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f II IiIH(BILW IJMIiEIR. LINCOLN COURIER J. M. ROBERTS. KIHTOi: AND MANAGER. Lniikld in the Post Office at Lincoln toN as s-tccND cLArS ilAIL MATTtR $uls 'ripti'.n Ctt't in'y"Adcjnce. 1 year Si. 50 tj riiorjtlia 76 '6 racntljs; 50 Rate j of Advtrticina. Oueiucb, one time. Si. 00 ; 25c for eneh :subsi-,qacu insertion. Two inches, cue time, 1.50'; 50 enti tor each -nbaequent insertion Three inches, one time, 52.00 f5 centa lor each uutwequent inser tiou. Four inches; one time, 1 00 f ii each subsequent insertion. Special rates tor one-half and one-fourth column ; al.-;o, for any advertisement continued longer than t.vo moiith.s. LI'COLNTU, N C. MA7 2. lS0 A-NNo'riJiMS of Candidates lor office wi oe njade on the aame terms as heretofore, Barney, 5,00 for ch aunouccemeiit, strictly ca3u in advance. raiiii ii voluwc With the nest issue tbo Cockier will enter upon its fourth Volume. Through runny trials and struggles it Las reached the end of three years, HDd it enters upon its fonrth year with the liope of increased patrom age, and with an earnest endeavor to use every opportunity to increase its usefulness. We return our many thanks to those who Lave given us thoir patronage arid encouragement. Lincoln County is as able to sus taiu a paper as any other county and wo trnst that during the com iug year our subscription will be more than doubled. Let subscri bers see to it that their neighbors take their county paper. SAW .IOi:S I. CUAKLOTTE. Perhaps never before have snch audiences assembled in Charlotte as have been gathered togather there since the meetings ot Sam JoDes begun. San;, the inimitable ! Who can le-ct ibe him n There is but one-bam t1 ones on the continent, nay, his ui-itch is not to be found cu the tiv continents. He can knock a man down and ha will get cp, and likeiy as not say "you hit ice luiyhty hard," but the same man ?iU come right back to th3 next mee-in. He holds up arid de scribes certain characters and calls one a hog or a pig another a dog or another a dnnee and likely as not the very persons that he represents in his descriptions will come back and constitute themselves "bench waiuuet V in order to be sure they have vantage seats. But, notwith standing ;ill this we are very doubt ful whether this kiud of preaching will put pure- gospel religion into the houIs of these people. Mr. Sm art, the great divine's assistant, said that Mr. Jones himself told him that he (Jones) had not made auy converts bv his own preach iu, but that the converts were made by the uuited prayers of Christian people. The uuited prayers, or the individu al prayers, of Christian people will always do good. If the merrymaking aud the wit, which undoubtedly constitutes the attraction to Sam Jones' meeting.", is sanctioned by tb Bible, then all the minister. of the past have failed to rind the greatest secret of suc cess in their labors of drawiug sin ners to Clu ist. But Kev. am Jones is a euius. His wit and sarcasm are inimitable, and his ability a3 an entertaining speaker is perhaps uneqnaled. The Sam Jones meetings are in tensely attractive. The music is superbly grand, and this added to the iu-itchlesly tnter taming style ot the preacher biiug the crowds If the best circus in the country would give free exhibitions daily in the city ot Charlotte, we doubt if such a concourse of people could be gotten together for rive or ten days in succession t witness the performances: because there are mauy who have conscientious seru-. pies about going to a ''show", that woold not hesitate to go to hear a distinguished preacher. Christians and sinners :.)ike find attraction at these inettim-s. We vrouM publish Mr. Jones' ser mons in fir II for the interest of our readers, but hp-ce will not permit. We givp I'flow a few extracts from his sermons, fakeu from the Charlotte UhronirU: : After that Rev. Mr. Jones had a collection taken up to raise money to finish paying for the tabernacle. There is no other preacher in tha woild who takes up a collection like Sam Jones. He goes right to the point, and makes it interesting, especially for those who don't con tribute. When you go to a hotel and get a meal of victuals, he said, you pay tor it, or get jugged- If yoa go to a saloon and get a dram, you have to pay for it. If you ride live miles on a car, yoa pay, or get put off. And yet, people expect to get the best thJng in this world, and not pay a cent for it. You old banch-warmer8, who come here an hour before the meet ing begins and gets the best seats, you pay or get out of here. Understand me, be said, if you haven't got anything, I don't ask yoa to pay, and you are welcome to the best seat in the house, but If you've got money, and don't pay, that's not honest; and we don't wan't any pickpockets in these meetings. Some of you will go out of here and go about asking "wnat's be going to do with all that money f A thonsaud dollars at a meeting I" Now, I want to convince your little mind. We'll get about 80 out of this crowd, five or six thousand people, a halt a cent a head ! God pity our women when they will be particeps criminis in the ruin of our boys. "The demands ot society." Do I think more of society than of my home? Next to the biggest fool woman in the world, is the one who will marry a man with the stench of whiskey on his breath; and the biggest fool woman is the wife who will mix toddies, and make them good for the worthless old husband. (Just along here,Mr. Jones paused to remark that if anybody present didn't like what he said, he could "get up on his bind legs and slide out.") I understand you are running "society" pretty lively. Society! A pair of 75 cent slippers and a dol Jar-and-a-quarter wasp bonnet, lets yoa into it. Society in Charlotte ! Why, if you were to go among the bon tons of Baltimore, they wouldn't let you sweep out their kitchens. Society ! There is no manhood, no womanhood, no religion in it. The frnrta of society, so-called, aro the dude and the dudine. The dude is a wart on the devil'3 big toe, tbe dudine a wart on his nose, mere ex cresences. I always get in trouble with "society." I like to jump on it and stamp the feathers off it so j and after you stamp the feathers off, there ain't much left. The best aud truest people in North Carolina were never in society, so-called, in their lives. By au houest man, I mean a man who has convictions, aud will live up to them and die by tbem. Some of you go around here talking about your "opinions." Its your "opinion'' it's not wrong to do th'.s and that. You blabmouth fool ! They are not your opinions, they are somebody else's opinions. "My opinion! " That you can go to the theatre and be good. That there is no harm in a dram, I feel like a good cowhide would do for you, you old devil ! You cculd take a good cowhide and straighten up some fellows around here, while the Gospel has no more effect on them than pouring water on a dock's back. You preachers had better preach more on this subject. I have heard preachers preach about "heavenly recognition." I never preached a sermon on that 6Ubject in my life. I want recognition dowu here. When I get to heaven, sitting under a palm tree and fauning myself, I don't care whether anybody recog nizes me or not. You'll hear gome Methodist pastor preach an honr on "infant baptism ;" the Episcopal rector on "Apostolic succession," trying to tell people where they came from, when he had better be telling them where they are going to; the Presbyterian on "the final perseverence of the saints," when half of his hearers haven't got any thing to persevere on ; aud the Baptist preacher crying "Water!" when halt his crowd are going where they can't get a drop. When I hear one of these little fellows, on "Faith," say, I feel like some bs)dy is hitting me over the head with an india-rubber bladder. It doesn't hurt me, but only annoys me. These extracts will give a pretty correct Idea of Mr. Jones' ntyl, so far as type can portray it. Last night Tommy Keed tooted his horn at the Pittsburg layout, aud put himself in the hands of his friends as a presidential aspirant. Wil. Star. No wonder the woolen manufact urers cf New England are vocifer ous for free wool. Sixty veight woolr en mills have been shot op in Bos ton since Harrison's election Wil. 1 ar- For the Lincjl.v Courier. J Home Crificiaiinj on tbe Speech of benntor Ingalla on liie ltace Problem. To explain, to an intelligent peo ple, tbe principles undeilying good government is a work of superero gation ; to picture all the pre requisites and distinguishing fea tures, after the manner ot Plato, is rendered unnecessary by modem edncation. We cannot only comprehend what a government shoald be, but we can also expose, to the pnblic, the sophist and demagogue. When great questions arise and great issues are before us, surely we may all recognize the Master and detect the hypocrite, even though the latter express himself m all the bright "Flowers of Rhet oric". To note the number of theorists expending their breath only to dis play their ignorance and want of candor, is to convince us of the amount of "cob-webs'7 to be brushed away before we can hope to have clear vision. This great "verbal manipulator" starts out by asserting the uninter rupted and undisputed superiority of the white man, his aversion to all idea of mixing with the Negro, and, winds up by suggesting that an equal chance or, rather, as he is pleased to put it "justice1 be meeted out to the African, with a view to tbe permanent settlement of the problem. How can he or any sane man hope or expect the Anglo-Saxon ever to contemplate a condition of equality between the races The strong arm of Government may secure to the Negro temporary relief but neither he nor the law making power may reasonably ex pect any permanent good to result from force thus applied. Why not look the matter "square in the face" and separate the races, regarding our obligations to the weaker race as a solemn duty and carefully providing for their future. The assertion of the skeptics that their deportation is not practicable is not trae aud I defy any one to prove it. Why may not a reasonable number be sent away each year and settled,if not in Africa, then in the West Indies, or in Central America now so sparsely populated? If wo have not enough vessels now, who dares to fix a limit to the number we can build to meet this or any other demand ? He says the "Race Cleavage" is distinct, and yet ignores that fact by quoting Fred Douglas, in the next breath, to the effect that "with social and political prejudice will vanish race prejadice. The social and political prejudice is the result ot race prejudice, and he had as well say "with the race prejudice will vanish the race pre judice'. The assertion as to the colored F. F- Y's. is an absurdity aleo, since they have neither pride of aucestry or pride of family, power or wealth. The Negroes, with the fewest ex ceptions, are devoid of either the one or the other and are not bound to the country by large possessions or the hope of them. They are entirely "foot loose' and in a good condition to emigrate whenever the public good demands they should. I cannot see what cruelty there can be m providing them a good home aud encouraging them to occupy it and establish a govern ment of their own, away from race prejudice and the injustice whic'i naturally and ioevitably flows from it. Let them go to San Domingo, Jamaica, Central America or if they prefer to Africa or any other in viting field they may choose and, under the protection and tuterage of this great government, work out their own destiny unterrified by hostile neighbor aud safe from incursion from any quarter so long as the American flag floats over them. It seems that the ambitious among them would jump at the chance and urge their brethren to organize and move out at once 1 When they are so located, what a field for the philanthropist and sympathizer to use money and other means for their advancement ! Surely the Honorable gentleman is not iu earnest when he reminds the Negro of his great wrongs and hints at the possibility of their resenting tbem with fire and steel? He is not so illogical as to assume that by each means they can better themselves f Can they hope to conquer the "all-c jnquering" race or to terror ize their superiors in anniber, brains and courage f Surely such talk as that is a bid for their political support, at least while they vote, and is not meant to lead them on to their own destruction. Whenever they, influenced by snch talk, attempt to use force, it will be the '-beginning of the end". The Southern people will meet them s'ith reluctance bnt with a grim determination to end the mat ter permanently! They are tired of the uncertainty and threatened resistance and whenever the opportunity offers they will see that the future is made secure. But is it not the duty of the states man to prevent any serious conflict by removing the cause of dissatis faction ? The worst feature of the case is to see the Northern mau trying to instruct the Southerner as to his duty and endeavoring to convince them of the necessity of accepting this additional punishment for their past sins. Sorely the South has suffered euough and their brethren should endeavor to relieve them of this iocabos. Send the Negro away aud then the era of good feeling between tbe sections caunot longer be delayed. I have just read "Our Brethren in Black" by the great and good mau Dr. Haygood, and must say he deals with the great question in the proper spirit and gives evidence of deep thought. ; He assumes though that the Negro cannot be removed and will always be an integral part of the Southern population. He sees a Providence in his com iog to this country, a providence in his enslavement and subsequent re lease, in so much as both conditions were essential to his conversion and preparation for tbe great work of evangelizing ail his brethren in the wilds of Africa. It is a mere matter of opinion as to his beiog so permanently dom iciled in the United States. To me it does not seem any lon ger essential to his due preparation for the work assigned to him, and it seems unnatural for them to re main where they are not wanted and where they may never hope to be upou a full footing of equality with the other and dominant race ; may never expect to lead in the councils or be of any notable ben efit to any one, except to their own color. Why may they not find a Moses to lead them back to their own land, or at least to the most suitable and convenient placa to organize their own government and plan the great missionary campaign so plaiuly set apart for them in the eyes of the good Doctor ? The Israelites were called upon to use carnal weapons to put down idolatry and drive out the occu pants of their good inheritance, then why may not the Negro march into heathendom with gan and Bi ble and gaining respect by the pru dent use of the former all the sooner and more surely be able to impress the doctrioes of the latter upon the savage mind ? by may not this army of subjui gation be recruited among the exiles in the TJ. S. and sent there not only to conquer all armed resistance bnt, to conquer the forest and. swamp and open them to human enterprise make way for the march of Empire not only temporal empire, but the Empire of Christ, which is eternal, aud cau never be set np in any but a pure and enlightened heart. It is impossible to instil the doc. trine of Christianity into the minds of a savage brute. Some enlightenment must precede its reception aud it appears natural to approach the savage with a show of Physical force m ord. r to com mand his respect and attention. Such has always beeu the history of the world and such will continue the move of progression until the Milleneum. 13 not such a conquest possible aud js not the result to be the Chris tianizing of all the millions of Af rica t Pat the Army in motion, let the J, whole of Christendom support it and nnady place the whole of that vast continent under the control and government of the intelligent Ne groes of the U. S , and who can doubt, for one moment, that the re sult will be the permanent building up of Christ's Kingdom over every square mile of the continent ? It is a "happy thought" that God has prepared these instruments for this special service, now why do they not organize and go "with gifts" from America, the land of their bondage, and accomplish their work T It seems that this enterprise would, at once, command the at tention of the heroic members of the race and cause them to cast about for means to perform the task. The whole of tbe civilized world will cry "God speed" and America the chosen country of God, will arm and equip a resistless army to march on the Divine mission. How soon, in the wake of the Army would towns and villages spring up, governments be estab lished and tbe commerce of tbe world find a welcome to new and profitable markets. Although various foreign gov ernments are claiming certaiu por tions of Africa by right of discove ry, yet even they would yield, tern porarily, to this grand purpose, surely countiug on tbe improve ment which would follow the in troduotiou of Christianity and en lightenment into those dark corners- A policy, npon the part of any government, that would oppose such a step would be very unwise and therefore abort lived. Let tbe good work go on aud all Christendom will reap the reward. Neither the Ornsade nor any oth er plan will take all of the Negroes out of our country but it will be the means of reducing tha un ruber and giving certain and manly employ ment to a large number of those who are surplus and turbulent in this country and in no way essen tial to its development. By the way, the objection to auy exodas of the Negro, on the part of the Southerner is one of the follies of the age Sorely the "all-conquering"' race, the Anglo-Saxon, does not netd another race to do its work. Suppose the Negro does go, may we not depend upon our own race to furnish muscle enough to care for the field and factory. We may be temporarily inconven ienced but we need have no fear, since we are sure, ultimately, to secure the labor of a superior char acter and in no way objectionable on account of race. Slavery was not known to our English or German ancestors aud yet, mining, agriculture and man ufacture has never halted with them, uor will it with ns when the races stamped by tbe band of the Almighty are allowed to work out their destiny, separate aud distinct. This question of miscegenation is one above politics, and it the deui agogue protests and opposes, it is not for him to control or prevent such action as appears best to the philosopher and patriot. The doubters say it is not pos sible to ship seven million negroes out of the United States even sup posing all the tonnage of all the world were so employed ! No one proposes to send them all in one year, but surely the gradual deportation can be accomplished since thirteen millions of immi grants have been brought to this country in about twenty years Then why may not the transfer be soon accomplished if the public turns its attentlou to the-' matter and prepares for the exodas Auy one familiar with the state of affairs iu the South must be con vinced of one thing and that is, that sooner of later the contest be tween the racss is as sure to come about as th'san to shiue, unless all can look forward to some such solution as this Left here, with his present aud prospective advantages as to edu cation, it is only a qnestion ct time when the Negro will assert himself and all the theor.sts cf earth will never be able to argue him oat of his conviction as to his equality to the white, and the latter will unite to oppose his pretensions, ander the iufiuence of their hereditary pre judice, and then the consequences will be appaling. There are strong and heroic men among the Negroes and they mast be beforehand in this matter, to lead their people to their destiny, to relieve their friend?, the white men, of all embarrassmeut on their account, and make a start in the direction of empire in some country where there are none to dispute pre-eminence with them. Progress. dvica to Mother, ITrg.TTnrsLow's SooiHisoSTBCPBhoTilIal-wy be used when ciuldna &rs cutting teeth. It r Uive8 the little oererat once; it produces xxatar&l, quist lep, and iht little chimb waket ts -brig i t &d a fcuttoa." Xt is -very pleasant to tast. it soothes the tliUd, softens thegui&a.aUaraallpaitr, teg ultes the bowels, and is tha best known remedy fr dLnrrhota, whtthtr arising from teetiooj or Athei cause. Twai-ty-Jlvo ce&U & boais UJ O H CO H o cc BE WISE! AND BUY YOUR GOODS WHERE: YOU CAN GET THE MOST FOB YOUR MONEY; BE WISE! BE WISE!! AND BUY YOUR GOODS AT J. L. KISTLER'S RACKET STORE. THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GREAT BUSINESS REFOR MER, C. B ROUSS, OF NEW YORK CITY, WHO HAS THE COURAGE TO ADOPT THE MOTT03: LIVE AND LET LIVE, UNDER BUY, UNDER SELL, Cash on delivery. OJSJH PRICE TO ALL. Come and see the Bargains fly over the counter at the following pri ces: 200 yards Spool Thread for 2 cents. Saspenders, Irom 5 cents and up. Gent's Half Hose. 5 eta. pair and up. 14 Row of Pins, at 2 cents. Ladies Hose, 7 cents pair and up. Agate Buttons at 4 cents a Gross. A Good Corset for caly 35 cents. Note Paper, 3 cents Quire. Box Paper, at 7 cents. Lace, 2 cents a yard and up. Ham berg Lace, 5c yd. and up. A Pair of Shears for 5 cents. Lfcad Pencils, 5 cents dozen. A Good Hammer for only 10c. . We carry a line of White Goods, &c, &., at prices That carry tbem away. HENRIETTAS AND DRESS FLANNELS, Of all Kind?, at prices never beard of before. MILLINERY SPECIALTY Everybody is invited to come and examine our Good3 whether you want to buy or not. Our opening is from now on. Tbe Maj. Cobb budding W. Main Street, Lincolnton, N. C. J. L. KISTLER, proprietor. New York Office, 551. UJ DC o h f- o cc Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. TVili practice iu Liooolii tad surrounding counties. All business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. April 18, 1S90: j Afll) SALE. BY virtue of decree maJe by the u--rior Oourt, of Lincoln county i situ oa Monday the 2i day ot JUIjJ at 12 o'clock noon on the premises. atVabi he auction to the highest biddsp iLit tract of land lying in Lincoln county aid adjoining tho laad of David Ctpa!aa Andy fcain, Timothy Fount and 4-ir Sain, containing 87 acres, being tha Url bought by R R Downs during hi lif, s from Bandy Sain, and on which ta a4 R R Downs lived and died. Truu Jf ale 'J5 per cent cash, balance ia months from date of sale, a C Saia who has a mortgage on two children' shares ia above described land will join in the and in making the deed to the purchajt Taii 7th day of April, 1890. J A JOHNSTON, Ada. May2, 1890. 4t $1.50 A year; THE LINCOLN COURIER AND A ALT A EAM. Sinej we changed the pric 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.Q for it, at any rate we cannot afford to publish the Courier at $1-00 a JTear. Henceforth wa wil lhold to our orignial prica L5P. al.?'oa,r;. a g. finley, att y. j. m. Roberts, sec FINLEY AND ROBERTS. LINCOLNTON, N. C. IN ORDER TO OPEN UP A channel through which parties here and people from otber parts of the country, especially from tk North, may be enabled to secizra valuable property in Lincolnton and Liuooln county, by being made ao quainted with the true ralae,health fulness, &c, of Lincolnton and ths eurrouudlng country, and In order that those hodinngpro- perty for sale may have some sys tematic method of disposing of the same to the benefit of a concerned by having it advertised and the points oi value clearly pointed oat to purcbasers, and In order to establish for ourselves a business from which we hope to reap some legitimate profits, direct ly or indirectly, by iucreaing the population and the business of our town, We have decided to establish &t Lincolntou a real estate agency, to buy, sell, rent and negotiate real estate of all kinds on commission and otherwise. Aud iu order to accomplish tit objects herein briefly referred to, w re.-pectfully ask the cooperation of our citizens. Those iu the county having tim bered, farming or mineral 1acd3, water powers, &c, developed or undeveloped, for sale, rent or en change; and Those having rea estate of auy bind tor sae, rent or exchange, la Lincolnton, may riud it to their ad vantage to confer with either party -of this agency. We oiler the following valuable proparty : I. One lot on Main street 75 yardj wsit of the courthouse square on which tbra U a large two etory brick housa with a baaev ment, a well built residence roataiaisj 13 rooms. 2- A cottage in Queen Ann styJa of architecture, together with five acres fcf ground surrounding and yAalug. Ti property is improve! ly shrubbery, fruit trees, 3fcc, together with well and aeoesiary cutbuildiugs, and a noat, comfortable t Ha rness office. 3. Two building lots on .Main street, near the depot, containing a toe grovaof oak trees. Valuable property &h) in' manufacturing establish meats. 4, About four acres of land South East cf the Court House. Excellent for b'iiiii purposes. . Two town lots in the South I;t part of town on which are two two story dwel ling houses containing 4 rooms eicn. 6. About 100 acres of land about 4 raiiS from Lincolnton situate on the Sherrul Ford road and through which rur.j a gold rein. AU the above described property i3 val uable and will be soli on ea3y terms. It i situated in and near one of the moJ Lealthful towns in the South and surroua ded with a fertile country and has tie very" let of railroad facilities. For iurlhr particulars addres-a, FINLEY ROBERTS. Lincolnton, N. C, March 23, lhdO.