charlotte Observer.
Mr. Richard Capps, of Steel Creek,
died in this city last evening at the
advanced age of SI years. Mr. Capp3
was a witness in the Boyd-Young-
blood case on trial yesterday. While
in the mids- of his testimony in the
court house, he was suddenly taken
111, and had to be carried out He
was taken into the sheriffs office,
and was aftei wards moved to Mr. II
Chapman's office, where, although
given every medical attention, ne ooutnern immigration,
died at 7 o'clock. Heart disease was J R Wilson, Charlotte, N. C, Pub
said to be the cause of his death. It lie Opinion and the Lottery.
was brought on by the excitement
of the trial. Mr. Capps wa3 appar-
ently in his usual good health when
drove into the citv yesterday
lorning. Iii3 remains win oe taken
... - II 1 . A I
to his home in Steel Creek to-day.
Another FertUixer Tax t ac.
State Chronicle.
The question of the validity.of the
present fertilizer tax law has been
raised in the United States circuit
court by the Patapsco guano com
nanv. Two vears ago all fertilizer
, i frt a tQT
companies were required to pay a tax
of $500 each. This law was declared
by the Federal court to be unconsti
tutional. The last legislature then
levied a direct tax of 25c. on each
on of guano sold or offered for sale
in the State. It is claimed by the
company that this is quite as uncon
stitutional as the indirect tax under
thft old law. The company further
alleges I hat the money from the fer
tilizer companies is not necessary for
the support of those engaged in an
alyzing fertilizers. And thU but a
small proportion of the sum i3 re-
nnirpd for this purpose and that
much of it is disbursed for different
M Of course the board of as-
J
rir.ulture w 11 take steps to sustain
the law.
Th Se will be anrued
before Judge
i,i . iioi.
.LMJUU Ub uiccuouviu
on May 7th. The company has em
ployed as attorneys Messrs. T N Hill
of Halifax and J W Hinsdale.
"Some years ago," said he, "when
I was teaching school in Leadville,
T was the onlv Mr. Smith in that
- - j
city. Don't laugh hear me out.
And when I had been there a month
there wasn't a Mr. Smith in Lead
ville." The Boston man looked
mystified and began to intimate that
this couldn't be quite true. "Xot
so fast," answered Mr. Smith. "I
will explain. There were Col.
cmH Via .indpro Smiths. Gen. Smiths
in T.pn.ilville. to be sure, but not one
Mr Smith until I came. I was
'
school teacher, as I said, and within
o mnnth Mr. Smith became Prof,
Cm:fi, t
THE
I'OI. ELIAN CARR.
Repudiates the fit. Eoms Platform
lie Will not be Put In a False Powi
lion.
To the Editor of the Tartxro Southerner:
Mr. M J Battle in his communica
tion to the Southerner of the 5th
inst., states that "in no particular
does the St. Louis platform differ
from the Ocala platform," and fur
therasks "if Elia3 Carr will repud
iate his own handiwork?" I simply
desire to call Mr. B's attention to
two plauks from each platform as
paralleled below:
OCALA, 1S90.
I (a) "Th;it our Na
St. Louis, iS92-
tional legislation shall
be so framed in future
as not to build up one
industry at the expense
of another."
(b) "We further de
mand a removal of the
existing heavy tariff tax
from the necessities of
life, that the poor of our
land must have."
1. Silent as thk
"Transportation
We demand the
most riid, honest and i change and a imblic ne
means ot ex
governmental 'control'
and 'supervision' of the
means of public commu
nication and transporta
tion, and if this eontrol
and supervision does
not remove the abuse
now existing, we de
mand the government
of such means of com
munication and trans
portation." just Male and r:ituma!
cessny, tne government
should 'own' and 'oper
ate the railroads in the
interest of the people.
"The teleirratih and
telephone, like the post-
oince system, Deinir ;
necessity for the trans
mission of news, should
re -owneii and 'opera-
tec! ry tne government
111 the interest of the
people
Ihese (Ocala) demands were sub
sequently engrafted into the State
Democratic platform and re-enacted
at Indianapolis. I had the honor to
be upon the committee at Ocala that
formulated them, reportiug unani
mously upon these two planks. As
yet I have seen no authority or reason
for eliminating these planks from
the Alliance platform, while on the
contrary abundant reason for not en
dorsing a party which is putting the
Alliance in an inconsistent and false
attltnd9 bj demanding ownership
Lfter BL.eurinjT Vot;mi,, nml Rfnfo
governmental control of railroads
acti comoletelv imiorin ih tnriff
1 a j o n
question, that most important of all
reform lneaaure8 the present status
of which miike3 nosfiibi,, Trnar
and combine?, that mr-ir-h !,
few
an1 impoverish the
many.
Truly yours,
Eli as Cakr.
At naidon c ollege,
ir 11 -m 1 t
laiwen vnanioers uay was
celebrated at Davidson College. Arril
6th, by the Senior class with the
following programme :
L E Boston. SffirpavHlP V O. Tda
,
'ffjoi; 'inal.
urvv.ii, wu'cusuuw,
The Future of the Turk.
II W Glasgow, Davidson, !N. C,
The Making of Modern Italy.
W L Lingle, Miil Bridge, X. C,
The Monument of a Christian Phi-
lauthropist.
W E Minter, Laurens, S. C, Gro-
ver Cleveland.
C M b'ichards, Liberty Hill, S. C,
The Love of Approbation.
W L Walker, Huntersville, N. C,
Seab Caldwell, Clear Creek, N. C,
"Vox Populi."
C L Grey, Huntersville, X. C,
The Russian Jew.
L G Henderson, Waterboro, S. C,
Oratorial Culture.
L A McLaurin, McCall, S. C,
Turniiig-Poiiits of Civilization.
W II Mills, Camden, S. C, Wos
man s iniluence on iuouern l oliticc.
W W Morns, Concord, X. C, A
Lesson from the Tomb.
J B Wharey, Mooresville, X. C,
Three Types of Christian Soldier,
j
11 L Wharton, McLeansville, X.
C, The Conllict between Science aiid
Poetry.
JIODKU.V METHODISM.
'oil Hon to the General Conference
lor an Unlimited I'aNtorate.
Columbus, O., April 11. The
Methodist preachers' meeting today
adopted a memorial to the General
Conference to enact euch legislation
in May a3 will enable pastors to
drop members who do not support
the church according to their ability;
to elect bishops for eight years
without. 8 of re-election; that
"""" uv
fnrofn. fViof
- r
eu wun l nomination uy
the bishop, and that the caomct
-
shall have coordinate power with
the bishop in making appointments.
the majority of the presiding elders
being sufficient to determine the ap
pointment
Died in Jail.
Oxford Day.
Dollie Thompson was found dead
in her cell in the county lail this
morning
She had been seriously sick for
some weeks, suffering with dropsy
and was under medical treatment
The woman was about forty years
of sure, white, and of a degraded
a '
character. She was put in jai
a several months ago on the cnarge oi
I . .-, i r
infanticide, the body of her young
child, horribly mutilated, having
I been found concealed in tne woods
Per Year. Largest Circulation of Any Paper in this
CONCOIID, N. C, THURSDAY. APIUL 21. 1892
Hints from the American Farmer,
The oldest twine combine the
boy's pocket.
The most expensive grinder of cow
feed is the cow.
The rooster that crows of his own
fence must be ready to fence as well
as crow.
Compound interest is the interest
you take in the mother whose daugh
ter you are courting.
The first political agitator begun
by persuading the first farmer that
he was "down trodden."
A good farmer can discover more
in a forty acre farm than Columbus
got out of the whole continent.
Tie the old plow handle with
twine and buy a $20 willow baby
carriage upholstered with plush and
blue silk.
A man who trie3 to steal
foot of i
the country road by moving
fence out would rob Gabriel of
trumpet for a dinner horn, if
hi3
his
he
caught him napping.
An hour a day at an old fashioned
up-and-down churn dash, will neu
tralize, in the bry's mind, all the
idealistic stones about the beauties
farm life.
The Spartans cultivated to an ex
treme physical endurance, but they
never sent the boys to the well to
wash their faces, iu softsoap on
mornings frosty enough to paint the
nail heads white.
CLKVEUXn HAS norms.
He Writes that H !!: Misfit in- as
t tlio Wisdom 01. Mis lti-in;; a Can
didate. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 11.
The following letter from G rover
Cleveland was received today by
James II Bible, a prominent demo
crat in this city :
"Lakewcod, X. J., April 8 1S92.
"My Dear Sir : I desire to thank
you for the report of the meeting at
Chattanooga, which vou so kindly
ent me, and for the friendly words
yon spoke of me on that occasion.
'I am exceedingly anxious to have
our party do exactly the right thing
at the Chicago convention, and I
hope that the delegates will be
guarded by judgment and actuated
by true democratic spirit and the
single desire to succeed 011 principle.
'1 should not be frank if I did
hot ueVtfflVAbjvt J.often fear I do
friends as you say of me, and I ha -e j
frequent misgivings as to
the wis-
dom of again putting me
in nomi'
uatiou.
"I. therefore, am anxious
that
sentiment and too unmeasured per
sonal devotion should be checked
when the delegates to the convention
reach the period of deliberation. In
any event there will be no disaps
pointment for me in the result.
Yours very truly,
"G itovEi: Cleveland."
THE COST OF A I'OfSD OF COTTO.V
Charlotte Observer.
An article in the last Xorth Caro
lira Bulletin, as to the cost of grow
ing cotton, from the pen of C Mc-
)o:iald, Esq., of Cabarrus, is well
worth careful consideration, and the
cotton planter will find interesting
and perhaps profitable a comparison
the figures which he tabulates
with his own experience of necessary
expenditures in making the crop.
Whatever may be the result on this
and subsequent years' production of
cotton of the disastrous outcome of
the crop of 1801, it is as desirable as
t ever wa3 to know at just what
price it can be planted, cultivated
and put on the market.
It would have been more satisfac
tory, in availing ourselves ot -Mr. juc-
donald's estimates prepared, as he
tells us, from acconnt3 kept in care
ful detail from planting the seed to
the shipment of the staple if he
had come a little closer to us ; as his
calculations are of crops made in
1878 and 1S7'J. But we are justified
in attributing to these calculations
their original value, for the condi
tions of labor, price of fertilizers,
rate of interest and taxation, value
of land, etc., arc much as tiny were
11 years ago.
Mr. McDonald kept his cotton ac
count for two vears with a view to
his own individual benefit, of course.
He wanted to know what it cost him
to make a pound of cotton, and if
anv who follow his estimates use
them hereafter they will be actuated
by the same motive. That i3 the
main value of a practical experiment
that it can be repeated anl per
haps improved on.
The debit account against 21,984
lbu seed cotton, grown in lbb on
22 acres of land including every
item of expense from the preparation
of the ground to the transportation
1
to market wa3 $412.03 ; less value
of seed, $5G.25 ; net costj 35G.3S.
This crop baled (7,0S7 lbs.) brought
$037.83, leaving a net profit of 2S1.-
45. The cotton of 1878 cost to raise
05 8-100 cents.
In 1879 Mr. McDonald employed
an equal acreage, and the same acre
age, gaining on the cost of produce
tiou $10.48, the total being $393.15,
and obtaining the same price for the
seed. His yield was better, too
7,317 pounds baled cotton against
7,087 pounds the year before and
his net profit was $470.29. The crop
of 1S79 cost 04 3-5 cents.
As will be seen, there is a material
difference ia the figures piesented
for the two years ; but by a careful
study of the article in the Bulletin
it will also be seen that this differs
ence grew not ont of changed condi
tion of labor, etc., but was the result
of the planter's improved cultivation
and i le excellent state to which he
had brought his land.
Everyone can accept the proposi
tiou that Mr. McDonald lays down
broadly. That the cost per pound
in growing cotton must depend upon
the yield per acre the product the
measure of the planter's profit; that
the cost of raising 500 pounds is
the same as that of raising 1,000
pounds, and that there can be no
appreciable profit when the farmer
fails to alize $12 or more per acre.
The Bulletin's article concludes
with this significant expression
on
the part of its writer
If every farmer or planter could
be iully impressed with the truth
that to secure better prices is to be
fully prepared to encounter small
returns, not many years would elapse
before the average yield of lint per
acre for the entire cotton belt would
be 250 or 300 pounds instead of 170
as now.
An Eastern Tow 11.
Swansboro, X. C, April 13th, '92.
Ed. Standard: Some time ago
I sent you a short communication
from our little place, "Swansboro."
Xot seeing any notice of same, cons
eluded I would send another, think
ing perhaps you might not have re
ceived the first, or received it, might
not have liked it, etc. Our folks
here don't take your paper much,
and don't know of course what it is,
in iact we don't all read as much as
we ought to here, in newspapers or
anything else. Sometimes some of
us take a notion to read some in our
"Blue Backs" or a novel, but a3 to
roildil" thf nfws in p-cripr! nVirmf
a anythingf we aiy aS ft ma.
Swansboro is what wo wiou .
vou and your readers about a little.
We don't suppose your people up and
around Concord, many of them, know
that there is such a place as Swans
boro. We want you to know it.
Swansboro is a pleasant little vil
lage on the sea coast at the mouth of
White Oak river in Onslow county,
with a population of about 250, all
whites but 4. One of the oldest
towns in the state, one of the pretti
est places to live, the healthiest place
to stay, easiest place to get along,
that is for living, getting something
to eat and wear etc. Fish, oysters,
crabs, conch3, shrimps, escallops,
clam?, lobsters and every other thing
that comes out of the water. Then
the ducks, geese, brant, turkeys,
coons, 'possums, etc., makes it one
of the best places lor sporting in the
couutrv. Very healthy, nobody dies
hardly ever, sometimes one blows
away, then one gets so old he hasn't
strength enough to breathe the last
breath, and goes off that way.
Well, you might ask, if all that is
so, now comes it owansooru is uuiy
. i o i i
small place of 250, with 200 chil
dren ? and so healthy, too, and so
old a phoe, and so many
children,
what becomes of the children ? if
they don't die, where do they go
please explain. Well, you are right,
Mr. Editor, it does look strange to a
man up a tree, but I'll tell you, all
have said about the place ia true to
the word, and the reason we are not
more nrosnerous 13 because we are a
A L
divided people. As fast a3 one gets
15 or IS years old, he or she strikes
out for higher aspiratious, fays
Swansboro is too corrupt a place,
and I can't stay here divided, yes,
we are awfully divided, not in poli
tics, for we are nearly all (a3 the old
darkey says) gimikrats no publi
cins here, Massa. To speak on but
divided in the Bible teachings, at
least that's what some say. Eeligion
of the Lord Jesus Christ is one
thing, and like Xew York Tamany
rings "Bossism' is another.
Eespectfully,
G. W. W.
After a eecond reading, we deem
it unwise to publish more of this
man's letter. We do this, knowing
that it will do no good and may
prove of some injury, Ed. Stand
ard. -
A W Winecoff, whom reverses in
business met at China Grove, has
surmounted difficulties and opened
out a grocery store in Salisbury.
A Frog at Nineteen Feet.
T C Cor k is boring a well at the
cemetery. His is a unique and ex
cellent machine, and he's penetra
ting Mother earth rapidly. Every
fifteen minutes he has to empty his
auger bucket.
While sitting there, Thursday
evening, Dennis and this quiet plod
der saw something it was a remark
able something.
When the bucket, loaded with dirt
brought up from a depth of nine
teen feet, was emptied out there was
among it a toad about the size of
fashionable biscuit That the frog
came up out of Mother earth Mr.
T C Cook and;Dennis will testify it
could not have fallen in from the
top, because it was not there to fall in
. The frog had taken on the pecus
liar color of the soil. It had some
where and somehow lost one hind
leg the wound already healed up.
It had other scars that indicated
rough journey.
"How That Frog Got There,"
Was the question Mr. Dennis and
Mr. Well Borer Cook began to dis
CUS3.
In the name of science we betray
no confidence in publishing the theo
ries advanced.
The Well Borer thought it got in
at Capt McDonald's spring and
found its way through the current
that furnished water for the Mc
Donald spring. And when reaching
that point, it became tired of under
ground life and began boiing its slow
way out. The Well Borer thought
that the earthquake several years
ago rent the ground and that had he
not met the frog half way, his frogs
ship would have reached the surface
of terra fir ma by July 4th.
Dennis wa3 pleased with this the
ory and thought it very plausible.
But, being of a searching mind and
being a geological and scientific stu
dent, he advanced a theory in sub
stance as follows : "I think that frog
a genuine toad, but of a sturdier and
of more enduring strength than the
common toad. It differs from our
Guilford toads in more respects than
one. it came out of the ground, be
cause it came out of the bucket,
which came out of the ground, there
fore the frog came out of the ground.
That we all know. Xow, years ago
just how long I'm not able to say
this ground where we now stand
nnvprpd by the Atlantic ocean.
estimate the age of this irog. j.
ocean began to contract itself and
the continent began to widen. This
frosr was evidently near the water's
edge. The tide coming in, caught
him and being covered by shells and
other sea life, he became imprisoned.
When asked how it sustained life,
Dennis took a bite of cheese and be
gan again :
"I can readily account for this.
Live frogs have been found in large
rocks. Besides that frog sustained
ts life on the shells and oceanic life
with which he was covered. See
here, (and he picked up a white kind
of soil) this is decomposed shells and
sea products. I have made a study
of geological life, and I'm glad to
find such a splendid example of some
geological teachings."
Keeper Craven went off Bhaking
his head and this quiet plodder was
naralvzpd and very doubtful "to
boot"
A PoNtofliceRow.
TTfrp ia a bit of news that is said
to have occurred in Mt. Pleasant re
cently :
A man went into the postoffice of
a neighboring town recently and
told the postmaster that he desired
thirteen two cent stamps for a cent
and a quarter. The postmaster res
fused to give them to him, stating
that the cost would be twenty six
cents. The man persisted in getting
his order, claiming that he could
o-pt- t.hPTn at anv office for that
amount, and even threatened the
government official if he continued
to refuse him. Finally the post
master ordered him out, but the man
nothing daunted, took a cent and a
twenty-five cent piece from his pock
et, and laying them down on the
counter he received his stamps for a
cent and a quarter. The postmaster
was a little discomfited for awhile;
bat now enjoys the joke a3 well as
any one.
The snake liar has started on his
summer tour. An exchange has it
that Mike Green while blasting
rnrlf on the Lehich Valley, Ba.
railroad, on April 10th, uncoyered
den of black snakes which to the
number of over a hundred surround
ed him, but in twenty minutes he
killed 27 and succeeded ini getting
away. We'll wager a month3 sub'
scription to this 4 pager that it was
too cold in Pennsylvania on the 10th
for a snake to crawl.
WHOLE NO. 222.
Bl'TTEK AXD CHEESE FACTORY.
AffltationTnat May Prove a Good En-
terprine for In AllSome Points
About the BuHiuesN.
C M Gaylord, of Chicago, is here
interviewing our people on the sub
ject of a butter and cheese factory.
In substance, the proposition ip
this: Messrs. Davis and Eankin,
manufacturers of cheese and butter
machinery, will erect suitable build
ings and equip them with the nec
essary machinery for the manufac
ture of butter and cheese. The cost
of this will be $5,000, diyided up
into shares of $100 each.
The company proposes to erect the
houses and equip and demonstrate
what they claim, before a single cent
is paid. If what they claim is not
realized, then the stockholders are
not to take it and are not to lose
anything.
Messrs. Davis and Eankin claim
this and we take a basis of 200 cows
for the sake of making their propo
sition clear:
"If 200 cows canjbe had in a radius
of six miles of this point that will
give us 2 J gallons of milk per day
each, or 4,500 pounds for - which
Bay we pay 90 cents per hundred :
Which amounts to $40.50
For Expert Butter Maker. ... 2.00
" Helper 1.00
" Boxes," &c . 2.00
" Coal and Oil 1.25
" Insurance 0.10
" Ice 1.00
" Interest 12 per cent.... 1.48
$49.33
With our system we make 4 to 4
pounds of butter and 5 to 6 pounds
of cheese to the hundred pounds of
milk; therefore, 4,500 lbs. of milk
will make 202 lbs. Butter at 25
amounts to $50.62 and 225 lbs.
Cheese at 6 cts. amounts to 13.50
uross receipts irom xuu cows per
day, $04.12.
Our income per day is $64,12
Our expenses per day is 49.33
Our net gain per day is $14.79
And per month a Dividend on the
Investment to Stockholders $443.85
From all the light we can get,
tne standard believes this an
important enterprise. That the
best of butter made in the ordinary
way, there is at least 30 per cent
of water. By this machiaery the
butter ia firmer and is higher in
fv, market
ana in ft i;
a no rmi. . .
factory m J developed. The
at the ;farm lent proposes to call
and pay from SO els0 the miik
hundred pounds., p-
Where factories have been estab-
lished people sell their milk and buy
their butter it being better and
cheaper.
Suppose some one says that there
is no market for the products. That
is not true when a moment's thought
is given to the matter.
Statesville has moved in the mat
ter and will at an early date have a
factory ; Mr. Hambley, of Rockwell
Rowan connty, has himself gone
into arrangements for the erection
of a factory at his house.
On this estimate, we neglected to
say, each stockholder is entitled to
pat in two hogs at the factory pen.
The whey and other refuse of the
milk is sufficient to raise and fatten
100 hogs.
Mr. Gaylord will call upon our
people and discuss this matter.
A Nad Death.
The Greenville Reflector says that
on last Sunday night J J Moore, a
white man confined in Pitt county
jail, died in his cell. He had been
sick more than a week, and realizing
that his condition was becoming
dangerous Sheriff Tucker on Satur
day wrote to Gov. Holt setting forth
the ciscumstances and petitioned tor
rhp nardon of the prisoner. The
Governor telegraphed Monday morn
ing that the pardon had been mailed
and that Moore could be released at
once, but death had already released
him. Monday the remains were
taken home for burial. The prison
er was serving a three month 3' sen
tence from January term of Pitt
Superior court for assault with dead"
ly weapon. He had been postmaster
at Farmville.
Don't Like tbe Pension Idea.
Mose Stirewalt, one of the Stand
ard's best friends from South Rowan
says that the political pot is boiling
in Rrowan. The Alliance don't
know which way to turn. They are
true demociats and don't want to
follow after false gods. He says
The Ocala platform suited him, but
he is "not in it" on the "pension
soldiers" business and the leaving
out of the Tariff platform in the St
Louis fixup. Mose is a good farmer
and pays as he goes.
Section.
8.1
THE STANDARD.
ONLY TWICE AS MUCH
READING MATTER AS
ANY PAPER EVER
OR NOW PUB
LISHED IN
THE COUNTY.
er TICKLE US WITH &7.
I'anal Exaggeration.
N. V. Sun.
Why do so many writers rush to
the boundless or the countless when
a map or an arithmeiic is cheap?
We see a string of such writers
every day in looking over our ex
changes, our magazines, and our
new books. Take Mr. Edmund
Yates's very last letter to the Trib-.
une, in which he tells of an English
visitor to southern Frauce, who
gazed upon the Mediterranean Sea,
"stretching countless miles from east
to west" Xow, sir, the miles are
not countless, and why say they are?
They can, indeed, be very easily
counted, without going np high in
arithmetic. With any ordinary map
of the world or of southern Europe,
any urchin can in half a minute find
out the number of miles between
the eastern and western end3 of the
Mediterranean Sea, or even between
Gibraltar and the Syrian coast.
Then what is the sense in saying
that the miles are countless?
It would not be worth while to
refer to Mr. Yates's words if there
were not a countless number of
other writers who have the uuacs
countable way of writing that he
has, and who deserve to be censured
for their boundless inaccuracy.
The'exaggerater is a kind of a
liar that is pretty common. Some
men like to orate about little per
sonal experiences and magnify them
to such an extent that it is a reflect
ion on the mental attainments and
stock of forbearance on the part of
their hearers.
!
Grand JInslcr Powiltrly Wants the
"Aonseiise Kfoiel."
Milwaukee, Wi?., April 15. Sec
retary Robert Schilling, of the na
tional executive committee of the
People's party, today received a pri
vate letter from L V Powdcrly,
Grand Master Workmam of the K of
L in which the latter says : I have
received several reform papers hav
ing my name at the head for Presi
dent, I ask you in all sincerity to
uBe your influence to put a stop to
that nonsense. We want as large a
vote as possible, and for certain reas
sons I do not believe my name would
draw as that of some others. Besid
es, I am not a member of any new
party, and never intend to be, but
will vote the St Louis platform
whenever it comes up, no matter
what the name of the party may be.
This yei'.i the Democrats and Re
pnoncaas will ignore that platform.'
and the t'zovW r-.trtv w?,VtZ'. '
didates on it; consequently I -rTrl- '
and vo:B for that party this vwir. ami
if we poll a large vote we will cause
Pirtbof1theoJdPartiea to
do justice to ouiandtllink of our
we think." " "c
Growth. "This "tL
Rapid
seems to be making rapid progress,
said a visitor to a resident of Boom-
yille, Oka. "You are just right,
stranger. Why, we've had to enlarge
the jail twice."
Scott Brown, a graduate of the
Keeley Institute, is travelling in the
interest of the institution.
The hands at the car shops, of
Salisbury, work nine hours instead
of eight.
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