- . ; i - . ) ; ! ( fl- S$400Fer Year. - ? j ' COKCOKD, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 18G0 " ' . , : " g ' ; x ' ! I1- 1 -v ' - r. , . . .. bmgle Copy 5 Cetts - A DAY OF RECONNOITERING. The View of Soldiers Laid Aside and the Dy Taken Up m Viewing Charleston's Sites. r ; Editorial Correspondence. . ; ? Charleston, 8. 0., May 12 Charleston is beat seen in a bird'a eye -view from the dome of St: Michael's church, wbjoh coafs yon 10 cents and a climb aa wearying and tedious as mounting fame's lad der is for the average man. It ia compactly built with very, very par row streets. Much of it ia covered by good, fine .buildings and we have at least not found the equallor and Blnma that we expected and that we suppose do exist. The United States custom house, rating $3,000,000, we believe, ia a mflryel of beauty, durability and general grandeur. The post office contains about as moch beauty and m3gnifioence as the mind can well conceive of. . Tha Catholic Cathedral waa start ed to outstrip, all the places of wor ship in the city, costing we learn, more than $100,000 and is standing iu wasting appearance for as much more to finish with. The Washington Light Infantry has perpetuated its memory with a beautiful monument and park. The inscriptions are elaborate o weary. The South Carolina Military In stitute has a beautiful park of good s'zsfor the heart of a great city. We had the pleasure of seeing the boys playing war Thursday evening aa they advanced and fired by battals lion, by volley and by battle order. It had more of the true ring in it than the chimes of St. Michael's church tower . That we found by the ear to be badly out of chord and much wanting in time, best under stood when ;we saw that instead of clockwork that we thought struck the time it was simply a very ordinary-looking negro that was pulling leavers to make the strokes. It is needless to say that this writer lis much disappointed with St. Mi chael's chime . - Mt. Pleasant is a fairly nice little town and desirable as a quiet refuge from city bustle. The Lutheran Theological Seminary is neat ana apparently well built as well aa well situated. Sullivan's Island is considerably built up along the front, Fort Moultrie looks weird , and suggestive of former military crudeness .. The magazines are most interesting to the writer and were explored as far as the watery, floors allowed with out actually wadipg through dark and gloomy recesses that had to be traced as the blind do without guide. The new part of the fort, where those mighty disappearing guns rear being great concrete masses, cannot be approached by outsiders. This one battery seems to be suf ficient to protect Charleston. Not a garden vegetable seems to be produced on Sullivan's Island. The salt water cedar is pretty and forms one of its best ornamental trees, live oak excels for dense hade. It is beautiful for its evens ness and dense foliage, making a pleasing impression from a distance. The Isle of Palms : is taken by all tourists. There's the ocean in all itj grandeur, the sand hills al-' most mountain-high; the palm in its high beau ty only as r y oa f attach sentimentalism, with it. , Butthe Ferris wheel is there as is the whirl mg trapeze and imitation rac? track for he dummy steeds. The im mense pavatlion is there where, on a faultless floor, hundreds of the gay may jkipj and tip the light, fantastic toe to the enchanting music. It: is the veritkbie counterpart of the city of d( light in the story of Ben Bur. The whole trip from Charleston to Mt. Pleasant and ever the islands of Sullivan 20 cents and Palm and back costs if you don't get boat, lines Tne cemetery, known by different uamp, as you cross lines not wen aennecrp a stranger, s grand be yond .'anything the writer has jet seen it is amaz'tje vhat time, labor and wealth is bestowed on the dead I ' r who n ve can' (j help while neglect of the living of ien Bhamea our civi- lizatjion j But it ia ennobling senti mpntaliam that itchea beauty and order to the external marks ofihe presence of the dead. S i The many hundreds of little tots that stick out their heads at the Charlesion Confederate Veteran's - i . f . Orphanage indicate that a vaatnumv ber of the heroic Southern women tell in the struggle to build up their broken fortunes and the old yoemen in tlieirjunwiadom sought marital un ions with young women only to start great f.4miliea and then die, leaving burdens too great to be borne even by thehyoupg mothers in widow hood, and children e rangely small are wails. i With the Churches Tomorrow. Kevj L K Pruett, of Charlotte, will fill the pulpit at the Baptist churcli tomorrow morning and to morrow night in the absence of the pastor, Rev. B Lacy Hoge. Regular services at Trinity Re formed church tomorrow, both i i ... morning and night, by the pas tor, Rev. J N Faust. Subject for morning, "Considering the Way.'J Subject for night, "The Eyes Opened." There will be regular services at St! James Lutheran church to morrow morning and night by this pastor, Rev. C B Miller. Regular services will be held at Central Methodist church both tomorrow morning and night by the pastor, Rev. J E Thompson. Regular services both tomorrow morning and night at Epworth Methodist church by the pastor, Rev. T W Smith. . Ref.W B Oney will conduct services at St. Andrews Lutheran church tomorrow night at 7.45 o'clock. : j - . . 9 . r ,,. Colored Hospital Crowded j From the Raleigh; News we learn : "Clerk of Court Russ sent a petition for admission of a patient Gerona Brasell -to the colored insane asylum';: at Golds boro the other day. The petition was -denied. Dr. Miller, the superintendent, stated that his institution was overcrowded." j CUBE A COLD IN ONE DAT : Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25o. - The genuin has Li. B.-Q. on eaohtablet. . . 9 ,. Pure Plymouth Rock .Eggs, 15 for oOc. " Truman UL&pnran. r ; BARN BURNED. Tne Lightning Strikes the Barn of Mr. Will Olllon at Glass About Everything Consumed -One Duinb ff ute ?riffers Death lu the Flames. ' A big storm passed over us Fri day night and the - atmosphere was heavily laden with electricity. The Play of the lightning and the loud claps of thunder made it impossi bly for the nervous persons to rest. jThe worst damage in our county that we have heard of was the burning of Mr. Will Gillon's barn at Glass, where Dr. Laflrty former ly lived. ' About 1 o'clock in the night the lightning struck the baTn. Despite the fast pouring rain, the flame be gan to spread and the buildiog was totally consumed. Mr. Gillon sue- ceeded in getting his horses out, J btit one cow perished in' the flames All of the roughiDgc, together with u3 wagon ana bu2:;iy, etc i were consumed. Anotherjbuilding ptood very near the bam but fortunately did not catch fire, as the rain kept quench ing each spark as the' flames rolled to it. Dr. Lafferty carried insurance in tne Cabarrus insurance association and the barn was insured for one hundred dollars. No other damage 1 ja that part of the community was reported. An AedLndyDend. Mrs. Abner Walter, of No. 4 township, died Friday morn'ng She had: been in bad health for sometime. She leaves only a hns band. She was the .third, wife of Mr. Walter, and was about 55 years of age. Sh was a step mother of Mr. J Wesley Walter, who came from the West only a week or two ago. - The funeral was preached at Cens tre Grove today (Saturday) by Rev. W B Oney. He Discontinued His Job. Mr. Marvin Wiley, a young man jnown in these prts by a number )f people, and who came here last (Wednesday with tne New York Concert Company, which, played in bad luck here, severed his conn ec tion with the company Friday af ternoon and left that night for Lin colnton, where his father, Rev. A E IWiley, lives. They're Not Lelt, Alter All. Superintendent Coler sends us the names of the following chil dren, whose names were omitted from the honor roll - this month: Raymon Bell, Marguerite Brown, and Adeline Morrison. - o If , troubled with rhenmatism, give i Dhamberlair's Pain-Balm a trial. It will not cost you a cent if it does no good. One applicaion will relieve the pain. It also cures sprains and bruises in one third the time required by any other treatment. Cuts, burns, frostbites, quinsey, pains in the side and chest, glandular and other swellings are quick ly cured by applying it. Every bottle warranted. ; Price, 25 and 50 cts. M L Marsh & Co. i Sfllllons Given Away. It is certainly gratifying to the public to know of one concern in the land who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and suffer ing. The proprietors of J)r. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds; have given away over ten million trial bottles of this great medicine; and have the satis faction of knowing it has absolutely cured thousands of hopnless cases. Asthma Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all diseases of the Throat Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it Call at P. 1 B. FetzerV drug tore and cet a trial bottle free. Ke nlar size 50cv and Every bott guaranteed, or price refunded. . 7 ft ' - Mnch Hall nine. Rain, Wind and Light- i navs auuui the condition of the elements Friday night, briefly stated. A dark and threatening looking cloud formed about 10 o'clock,, and at 11 o'clock it was getting in its work at a "double forty" rate.' Lightning struck several places about in town, but no serious dam age was done. A post j was struck near Rev. Smith's and a part of the fence laid down. A large tree was blown down in front of Mr. Joel Reed's home on North Main street, A good amount of hail fell at the beginning of the rain. ; The stones were hardly as large as pari tridge eggs, j The streams were swollen considerably from the heavy rain, which was a "gulley washer and a trash mover." PERSONAL PIONTERS. -Mr. Robert Julian r,f bury, is here today. ! Editor John.D Barrier returned from Charleston this morning. f-Prof. H T J Ludwig, of Mt. i ieasant. snent tho iiair hro V 4 j w J Mrs. Elam King returned yes terday after spending several days ia Charlotte. L-Mr. and Mrs. S J Durham and children returned to Bessemer this uiuruiog, alter ppendme several days here. -Mr. Sam Neisler, of Atlanta. came over th s morning. to attend the funeral of Mrs. Abner Walter, at Centre Grove church today. Mrs. Bryan, ot Illinois, and Mies Daisy Neisler, of Charlotte, arrived here yesterday 'evening to visit the Misses Castor! They at tended the funeral of Mrs. Abncr Walter this Grove. afternoon at Centre IN TODAY AT Si Ji Goods you had best come quick. In, Wind and Light-! i J rast lit of EM'S. STOTES till you can't rest, at prices ! - out loud.ESMome and see USV ITENTIOIn, PARENTS! i . ! - j We liaye -a full line 1 I ii of little Gent's Shoes, -. I!" just the thing for your boy. They are made like men's Shoes and will wear like old time Iqather. Best mater- Li: mis are alway use :heir !makenp ! d m and hey will stand the hard knocks The I leathers are of : and tan jblack : vici,' also Russian calf. prices are $1.25, $1.48 and $1.98. They are just the Shoes you are looking tor, drop in and seelthem. , H.L PARS To Our Customers. On account of tlin j extra work and expensp required to keep and collect small acs counts, we have decided to adopt a i Cash System, beginning June 1. For the convenience of those who prefer it, we will sell, at a discount of 5 per cent., cou pon books in denominations of SI, 00 and up. We believe this will prove highly satis factory! arid certainly ! more convenient to yon vre solicit your patronage and promise to do our utmost to please you. Our work is equal to tie best. The above will be strictly enforced. Respectfully, Concorfl Steam lansSry & Dye f crts H E Rldentioiir, J M Pnrcell Proprietor. Manager. Phone No. 2. Shirts Repaired Free. If you don't like her don't buy her. Saves your carpet, saves your back. And that saves your costs- See W American Queen. ;j . - - We are having quite a rush these days on goods bought before the EISE. - If you need , anything in the; Furniture OR-- House Furnishing: s Hi. . t 1 ; that will make you laugh Company. Trial Free. V :'if i ii

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