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ill IE ILIMcDOILM D HJ M I IE B . LINCOLN COURIER J. M. ROBERTS. EDlTOlt AN1 MANAGER. Entered m the Post Office at Lincoln ton A3 second class MAIL MATTER' Subscr iptio h Cash in'tA dvance. 1 year Si. 50 C mouths & 3 months; 0 Jiates of Advertising. Oaeioch, one time. $l.00;L'5c for each sabsequen insertion. Two inches, one time, 51.50 ; 50 jenti for each subsequent insertion Three inches, one time, S2.00 (6 cents for each subsequent inser tion. Four inches; cue time, $2.50 1.00 for each subsequent insertion. Special rates lor one-half and one-fourth column ; also, for any advertisement continued loDger thau two mouths. LINCOLNTON', N C. april 11, 1890 "$1.50 A YEAR. THE LINCOLN COURIER HE Mi AM AH A MAILFA YEAIBo Sinco we changed the price of the Courier to One Dollar there has been but little vari ance in the Subscription list and we therefore conclude that the people who want a county paper are willing to pay $1-50 for it, at any rate we cannot afford to publish the ourier at $1-00 a year. Henceforth we wil lhold to our orignial price $1-50 a year. .Announcements of Candidates for c5ce will be made on the same terms as heretofore, namely, 5,00 tor ach announcement, stiictly cash in advance. REPLY TO 3IIt. !., AC We have only a few words more to say in reference to this discussion. Our friend 1) has made himself a little more explicit in regard to the $1300 so that he shows himself in this issue of the Courier to be ex actly in accord with us on that point. We said in our editorial of last wetk . "There is no light, in oar opinion, in which the appropriation of the S300 to the replacing ot the bridge instead of requiring the constructors to do it without extra pay, could be considered to hare cost the county 1,300." Mr. D m bis first article left his readers under the impression that replacing the bridge "cost the couni ty $1300". We could . point out a number of intelligent citizens who so construed it. For this reason we made the statement which is found in the. above paragraph, and when we say 1300 we do not mean 300 nor 8500 nor $1000. If the Board had refused to pay $300 demanded by Morrison and Rein bardt and the latter had paid the bond rather than replace the bridge, then the county may have saved 300 or it may be $500, but cer tainly not the whole some of $1300 ; for, of course, they would have had to os9 a part of this amount it not alj, in order to replace the bridge, and whatever that part would have been could not have been con sidered saved to the county; it would simply bare been transferred, virtually, trom Morrisou ami Bern hardt to some other bridge builders. Bat now Mr. D explains that he did not mean to convey the idea that the county was the looser to the whole asoonnt ot $1300, but to the amount of the difference in the coat of replacing the bridge and the $1,300 we do not see that there is need ot any farther discussion on this point. So now, Mr. 1), let's agree that here, at least, we are agreed. In iegard to the point as to who "carried around the petition1' in behalf of the doctor, we have naught further to say, as that maN ter lies between Air. D ami the commissioner himself. As to paying the doctor bill we think any charitable citizen can see Jhe difference in payiDg 10 to a doctor for $10 00 worth of uudicii e and for $25 worth of attention t- a crippled pauper whose injuries were caused by a defective public road iu the connty,and iu paying $374 08 to detective ($8 00 a. day each aud their expense") without the latter'a guaranteeing any degree of success. And the difference is widened by the fact that this sum was not only lifted out of our treasury but it was taken out of the county. The difference grows still wider as we consider the fact that if in every neighborhood every citizen and the doctor would practice ihe same degree of charity to all pan pers as was shown to Geo. Stiller, the county would soon be without the need of the "Poor House" and the commissioners could afford to forfeit $10 00 now and then in order to encourage such acts of charity. We know further that the char'. itab!e reader will eeo the difference between these two expenditures widen still more as they consider the fact that employing detectives at $8 00 per day clear of expenses till the sum amounts up to $374.68, plus $50 paid by a private individ ual, is a kind of charity that robs Peter to pay Juhn with the INTEN TION of protecting Paul from future calamities, but with very great un certainty as to whether either Peter or Paul will ever receive any ben efits from the transaction, while John with HIS FULL remuneration goes off on his way rejoicing, seeks iog whom "he may catch at some body" else for a liberal sum. But we promised to be brief and so we close this discussion, with the hope that all things may work together for good. No man is in fallible, and while we believe it right to criticise the acts of public men,weshould endeavor to attribute to them the correct motives, and abuse the mistakes rather than the men; No further discussion will be ah lowed iu the CoUHIEB on this subject. Uncle Sam't Girls. Do both sexes work together in the Treasury Department ? Of course they do, American girls can take care of themselves iu any place, and these maidens are by no means spring chickens. Not many ot them are on the marry, though every now and then we hear of one dropping off the pay-rolls with a good husband. The late At torney General Brewster, got a wife ia this Treasury Department. She was the daughter of an ex. Sec retary of the Treasury, and she was one ot the prettiest women that Washington has ever known, Cleveland Leader. A press dispatch, published in the Star yesterday, states that a party of seventy-five negroes from Halifax county, in this State, had an ived at Pittsburg, Pa., to work in the coal mines near that city. While these negroes are being brought from the South to work iu the coal mines, there are thousands of white coal miners in the S ate of Pennsylvania who tiro out of em ployment, whose families life in wretched hovels and are in a starv ing condition. The coal mine in dustry is one of the "protected" in dustries of this country, wnd the coal barons are among the richest men in it. They demand protection on the plea that it enables them to pay liberal wages to the workmen whom they employ, in t-pi-e of which tbey starve tbtir workmen to death, and when they protest against the starving process, they fill their places with imported foreigners. They are now trying negro cheap labor to take the place of white la bor. What a bald face fraud this "protection to the workmen" is Wilmington Star. Mr. F. I. Osborne, our State So licitor, is certainly one of the best lawyers that has ever tilled the bar. His fine legal talent, his quick per ception, his power of sifting evi dence, his excellentjudgment.com bined with his power of ridicule, make him the right man in the right place. Th District caunot do better, in our judgment, than to re-elect him. Da lias Eaqte. Every voter iu the District will endorse the above. -Charlotte Dem ecrat. The South is producing mere cot ton than whan she had millions of slaves at her command, and aston ishing as it may be to most people who have not kept pace with her progress, from producing less than one. eighth of the country's iron nine years ago, to-day abe is producing about one-fourth of all the irou , made in the United S tatej3--Norfolk I Virginian, Dern. ' Iteply to Editor. Ac. Editor Courier : It is a com mon principle of law that a "man's house is his own castle," and the ono who enters it must do bo at Lia own risir. It i not without some diffidence, therefore, that I venture a reply to your editorial in the las issu of the Courier. If I under, stand your position correctly you seek to expla'n away or paliate the minakes of the Commissioners by pointing out what you consider my mistakes, but I assure you that mere assumptions do not controvert facts. In this connection I woold respect- fully remind you o? Pilate, who sen tenced Chriat to death, and yet released from prison Barabbaa, who was accused of sedition and murder. It will be remembered, also, that after our Savior had risen, even the Apostles rejected him un til he bad shown them his nail-riven bands and feet and assured them that a "spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." I am willing to accord you conscientious j motives iu the position you take, aud if I fail to prove to you that it is untenable aud that the facts do not warrant it, I at least expect to convince the average reader that the spirit is clothed in flesh aud has a uatural being. Iu your editorial you say : "If the contractors had paid the bond in stead ot replacing the bridge, then we would either have bad no bridge or 1he Commissioners would have had to use the bond money to re place the bridge.'' Just so. Yon admit, then, that the contractors had either to put the bridge back or forfeit $1,000. Now add the extra $300 which the Commissioners gave the contractors and you will see that the county had $1,300 with which to replace the bridge. I maintain that it did not c.ist Messrs. Morrisou & Rain hardt $1,000 to replace it, and the Commissioners did wroug in giving them the additional $300. It might interest the tax-payers of the conns ty to see you publjsh certificates from the contractors showiog the actual amount it cost them to re" place the bridge. But to Qucle you again: "And here the question arises as to whom the 'spoils' of the fallen bridge be longed. Mr. Reiuhardf, one of the contractors, claims that the 'pieces' would have been theirs if they had forfeited their bond." Jack is nothing if not amusing at times, and he was only talking when he made that statement. He is too intelligent to believe anything of the kind, for be knows that when the bridge was received and paid for it became the property of the coiiuty. You are bound to admit this fact or ignore it altogether. The contractors were required to give a $1,000 bond simply as a guar antee that their work would stand, and the bond had no reference what, ever as to the ownership of the bridge. These being incontroverti ble facts, all the county had to do was to put it back iu case the con tractors refused to do it, and if it could be replaced at say $300, then the couuty would have in the treas ury $509 more than it now has. Is not that so? Then it follows that the county could have paid f 1,300 to replace the bridge without being any worse off thau it now is. You are requested to say that I am "mistaken abput one of the Com missioners carrying around the pe tition to pay Dr. Smith for medical attendance oe Geo. Stilier" I do not want to mention the Commis sioner's name in the matter, but the gentleman will not deny that he asked Mr. R- A. Smith to sign it, pointing to his brother who stood at his back with the petition. Mr. Mark Coon tells me that the Oom nvssioner also asked him to sign it. If it were a ciime to circulate the petition would he not be accessory after the fact ? Again you say: "While we are writing on this subject, we wish to say that this was a justifiable act of charity on. the part or the commis sioners, as we have learned from good authority that Mr. Stiller would have been a pauper on ac. count of his injuries had it not been for the charity of the neighborhood and that the $10 pa'd the Doctor was only sufficient to cover the cost ot the medicine." In the above you change your po sitiou from a quasi approval to a positive defense of the Commission ers, and yet you are on record as having condemned them for paying detectives. If it was wrong to pay them, then it was wrong to pay Dr. Smith. The two cases are analo gous; the only difference is in am oonts paid. You iosist that it '?was a justifiable act of charity" to Mr. tillr to pay Dr. Smith $10. Then it must be on the theory .that in paying IVter they paid Paul." But, when Dr. Smith was paid poor Paul was able to work aud did uot need charity. When he did need it Mr. It. A. Smith a9ked the Commission ers for help, but tbey refused to give it unless ho would go to the poor house. If it was right to pay Dr. Smith for his medicine, then it is right to pay Mr. Stiller's neigh bors for their voluntary acts of charity in furnishing food to nour ish bin body and bouI. I lay more stress on the precedent established by the Board than I do on the mis take made in allowing the claim. In justice to the preseut Board it is uecessary to say they were not in office at the time help was asked for Mr. Stiller, but this does not change the aspect of the case. And now to Sir. S. D. Burgiu. I do not care to argue the case, friend Sana. You do not deny a single fact, but set up the plea of justifies-! tion. It your position is correct, and the commissioners are not to be guided by the reports of the sworn committees they appoint, then it is unnecessary to employ them aud pay for such services. I shall have no more to say on this subject $ it matters not who re ply. D Note from Orleans. The farmers of this community are quite busy preparing for and planting corn. Many declared they were goiog to use but little guano, bat we notice as much if not more is being bought. Mr- Thomas Bess Jr., while re turning from Lincolnton last week had the misfortune to have his bugi gy badly torn up. We are pleased to know that Mr. Bess himself es caped any injury. Miss Maggie Bes with Miss Sal lie Willson, ot Howard's Creek, are attending school at Rutherford Col lege. The infant son of Mr. Frank Barnes was buried at B5ss' Ch8pel last Sunday. Did not learn the cause of its death. Dr. Sam P. Thompson, who has since last September been atteud iug the College of Physicians aud Surgeons of St. Louis, Mo., recently successfully stood the nineteen ex aminations and graduated from that Institution among the best in hi class and is now at home again. Prof. Long is teachmg Music school at Bess' Chapel aDd welerii has quite a numerous class. We are very sorry to record the death of Prof. Sylyaous Wilson. He received a compound fracture of the leg below the knee some six weeks ago, somewhere near Cheryville. He has been at home the past two weeks and for the last four weeks has been attended by Dr. W. L Crouse, who insisted that the leg be amputated to which the Prof, aud his people object d. Dr. Sam P. Thompson saw the case a few days ago who also thought there was no hope for recovery without an operation and there was but lit tle hope in that since the patient was so exhausted from long suffer lug and Pyaemia (blood poison). Prof. Wilson concluded to take the only chance left him- So the open ation was performed by Dr. Crouse assisted by Drs. Pressley, S. P. Thompson and John Sain. T&e operatiou was done with neatness and dispatch, but the patient was so exhausted that be died the same day. Had the operation been done sooner, there U every reason fo be lieve that be would have recovered. Prof. Wilson was very bright young man and his death is a great los to his couuty. S. A. M. Orleans, N. C. Apr. 7, '90. V- II. II, Cowles Scsi Killed. Washington, April b A tele gram was received here today au nouncing the death of a sou of Rep resentative W. H. H. Cowley of the 8th North Carolina district, The young man was at the Oxford Mil itary School in North Carolina, and was killed by the accidental dis charge of a pistol. The news was communicated to the father by Sen ators Ransom and Vance, and he was over come by the shock. His outbursts of grief were pitiabK Mr. Cowles was completely pros trated, and had to be carried to the office of the clerk of the House where he remained for more than an hour, before his friends deemed it wise to take him to his hotel. Mr. Cowles and his family left Wash ington for North Carolina this after noon. Yonng Cowles who accidnN ally killed himself was 19 years old. Subscribe for the Lincoln Cou- bleb, $1.50 per year. W. L. Crouse & Co. Lincolnton, N. C. 1p:AVING BOUGHT OUT THE j23y DruS Store of John Reedy & '54j$ Co. and filled it np with every t thing that is needed to make it a complete Drug Store We have employed Dr. John Reedy, the veteran clerk, and Di Jno. Sain to wait upon our patrons. We can promise you pure drugs, courteous attention and reasonable prices. Come to see us when you want Drugs, paints, oils, varnishes, Diamond Dyes, seeds, washing soda, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures j in fact everything that is kept in a well conducted drug store. Respectfully, W- L CROUSE & CO- April 4, 1S00. tf. HOKE & MICHAL, Lincolnton, N, C. 0:U:R BUYER HAS JUST RETURNED FROM NEW YORK Where he caught the GRIP On a big assortment of Seasonable Goods. We will let them go at IP33HI3IES flAT W33,IL WttHt ttt- Call and Examine our Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes. a large assortment of nobby MAW HATS Remember that we have al ways been headquarters for HARDWARE. 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Thoe in the county haviug tim bered, farming or mineral lands, water powers, &c, developed or undeveloped, for sale, rent or ex change; and Thosa having rea estate of any kind for sa?e, rent or exchange, In Lincolnton, may find it to their ad vantage to confer with either party of this agency. We offer the following valuable property : 1. One lot on Main street 75 yard wui of the courthouse square on which tbere m a large two story brick house with a basev ment, a well built residence oontainins IS rooms. 2 A cottage in Oueen Ann etvle of architecture, together with five acre of ground surrounding and joining. Ihe property ia improved by ehrubbery, fruit trees, tc, together with well and necessary outbuildings, and a neat, comfortable bu- mess offiou. 2. Two building lots on Main itrer near the depot, containing a fine grove i oak tres. Valuable property aho for manutactunng establishments. 4. About four acres of land South East ef the Court Houfe. Excellent for building purposes. 6. Two town lots in the South East Drt of town on which are two two story dwel ling houses containing 4 rooms each. 6. About 100 acres of land about 4 mile from Lincolnton situate on the Shernli lord road and through which runs a gold vein.. All the abeve described rroiertv ia val uable and ill be sold on easy term. It ii situated in and near ose of the most healthful towns in te South and surroun ded with a fertile countiy and haa the very best of railroad facilities. For rurther particulars address, P1NLEY J- ROBfiKTS. Lincolnton, N. C, March 28, 1890,
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