TERMS OR SUBSCRIPTION, $1 PER YEA Mr. J. S. Carr, of Durham, is in New York and Northern cities this week. His candidacy for governor for three days and nights, (the same length of time Jona was in the whales belly) seems to have made no impression on him. If he had obeyed the call at first he would have been nominated. Whether he will yet go preach to the Minevites remains to be seen. He can get some Sunday School teacher to interpet this. If he don’t understand and comprehend it. Mr. Broady Duke,of Durham, is build ing a cotton factory, a street Railroad and has established a factory for the manufactory of pants. These are moves in the right direction. It gives employ ment to the worthy poor, both male and female. If all the men in North Caro lina who possess large wealth were to do as Mr. Duke is doing the people would rise up and call them blessed. Mr. Broady Duke is one of the cleverest men in North Carolina, liberal hearted and open handed. At time of going to pre?a we connot learn who the F-/ublic^B nominee for President at Minneapolis is, and to the great masses it matters little who be may be. It will bethe same oid story of Rob- b r Tariff and Taxes from begining f o end, th 'dear people will as usual pay the fid lers. That the affairsof the financial and of Amtrican politics are exceedingly defec tive, is beyond question, and whether the Democratic or Republican parties will ever remedy them oi rot is a ques tion of grave doubt in the minds of many sober thinking citizens. I he nay is rot fat distant when existing parties must conform to the needs and demand of the peop e or be swept from off the face of the earth. Why should the war policy of finance prevail in time of profound peace and why should not the circula tion of money per capita keep pace with the increase of wealth and population. Echo answers why. Why Bears Are Plentiful. Old settlers say that there are more bears in Sullivan County, New* York, to- }day than there were a generation ago. A ‘number of facts make this statement one [easy to be believed. Long ago the forests Thronged with a race of brawny hunters ‘who shouldered deadly rifles and were keen-eyed for the-chase. The hills were Slotted with the little homes and clear- Jings of woodsmen who made their living iwith axes, were iron-nerved and clear- eyed, and could shoot true. Tanneries and sawmills giving employment to many (men sat by the sides of all the streams. The woods were full of the sounds of •axe-blows and the creakings of ox- chains. Youths grew up with a desire for fame and they took rifles and went 'to seek in the woods. A hardy race of huntsmen made terrible war on the game, With the vanishing of the great forests these men disappeared from the face of the earth. Not all men now are hunters. There are those surrounded by the best cover for game who never taste partridge or vension the year round. When Sullivan County was covered with a growth of heavy forest-trees hun ters walking through the woods bad goo I traveling, and could see far, for the 'brush, under the shade of the great trees, was not thick. Now the huge forest monarchs have gone their ways to the river-rafts and the sawmills, and after them have come second-growth and brush, thick as the hair on a dog’s back. The game finds excellent crouching places in the places in the dense thickets, and escapes the hunter’s eye with ease. —New York Tribune. How Parliament is Opened. When the Queen opens the British Parliament in person sho proceeds in state to the House of Lords and corn, mauds Black Rod to let the Commons know “that it is Her Majesty’s pleasure that they attend her immediately in this house ” Black Rod ^proceeds to the House of Commons and formally com mands their presence, on which the speaker and the commons go up to the bar of the House of Lords and the Queen delivers her speech, which is read by the Lord Chancellor, kneeling on one knee. —Chicago Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT BESSEMER CITY, N C. . . 1 w :~':.'. ... ^ ~^^. ,;-^._;..:; BESSEMER CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY The suspender girl has come to stay. Mrs. Ballington Booth receives but seven dollars a week for her services to the Salvation Army. Miss Nina Picton, of New York City, is one of the few successful women com posers of orchestrations. When two rings are used at a wedding, the bride pays for the groom’s ring and the groom for the bride’s. In Finland the women consider a kiss on the lips as the greatest insult, even from their own husbands. Open work scrim with ribbons run through it makes a pretty strip tor the centre of the dinner table. With her income of $500,000 a year Mrs. William Astor ought to be able to struggle along comfortably. Lexington, Mo., boasts a woman ex press agent, a woman manager of a tele graph office and a postmistress. A new dormitory for Vassar is to be built ’.ith the $50,000 that is that col- lege’4 share of the Payer weather bequost. Rubbers of white leather are among the odd things bought by fashionable wemen to wear over their party slippers. Give your best young man a bouton niere of nine violets if you would have him fashionably attired as to his button hole. The Duchess of Marlborough now buys her clothes in New York. She says the American modistes are better than the English. Queen Victoria has decided to send to the World’s Fair some specimens of her knitting and spinning, done when she was a girl. The late Amelia B. Edwards was a woman of letters. She was entitled to wear Ph. M., L. H. D. and LL. D. after her name. Dr. Mary P. Jacobi, in New York City, and Dr. Mary Hoxon, in Washing ton, are each repute! to earn $40,000 a year at their profession. Mrs. Ingalls is quite unlike her dis tinguished husband in physical appear ance, for she is as short and plump as the Kansas ex-Senator is tall and thin. Miss Alice Rideout, whose designs for sculpture at the World’s Fair were ac cepted, has just taken the contract for theic execution, the sum being $8200. The “Coston Signals”—the colored light system of signalling both on land and sea—was the invention of Mrs. Martha J. Coston, of Washington, D. 0. More than 400 married women have applied to the Bureau of Charities and Corrections in New York City since the 1st of January for relief for themselves and their children. The women of Toronto, Canada, not only took an active part in the late local elections, but they compelled the men to work as well, and so robbed the rings of much of their power. Miss Lalla Harrison, of Lee^m-a, T.-»n- don County, Va., has been selected as the most beautiful woman iu that State to represent it as one of the original thirteen States at the Columbian Ex position. The women of Cincinnati, Ohio, have asked for a separate room in the Woman’s Building of the World’s Fair, which they wish to furnish and decorate throughout as illustrative of the culture and art of that city. Herrmann, Lane County, Oregon, can boast of quite a brave young lady who has recently taken up a claim on the east fork of Indian Creek. Her claim is above all other settlers and it is said she stays weeks by herself. It is said that enterprising Loudon shop-keepers employ well dressed women to stand in fronc of their windows and by “nhs” and “ahs” of delight attract people’s attention to the glory of the goods inside the windows. The jewelsot Mrs. Astor, widow of the multi-millionaire who died, recently, in Paris, are probably the finest in America. At times she has appeared in public wearing precious stones valued at between $50,000 and $100,000. The money order department of the Pittsburg (Penn.) Postoffice is exclusively iu charge of Miss Mary Steele, and the receipts, almost $2,500,000 last year, mark it as probably the largest business handled by any woman in America. Miss Howe, the woman who won the second prize in the competition for de signs for the Women’s Building in the Columbian Exhibition was a classmate of Miss Hayden, who won the first prize iu the Boston Institute of Technology. Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, felt so acutely the complete absence of rec ognition which she experienced when walking about Paris last year that she declined to stay there on her way to 1 Cape Martin, though much pressed to do so. Mrs. Potter Palmer has asked permis sion of the German Government to have the great doors of the Strasburg Cathe dr.al, which were designed and wrought by Sabina Stembock, reproduced for the Woman’s Building of the Columbian Ex hibition. A fashion writer from Paris calls this “the banner year of fashion,” for there is nothing ugly. Mam’selle won lers if she overlooked Russian blouses when glancing in at the shop windows down the Rue de la Paix or over on the Boule vard des Italians. A new industry has been invented by a clever girl. She calls herself an ac ■ mutant and auditor for large houss- lolds. She finds plenty of enployment >1 looking after the business of a few amilies of large expenditure, whose tends have not taste for the work. The fabrics most used for blouses and -iiirt waists are made of fancy surahs, ■ash silks, fine French flannels and cashmeres, but for summer uses they are cade of linen lawn, percale, embroidered mslin and plain China silk daintily Qttonholed and embroidered on the I root pleat and the collar and cuffs. The new straws are dyed in all the ashionable colors, and many of the bats ire tartan. The old-fashioned, boat- rnaped hat is coming in again. The • burning consists of two long ostrich ■athers, arranging one on each side, be veen the crown and the brim There a velvet bow and a paste buckle in .ont. BESSEMER CITY, N. C. INCORPORATED 1891, UNDER THE LAW OF NORTH CAROLINA Stock full faid and Non-A.ssessalt»le Stockholders are Liable for Nothing Except Their Stock. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL STOCK, $5,000,000. SUBSCRI BED. $650,000. PAID IN, _____ $457,000. Situated on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, six miles rioi-th elf Kind’s Aniribmi. N, 0., and twenty-eight miles west of Charlotte, N. C. Formerly known as All-Healing Springs Staiidri. Mr John H Inman, of New York, President of the Richmond & Danville Railroad system, has subscribed to twenty per cent, of the capital stock of any and all the manufacturing enter prises (including furnace and steel plant) to be located at Bessemer City within three years. This isa big thing for the Company. The Railroad Company has given exceedingly favorable rates to the managers of Bessemer City. In fact the railroad facilities are unsurpassed, and the officials, of the Richmond & Dan ville Railroad are doing all iu their pow er to aid the development of Bessemer City. Since writing this prospectus the Bf 8- semnier City Mining and Manufacturing Company has developed a vein of fine Bessemer Iron ore over twenty feet wide at one point,on a vein of which they own three miles; and at two other points on same vein, where it has been opened, it is 14x17 feet. The vein of ore, alone, is worth the capital stock of the Company. ORGANIZATION. President—J. S. Carr. Secretary and Treasurer—J. A. Smith. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: J. S. Carr, J. A. SMITH, J. A. Carroll. DIRECTORS: J. S. Carr, Tobacconist and Banker, Durham, N. C. J. A. Smith, Tobacconist and Miner als, Bessemer City, N. C. J. A. Carroll, Banker and Cotton Manufacturer, Gaffney City, S. C. DR. B. F. Dixon. President Greens boro Female College, Greensboro, N. C. J. A. Pinchback, Real Estate and Minerals, Bessemer City, N. C. WM. D. Rice, Insurance and Loan As sociation, Richmond, Va. ioRpubM/S Uf THE CuMPAfst. This Company proposes to develop its vast and numerous deposits of fine Bes semer iron ores by mining and shipping, and by erectit g on the property iron and steel works, to put the ores in the shape of finished products. Owing to the fact that our ores are of a high Besse ner grade, and average over 60 per cent, mc- talic iron, we can ship them at a hand some profit to the rolling mills and fur naces in Virginia, Maryland, and Ala bama. This we are now doing and will continue to do until the Company shall, after mature deliberation, decide what kind and capacity of steel plant or fur nace is most profitable to erect. The profit on the raw ores will pay a good dividend on the stock of the Company. This, coupled with our lime qu irri- s, granite quarries, and sale of town lots, will make the stock of the Bessemer City Mining and Manufacturing Company one of the safest and best dividend-paying stocks in the South. The stock being full-paid and non-assessable, the proceeds of all lots sold will be distributed as a dividend on the stock. With our iron industry to draw a great number of labor rs, mining experts, and engineers, with their families, and a large cotton factory and other manufacturing enterprises, we may expect a good demand for building lots at our first lot sale, and the Company will have no lot sale until these things are guaranteed absolutely. town-lot sales. The intention of the Company now is to have its first lot sale the last of Octo ber or first of November, 1891, as the iron works, a two-hundred-room hotel, to cost fifty to one hundred thousa ul dollars, cotton factory, capital to be $100,0 0, two saw and planing nulls, sash, door and blind factory, and shoe factory have already been guarant e i, and the Company expects to have sev eral ether manufactories guaranteed b ? November. And this, we think, will justify a first class lot sale. \Ve appre ciate the fact that the town-lot busine s iu other sections of the country has been inn in the ground ; but this has no b ai- ing whatever upon Bessemer City. Many of the town-lot schemes have either failed or are in a state of stagnation be cause tiny Lad no basis for a solid foun dation. And in their flaming pros pectuses they say they are situated in the great mineral b It, etc, etc. We say to you, we own the belt and the minerals, too, and if you don’t agree with us in saying that we have five times the basis of any other Company offering stock for one-fifth of the money asked, then we don’t want you to invest. Other com panics than ours, doubtless, are very valuable, but we leave it to the intelli gence of the reader to say, after an ex amination of the following plan of or ganization and prices paid for property, whether or not our claims are well founded. PROPERTIES OWNED BY THE COMPANY Nine mines of fine Bessemer orcs on about two thousand acres of land o'ned by the Company in fee; a valuable lime stone quarry adjoining Company’s prop erty ; a great quantity of gold-bearing quartz, which seems to be inexhaustible and h«s been worked profitably iu many p'aces and only awaits further develop ment; a large deposit of fire-clay, three miles from Company’s propeity, said to be as good bs any known cla in the w rid; a vast deposit of glass smd on Company’s land, said by experts to be the finest known; a mountain of whet s one rock on C mpany’s land, mi l an in xiiniK-tible supply of the finest kind of building granite within ouy mile of 3P JR, O S F 3±l O T TT S OF THE centre of Company’s town lot property: and nine thousand six hundred beautiful business and residence lots, the residence lots 50x140 feet, with alley 20 feet wide in rear of each lot; business lots 25x140 feet, with alley twenty feet wide in rear of each .lot; These measurements apply to all lots except those on the mountain strip, as shown on map, some of which are only 50x125 feet. Price paid for whole property, $325,000. PLAN AND TERMS UPON WHICH PROPERTY WAS BOUGHT. One half in the stock of the company and one-half in cash, the original owners of the property agreeing to invest the whole of the cash payment tin the Com pany’s property in manufactories; a bank iind such other industiies as the board of directors may from time to time think best. Under this plan not one dollar of the proceeds will go into the pockets of the original owners to pay for property, except as above named] and those who purchase the Company’s stock wi get the direct benefit of their own money, it being invested in the Company’s prop erty, alongside of the lots drawn by pur chasers of this stock, upon the following plan: The Company will capitalize at ($650 - 000) six hundred and fifty thousand dol lars, issue one-half of this, as agreed upon, to original owners of the property, sell the remaining half at Ally Cents on the dollar to get the motley to brake cash payments to owners of the propetty, as agreed upon. This last half of the stock shall be put in the treasury of the Com pany, by the owners, to be sold and in vested under the management of the Company, and when so invested it shall be the private property of the respective original owners, as their interest may ap pear. And to each purchaser of this treasury stock the Company will give one lot to each share of stock, diawn for al ternately throughout the Company's property; and said stock shall be de clared fully paid when fifty cents on the dollar shall have been paid in. Thus each purchaser of this stock of the par of $100, costing $50, will get a beautiful and valuable building or residence lot and it is reasonable to suppose that any one of them wh’ ’ may happen to be drawn near the r e of the property or business part. .•- u will brixig more, than the $50 palo or the whole; and we believe the stock . jughtat$50 will bring ’he par value of $100 within two years. The original owners get no lots with their stock, but all stock shares alike as io dividends, and is alike, with the ex ception of the lots given to the pur chasers of the treasury stock named. The object of the Company in giving away the lots to each purchaser of its stock now is to absolutely secure them against loss and to cause a rapid devel opment of its property, believing that the other half ot its lots kept will bring more than the whole without said de velopments. PLAN OF SECURING INDUSTRIES. The Company, as per a mutual agree ment with original owners, proposes to get practical men to invest to the ex tent of one-half of the stock in a bank, cotton factory, and such other manu factories as will bring the greatest num ber of skilled laborers and mechanics, who can pay a good rent for good bouses or build their own houses. Thus the Company, with $162,500 cash, can, un der this plan, secure manufactories to the extent of $325,000; and this amount of cash, invested by outsiders in indus tries on the Company’s property, in ad dition ti the large mining operations of the Company, will make the Company’s lots, as well as those given to stockhold ers, exceedingly valuable. SITUATION OF THE COMPANY’S PROPERTY. The town-lot property comprises sev enteen hundred and seventy-eight acres (1,778), two miles and a quarter long, with the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line division of the R. & D. railroad running the long way through the centre of the property, shuated in Gaston county, N. C., six miles northwest of King's Moun tain, and twenty-eight miles southwest, of Charlotte, N. C. This is one of the finest farming counties in North Caro lira. Here cotton grows to perfection. We are reliably informed that Gaston county pays more tax on fanning stock than any other county in the State. The taxes on property in Gaston county are about one-haif what they are in Cleve land, the adjoining county. Gaston c un’y has three railroads, seveial large colleges for both males and females, and already fourteen or fifteen cotton fac tories in operation. So it will be seen at a glance that you are not going to a wild and poverty-stricken county to in vest your money. It is said that almost one-half of the farmers in Gaston coun ty are money-lenders; and we are sure •he price of farming lands are higher in Gaston county than any other county we know oh The cotton produced will supply double the number of factoties that now exist. Wheat, corn, oats, rye, grasses and fruits arc as fine as in any other section of the United States. All these products, united with the vast mineral resources, make Bessemer City peculiar ly adapted to purposes of the Company set forth Bessemer C ty, it must be remembered, is one of the healthiest and most pictur esque places in Western North Carolina, being about fourteen hundred feet, above the level of the sea. It is situated at wm>t has formerly been known as All- IIeaiiug Springs station, now changed to Bessemer City. In short, it is the gaiden spot of Western North Carolina. HOTEL. Tie large hotel alluded to is n >w be ing built, a d will be leady for grists t. i .v lot -ale in October or No^m IT i s i liltedi !i top of Whetstone Mun - lain, 125 feet above the railroad track but the ascent is so gradual that a horse carrying two people in a buggy can trot comfortably to horse and occupants from the depot to the hotel door. The new depot is at the foot of the mountain, about four hundred yards distant from the hotel. A prominent hote’ist says ollt new hotel can be filled to oveifliw- ing (even #ith 509 rooms'! by northern visitors in winter and sdiithcrfl visitors in summer. This will be a valuable Ac quisition for a new town. The scenery from, the top of the new hotel is unsur passed by any on this continent. A vie w can be had of ten counties, in whole or in part. Mr. W. R. Richardson, the civil engineer who surveyed Bes emer City, says there is no view at or near Asheville that will compare with the view at Bessemer City. We have endeavored to set forth Sorin of the merits of Bessemer City, giving only the plain, unvarnished facts, i such a manner that we think all who in speCt our property will remark (as did well travelled business man the othbr day) that we had not put forth our claims ill terms half strong enough. Our Company is organized under a liberal charter, and the character of the gentlemen at the head of it is ail abso lute guarantee that its affairs will be managed with faithful economy and business sagacity, and that all who in vest in this stock offered will make from one to five hundred per cent, on the in vestment in from one to five years. USAHAUtEit OF MINERALS Below we give some Analyses of a few of our ores, and they are analyses But of a handful of ores, but of car loads and of five-hundred ton lots: Analysis of Iron Ore from the Ormond Mine of the Bessemer City (N. C.) Min ing and Manufacturing Company, by Henry Thomas, Jr., Chemist for Man chester Iton Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. Per Cent; Per Cent. Silica .02 .900 Phosphorus .033 Iron .63 .984 Manganese .210 Lime .361 Magnesia .594 Analysis of Iron Ore from the Ot mond AUnc ■ * the Bessemer City (N. C.) Mining and Manufacturing Company, by 11. M. Curry, Chemist for Carnegie Brothers & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Black Powder. Blue Powder. Lump. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. Silica 1.550 2.480 1.510 Iron 65.350 64.558 65.794 Ph’sph'rus 0 007 0.004 0.028 The samples were dried at 212 degree F. Analysis of Iron Ore from the Ormond Mine of the Bessemer City fN. C.) Mining and Manufacturing Com pany, by Dr. Otto Wuth, Chemist, Pittsburgh, Pa. Metallic Iron. Phosphor Per ct Per ct. 65.67 .033 68 03 .036 67.04 .013 66.91 .013 67.97 .023 61.50 .011 61.53 .009 62.36 .028 66 54 .008 67.06 .009 68.05 .024 67.10 .008 67.84 .014 68.05 .024 These ores contain no sulphur, copper, nor titania. The aniysis given was made mostly from actual shipments of ore made to parties in Pittsburgh, and were not selected samples, but actual run of the ores. The analysis of 14 car loa ’s, or about 300 tons, shows the true character of one of our mines. Analysis of Iron Ore from the Ormond Mine of the Bessemer City (N. C.) Mining and Manufacturing Com pany, by Dr. Otto Wuth, Chewst, Pittsburgh, Pa. Ore A. Peret. Silicic acid .97 Alumina 2 57 Peroxids of iron 95.60 Lime .53 Magnesia .21 Phosphoric acid .031 Metallic iron 66.91 Phosphorus .013 Traces of sulphur; no copper, titania, or arsenic. Ore B: Metallic iron 52.10 Ore C: Metallic iron 64.53 Analysis of Iron ore from the Ferguson Mine of the Bessemer City (N. C.) Mining and Manufacturing Com pany, by Lehmann & Mager, Chem ists, Baltimore, Md. Per ct. Metallic iron 67.18 Silica 4.67 Sulphur 0.11 Phosphorus 0.05 Analysis of Lon Ore from the Little Mountain Mine of the Bessemer Guy (N. C.) Mining and Manufacturing Company, by Lehman & Mager, Chemists, Baltimore, Md. Per ct. Metallic iron 54.32 Silica 6 67 Metallic manganese 0 45 Phosphorus 0 07 Analysis of Fire Clay from the Btssemer City (N. U.) Mining and MaM:fi>c- turing Company, by Ledoux A to. Chemists, New York t’er ct. v Combined water and loss An ignition 5.51 Si lira 71.30 Alumina 17.46 Oxide of iron 1.15 Lime none Magnesia none Ooda 2.48 Potash. 2.11 The above arc a few of the analyses of ores that have been shipped in large k t-. 1 t 1 1 6 stock is not worth the price it jo ^a lur. Th^y are given as an inducement to stim vlate the development of the property- Terms of subscription: Ten per cent, cash and ten per cent, each month after until 50 per cent, of the par value has been paid in, when stock will be declared fully paid. Remember, the par value of your stock will be $100, declared full paid when $50 shall have been paid, and deeds to lots will be made to purchasers when 25 per cent, of the par value of th® stock has bees paid, provided he wants to begin the erection of a building thereon, Otherwise deeds will not be made until purchase-money is paid. DRAWING FOR LOTS. If all of the stock is not sold on or be fore May 1, 1892, the Company will pro ceed to have the lot drawing without further delay. The Company will re serve two lots and give next two to stockholders throughout the property alternately. Map of all the lots furnish ed on application to the Company. Remember, any one of the lots you get may bring you more than you pay for stock, and doubtless will. A prom inent business man says this is the most attractive scheme ever presented to the public. COTTON FACTORY ; ND BANK. The proceeds of first stock sold will be applied to the erection of a cotton factory, and every farmer in Gaston and adjoining counties ought to take from one to one hundred shares of stock in The Bessemer City Mining and Manufac turing Company; for th-? price of cotton is so low that the only hope the farmers have is in building factories and in spin ning their own cotton. The mills in operation in Gaston county now pay an average dividend of fifteen to forty per cei t ., and our facilities at Bessemer City are ahead of any other location on account of water and cheapness of fuel. A relia ble party will contract to deliver all the wood needed f r all the factories to be established at Bessemer City, for a period of ten years, at one dollar per cord, and we vouch for this. The numerous factories at Bessemer City, and others near by, open a fine field for a Savings Bank for operatives, and a bank with any amount of capital can find active employment for all its funds in the legitimate business of the county. ORE MINING. Our Company will mine fifty to one hundred tons of iron ore daily, and will double this as soon as more machinery can be put down. DIVIDENDS. At present price of ore the profits will piy eight to ten per cent dividend on the purchase price of the stock the first year, even while we are opening up the mines BLAST FURNACE OR STEEL PLANT. The intention of the Company is to get all its mines opened up and build a direct process steel plant or blast fur nace. This will further increase the dividends of the Company. HOTEL. The large and handsome hotel is now being erected, and will be opened lor guests on December 1, 1891. We have a permanent arra gement made, whereby any purchaser of lots, or of stock drawing lots, wishing to build can buy merchantable brick at five dol lars per thousand; all framing and rough lumber at $9 per thousand: dressed weather boarding (clear), $14.50; sec ond class, $12.50; flooring (clear), $16.- 50; second class, $14.50; ceiling and mouldings in proportion; sawed shingles, $2.50 to $3 per thousand, according t > quantity; wood. $1 per cord; lime, 80c. per barrel; nails and all hardware as cheap as same can be bought at any point in the United States, freight added. Thus it will be seen that purchasers know exactly what they will have to pay for materials before they buy. These prices are all guaranteed for a period of thiee years. HISTORICAL. Bessemer City is situated on a higl plateau, 1,250 feet above the level of the sea, overlooking a space of country as far as the eye will reach, embracing all ora part of ten counties. No malaria or mosquitos ever known he.e. On the south side of the Blue Ridge. No piercing fog. The coming sanitarium of America for consumptives and all weak-lunged peo pie and asthmatic sufferers. Overlook ing the battle ground where the cele brated battle of King’s Mountain was fought in the Revolutionary War; where the hardy militia of the mountains liter- ally massacred the British General Fer guson and his army. It is not generally known that King’s Mountain was named on account of General Ferguson’s mes sage to General Cornwallis. On the oc- cssien of the beginning of the battle General Ferguson sent a message ter General Cornwallis, saying he was firm ly entrenched on the King’s mountain' (King George), and all the devils in hellcould flot remove Kim. But it seems that the mountaineers of the Carolinas possessed more power than his Satanie Majesty and his hosts. Within one mile, and in sight of the new hotel, stands the old blast-furnace used for making cannon balls during the Revo lutionary War. many of which are found here now. This furnace is immense, be ing more than forty feet square, and stands a silent but lasting monument to the heroism, endurance, and industry of our forefathers. It went out of blast ire 1792, just one hundred years ago lacking one. The ores used by this furnace' were the finest in the world, and the same mines which have lain idle since are now owned by the Bessemer Cit Company. And also within sight of the new hotel is the soot in the adjoining county (Mecklenburg) where the first Declaration of the Independence ot the United States of America was signed. With our famous mineral water, surpassed climate, soil, and minerals, we can truly say that the advantages pos sessed by Bessemer City are unsurpassed by any and equalled by few in America. And before many years Bessemer City will be the queen city of Western North Carolina, and consequently of the South. Cast your lot with us and find yourself in a pleasant and profitable place. Now is the time to make a judicious invest ment. Address, BESSEMER CITY Mini! anil Manufacturing: Company BESSEMER CITL'Y, N. e. We extend a Merry Christmas greet ing to all the readers of the Messenger, and invite them to call and inspect our stock of Toys and Holiday Presents. Our store is a veritable FAIRY PAL ACE filled with everything pretty aid funny and nice. Novelties of every kind. D O Xs Xs S From one cent to two dollars each. GUNS. PISTOLS, DRUMS and STEAM ENGINES for the boys. Present suita ble for anybody. No need to go to tho cities for nice presents; we have them, as NICE Goods As anybody’s, or if 5011 have only five cents to spend we will give you as good bargains as if you had bought largely. Come here to spend your nickles or your dollars. We have got more TOYS and HOLIDAY GOODS than all the other houses in ten miles of here put together. Again wishing you a merry Christmas and hoping to see you in our store, I re main, Very Respectfully, B. R. WILLEFORD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. J. A. PINCHBACK J. A. SMITH J. A. Pinchback & Co., Dealers in General Merchandise, BESSEMER CITY, - - N. C Everything bought cheap, everything sold cheap. We have no time prices. Come and see what we have. Brown Sugir 4 cents and Granulated Sugar 5 cents per pound, one pound or a hun dred, Bacon, Lard, Flour, Coffee, Mo- lassss, Syrups, etc. in proportion. We have our price, we ar not doing a crop time business. Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, and everything usually kept in a first-class store. RICHMOND & DANVILLE R'Y. South Carolina Division, C. & L. N. G. Daily except Sund’y. In effect Ap’l 3, ’91 No. 11. No. 12. Lv 8 40 am Lenoir Ar 10 40 pm 9 59 Hudsonville 10 17 8 06 Saw Mill 10 11 9 20 Granite Falls 10 02 8 47 Hickory 8 34 10 25 Newton 9 60 10 44 Maiden 8 40 11 15 Lincolnton 8 11 11 42 Hardin 7 44 11 59 Dalias 7 24 12 14 pm Gastonia 6 50 12 29 Crowder's 6 33 12 44 Glover 6 16 1 09 Yorkville 5 45 1 26 Guthrieville 5 25 1 35 McConnellsville 5 18 1 .55 Lowrysville 5 04 Ar 2 15 Chester Lv4 40 D. Cardwell Div. Pass. Agt. Colum . bia, 8.0. Sol Haas, Traffic Manager Jas.L. Taylor, Gen. Pass. Agt.