North Carolina Newspapers

VOL IV LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOV. 7 1890. NO. 2T Mr. Blame made his hearers at Cantou, Ohio, feel good by telling them that the G4,0O0,60O people in this country owned $60,000,000,000 in money and property, which givea to each man, woman aud child about $1,000 apiece. Now, this is very interesting to us ; and we would like to know who has got our $1,0001 And we suspect there are a good many other people of the like enquiring turn of mind. News & Observer. MERIT WINS. We desire to say to uur citizens, thai for years we haye been selling Dr. Kind's .New Discovery for Consumption, also Z r ,-ir.'. Nfv.v Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Klectric Miferi, and have never banded n-.iuecUes that sell as vrell, or that have given such universal satisfaction. ,'e do not hesitate to guarantee them every . tire, arm we s-tar.u ready to refund the purclittt jirice, it sat'sf jctory reesults do not follow their ue. f hf-se remedies Lave t won their gr--nt popularity purely on their merits At J. M. La wind's Physician and Pharmacist. It is customary for all our people to turn o;;t when a ciicus cornea to town, It is also customary for all who have ever tried Gaotet's ma ic.chicken cholera cure torecomend it to their neighbors. It is sold on the plan of "no cure, uo pay," y Dr.- J. M. Lawing. A SAFE INVESTMENT. Is odc which is guaranteed to brin you : - satLs!actory results, or in case of failure a "return of purchase price. On this sale plan you can buy from our advertised JDruggist a bottle of Dr. rt's New Dia-. covery for Consumption. It h guaranteed to bring relief in every case, when used . m for any affection of Threat, Lungs or 'Chest, such as Consumption, Inflammation of Lungs, Bronchitis, Asthma, Whooping Cough, Croup, etc., etc. It is pleasant and agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and caa" always be depended upon, Trial bot tles tree at J M Lawing's Drugstore. f . DR- ACKER S ENGLISH PILL9 V';?Are ctive effective and pure. For sick headache, disordered stomach, loss of ap rrplft,'bad complexion and biliousness, ' theyhaye never ben equaled, either in " . Am erica or abroad. Dr. J M Lawing, Druggist. IMPORTANT look, Get Prices and Photos, read, FROM 3E3. lhLm JTSfDMi WS, ire you buy Furniture. It will pay you. I want to call the a I Before tion of all the readers of this paper that my stock ot FURNITURE, PIANOS AND ORGANS is dow larger and more complete than at any time since I hare been in the business. I have just received a car load of nothing but Antiqne Oak and Sixteenth Century Sui;?, ranging in piice from 26.50 to $75.00. These were bought at a bargain and are the very newest styles. I have made a large deal in Parlor Suits also. Listen at tbi;e prices ; Plush Suits of 6 and 7 pieces I am offering now for $32.50 to $100.00. Plush Suits iu Walnut aud Antique and 16th Century that I sold for 10 per cent, more money last ye?r. I have a well selected line of Divans Plusb Rockers, Book Cases, Mantle Mirrors rnd Novelties in Furniture- I have scoured the country this year for bargains, buying in large quan tities for cash to get the best bargains, my object being :o give my cus tomers this fall the most and best goods possible for the money. I make a specialty of furnishing residences stud hotels complete from top to bot torn. I am anxious to sell yon all your furnituie, and will do it if you will only allow me to quote my prices. LoDg time given on Pianos and Organs. Write me for prices and terms. E. M. ANDREWS, Charlotte, N. C. What is Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic suhstance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys "Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves, teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas toria Is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. Castoria. "Castoria is an excellent medicine for cMl ireij. Mothers Lava repeatedly told me of it good effect upon their children." Pa, G. C. Oboood, Lowell, Mass. " Castoria Lj the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real Interest of their children, and use Castoria in stead of the various quack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, .morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.1 Dr. J. F. Kicheloe, Conway, Ark. The Centaur Company, T7 We see by a paragraph on the rounds of Republican organs that the Harrison Administration has paid 8205,700,000 of the National debt. It's a lie. The people paid it, and a large part of the money to make the colossal reduction of the debt was wrenched from the people in a way and at times that raised their rates of interest to three and four times that borne by the bonds redeemed. In a word the people were robbed to make a chance for the Government to put out a flam ing advertisement of ita efficiency. Chattanooga Times, Bern. How 31 en Die. If we know all the methods of approach adopted by an enemy we are the better en abled to ward off the danger and postpone the moment when surrender becomes ins evitable. In many instances the inherent strength of the ody suffices to enable it oppoe the tendency toward death. Many however have lost these fo os to such an extent that there is little or no help. In other cases a little aid to the weakened Lungs will make all the difference between sudden d:- th and many yea;s ot useful life. Upon the first symptoms ot a Cough, Could or any trouble of the Throat or Lungs, give that old and well-known rem dye Boschee's German Syrup, a careful trial. It will prove what thousands say of it to be the benefactor of any home." THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OF DEATH. Tired feeling, dull headache, pains in various parts of the body, sinking at the pit of the stomach, loss ol appetite, fever lshness, pimples or sores, are all positive evidence of poisoned blood. No matter how it became poisc-sd it must be purified to avoid death. Dr. Acker's English Blood Elixir ha3 never iailed to remove scrofulous or syphilitic poisons. Sold under positive guarantee by Dr. J M Lawing, Druggist DO .NOT SUFFErl ANY LONGFR. Knowing that a cough can be checked in a day, and the stages of consumption bro ken in a week, we hereby guarantee Dr. Aker'9 English Cough Remedy, and will refund the r;cney to all who buy, take it aa per directions and do not find our stat ment correct. Dr. J M Lawing, Druggist Subscribe for the Lincoln Cour ier. tten- Castoria. " Castoria Is so well adapted to children ttiat I recommend it an superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Abchxr, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. " Our physicians in the children'a depart ment have epoken highly of their experi ence in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it." Uhitxd Hospital and Dispensary, Boston, Mas$. Allen C. Smith, Pres.. Murray Strait, New York City. From Wilmington Messenger. KEV. 1VAITER S. CREASY REPLIES TO REY. DR. PRITCRARD. nF.RE come times in the lives frljj and histories of men and tv$ Churches, when silence ceas- po tn he a virtue. In the humble judgment of the wri ter one of those times has arrived in the city of Wilmington as regards the preachers, and people called Methodists. Dr. T. H. Prltcbard, a man for whom I have had the high est regard, with whom I have la- bored in the various matters which we believed iu common to be for the good of our people, a mau whose age, experience, wisdom and posi- tiou I honor and to whom I have hppii and ever shall be ready to jive my hand aud hearty co-opera" tion in every good word and work, has on three or four different occa sions, in the public prints seen lit to cliticise disparagiugly our Broth er Sam P. Jones to the detriment, as far as his iufluence extended, to the meeting ot the Methodist church in Wilmington. We bore this in silence, choosing rather to suffer wrong than to wrangle aud perhaps cause some poor sinner to be lost, excusing himself trom bis duty, by saying the Christiau ministers did not agree themselves ; aud had Dr. Pritchard held his peace, the past would have been forgotten, and this article would never have been writ ten! But he sees fit to revive the whole matter, to tear open afresh the wound that we hoped was heal ing. Nay, more, he seems to chal lenge all who think differently with him to show a reason for their thinking, to which task we now ap ply ourself. We are not discussing the differ ence of opinion betweeu the Doctor and Sam Jones ou doctrine. It is natural they ehonld not see alike alone; those line?, belonging to the different denominations they do, but we have worked together and dif fered iu doctrine, and the Doctor might have borne with Uncle Jones as he has with some of his weaker orethren. He says: "I do not call in quess tion the piety of Sam Jones or im pugn his motives' Farther on in his article he says, "As a lecturer be would be superb, and as a boon companion delightful." Let us put those sentences in the scales aud weigh them with other utterances of the Doctor's. "When he makes a good hit he pauses to note ite effect and twirls bis moustache or scratch es his head." One would think this was striking at vanity, a motion to gain applause. The Doctor says : "Instead of pointing sin-sick souls to the Savior, to obtrude his own little personality in such flippant slang, seemed to me little short of sacrilege. He was somewhat less smutty here than in Charlotte, but he said enough in Wilmington to outrage propriety , common decency, aud good morals." Yet he would make a superb lecturer and boon com panion. Me says, " mat no was vil ified in some of the papers and pri vate correspondence for styling Sam Jones a vulgarian and blackguard. After a fuller acquaintance with him I am sorry to say that I cannot withdraw those charges, on the con trary I must add to them one still more serions, that of profanity-'" (It alics mine.) "Superb lecturer, boon companion.'' "I do not call inquesi tion bis piety or impugn his mo tives." Now if the Doctor will ex plaiu how a man who is all he says Sam Jones i?, in the above remarks, can be a delightful boon campanion, when a man iu bis private compan ionships is expected not to be qu'te so precise as when in his public ex-. presaions I will be obliged. The Doctor's idea of a boon companion is somewhat different from the wri ter'.. He says "Mr. Jones was able to benefit several hard cases that the ministers could not reach but Mr. Pearson rriaDy more." And further he says, 'I think it is just, however, to consider other agencies iu the meeting besides those of Mr. Jones personally, which contributed largely to its results, Mr. Stuart's f preaching. Several hundred godly men and womeu who had been praying for weeks, the singing of Excell and Bowden." Grauted. But Doctor, you forget, in your comparison, that there had been no general union meeting in this city tor years before Mr. Pearson came, and that his sweeping revival, (for which I shall ever thank God and bless Him that I permitted to work in it) gathered in a large quantity of wheat that was ready tor the gar. oer, ami acomparatively short while has elapsed since his tneetiog. The preparation was well nigh perfect. Seveu congregations banded them selves with their seven pastors for the work. There was one mouth's preaching at the various churches. Prayer meetings were suspended and everybody followed the prepa ration meeting. Singing Yes. all the singing talent of the seven con gregations, practicing, getting ready and siuging when the meeting be. gan. After the meetings for half an hour or an hour all the preach-j ers and many laymen and godly women working. Yet Mr. Pearsou (and God knows I honor and love him and would not take one laurel from his brow or star from his crown if I could) is to have all the honor for what was done in his meetiuer, but Jones must stand back and let every one else come for their share first. I do not believe that saintly godly man, Mr. Pearson himself, would think it a fair com parison. Tue Doctor says : "Let it be res membered that he was invited here by his Methodist brethren and not by the Alliance." So the Metho dists bad to call; they had to build; they had to hold preparatory meet ings ; they had to assume all re sponsibility; they had to endure the bitter sarcasms and thrusts of Jones' enemies, and yet his meeting is to be compared with Mr. Pearson's. Let me sav here that for every word of encouragement and sympathy, for every dollar, for every voice that helped us sing outside of our Church we are profoundly grateful and shall forever be tbaukful, but the tacts were demanded, since the Doctor made this comparison. He says : "That on one occasion lie turned to the preachers and said: 'You fat lazy rascals, why were you not here at the early prayer meet ing, trying to save souls instead of taking your morning nap V " The Doctor thinks this was terrible and that Jones svas assuming the role of dictator. Well, I asfced him to speak to the preachers about the early meeting. There were some forty or fifty here and from three to five out at the early meeting. The preachers felt that he was right and they were wrong, if they were well. They did not complain. Again the Doctor says : "Jones said :'' "I ex pect to be at the judgment aud to hear the excuses of some of the pas tors of this city for not helping in this meeting." "The intimation," the Doctor says, "seemed to be that he not only expected to be at the general judgment but to be a sort of associate justice with the Al mighty in pronouncing sentence, and would enjoy the condemnation of those of us who did not see fit to join in his meeting. (The Doctor forgets that it is to be remembered that the Methodists called him. It was a Methodist meetiug led by Sara Jones.) "Such arrogance would be unbecoming in the Apos tie Paul much more in Sam Jones." Well Paul said some very positive aud wonderful things about the fu ture as well as the past. Does uot Brother Joues have a right to exs pect, if he keeps right aud does right, (and the Doctor does not call in questiou the piety of Sam Jones or impugn his motives) that be shall sit upon a throne aud judge in his Master's kingdom, Luke xxii, 30 : "That ye may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and eit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." The Book gives him a right to expect it j but the Doctor seems to be in a hurry to get a seat on the judgment throne before Un cle Jones, does not wait for the last day but declares that he believes the sentiment of the best Christian people of the State are with Mm, (Italics mine.) It is not for me to s ty. I will not judge whether the vast throng of from six to seven tbousaud who were at the taborna cle ou the lasr n'gbt of the meeting are among the best Christian peo ple or the State. Be that as it may, wheu called npou to say by stand ing up whether they felt or believed that Sam Jones' visit and preaching iu Wilmington had in any way harmed or demoralized a single soul not one in all that crowd stood up. When asked if they flt that bit visit and preachiug had been a blessing and help, to staud up, the vast crowd, so far as I could see, with barely two exceptions, stood up and seemed glad ot the privilege. There might have been more than two who did not stand, but I did not see them and I looked closely. I have seen quite a number of those whom I at least take to be among the best Christian people of the State who are not with tUe doctor iu criticisms of Sam Joues. The Doctor says : "He called some of the most respectable gen t'emen of Wilmington, 'Pusillaui mous polecats of hell,' and further, of some of our citizens he said, "if a buzzard should get scent of tbem, he would fly straight up half a mile to get away from the smell.' " Well, Doctor, these last you say are some of our citizens, not some of the most respectable citizens ot Wilmington. Well, if you had heard the class he was talking about, you would have thought the old bird would be try ing his wiugs in the upper atmos phere. But, Doctor, you were not there when the term was applied to tie most respectable citizens of Wil mington. Doctor, you did uot hear the character of those men, who tbey were, where they went, their lives. It you had, you would never again think of coupling their names with the Vnost respectable citizens of Wilmington. Hundreds can tell you the characters he referred to. The Doctor says : "There is a strife here,'' and he charges it upon the pulpit manners of Sam Jones. "This," he says, "is the only aissue he makes with him and his frieuds." If any one should say: "Creasy, why did you write V I answer : "Dr. Pritchard made an issue with Sam Joues aud his friends, and I am glad of the privilege of being called the friend of Sam P. Jones." That issue was his pulpit manners. Dr. Pritchard virtually says that we, tbejVIethxlist preachers who have heard and invited Jones before he came, aud have heard him since he came, and still endorse him, kuow nothing ot pulpit manners or, if we do, we ruu with reckless careless ness on to our own destruction, as the storm he acknowledges to have had a part iu raising, shall so trausi form us "that the skies will be clear er and the water purer.5' Ah, Docs tor, you are bard on us, but we trust "Him who hath been our shield aud salvation." Doctor, the issue I make is that it was not the pulpit manuers of Sam Jones (why have they uot toru other towns like ours) but the opposition belore he came, the bitterness while he was here aud the relentless, persistent attacks upon everything about him that seems to saver of impropriety, while the great amount of good he has done is overlooked and lOTjjotten, and, this too, by those who are the sworn followers of Christ the Lord. The Doctor sights a case or two where children have beeu reproved by their parents for using what be terms Sam Jones' Slang. Why did he not tell us of the great chauge wrought in huudieds of our people on the use ot profane language, the great work in the Wilmington and Weldon car sheps, oi the forty or fifty oung men who banded them selves together and promised to quit swearing, of the many who have joined the different Churches ot the city and throughout the State, of the many backslidden members that have been reclaimed, of the hotfies in this city made happy by the hus bands stopping drink names that can be given, short sales iu bar rooms and saloons, men depositing money in bank, white and colored, who never did so before, money saved where they once drank it up. Ah, Doctor, you have not been looking lor the good done, I am afraid. Many a poor heart has said fo me : "The good Sam Jones has done by coming to Wilmington will uot be knowu trll the Judg ment." The Doctor nses Dr. Primrose to prove that Sam JoDes is profane. Ge quotes the phrases used by Dr. Primrose in his conversation with Jones, and then, that Jones said, "Brother Primrose, I appreciate this more than anything that has happened. You are riht and I am wrong. 1 was thoughtless ami by God's help I will stop if.1' The meaning ot Dr. Primrose, grand, true, kind, was lost, covered np. Dr. Primrose said, 4(After that no mau need tell me that Sam Jones is not a good Christian, aud for this reason it was with the utmost cor diality, 1 grasped hi hand last Monday night, and closed my brief remarks with these words, 'As a brother in Chiist I give you my baud.'" Dr. Primrose was uot try ing to convict of blasphemy, but to show the great heart and enaract-r. A J, Doctor, to have beeu fair with Dr. Primrose and Joues you should have given the context, hut it was against you. Now let us see the witnesses he brings against Jones in every way, pulpit manners and all. In a form, er article he brings Mr. Joe Cald well, of the Statesvihe Landmark, fie don't call any uames iu this ar ticle, except Dr. Paul Whitehead, of the Virgiuia Coufereuce. Well, well, Doctor, did y u have to go ch ar over to Virginia to tiifd a preacher you could name agaiust bi n, aud then only one, and he within the last twelve months has preached in Richmond, Danville, Lynchburg and Norfolk? If his manners are ruiuiug everybody and everything why don't more ot the preachers say so Toe Doctor says, "He kuows one of the most distin guished of the young preachers of the Methodist Church, lately a pop ular pastor in Wilmington, N. C-, proposes, at au early day, to publish strictures in the Christian Advocate on the pulpit manners of Sam Jones." It is fair to infer from ail ti e marks he gives us, though he calls no name, that he refers to Brother D. H. Tuttle, now of Wil son. Well, Brother Tuttle seemed mightily pleased with the meeting when he was here, told me that he etjoyed it very much indeed preached with much power and seemed to be in the spirit of the meeting. 1 did not hear one woid of criticism. He was with Brother Joues. If he had anything against him he did not do like Dr. Primrose go to Uncle Joues aud tell him about it and receive thanks, if it was done in the proper spirit- But, somehow, when Uncle Jones gets clear away, out ot reach, we do say and write things we do not when he is about. Brother Tuttle, or any other brother has a right to tay aud Wrile what they choose in this free country, and that is what this broth er is trying to do now. Let us examine a few witnesses ou the other tide. Bishops Gallo way, Heudrix, Fitzgerald, Hargrove Uaygoo-' and Key all staud by and endorse him. Tafuiage, Moody and shall 1 say it, yes, Dr. II. G. Pear son has precisely the same views of j Joaes that Df. Priunoe advances iu his sermon ou Sam Jonee, and his pure good wife, whom the peo ple of Wilmington know and love so much, after hearing him for three weeks is ready to endorse the ser mon of Dr. Primrose, fully. What shall I say of Dr. Dicken son of Virginia, (I reckon he'll tie off Dr. Pritchard,) Hawthorne, ot Georgia, both eminent Baptist din vines. But why pursue the list. Sam Joues numbers his brethreu all over this couutry, aud his friends by the thousands, aud the signs whic'i attend a mau of God aie fol lowing him, to wit, the conversion of man, mauy souls. A word or two more and I am done The Doctor says he was asked by oue of the city editors to give his opinion of the man in his journal but he preferred to write lor the columns of the journal for which he wrote regularl.v. The Doctor then aked as I am informed that it be copied iu a Wilmiugton paper The Doctor forced the issue upon us, at our doors, iu our homes, io Oar Churches. . None but cowards quad when the Lord leads. We promised at the altar not to shirk. The Doctor has thrown down the gauntlet and we must pick it up He, with strength, age, wiwlom, ext pexience, all surpassing ours, may be Goliath, but with the trust in God to lead, help and defend, wo will try to be David without any barne9 from Saul, but in the strengUi of the Lo:d of Hosts lead our people In the right way. It is queer that the Doctor should lake aa organ that is devoted to the in terests of orphans, to criticise and stab a man in. whose life is devoted to that cause, a man wkose heart is ever warm acd tender towards those helpless ones, who gives food, shel ter, clothing and education to sixty ot those helpless one. Charity and Children, yon had a queer, strarge paint ou your face when you went out to ask help for orphaus and were trampling iu the dust oue of the best mends they ever had. Now, Doctor, the way matters btaud 1 dou't know what about the Alliance, bur let me tell you, I have not forgotteu the lesson it impressed upon me, I had learned it before, but you know we promised not to patronize the Sunday paper. Others could do to, ii tliey wished, but we were to be tree. 1 was sorry when the Messeuger stated on Saturday that you would appear ou Suuday. 1'ou may get more readers than I, but I prefer to follow the teachings and good impression mde among my brethren and around iny moth- er's knee. And now Doctor, you said in con clusion, yoa knew you were right and should not fear to speak. 1 will not go that far, but will say that I feel I am right. My judg men says I am right, and with the ease as submitted I leave it for the reader to decide. And now, my brother, I have calmly and dispas sionately reviewed yoiii article. God knows whether there is any thing iu my neart against ou. He knows there is uot, and I bhall meet this statement in the Judgment. I am ready to joiu with you and all my brethren iu eveiy good work as I have always done. God bless and save the people of ' the city by the sea. W. S. CEEASV. Au ISloquent Appeal. (Delivered by Hon. James r liucbaoa, Presidnt of the Alliance in Tennessee and Democratic candidute lor Governor, My Countrymen : Let ua not only rally iu defence of the rights and privileges v have left us, but to restore those that have beeu tak en awy from us by thy usurpation of the leaders of the Republican party. Under Democratic legisla tiou you have had enacted aud en forced the wisest and be.-t laws or the suppes'lon of vice, immorality abd dissipation. Yn have seen the pnbMc school eys'cni built up, rbsfered and protected, until every child in the SUte cm get a com mon school education. You have seen the great charities providing for the care and support of the un fortunates of the State, until all who Uave their reason dethroned, or are sightless, or deal aud dumb, cm mu are in the blesnins. In a word, whatever cf good has been accom plishej, has beeu done onder Dem ocratic legislation. Then why, I ask, my countrymen, m ne,ed we go after new or false gods f Let us stand "by the old ship of Democra cy and foilow its teuefs as taught and expounded by the fathers. She has weathered many storms in the past, and if we wilPonly taud by its glorioui precepts, and arouse the people to the daugers threaten ing our goverumeut and its iustitu-i tioue, she will yet carry us to the haven so devoutly desired. OCR VERT iftST PEOPLE Confirm our statement when we say that Dr. Acker's English KeinpJy u in every way huj erior to any and all other prepar ations for the Throat and JLungs. In Wboopin; Couh and Croup, it ii rtiagic and relii at once. We oUtr you a sum pi bottle free. Kmciaber, ihU remedy la sold on a positive guarantee. Dr. J. M. Lawing, Druggist.