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Willy 1Ji1pi VOL IV. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, .HJLY 11, lSOft. NO. 10 MIikm- 3Itulinn. Mr. Ewmt, Republican, from the lUh dietiiot of this tafe, made a manly and a brave speech in the House, Saturday , iij opposition to the Flection bill, which he pro nounced as "damnabia a piece of legislation as was eer put upon the statute booLs." It was a manly and brave speech because it requires no small amount of moral courage for a man to tuns vigorously denounce a nieasuie ol his own party and array himself, single-banded, against the mighty caucus which Lad pronounc ed in favor of the measure. Weadi mire pluck, whether in friend or foe, and when it comes from aa unex pected quarter, and gives evidence of a chivalry that defends the right, denounces the wrong and liies to the rescue of a people threatened by a centralized despotism we admire it all the more. Mr. Ewart may have been actuated by principle, or only Dy policy in iris bold denunciation j Chicago, July 1. There has end ringing characterization of this J been a steady increase in the death infamous partisan measure. We rate of the city ever since last Wed don't know about that j but he i nesday.' Fifty-one deaths from sun talked iu an impressive, earnest way which seemed to be inspired by something more thau mere self .ish policy. hetueror not, he has shown himself manly man, one who has the courage of his convict ions, the boldness to maintain them m the face of overwhelming nuuu .bers of his owu party, and in de feud'ng his own people and State E. M. ANDREWS, FURNITURE, PIANO AND ORGAN DEALER. PIANOS Chickericg, JMathusbek aud Sterling Pianos are too well knowQ to the people to require any introduction from me. Every one ot them are guaranteed, if they do not please you, you need not keep tbem. There are no lower prices, nor easier terms offered by any one ' thau those offered by me. ORGANS What are you going to do about that Orgau you promised your wife and daughter? Buy nothing but the Celebrated Mason and Hamlin or Sterling Or&an, and you are not always having them re paired. Stevliug Organs tor oidy $50.00 aud Mason & Hamliu's for only S9S-00. Write me for descriptive price list. FURNITURE Never before since I have been in business was my Stock of Furniture so large and complete in every line a3 it is to day, aud prices were never lower. I keep right up with styles, and rep resent everything just as it is. It you buy anything from me and it is Dot as represented r eturn it and I will pay your money back. Who could do more 'i Who could ask more ? Write for my prices. 65 I sell tin-inch, reversible frame MOSQUITO CANOPIES with all the fixture for hanging for only 2.00. E. M. ANDREW'S, Charlotte, N. C, 10 aud 18 West Trade St. Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT AW, ULXCOLNTON, N. C. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business pat into our hands vriil be promptly atten ded to April 1?, ISYO. ly. JL'JLi I J L tKEds ot fuuus, but hie sur passed by the iaivvls of tuventiou. Thuse who are in need of profitable work that can be done wbiio living at Lo'ne should at once fend their address to Unllet fe Co., Portland, Maine .and receive tree full in formation h,'W either sex, of ail age, can earn Horn jo to i'25 .er day mid upwards wherever they live. You are started free Capital not required. Some Lave made ?ver fO in a single day at thi work- All weeeed. AUTOMATIC Si:iV!0 MACHINE! Prices reduced, livery family nov: can have the !:sl Automatic Sewing Ma crone in 1 1 . e market at reduced price, for partieulais s-ond for uur new Illus trated Circular with samples of stitch ing. Onr Illu.-Uutcd Circular shows every part of the Machine jn-rfectly, and Lswotth sending for even if yon 'hutc a Machine. Krnsc Murphy 7Jfr. Co., 455 and 457 Y"est ilOth St., X- Y. City. RACIHE,WIS. Iff n Pffl Log,LumberVard a GiTYTRucrtsk- I : .: : rv. (j r i i n mm Ly plots and assaults of his party friend?, lie has rendered a service which entitles him to hearty commendation and high praise. Wilmington Star. Wjio Killed Cock Koblu. Cor. of the 'tws ttul Observer. 1JknL)uSON, Is. C., June 2Glb, 1890. (ju Monday evening last a thunder cloud passed over our town. The thuuder was loud and the lightning continuous until the cloud went by. It struck in several places in our town. On Tuesday morning two or three hundred Engl'sh spar rows were Jyiug dead under the trees in which they roosted. In front of one gentleman's house they picked up 125 dead sparrows. Will any man, toy ornithologist explain the causes of such a destruction of the little Sparrows ? Inquirer. The Terrible Heat. stroke were reported up to 4 o'clock yesterday. This number probably represents two-thirds of the fatal cases for Sunday aud yesterday. Among the children the mortality has been keeping higher aud higher until yesterday when the figures appalled the health officers. Nearly two hundred deaths from all causes were reported daring the day. PIEDMONT SEMINARY, MALE AND FEMALE, LIN COLSTON, N.C Au English, Classical, Mathematical and Commercial School. It is thorough and practical in its work aud methods. It does not assume to itself the claims of a Col lege, but is thoroughly Academic Location healthy, and of easy access by railroad. Fall term of 1800 be gins Wednesday, August, 27. if For Circulars, &c. send to I). MA TT. THOMPSON, Principal, Lincohiton, N. C: July 4, ljjyO. u i. iviw.v . , 1 hUGG,NSTLaoies Chaise:. i PATE NX-CHAISE m FISH BR?S WAG9K G5 RACINEWJIS. From the Oid Homestead. UCUIXD THE MADEIRAS AXJ 1VESTERIA.S. IS; TS a perfect shame, child, : tor yen to have to frndge :4 three miles to the village for 'z. provisions. ' ''Nonsense, giandmaruiny, I like to do it well enough ; but even if I did not there would be no alterna tive, so it's best to look on the bright side ; now isn't it, grand mammy ?" "Well, yes, I guess so. But shDw me the bright side, dear V "With pleasure. Firstly, we have the money to get it with : secondly, we have a good market basket to get it iu ; thirdly, I have the health and strength to go after it : fourths Iy, it is an excellent day for it, and lastly, we all want and need it: There, now, are not those reasons sunny enough to drown oat all your shadowy ones V1 "Yes, dear, ycu always look on the bright side of everything. Those are all things we ought to be thank ful for." "Especially the market basket." "There, there, child, be serions now. I do really bate to see you go. If only Gypsie hadn't died." Ab, poor Gypsie ! Mrs. Graham touched a tender spot ia her grand child's heart when she spoke of her. IShe was her special property, aud many a happy hour did she spend on the back of her faithful little an, imal, with Bruno bounding along by their side. Now, alas ! both were dead. One died the victim of the dread disease distemper, aud the other was accidentally shot ou a hunting expedition for which he was borrowed. However, sad as Grace felt as all this was recalled to her memory, she answered ht-r grandmother lightly enough. "Yes, if Gypsie hadn't died, or Brono hadn't been shot, or we had more horses, or grandpa's eyes were well, or Sam was not down with the rheumatiz,' or we lived in town, or had near and accommodating neigh bors, or a dozen more things were or were not, I would not need to valk three miles to Nelson for something to eat. Bat you see, general, 'it7 never did come oat con. queror, and I hate a defeated fellow, so I'll turn him the coid shoulder and have nothing whatever to do with him, so if you'll help me make out the list I'll start at once " She spoke lightly cf her walk, aud little did Mrs. Graham know of the thoughts that were coursing through her brain as she took down the list. The truth was Grace bad read nu account in the couuty pa per the day before that a terrible assault had been made by tramps on au unprotected girl ou the very road she had to take. But Grace was no coward. She knew she had this walk to make, so tdie destroyed the paper, that her grandmother might not see it and v.t r.y herself half to death while she was gone. Grace was a very happy, li'ht hearted child. I call her a child, for iu appearance she was bat a child, while in reality she was near ly nineteen. Her grandmother often said that she was such a biilliaut sunbeam that no shadow could ex ist in her pjesence. She rivaled the birds in her mer ry songs as she tripped along the path. She told herself she had am pie time, so she often stopped on her way to watch the white swans glide majestically away ou her ap proach to the edge of the lake, or the tortoise's clumsy walkiug untii they would reach the brink aud then plunge to the bottom, where their bright backs would look as though they were finely varnished. She laughed at her own happy re flection in the clear water, and told herself that she had really spoken the truth when she assured her grandmother of the pleasant pros pects before her. The babbling brooks seemed mora inclined to be friendly than ever before, the birds sang their sweetest songs, the hoily berries were of a brighter hue than last year, and he rlowers, the glo ries ot the sunny south, which decked the wood here and there like the finest of embroidery on green plush, looked to Grace as though they had put forth their greatest efforts to lock tluir gayest, and, in fact, all nature seemed to to wake anew in hcLcr of her com. , "Upon my soul if that isn't too provoking ! What could have pos. sessed me to forget that chocolate!" The sun was just about au hour high, aud Grace, having made her purchaser, was about half a mile ou her homeward journey, when, as we 8iw, she had forgotten the choco late. It must be had, so our tercine retraces her footsteps, makes her purchase, and was about a mile from the village, when she is start led by horse's hoofs on the road. She turned, and saw a horse coin iug at a lively rate, followed by an empty buggy. She took m the sit uation at once. The hitching strap was dangling along, and 'evidently he bad, upon finding himself loose, started for home without waiting for his master. By a strange coin cidence the pony was the same shade of biowu aud about the same size of poor Gypsie. The girl's only thought was to stop the horse. The road was jast about fifty feet from the railroad, and without hesitating sho set down her basket, sprang across a small rivulet, and just reached the road in time to grasp the dangling reius of the independ ent animal. She soon succeeded in soothing her with gentle words and kind pats, and stood meditating. What should she do with her The sun was already near the horizon, iihe was beginning to think of the of the tramps, and what conld she do? She would not have time to take her back to town ; should she tie her to a tree and fasten a note to the reins? No indeed, that woald uever do, for a tramp would come aloug and steal the hrrse and bu gy. However, something must be done, for it was getting late it would soon be dark then what would she do f "What shall I do ? Oh, you im pudent rascal for placing me in such a predicament 1" she said, throwing one arm across the pretty animal's neck and leaning her face against it, while with the ether hand she held the reius, looking the very pic ture of despair. While thus standing she was startled by a hand beiug laid upon her arm. Had her fears been real ized ? Was it the tramp who was going to kill her aud then ruu away with the buggy? fehe dare not raise her head. "Excuse me.:' he began. Suiely this didn't sound like a tramp's voice, and she raised her miserable little face, expecting to aee a ragged, utud-besmeared ob ject, before her. She had quite an air of martyrdom depicted on her face, which, however, changed iu stantly as she saw a fine-looking, well-dressed specimen of humanity before her. She could not conceal her astonishment, so he at once in troduced himself as Dr. Green, add ing : "Yon have stopped my horse, and thereby done me a great favor, as I should have had to walk six miles to reach home. Is there anything 1 cau do for you iu return i I should be only too glad to serve you.'' She told him there was nothing, but her face veiled her words. He saw that she was too proud to place herself uuder obligations to any gup, so he said : "I think I heard you speak of my pony haviug placed you in a pre dicament. Cannot I make up lor it and help you out cf it ? Are you alone V "YTef, I'm alone, and what's more, am two miles from home.'' "Poor child ! Get right in and I'll take you home, if you'll show me the way." She hesitated ; would it be pru dent I He read her thoughts nnd snid : "Or, if you prefer, you may get in and drive and I'll walk.'' This was too much for her. She was just in the state one. gets when they most either laugh or cry, and as t-he did not wish to make an ex hibition of herself by the latter, she made the woods ring with her mer ry l iii-hter, saying at. the time : All light, Dr. Green : you hold the horse while 1 run over to the railroad after my basket, then bas ket and I will get in and run away with your buggy and hnr?e. Tbat would be capital ; I'm so glad von mentioned it." Then it was arranged, but. all three Grace, Dr. Green, and the basket were ocenpants of the bng. gv. Grace found htr companion a splendid corivprsatiwali.-t, and was surprised at hen-elf when she found how short had been tbHr acquaint arioe before she told Lirn her whole history ; how they (her grandpar ents and herself) had come south for the benefit of her gratidmotbei'a health ; how her grandfather had, a year after their arrive!, taken suoh a bad cold, which settled in hi eyes and caused him such pain thnt he had to sit in a darkened room all the time, aud hal not seen day light for six months ; how Gypsie and Bruno died, and their only help was laid up with rheumatism, and so she was compelled to go to the village for their provisions, etc., on foot. Dr. Greeu felt the deepest sym pathy for the girl by his side with honest brown eye3 and such a wealth of brown hair so becomingly coiled on the hack of her shapely head, set on a pair of exquisitely shaped shoulders which gleamed through her thin white dress, which fitted her slender figure to perfect toq: Her face was a study, for ev ery new subject on which they spoke it would have a different ex pressiou, every change seeming more beautiful to the now thoroughi ly bewitched Greeu. They were deep in the discussion of their fav onto authors, etc., wbeu Grace ex claimed: "Why, stop, Dr. Green j you al most drove past the house." He looked around regretfully, when to his utter amazement he saw a perfect Eden of flowers, in the midst of which stood a neat lit tle cottage, almost entirely con cealed by the dense vines cf madei ras aud westerias, which were now In full bloom, and a sweeter-scented piace he had never before beheld. Upsn his exclamation of admira tion, Grace explained that they were her grandmother's pets. Everything looked vso bright and fie?h ami t-o homeiike thai he fsit tuat he mut see the interior of the collage lhat had for months, and almost years, sheltered the fairest. biotbOui he lud ever yet senn Grace herself. A happy thought entered hia head. He asked Grace if sne would like him to make au examination ot her grandfather's eyes, as he had made ees hia bpeeial study. She told him she rmi-t see her grandfa ther first, as they were riot very rich- He soon assured her that the expenses would not be great, and lei t an appointment for iho r.ext day. What more need be told i Of course there is but one fcque.l to this. He called next day, won the hearts of both grandparent-, and in six months had air. Graham's eyes permanently restored, in pay ment for which he asked for t tie hand ot their beloved granddaugh ter, whose hear t he had already won in the cozy little parlor and on the piazza behind the vines, where upon hia frequeut visits to the grandpar ent he had always managed in coii e way or other to spend an hour or two with the object of his choice. In street is a stately little mansion, the characteristic of which is its bordering of beautifal vines. "It always reminds me, dearest, of the many happy hours j-pent behind the madeiras and wesfenav1 Eaustina L'Estp.ange, Hawthorne, Fia. THE NEWDI5COVEP.Y You htve heard your friends hn i r.eiii' tors talking about it. You may yourelt l. one of the many who know from personnl ex j eritnee ja?t how goo-i a thing ;t It you have ever tried it, you are one f f it---Uunch fiinda. beetii?' the wondrrfid thing hhout it i$. that when one- 'riven a trial, Dr. King's New Discovery ever after hoi is a place ia the houe. If ym have ever used it and should ho. afflict d with a enoeh, cold or any Throat, Luni: or cht-?t trouble, secure a bottle at once and givs it a fair trial. It is curaiite?d every t'me or money refunded. Trial botties Free at Dr. J. M. Lawing's Drugstore. v.4.;r. ami tiii: sru-Tisr.Asnsv. Sk::atf. Chamber, .rune -JS, '0 PSlt-i? Cnr, Efj , Prcm lent Farmers Alt Li nee of Sori Curdina, OU Srjrt.i, X. c. : Deae Sir: So many reports con cerning my position on what is known as the sub-Treasury or far mers' warehouse bill have been cir culated in onr State, and I have re ceived so many letters of inquiry on the eul.jti-r, that I have deemed tt my duty to answer them alii:: this way. I wiite to you as the hon ore I head of the Fanm-is' Alliance of Noith Carolina, and desiif in th's manner to make known to tb1 people my Lonfef opinion on thi? and cognate subjects. I do thit all the more readily because 1 am con scions that 1 have iiver, in the course oi my t oiitical lib, eoncva'e'l from the pt?i p! who have honored me any candid conviction in regard to any important public matter. It is too late fi r me now to begin such a course. On the 24th day of February, 00, at the request of Co'. L. L. Folk, president of the "N. C Alliance and Industrial Union," I introduced in the Senate bill 286, popularly known a3 the cub-Treasury bill, and procured its refriern e to the committee on agriculture and for estry, where it was snppo-ed that it would receive more friendly con- shleration than from the committee on fiuance to which st would other wise have gone according to the rules-' On receiving it I told both Colonel Polk aud Dr. Macune, the chairman of the legislative com mittee of the Alliance, that I was not prepared to promise them to support the bill ; that if. was a great and radical departnre from the accustomed policy of our legisla tion, and that there were questions both of practicability and constitu tionality which I wished to reseive. I told them also that I hoped for good results from its introduction, and believed that its discussion would attract the attention of the country to the condition ami the wants of the agricultural classes, and if this bill was not deemed the proper one, that some other would be formulated in the directiou of the needed relief. I procured an fcrti-iy cniisiiieraru'iU M rne out i the committee, and u c; able and most interesting ibscu-Un by Jdet sik P.-lh aiol .Macuiifc v.'rf-had.' But s far without ie-ulr. The committee has not yet made a repoit, though I am assured that a majority of Us me-.il.rid are anxiously ntt-king to devisij a method of relief which snail t o. ne open to m o jecrious j 1(-lieve, however, under that clause of thai bill. jr- conBtitut!ou which gives My ov.ii position remains the! Congress the power to regulate same. I cannot support this bill in j rummerce with foreign countries its present shape. P-nt i am not op and amoug the State, rh.at the posed fi the principle and purposes j hondrd wi house.- now in use for of the measure. On the contrary, the leorption ot foreign jtnpj-ta-they aie those ultich I hve lor ten i,n n.it.t als.i i.e. used Hi et ry years advocated, aud for the accom port ot -ntrv iu fhe United Sta'es, plishmeut or which I have in every jand tneis estatdi-hed else here s county in rth Carolina a.vaiu arid jtVeli. for the reception of tlome-tic again nigtd the, organiation of far- j article-', intended for export or for iiK'i. pointing out to tiifin how sajj. j,, grates, and that the that all other cla-se-4 of s.icie.'y were jrr.jvernmeut could i.e uoide; to re-organiz-d f..r the promotion ot i thtse aiticies and issue re their separate interests It i3 a ts therefor upon which the shameful truth, lhat in tho enor- imUjers c-mhi leadiiy borrow moi:ey. nious growth of the wealth ot our 'Xtis, I believe, would answer every country in the last twenty years, lluIl)se contemplated by tho sub tue farmers have not proportionate! Treasury piHn exept that of br ly participated All candid men r(iWing money at a Kpecified cheap admit fhat the.v have not had their Jate. However this ma b. I kuotf, full dhaie ot Ihe ggrefe pro-; my dear sir, lhat neither you nor pentv of oai country. The ieahou j t jie g00j hu. true men whom you for this i- a- plain to be ceen as I iepxe.-nu woul i ask me to ii. fringe iiuy cause ?r a'sy elTect. F',r a 1 jn a:jV Way upon Ihe organic law of quarter of ;i century t he legislation j our cnunti v, iu the faithful ob of our country has been notoriously Lervance of which alo..e consists in the iuten-st of c-rtaiu combina tions of capital. The manufacturer- have been protected by enormous j tnjs tWH . ;l Ieat responsibility rest duties upon foreiu imports, many j,u;r UpOII u,u. q'his b an uprising of which are absolutely prohibitory, j ot ,Jt agricultural class ot our peo The currency has hten hystemati- pj xiit ,not powerful class of our cally contracted by the withdrawal j society, which amounts to little of circulation and the demonetiza tion of silvei in the interest ol the. bankers. Uukers, bor.dholdei-? audj,,, ,he vA arising liom unjust Ieg all the creditor class. In this way j (Hidtion. You are the chosen head the inevitable results have been an(j ivpreseuiative of that class in produced. The enormous wealth of j tjie fate f, :;rth Carolina, one of our country has more and more ceased to be wide'y distributed and has become concentrated ia the hands of a fiv. ivngrovt u for tunes have been rfCMnnrJated by the favored ones; whi'e mortgages have been the thief acquisition of the many. The fanner being com peiled to pc II hi surplus wheat, bef and oftor. m fr trade mar kets of the world, was not allowed also to buy his supplies in I he same place, but was compelled to briDg Lis money Lome from Europe and buy his iron, his clothing and all his farm supplies from the domestic inanufVtiiiers t pijiTs enhanced nor only by tl.o.-e enormous tariff duties, i.ur likewise by Hie. eevere i.ontia -tiou of lh ctmencv What else c-.'vjM po-fii.!v hv: followed "isr ii. jebfrdfiHss arid bankruptcy for that class who hid thus to bear the ultimate 1 indeiis caused b this disturbance of ihe laws of economy, r.id by wli.h alone the undue riches of one ;l.i-5- were secured ? Ail efforts to secure fhe repeal of this outrageous taxation and to i store the. full use of silver aa u money, having so far proved un. availing, iea?oimt.le men .-re not surprised that, the oppressed class of our people have at last organized aud deter miued to do something. For one I sympatize most cordially and bincerely with this deterinma tion. Inasmnch as it is impossible (o compensate the farmer for the robbing f him under this tariff J Taxation by imposing tariff duties for his benefit also for the reason that similar products to his are not imported into this country the question arises, how shall he be compensated ? It some way be not deviled, and w e continue to impose these tariff taxea on him, we simply admit tbat he is to be oppressed forever or nutil he is sent to the poor house; aud that whilst wa have power under the couustitutioii to destroy by taxation oue class of citizens, we have neiiher the power n r the disposition to compensate that destroyed class, nor to equalize the burdens of life among the peo ple. 1 never will agree to this, and I stand tea ly to vote for any meas- ure for the relief of the agricultural classes of the community that will serve the puipose, asking only that it be within the power conferred upon Congress by the constitution. We live, happily for uh, in a gov- Lrnment of limited powers, but be cause, as I believe, tbe present tariff duties are ul.niy uicunstitutioual, and but "rob ny nuder the forms t of law," I cannot gain my consent , tn vote for his hi,b-Trea3urv bill which provides for the loaning of money to the peopV by the governr nienr, and which, in m opinion, ia without constitutional autbouty. I the safety of our people. Permit me lo say lhat thete is t short of a revolution This revo lution is du ected toward a redress ils most honored and respected cit izens. I feel, sir, tbat with the frees Continued to Fourth Page.
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