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THE CONCORD TIMES, The ntit widely circulated paper - ; published in 1 JQQK AND JOB PRINTING ... .. ... OP ALL KINDS - ' faitel in tit trt Stjk: at Lrma prices. ' M&'OurJob Printing department with every necessary equipment, is prepared to turn out every vari ety of printing in first-class style. No boteh work turned out from this offiec. We duplicate the prices of any legitimate estallismeit."&l CABAUB, ROWAN, STANLY, j MONTGOMERY, RANDOLPH," ; ANSON, RICHMOND AND ; .j DAYIDSON COUNTIES. ADVERTISERS J0KN.B. SHERR1LL, Editor. $1.50 a Year Due in Advance OllCJl a iin nere: t Rates Moderate. Times Established 1883, I Consolidated June 83, 187. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1890. Kejflnter 1876. Vol. VII. No. 31. r t - K ,J I. 1.1 4 - r 'tRpYALrSKSI J- N. Absolutely Pure. Tills powder never varies, A "marvel of purity, strength aud -svholesoineness. More economical tban the ordinary k'nds,and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight "alum or 'phosphate powder Sold only i in cans. RoVai. Bakinq PowOEB GQ., 100 Wall St., N. Y. H. C. HERRING, D. O.Sm CONCORD, N. C. Ollice store. over Correll Bros.' Jewelry DR. V. H. LILLY, . Offers liia professional services to he citizens of Uoncora ana vicinity. (Jails promptly attended to, . day or night. Office and residence1 on East Depot street opposite the Presbyte rian church. Aug ri'T' DR,J.l FITZGERALD, Physician and Surgeon, CONCORD, N. C. Oflico in Dr. Bessent's old rooms. nsfficT; Eesdi . j (Established 18S2.) ljlRE,LIPE, ! STEAM - BOILER . and .,. , Accident Contracts placed in The Royal,"of liverpool, Mutual Life, of New York, and other .reliable compa nies.' All classes of property taken in Town and Country . Policies issued on the lives pf P4ale and Females. Fifteen millions paid claimants in and no claim contested THOS. W. SMITH, Agt., Concord, N. C Office in court house. Feb.15 ly WHAT I WANT IN MY WEEKLY PAPER. 1 WAtfT A reliable paper that I can rwiVK' Bafolx take Into mjIamUj, A vauer which repreienU Elsh Ideals And Souad Principle. The laleet Home Newt, The Ueet Fre!m Newt. r The Lateat Political New. .T AHA Reliable Market Report, l'.ellable auotntlont f Farm Tiw!net Live Stuck Uarketa, Financial ft Commercial. 1 WANT Senalble and teanonable EiHtnrlnla r vv vm wn PoUUcal Social, and Moral Question!. The cream of the beat Editorials M vruaouiernniiy and weoKlyptpe: k'ork Bud oilier (Inlly and weekly pap WANT ie imuw wnai tuer uunk of matters. Oood, reliable Farm and Garden Article I WANT Written by Practical Ken. 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For -every shooting star he claimed a kiss. She, seeming coy, at first demurred to tins ; . Hut he, persisting, wonld not be denied "When he at length a flying meteor spied. And so, as evening grew apace, their - ejes .- Oft scanned the glittering aspect of the skies, And when a darting star.oaught either's sigh , A sound of kissing broke upon the nisht. And so it came to pass anon that she Looked for a shooting star as much as he Nay, if by chance a star escaped his view She called his wand'ring fancy to it too. When intervals seemod long between each hug - She called aim ea a passing lightning bug; And, ever taxing her ingenious mind, Her readv wit enabled ner to find More shooting stars in three short, fleet ing hours Than would compose whole meteoric bowers. But when she did her last pretext ex haust And was about to yield her cause aa lost, She saw a switchman's lantern, circling swing And. got the youth down to a steady tning. Vassar Miscellany. W SlB-TKEASFRYfLAy. The Flnnneiul Demand of the National Farmer.' Alliance. We present below the Financial Policy adopted at the recent con vention of the National rarmers Alliance. It demands free coinage of silver. Congress, may substan tially pass laws that will meet this demand. The plan is as fol lows; The financial policy of the gen eral government seems to-day to be peculiarly adopted to further the interests of the speculating class, at the expense and to the manifest detriment of the pro ductive class, and while there are many forms of relief offered, there has up to the present time been no true remedy presented which has secured a support universal enough to render its adoption probable. Neither of the political parties offer a remedy adequate to our necessities, and the two parties that have been in power since the war have pursued prac- tically-the same financial policy. The situation is this: The most desirable and necessary reform is one that will adjust the financial system 01 the teneral government so that its provisions' cannot be utilized by a class, which thereby becomes privileged and is in con sequence contrary to tne genius of our government, and which is to-day the principal cause of the depressed condition,, of agricul ture. Kegaraiess ol all this the political parties utterly ignore these great evils and refuse to re move their cause, and the ltnpor tunities ot the privileged class have no doubt often led the ex ecutive and legislative branches of the government to believe that the masses were passive and re conciled to the existence of this system whereby a privileged class can, by means of the oower of money to oppress, exact from la Dor an tnat it produces except a bare subsistence. Since then it is the most necessary of all reforms, and receives no attention from any of the prominent political parties, it is highly appropriate and important that our efforts be concentrated to secure the needed reform in this direction, provided all can agree upon such measures, Such action will in no wise connect this movement to any partisan effort, as it can be applied to the party to which each member belongs. In seeking a true and practica remedy ior tne evils that now i r a t - . flow from the imperfections in our financial system let us first con sider what is the greatest evil and on what it depends. The greatest evil, the one -that out amps an owners so iar tnat it is instantly recognized as the chief and known with certainty to be more oppressive to the produc tive interests of thecountry than any other influence, is that which delegates to a certain ' class the power to fix the price of all kinds of produce and of all commodi ties. This power is not delegated directly, but it is delegated indi rectlv bv allowing such class to issue a large per cent, of the mo ney used as the circulating medi um of the country, and having the balance of such circulating medium, which is issued by the governments fixed quantity that is not augmented to correspond with the necessities of the times. In consequence of this the money issued by the privileged class, which they are at liberty to with, draw at pleasure, can be, and is, so manipulated as to control the volume of circulating medium in the country sufficiently to Dro, J. il L.'.- " . uuce nuctuations in general prices at their pleasure. It may be lik ened unto a simple illustration in philosophy: The inflexible vol ume of the government issue is the fulcrum, the volume of the bank issue is the lever power, and Pnce is the point at which power HJj11Cu, unu it is cuner raised or lowered with erreat certain tv to correspond with the volume of bank issue. Anv mprfiamV will , j - instantly recognize the fact that Huiu ana surest way ot destroying the power of t"he lever . . .1 . . to raise or lower price is to re- move tne resistance onerea by the fulcrum the inflexible volume of government issue. The power to regulate the volume of money so as to control price is so ma nipulated as to develop and apply a potent force, for which we have in the English language no name; but it is the power of money to oppress, ana is demonstrated, as ollows : In the last four months of the year the agricultural pro ducts of the whole vear having been harvested, they are "placed on tne market to buy money. The amount of money necessary to supply this demand is equal to many times the actual amount in circulation, i .Nevertheless the class that controls the volume of the circulating medium, desire to purchase these agricultural pro ducts for speculative purposes, so they reduce the volume of money bv hoarding, in the lace ot the augmented demand, and thereby advance "the exchangeable value of the then inadequate volume of money, which isj equivalent to reducing the price ot the agricul tural products. True agricultu ralists should hold their products and not sell at these ruinously ow prices. And no doubt thev would if they could, but to pre vent that, practically all debts, taxes and interest are made to mature at that time, and they being forced to have money at a1 cert am season when they have the product of their labor to sell, the power 01 money to oppress by its scarcity is applied until it makes them turn loose their pro ducts so low that their labor ex pended does not average them fifty cents per day. This illus trates the power of money to op press ; the remedy, as beiore, lies in removing the power of the ful crum the inflexible government issue and supplying a govern ment issue, the volume of which shall be increased to correspond with the actual addition to the wealth of the nation presented by agriculture at harvest time, and diminished as such agricul tural products are consumed. Such a flexibility of. volume would guarantee a stability of price based on cost of production which would be compelled to reckon the' pay for agricultural labor at the same rates as other employment, j. Such flexibility would rob money of its most po tent power tne power to op press and place a premium on productive effort. But how may so desirable a result be-secured!" Let us see. B v aool viner the same principles nowin force in the mo netary system of the United States with only slight modifica tion in the detail of their execu tion. The government and the people of this country realize that the amount ot gold and silver, and the certificates based on these metals, do not comprise a volume ot money sumcient to supply the wants of the country, and in or der to increase the volume the government allows individuals to associate themselves into a bodv corporate, and deposit with the government bonds which repre sent national indebtedness, which the government holds in trust and issues to such corporations paper money equal to ninety per cent, ot the value ot the bonds, and charges said corporationjn teres t at the rate of one percent per annum for the use of said paper money. This allows the issue of paper money to increase the volume of the circulating medium on a pertectly sale basis. because the margin is a guarantee that the banks will redeem the bonds before they mature. But now tve find that the circulation secured by this method is stil not adequate ; or, to take a very conservative position, if we ad mit that it is adequate on the average, we know that the fact of its being entirely inadequate tor. nair tne vear makes Its in flexibility an engine of oppression, because .a season in which it is inadequate must be followed by one of superabundance in order to bring about the average, and such a rrange in volume means great fluctuations in prices which cut against the producer, both in buying and selling, because he must sell at a season when tro- duce isJow, and buy when com modities are high. This system, now in vogue by the United States government of supple menting its circulating medium by a safe and redeemable paper money, should Jje pushed a little further and conducted in such a manner as to secure a certain augmentation of supplv at the season of the year in which the agricultural additions to the wealth of the nation demand money, and a diminution in such supply of money as said agricul tural products are consumed. It is not an average adequate amount that is needed, because under it the greatest abuses may prevail, but a certain adeauate amount that adjusts itself to the wants of the country at all sea sons. For this purpose let us demand that the United States , gUitlUUJCUl tin. financial system government moduy its present 1. So as to allow the free and i unlimited coinage of silver or the f? r f- . - . issue 01 su ver ccruncates aeainsi an unlimited deposit of bullion. 2. That the system of using certain banks as United States depositaries be abolished, and in place of said system, establish in every county in each of the States that offers for jsale during the one year five hundred thousand dol lars worth of farm products ; in cluding wheat, corn, oats, bar ley, rye, rice, tobacco, cotton, wool and sugar, all together; a sub-treasury office, which shall, have in connectipn with it such warehouses or elevators as are necessary for carefully storing and preserving such agricultural products as are offered it for stor age, and it should be the duty of such sub-treasury department to receive such agricultural uro- ducts as are offered for storage and make a careful examination of such products and class same as to quality and give a certifi cate of the deposit showing the amount and quality, and that United States legal-tender paper money equal to eighty1 per cent, of the local current value of the products deposited has been ad vanced on same on interest at the rate of one per cent, per an num, on the condition that the owner or such other person as he may authorize will redetmthe agricultural products within twelve months fronfdate ot the certificate or the trustee will sell same at public auction to the highest bidder for the purpose of satisfying the debt. Besides the one per cent, interest the sub treasurer should be allowed to charge a trifle for handling and storage, and a reasonable amount for insurance, but the premises necessary for conduct ing this busiaess should be se cured by the various counties donating to the general govern ment the land and the srovern- ment building the very best mod ern buildings, fire-proof and sub stantial. With this method in vogue the farmer, when his pro duce was hat vested, would place it in storage where it would be perfectly safe and he would se cure lour-httns ol its value to supply his pressing necessity for money at one per cent, per an num. ie would negotiate and sell his warehouse or elevator certificates -whenever the current price suited him, receiving from the person to whpm he sold only the difference between the price agreed upon and the amount al- reaoj paid Dy tne suD-treasurer, When, however, these storage certificates reached the hand of the miller or factory, or other consumer, he, to get the product. would have to return to the sub- treasurer the sum of money ad vanced, together with the interest on same and the storage and in surance charges on the product This is no new or untried scheme ; it is sate and conservative ; it harmonizes snd carries out the system already in vogue on really safer plan because the pro ducts of the country that must be consumed every year are really the very best security in the world, and with more justice to society at large, v or a prece dent, attention is called to the following: In December, 1848, the London limes announced thb inevitable failure of the French republic and msmtregation of French society in tne near tuture, but bo wise was the administration of the statesmen of that nation that two months later it was forced to eat its own words saying in its col amis February 16, 1849 : As & mere commercial specula tion with the assets which the bank held in hand it might then have stopped payment and liqui dated its affairs with every proba bility that a very few weeks would enable it to dear off its liabilities. But this idea was not fora momout entertained Ky JVL D'Argout, and he resolved to make every eitott to keep alive ? what may be termed the circulation of the life blood of the community. The task was overwhelming. Money was to be found to meet not only the demands of the bank. but the necessities both tjablic and private, of evi-ry rank in so ciety. It was essential to enable the manufacturers to work, lest their workmen, dritfen to desper ation, should fling themselves amongst the most violent enemies of public order. It was essential to provide money for the food of -Fans, for the pay of troops, and for the daily support of the indus trial establishment of the nation. A failure on any one point 'would have led to a fresh convulsion, but L 1 J 1 t ... . me panic naa been followed by so great a scarcity of the metalic cur rency, that a few davs later, out of a payment of 26,000,000 fallen due, only-47,000 francs could be recorded in silver. In this extremity, when the bank ! alone retained any available sums of .money, the government came j to the rescue, and on the night of the 15th of March, the notes of the bank were, by a de cree, made a legal-tender, the issue of these notes being limited in all to 350,000,000, bat the amount of the lowest of them re- doSsd for the public convenience to iw francs. One of the great difficulties mentioned in the report was to print these 100 franc notes fast J enough for I the : publio con-! sumption. In tens days the Mint issued in this form had . thed 80,000,000 francs. To, enable the manufacturing interests to weather the storm ut moment when all the sales were - interrupted, a decree of the na-1 tioiial assembly had directed ware houses to be opened for the re ception of all kinds of goods, and prcvided that the registered, in voice of the goods so deposited should : be made negotiable by in dorsement. V The bank of ' France discounted 1' these receipts. In Havre ; alone eighteen , millions wee thna advanced on colonial produce, and in Paris fourteen millions on merchandise : in all. sixty millions wore made available for the purposes of trade. Thus, the great institution had placed itself as it were in direct contact with every .interest of the com munity, from the minister of the treasury down to the trader in a distant outport. Like a huge hy draulic machine, it employed its coiio8sal powers to pump a fresh stream into the exhausted arteries of trade to sustain credit, and preserve the circulation from com plete collapse. From the Bank Charter Act, and the rate of in terest, London, 1873. Ihis is proof positive, and a clear demonstration, in 1848. what this system could accomplish when a necessity existed for resorting to it. ;Bat since that time every con ceivable change has tended toward rendering sucn a system easier 1 - . 'a e manage d and more necessary. The various means of rapid transpor tation and the facilities for the in- stantan eous transmission of intel ligence, make it no disadvantage for the produce of a country to be stored at home until demanded for consumption, and the great savings that will follow the aboli tion of local shipments shows what great economy such a system is. in this day and time no one will lor a moment deny that all the conditions for purchase and sale will attach to the government certificates showing amount, qual ity and running charges tha; at tach to the product - l ho arguments sustaining " this system will present themselves to your minds as you ponder over the subject. The one lact stands out in bold relief, prominent, grand and worthy the best effort of our hearts and hands, and that is " this system will emancipate pro ductivo labor from the power of money to oppress " with speed and certainty. Could any objeci be more worthy? Surely not; and none could De devised that would more enlist your sympathies. Our forefathers fought in the revolutionary war, making sacri fices that wall foreyer perpetuate their names in history to emanci pate productive labor from the power of a monarch to oppress. Their battle cry was "Liberty. Our monarch is a faLse, unjust and statutory power given to money. which calls for a conflict on oar part to emancipate productive la bor from the power of money to oppress. Let the watchword again be, "Liberty!" A Hovel Hole of Warfare. A New Jersev inventor thinks he has hit upon a method of ea tablishing peace pBrmanently up on the earth by means of electric ity. He does not proposa to re model humau nature, but expects to make warfare so deadly tha it will bo sheer madness for one nation to attack ! another. Accor ding to his plan, warfare woul result in the substantial extermi nation of all who ventured to eu gca,ittit- The inventor describes his idea thus:- Iu a word, my scheme id to produce aitificiu lightning. Tuns far the experi ments ha v been confined within narrow limits, but with the use o a small dynamo attached to ray invention a slight shock can be produced, effective enoagh to kill flies in a 20x20 room. I claim with the nr.e of powerful dynamos under my plan, a flash of light ning can be directed against an ar my a mile or more away and with out injury to the party operating the gun, scattering death ard con sternation among the troops. With powerful dynamos thousands of soldiers can be killed ata flash and a number of Hashes are enough to destroy an army. It can be used at any time except on rainy or damp days.. If the effect of giving this diiscoyery- would be as I hope, to pat an end to war, I should feel repaid, bat I dread to think of electricity being used jin war under my plan. The conse quences would be enormous. It means nothing less than extermi- nation to the opposing army. Be-jSyrup of Figs, when in need of a fore going any farther " with it,' I laxative and if the father or would ask your opinion as to the! mother be costive or bilious the effect upon war of an instrument ; most gratifying results follow its such as I have" hinted at. Would use, so that it is the best family it retard or facilitate war ? Wes tern Electrician. AHCX OS THB HEGBO XATTCK. I The Two Kea Will ; Wrh Out tb Qnctilta Fr TbemaelvMir It " Baltimore San. - j Washingtoji, January 14 Sen ator. Vance, of" North. Carolina, has very decided views on the race ; question. , and he will probably give them to the country m his characteristic style before the present Congress terminates. He differs from Senators Hampton and Butler materially as to the best means of settling ' the negro problem. He contends that noth ing substantial can be accomplish ed in that direction by the legis- ation contained in the several bills now pending ; in Congress. It is not a question," says he that can be settled by r long speches and complicated statutes, but it is one that must be left' en tirely to the Southern people' to work put in their own way and in heir own time.'"; Our Kepubhcan riends on the other side of the Senate chamber must have con fidence in us and be patient with those men in the Southern States who are houestly and hopefully working to bring about a better condition of things. Those of us in the South ' who have I been brought in contact with the negro ever since we were born are bet ter able to work out this problem than those gentlemen on the other side of the chamber; who are actuated entirely by political motives and the desire for personal notoriety. If they will let us alone pnd keep their contaminating agents away from the colored people of the South the problem will work itself out to the satis faction of all concerned. "It is this constant interference on the part ef Northern politi cians," continued the Senator, "that causes most of the trouble among the colored people of the South. Why, at this moment 1 have in my desk letters from col ored men in my State asking me to see a certain republican ben ator about pome money claimed i to be due for political work done during the last campaign, it appears mat these colored men weie employed to do certain work for the republi can managers in the last contest, and were promised a money con sideration for the labor perform ed. Times are hard and j crops are not the best down my way, so these republican workers who put their shoulders to the Hairi son wheel want me to help them get their money. I declare, said the Senator: smiling at the idea f nuonntinn' tlio lntfpra in Cir.fi tion to one of the richest republi cans in the Senate. "I am almost too tenderhearted to do such an uncharitable piece of business. The question in my mind is which will suffer the most M ho Senator upon being brought face ' to face with such an unrighteous debt, or the poor darkies kept out of their hard earned money. The Senator does not believe in the Morgan proposition to sf-nd the negro back to Africa. Such scheme will not, in his estimation be sanctioned by a majority of the white people of tbe Southern States. He does not believe, the negroes want or demand equality, and tbinks tbey are satisfied to move along in their own channels of life until the Northern politicians fill their minds wiih ideas of political supremacy over thf whites. "It might as well be un derstood now," adds Mr. Vauqp, "that the . white people of the. South cannot and will not submit to anything of that kind. It would block the wheels of progress in the South, ami would destroy that kind feeling that still exists in so many places between the former nii.t:; a d t'io sorvaut. A large majority of the colored people there are very well satisfiYd with their pi est st Jot, aud if thy are lot alon they will work out their own salvation" among the people who have actually done more for them in the past thun their r ew and over-zealous political friends at i the North. :. If - any of the Northern leaders are anxious to have one-half of the nero popu lation of the South transferred to the Northern and Western States the Southern people will not com plain, but will continue to treat well those who remain behinl." Would yon care to have a word of advice worth a great deal I .Never tamper with your j baoy s health by using opiates to quiet its stomach troubles, etc. but use DrBall'a Baby Syrup instead. - Thousands of people are leading unsatisfactory lives because of the dispiriting effects of indigestion Let such try Laxador aud be hap- The pleasant flavor, ! gentle action and soothing effects of - remedy known and, every family should hive a bottJe. . , rLEEl'IXe THE FABMUUL StatesyUle Landmark. Our bright and interesting young contemporary, the Twin City Dai ly, of Winston, recently said : ; ; Forsyth county and those counties adjoining- us are now be ing run over with agents anxious to do the farmers a favor by offer ing to sell them some kind of pat ent at about twice or three times its value. Men; who send their wares out in the country generally send ;i pretty glib-tongued ,,men along with them. The farmer is considered an easy bird ot prey. The agents' oily exaggeration al most takes his breath, and he soon finds that he is signing a bond or paying out his hard-earned cash for something, perhaps, that he does net need at all or, if he does could buy it of his home merchant at 100 per cent less." "Only a year ago a firm sent a lot of sulky plows through here and sold them for $50 each, when as good it not a better plow could be bought here in Winston for $35. And still , later a wrought iron range was sold for $75 that actual ly was not worth $40. 'fits an outrage, and a paper that has any circulation among farmers that has any regard for their interests, will not fail to con tinue to warn them of these mis erable itinerant swindlers. This section is now looked upon as a fine field for their operation, and they are swarming in here in large numbers. We will hail the day with delight when our Legislature 1 puts a tax upon their operation so high that it will virtually exclude them from our State." The Landmark is one paper that has cried aloud and spared not, but doubts if irhas ever ac complished by so doing. The bee hive, tha sulky plow, the cook and range men and the peddlers with the packs on their backs have all done up Iredell, and wherever we have heard of their operations we have warned against them. For so doing we have been waited upon on two different occasions by agents who came to get retrac tions or satisfaction otherwise, but who failed to secure any promise of retraction and changed their minds about the satisfaction other- wise. un another occasion we were threatened with a libel suit first and a brushing afterwards all for seeking to protect the- peb pie against fellows who were fleec ing them, when we had no person al concern under the sun in their operations. Wo have never gotten anv thanks vet for throwinor our selves into the breach, and, what is much more to the purpose, we have never heard of the Land mark's keeping any of the sharp ers from making a sale. Jfeople will believe an agent before they will their paper or their next door neighbor, and so, after all, it gets to be right discouraging this thing of trying to protect folks from strolling agents who go to them with slick tongues and high-priced manufactures. Astattier Oa ot Tiuaee'a, Senator Vance, of North Caro lina, was telling the other day about a certain judge in this State who was obliged to call upon an old darkey to open court. It was evidently the first time that the darkey had acted in tbe capacity oi oaiim. lie oegan : Oh yes 1 Oh yesl De hono'Ue de Co t in now on the bench! Then after hesitating a moment as if not knowing what to say, he seemed to hit it and ended by ex claiming : "An may the Lawd have mercy on his soul And then it was, accdrding to Senator Vance, that de hono ble K)o t rose to the occasion aud promptly remarked : "That s right my- man : that's right: if there was ever a court that needed the mercy of God, it's this one. Phrmomeaal Yield of Cora. New Yobk, Jan. 16. The most phenomenal yield of corn ever produced m America has been awarded the prize of $500 offered by the American Agriculturist for the largest crop of shelled corn grown on one acre in 1889. The crop was within a fraction of 255 bushels, green weight, which shrunk to 239 bushels when kiln dried, and when chemically dried contained 217 bushels. The South Carolina Board of Agriculture , doubled the prize making tWaward-$l,000 in all. This crop was grown by Z. J. Drake, of Marlboro county, South Carolina. It is nearly twice as large as tho greatest authenticated crop ever before reported. Tbe $500 awarded for the largest yield of wheat last year goes to Henry F. Burton, otBal Lake City, Utah for a yield of 80 bushels on one acre. The blood is the , source of health. Keep it pure by taking' Hood's Sarsaparillft, wbich : is peculiar in its curative power. STATE HEWS. ' - The State Assembly ot the Knight of Labor meets at Tarbo- 4 ro on the 27th inel. "The Star says a bale of long -staple high-grade cotton, raised in Cumberland county by a colored farmer, was sold in Wilmington last week at 12 o per lb. Two bound boys tried to poison the family of Mr T. M." Vaughn, ol Madison, Rockingham c unty, by putting carbolic acid in the cof fee, but the odor of the acid be trayed them. Tbey confessed. Carrie Belle Cowles, aged ; 18, niece of Congressman Cowles, of . Snow Creek, Iredell county,- died " in States ville, on Thursday, of pneumonia. She was to have been married soon to Judge Armfield's youngest son. . Brvant & Allison. mrfli an t ul Third Creek, (called Cleveland), Bo wan county, made an assign ment last week with liabilities of $1200. The urgency of 'creditors . and inability to collect are given as reason for the failure Messrs. W. Dake, Sons & Co.. of Durham, the cigarette and to bacco manufacturers, are moving part of their plant to New York, and the Durham Sun thinks the greater part of it will be removed. It says the air is full of rumor of hat kind. - ' The terrible tale of murder and carnage which came from Mitch ell couuty just after Christmas has, ike Vance s cathsb, "swunk pow erful."' Mr. Dove of Bakersville. who was here last week, says that he was shot by a 16-year old boy who was trying to arrest him. A farmsr who was in town Mou- day closing up last year's affairs', placed in bank $375 to run his farm with this year, and has f ortj sacks of flour and other produce for sale yet. Me proposes to put 100 acres in cotton this year and says he intends to; pay cash as he goes so that what he hae ut the end of tie year will be his. That s farming. Statesville Landmark. Mr. E. G. Harrell, Secretary of the N. C. Teacher's Assembly, ' asks the following through the Teacher : How many North Car olina 'teachers would like to take ' a ten day trip to New Orleans at the time of the Mardi Gras, Feb- . ruary 15th ? The visit to include Atlanta. Montgomerv. Mobile. Fensacola and New Orleans : fare to be first class, and the total ex pense not to be over fifty dollars. Rev. T. H. Strochecker, who was elected pastor of St. Michael's church at Troutman'a last spring, is makiDg a reputation among his people for, strength and ability ; and he seems to - have a practical turn about him, too, for at a re cent meeting of the congregation the entire debt of over $300 was paid off and a balance was left in the treasury. This dobt had for years been a weight upon the con gregation. Statesville Landmark.: . The President last Saturday sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of Dr. J. R. Moore, to be postmaster at Henderson, N. C. It will be remembered that Harnson appointed recently to the same position one J; W. Hicks, who refused to take into the office a negro named Dr. Pope, so. col ored Congressman Cheatham told Harrison to dismiss Hicks and put Moore in who conld swallow the nigger. Cheatham, it seems, will . have his own way about matters In the black district. Four street accidents occurred in New York on Monday, a lady being run over in one place, a carriage smashed by a street car in another, a gentleman knocked info the gutter by a passing ve hicle and a man caught between a car and a cab and badly crush ed but no one was killed. Severe earthquake shocks have been experienced in the Sonthcm t art of Siberia, resulting in great damage to property. Pecul Peculiar in combination, proportion, and preparation of Ingredients, Hood'a Sarupa rOU possesses tne enratlve ralne of tho best known1 reme- t . tflea of tho vegetable rlOOu S kingdom. Peculiar In Its strength and economy, Hood's SxrsaparUla is tbe only medicine of which eaa truly be said, " One Hundred Dose One Dol lar." Peculiar In its medicinal met Hood's SaraparllU accomplishes core hitherto un- iSSarsaparillaiUet. the title of "The greatest blood purifier erer dlscorered." Peculiar In Its "good name at home," there Is mors of Hood's Sarsa parOia told la Lowell than of all other blood purifier. Peculiar In lta phenomenal record of q magto,Dro4 it other fCCU II illpreparatlon ever attained so . rapidly nor held aa steadfasUy tho confidence of an classes ef people. Peculiar In the brain-work which it represent. Hood's SanaparilU 'Com bines all the knowledge which modem research ess -al,u ne1 science has I O iSeil dereloped, with many year practical experlenc In preparing medicines. Bs sore to get only Hood's Sarsaparllla SoU by an exact, flislzforfi. Preparedonly fey a L HOOD CO, Apothecaries, Lowell, Hats, . IOO Doses One Dollar V"-
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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