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LINCOLNTON, S. C, FRIDAY, JAN. 3, .IS90
NO. 34
RHEUMATISM
TLeB3 twla diseases causa untold Buffering.
Doctors admit tnat they are difficult to cure
, so do their patients. Pulne'9
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i iK-uralgla bo say those w ho
kWph:?'
V Tilth rheumatism at the knee
an a root ior nve yeturs, i wus
almost unable t.ict around,
and was very often eonhned
to my bel lor weeks at n
time. I used only one Lot
tie of PaUie'B Olery Com
pound, atid waa perti'-tly
cured. I can now Jump
around, and reel as lively as
a boy." . Frank Caroli,
ti.oo. six for t.oo. Druggists. '
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Wells, Richardson & Co.,Prop3.,Burllnfjton,Vt.
fllikMNn nVCQ (J'lve -Fuofr find Brighter I
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II II
riiywv ii
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I J FOR SALE, I
r I OWNER, j
In order to reduce my large Stock of Cashmeres aod Jeans, which
embraces the best assortment in all grades. I have decided to "(Jut the
Price" to a mere INCREASE OVER COST. This includes the entire
hue, and it will prove a "big bonanza ' to large families who have not
yet made their Winter purchases. On aoy and all Dress Goods, I will
sell at a reduction of from 10 to 25 per cent. Dress Buttons, about 1500
dozeD, worth from 10 to 20 cents per dozen, shall all go to the uniform
price of 5 ceuts per dozen. My Stock of Clothing exceeds anything in
the county, and the fact that I sell double the amount of auy other house
is the best assurance that my prices are the lowest. Auy style and qual
ity for Children, Boys aud Men, constantly ou hand or will be supplied
at short notice. A new lot of Overcoats has just come in and I am ready
to supply the wauts of either Men aud Boys.
Special sale of Carpets at 15 cents worth 25 cents.
Business will be generally suspended on Thanksgiviug day and my
store closed.
Come and see what a quantity of goods you can buy for a little
money.
I now have a small quantity of Plaids for the benefit of customers.
Respectfully, JOHN L. COBB;
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A T TORSE Y A T LA W.
LINCOLNTON, N. O.
Proiui.it atteution to ail business.
Practice in all of the Courts.
Also, -Money to Loan on Real Estate
Security, in saais of $200 and upwardi, on
long time aud easy terms.
For particulars call at my office at the
old Post OtSce.
July 5, 1330. lv.
L L WITHERSP00N.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NEWTON, N. C.
Practices in the Courts of Cataw.
ba, Lincoln, and adjoining couuties.
Money to Loax ou improved farm;-"
in Cataarba and Lincoln counties in
sums of S300 and upwards, on Ion
time aud easy terms. Will meet
cheats at the Alexander House, in
Lincolnton, on second and fourt
Mondays in each mouth.
Aug. 2, 1SS9. tf.
NOTICE!
HAYING qualified as Adminis
trator ot Margaret Carpenter,
deceased, all persons having claims
against said estate are hereby noti
fied to present them before Dec'r.
23, 1890, or this notice will be plea
ded in bar of their recovery. This
the 14lh day of December 1889.
David Yoper, Adm'r.
Dec: 14, 1839. Ct. pd.
P NEURALGIA
mine's Celery Compound has been a God
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doctor falling to fuie m: i iJ;ive n(J-,v takea
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free from the complaint. I feel very grateful
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"I have been greatly afflicted with acute
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Hx bottles of thU medicine I am now cured of
rheumatic troubles."
Samuel Hctcdinso, So. Cornish, N. n.
Effects Lasting Cures.
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letters sent to aDr7ad'tre?s. Pleasant to take,
does not disturb, but aids digestion, and entire
ly vegetable; a child can take It. What'9 the
use of suffering longer with rheumatism or
neuralgia?
n an iroL'Mngupon Lactated Food are Healthy,
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Itcb, Mange, aud Scratches on
human or animals cured in 30 min-
utes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion.
This never fails. Sold by J. M. Law
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HAPPY HOOSIERS.
"Wm. Timraons, Postmaster of Idaville,
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more for me than all other medicines com
bined, lor that bad feeling arisitj? from
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larmer and stockman, of same place, says:
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Dec, 13, 18S9. 2t.
COL. L. I.. POLK
Speaks at the Banquet at Raleigh,
given it bvuo: of rloction to ih
Preideucj of the Farmer-7 Alliance
aid Laborers' Union of the U. S.
Col Polk's Speech.
Mk. Chairman: History is evpr
n-peating itself. The march of hu
man progress is strewn with the
lesks of empire, kingdom?, sys
tems, throne;) an 4 t'overnmento.
Many of them we t down in vio
lence and blood. But the declara
tion ia the sentiment to which I am
called to respond "The New Rev
olution" is but the echo of the
mighty fiat wbi-h has Wen put
:oi th by ;j,o00,O00 li'reity kmtig.
law-abiding Amviicm freemei'.
The approach or this New Revolu
non nas not been herald' d bv the
flare of flambeau, the beat of drura
or the thunder of cannon. The
thousands and hundreds of thou
sands of patriots who are enlisting
in its ranks are marshaling under
no ensign of strife, of hate, of blood,
or of carnage. But they align therm
selves under a banner on whose
snow-white folds are imprinted in
characters of heavenly hue, the God.
given motto: ''Peace on earth, good
will to men ;" and the battle cry of
this mighty hest from one end of
the land to the other, is: "Equ-1
rights to all and special privileges
to none." Great applause.
In the rapid developmedt of our
American civilization, demoralizing
forces have been evolved which se
riously threaten to paralyze our in
dustries, to impoverish our wealth
producers, to subvert our free insti
tutions and to destroy our Republic
can form of government. To meet
these forces and neutralize or sub
due them, is an undertaking as
formidable, as patriotic and as he
roic, as its accomplishment shall be
grand and glorious. With that
quiescent submission characteristic
of the American farmer in times of
peace, be pursued the even tenor of
his way, sowing for the harvest and
hoping for the reward of his labor.
How anxiously, but how in vain did
he look for its coming! Banking
and other moneyed interests, man
ufactutiuij in ali its departments,
railroads, schemes of speculation,
villages, towns nud cities, aM pros
pering and flourishing ; yet, despite
his earnest", hoaest, manly and un
tiring efforts, he is being gradually
drawn into the chilling shades of
helpless and hopeies poverty.
Most naturally be began to inr
vestigate the situation. And here
are a few of the alarming and ap
palling facts that confronted him;
1. That from 1870 to 1880, while
farms of 3 to 20 acres decreased 14
to 33 per cent, those of 1.000 acres
or more increased 770 per cent! And
in this connection he fiuds another
no less alarmingly significant fact
that aliens and foreign syndicates
own 01,900,000 acres of land. Ho is
startled, for he belongs to that class
of conservative thinkers who be
lieve, that with all the vast area cf
our countiv, there is not a single
acre for any except actual cHizsts
under our government. Applause."
2. That from 1850 to 18G0 Agri
culture led Manufacturing, in in
creased value of product"3, ten per
cent ; yet from 1870 to 1880 Mauus
facturing led Agriculture ia in
creased value of products 27 per
cent, thus showing 37 per cent in
favor of the growth of manufactur
ing. 3. That in 18G7, 65,036,000 acres
in cultivation produced 1,329,729,000
bushels of all kiude of grain, which
sold tor $1,284,000,000; while in
1887, twenty years subsequent,
141,821,000 acres produced 2,060,s
457,000 bushels which sold for only
1,204,289,000. That is, the prod,
ucts of 1860 from lees than one halt
as many acres and half the amount,
brought the farmer $79,711,000
more. It is impossible to charge
this wholesale destruction ot values
to overproduction. It was a want
of ability to purchase, cansed by a
shrinking volume of currency, and
nothing else. In 1S67 we had $52
per capita of population, and in 1887
we had less than S7 per capita.
He finds in the vaults of our
National Treasury on the 1st of
November, 1889, $648,220,000,
It is not overproduction, bat ani
de: consumption. T-'iere can be no
over; reduction in that onntrv
whfie thre 'a the cry of a single
i:h?:d, forbr-a1. fAj p'ruse")
Had the 65,000,000 of our people
comumed each day during last year
iiore than thoy did consume, one
onisce of meat, it would h vo ak"ii
1.470,000,000 pounds, 338,000,000
p-'uruds more thau was exported.
If they had consumed four ouuees
of flour each da', it wou'd have re
q sired 148,2SO,O00 bushels of whoat,
28,280,000 bushels more thau was
exporied. Jf they had expended 3
ueuis eacu uay ior prouncrs rn ess
fees of what they did expend, they
w u'd i.zv boueM $711,750,000 or
nt-aih 8i'5UJOO,OU() more ihan was
exported.
Could not our population huve
consumed four ounces of floor each
day per capita more than was con
sumed, or one ounce of meat per
day, or have expended three cents
per day more for bread aud meat
than was expended, without mvad
ing the province of luxurious ex
travagance? Who shall answer the
argument that our domestic expon
are the measure of our overproduc
tion I ' Stand at your street corner?,
visit the haunts and cells of the
hundreds of thousands who are
wrapped in squalid want and pov
erty, aud they can give the answer.
Applause
4. Our National debt in 18G6 was
$2,783,000,000. We have paid since,
that time in principal, in infer?st,
and in premiums ou bonds, $3,578,
000,000, and yet we owed, on the
1st day of November last, $1,693,
000,000. If thin debt had been contracted
in cotton, it could have been paid
in 1867 with 14,185,000 bales, but
now, after having expended 71,560,
OOObales, there still remains a dtbt,
which at present prices would re
quire the enormous amount of 33,
850,000 bales to pay it !
Individaal or private indebted
ness of whatever form or character,
has been governed by the same
conditions as has the public debt,
and subjected totbe same processes
of spoliation and destruction.
5. In I860 there were but two
millionaires in all this country ; to
day they are counted by thousands
and own three-fifths of the wealth
of the nation. Two days ago I
stood in th gallery of your Senate
Chamber in Washington aud looked
down upon, a body f 70 men, 41 of
whom are millionaires. What
brought about this state of affairs t
Where among the 8 000,000 farmers
in this broad larid will you find a
fanner millionaire f This vast ag
gregation of wealth is the product
ot labor. Whatkiud of labor? Search
our country's history, and you will
search it in vain to find where slae
labor ever made a single million
aire. It is uot slave labor, but it is
CONTROLLED labor. Slave labor
had to be cared for in childhood
and old age, in sickness and in
health, but controlled labor is used
only when found profitable, and is
discarded with heartless indiffer
ence when found unremunerative,
and wornout manhood and wom
auhood, and is cast aside to find its
refuge in a poor house or a pauper's
grave, f Applause.
6. In 1860 the farmers numbered
onehalf our population and owued
Jonehalf the wealth of the couutry.
In 1830, while tbey still numbered
onehalf the population, they owned
but onefourth the wealth of the
country, and I confidently predict
that the forthcoming census will
show a still more deplorable condi
tion of affairs.
1'. One of the most potent laetors
in this wholesale destruction of
values is to be found in the financial I
policy of this government. In 1866.
when the business interests of the
country were never in a more pros
perous condition, we had a circular
ting medium of $52 per capita, with
an estimated total indebtedness of
I all kinds of $5,000,000,000. To day
we have a circulating medium of
Ie3s than $7 per capita, with the
estimated total of indebtedness of
all kinds of $38,000,000,000! Dur
ing the past twenty-three years
there have been one hundred and
sixty three thousand fadnres,
amounting to $3,893,000,000 ! The
experience of our o n and ail oMier J lands entrenched behind the forms
nations the judgment of r urownjof law.
conornista and tMos of all other Thus, Mr. Chairman, I h;ive very
nation-, of our own and ali other j ',.tM1v referred to som nf the causes
agre that a coatiaelion of thu j winch have in indurated the "new
volume of curre-iey is invariably j revolution," and which assumed
a'teuded by a coriospondiiig shrink 'form and life, and being in U.e Breat
age in values, and that an inade. j convention at St. Louis, last week.
qiate circulating medium is always I The cry for relief which swells up
followed by the same disastrous
resu'ts. Applause. J
Does the farmer share these re
sults ? I point to the fact that the
n.o ,)t)n.ae m iue value ot
farms throughout the country is
not less than twenty per cent. i
point to the ten great 1 acting agri
cultural Slates of the North Wes
loaded down with farm mortgages
to the extent of $:;5.425 000,000, and
in which the assessed value of the
farms in 1880 but litt'e exceeded
$5,000,000,000. With the accumu
lated interest on these mortgages
at high rates and the constant des
cliue ?n the value of the farms, what
must be thecouditiou of the far.ns
of those States? It was my fortune
a few days since to pass across the
three great States of Ohio, Illinois
and Indiana, and the most signifi
cant feature, as indicating their
condition, was the striking absence
of new or improved buildings on
the farms. Again I point to the
mortgage-ridden, mortgage-cursed
farms all over the land, north,
south, east aud west. 1 point to
the cattle grower of Kausas, selling
bis beef at one cent per pound, to
the Illinois corn grower selling his
corn at fourteen cents per bushel
aud the cotton grower of the South
selling his cottou at barely the cost
of its production. I point to the
populous States of Vermont and
New Hampshire where the farm
ers had cash markets for their
products at their doors and who
used the bells and whistles of
crowded factories daily for their
"dinner horns."' In the small State
of New Hampshire, a'one, the hum
of machiuery, the ringing of bells
and the scream ol whistles rever
berate over the hills ahd plains of
851 abandoned farms and find no
echo in the happy song of contented
husbandmen. I t-oint to the fnut
and prosperous State of Michigan
with its great diversity of indus
tries and to its richest agricultural
county, in which during the year
1888 three hundred arid sixty-nix o
its farms passed under the hamnif r
of its sherili one for every day-in
the year. I point to this fruitful
land, from ocean to ocan, the
richest and grandest heritage ever
vouchsafed to man, ard whose very
air should be vocal with the thrilK
ing notes of peace and plenty, but
which is laden with the dismal,
universal wail of ''hard times."
President Garfield said, "Who
ever controls the currency of a
country control? t e people." This
vast aggregation of capita', enrich
ing the few to the impoverishment
of the many, is entreuched behind
law, but it has heard the sullen and
ominous murmur of an opprensed
people. Applause.
Over one thousand years aso, the
old Sbeik-Iiderim, of Medina, said
to certain Roman iugrates: "Do you
dream that because the prophet of
Allah dwells now beyond the bridge
of Al Sirat, that therefore he is deaf,
and dumb, and blind ? I tell yon
by the splendor of God ! that
tempest is brooding on his brow,p!ate what will be the result. C-r
there is lightning gathering in his
soul for you." Do men dream t' at
because of the Genius of Justice ,
has withdrawn and no longer pre
sides in the Councils cf the Nation,
that therefore it hs become deaf
and dumb and blind ? Let them
not deceive themselves with such
delusion. Continued applanee.
We are told t bat the unjust and
, ... ,
ruinous exactions of cap.tal and
corporate power are made in con -
r -. . i t
formity to law. I answer as an
American citizen as a North Caro-
liniau, ae, as a descendant cf nai
7
Mecklenburg fathers, that the tyr
aunical mandates cf George the
1 bird, were accompanied by i he
1-irta at Fill Aar rxra ti-n tVinf". lio nr
was the rightful occupant of the
British throne. Applause.
There is no tyranny so degrading
as legalized tyranny there is no
injustice so oppressive as that which
i all over the land wi.l not it cannot
b? suppressed. JuH;ce, and not
charity. is what w? demand. War
ring on no legitim ite interest, leg-
i jtimarely prosecuted, we earnestly
I invoke the sympathy and aid ot ail
good cit zns of whatever rank, or
cla or vocation. jApplau-e
Thank Grd ! thar the farmers of
the ervat Northwest and of the
South representative of a con
stituency of 3,000,000 of t ho most
conservative of all our people, were
a, last permitted to cot ene in St.
Liuis, without the officious aud
wicked interference of designing
sectional agitators those men who
were, ''invisible in war and who
have beeu invincible in peace.''
Mauv of rhese farrieru were war
scarred veterans who had faced
each othr in the red blazeofbaU'e.
Hut patriotically and magnanimous
ly turning their backs to the past,
they clasped hands as brethren and
standing around the grave of ec
tionalism, they planted thereon the
white roe of peace, with the united
prayer that it might bloom peipet-
uaHv and forever. Applause.
Tbn.s united in purpose nnd im
pelled by common interest and
common pri!, the "new revolution"
will move forward with res'stless
force until the sovereignty of rhe
people shall be reetabii.hd in the
glory of its majesty and power, and
justice shall be reen throned. Ap
plause. And when old Father Time shall
grow weary with his work of demo
lition, and shall sit down 'mid the
wreck of empires and wasted mon
uments and extinct governments to
recount hi victories, may he find
toweriug high above the desolation
of the ages, in aH the freshness and
beauty of respien'eM gWy, the
Temple of Aooricati Liberty, and
inse-ihed ?dx; 'Ts porra, in ciiar.
actors cf fadeless light, the symbols
of its immortal duration Truth,
Justice aud Equity! Great Ap
plause The Ithtirltill.
The Republicans, in the Senate
reporred the lila'r lull favorably
yesterday. The Republican plat
form to capture the South, by ap
peals to its poverty, is to be feared.
Many honest arm able men arnt
parers in the South advocate fed'
eral airi to education. They defend
their position by the statistics of
illiteracy, and an appeal to the
ms-es to relieve themtelves and
their children from ignorance by
accepting this prr-sent from the
Greeks.
The 13!air bill is an entering
wedge for that nefarious propo
sition of Senator BlaitV, already
formulated into a bill before the
Senate, ur a Constitutional amend
ment establishing a federal common
school St stem.
Centralization is growing in this
country, and the people will con
tinue to yield up the rights of
themselves and the States until
well, it is simpiy horrible to contem-
jtainiv centralization, is non :he key
j stone ot a successful and happy re-
public. Southern Democrats favor-
ing tue Blair bill are assuming a
vn5f, responsibility From Charlotte
Chronicle.
K E M A K K A b L K li KSfJ L" K .
Mrs ilitctjcil Curuin Piin5?!j, Uf,
makes the tatemeni tht she eauh! cold.
which .ett'e'i on her lun'rs ; he was tre-
tl fT h wunlh by her ramify phs:cian,
! but rrw W'rse. He toh hf-r sh -a- a
i (lpH,,s, viclim cf colnsilinption HI)i tliat
ino r.- eiicine could cure her. Her drugirist
urrre-teJ Dr. Kinr's New Discovery ior
jCoIuraplion . sbe "bou?hr "i ni xo
her delight found herselt beiittited irom
utn T I?'1 hfteJ
ItHkin ten bottles, fauna hers;!f sound
j nnd well, now does her own housework
and i as well she ever wa. Free tril
hot lies ot this Great DNrvnerv at Dr. .1 f
i LawiD-'s Dru? Store.iare bottle? 50c ani
lt?l-bO
Adt-ice to Mothers.
Mrs. Wnrsiw'sSooTHmo Strep shonldalwayt
be used -when children are cm ting teeth. It re
lieyes the littlesnffererat once; itproduceonitaral.
ui causes. 'i,Tretj-nYe cent a boola
Itw. Mr. Janti H Vindication.
Concord, N. C, Dec. 17. On
list Saturday the trial of Key. A.
G. Gantf, charged with an assault
on Miss Tinie Vanderburg, of this
county, took place here. After a
thorough investigation he was com
pletely exhonorafed and discharged.
The prosecution lias the rots to
pay. Corresi'OnJt wv f the Chronicle.
A Xnvt'l i:nterii-U.
It Is nothing unusual for news,
papers to print very full r- p.M's of
exiiaoidji ay events, bur t icy q-l-drm
publish elegant Imb. The
llarrisburg, Pa , 7 -.!;,, how, vr,
ha in prepara' im an elaborate
history of the proaf. disaster at
Johnstown, to appear shortly in a.
sumptuous volume. The woik will
be written by the editor of th pa
per, from personal knowledge and
a thrrouh actpiamtancrt with tho
subje'tt arid tho district. Jt will
en body various features necessarily
Omittetl by earlier publications and
be the only accurate description of
the terrible elamit that destroyed
thousands of human lives. Many
portraits aud vi-.v , engraved by
tbe most emiu. i.: u tists from orig
inal d'awingsand photographs, will
be a special feat ire. Nothini; will
be spared to ensur the h;ghest
literary and artistic elegance. Then
the net proceeds from i If h ies of
the work will be apphd for the
benefit of the Printers, Orphan
Children and Aged men aud Wom
en who ku tiered by tire Hood. We
heartily commend the project- to
the public, and bespeak an immer se
demand for the book. It will be
well for local canvassers to secure
an agency at once, ys the book wll
be sold by subscription
The corn crop of South Carolina
this ye;r is put at 20,O0O,G00 bush
els, several millions bushels mine,
thau any year since the war. Th.
cotton crop is reported nt iW.) mu
ba'es. The value of the prir:c; al
Held crops is J?5i,0OO,O0O, which U
Sll.OOO.OOO over last ear.
A rejiort comes from South Car
olina that a syndicate has been
formed backed by Knalish capital,
to buy up the State's interest in
Vn" pho-sphat bed.s (f that State,
the figures mentioned beiug ??7,000,.
00". 'I his report hna created con
siderable excitement in our sifter
State, and especially in the rity of
Charleston where a large amount of
capfal is invested in phosphate
inauufactories and in the prejiara
tion of the phosphate rock for agri-.
cultural purposes. It is a matter of
iireat importance not o ly to them
but to the farmers who use the
phosphate, if these beds pass iuto
the hands of one syndicate which
wilt thus have monopoly of the bus
iness and thus bo enabled, in the
absence ot competition, to dictatu
tbvirown prices. The trusts, saya
the Wilmington Star, weems to be
reaching out for everything reach
able in the air above, on the sur
face aud m the earih below. Thus
far they have clamped upon ever,
thing wor th e. ampmg that has come
to eight. O'hiirlottc Srti-H.
Tola! Visible Supply,
Ntw YoilK, Dec. The total
visible supplv ot cotton for the
woTld is 3,lbl,b23 bales, of which
2,75J5.22, are American, against
2,01C,8.j5 and 2,053,755 respectively
last year. Receipts at all interior
towns 172,080 ; receipts from plan
'a:ions 288,048; crop in Right
4,992.825 ba'es.
ftouth Caroiiiui If.m a lViiole
Hale liynclif ng.
Challkston, .S. C, Dec'r. 28. A
mob of several hundred masked
men broke open the Iirnwell coun
ty jail at 2 oVoc-k this morning aod
overpowered the jailer. They then
seized Ripley Johnson and .Mitchell
Adams, the two murderers of Jas.
Hetferman , and oix men held for
the recent murder of Robert Mar
tin, at. Martin's, Barnwell eruuty.
The prisoners were tak?u out of
town arid shot, to death. Tte jailer
was tied and forced to go with the
lynchers. After the lynching the
jailer was released. The whole af
fair was conducted very quietly
arid without confusion. The citi
zens of the town were ignorant of
anv attempt on the jail. A large
crowd ot negroes speedily congre
gated at the scne of the lynching
and fears are entertained cf more
trouble. The Governor has been
appealed to for troops to preserve
peace.
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