ill lilifllfflllll I M Itll I 1 VOL V LINCOLNTON, N. C FRIDAY, JAN. 8, 1892. NO. 36 f ' i'1 i 4 ! t Professional Cards. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offers his professional serviceto '.he citizons.of Liucolnton and surroun ding country. Office at his resi. dence adjoining Lineolntou Hotel. All calls promptly attended to. Aug. 7, 1691 lv J. W.SAIN,M. D., Has located at Lineolntou and of fers his services as physician to the citizttua of Lincolnton and snrronnd ing country. Will be toond at night at the res idenoe of B. C. Wood March 27, 1891 ly Bartlett Shipp, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jan, 9, 1891. ly. Finley & Wetmore, -ATTYS. AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All" business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. April 18, 1890. lv. Dr. W. A. PRESSLEY, SURGEON DENTIST. Terms CASH. OFFICE IN COEB BUILDING, MAIN ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C Julyll, 1890. ly DENTIST. ..LINCOLNTON, N. Q. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. 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EructAtion, TTiiu Worms, gives sleep, and promotes oi- Wltfoottajorious medlcatioa. 44 For several years I have roan"ndd your Caatoria, and shall always ocAmaVo do so as it Las Invariably produced benefltf results," Edwik F. Pabdm, M. D., The Wlnthrop," 125th Street and 7th Avs., New York City. Coaxt, 77 MtnwAT SraxaT, Ns Yoa. ATTENTION, FARMERS I READ THIS. Kansas, Xov.4, 1SOO. The Women Did It. John Sherman. Kansas City Star. I was one of them "fool farmers ;'' yes, I'll own it like a man ; There was plenty of us fashioned on the same peculiar plan ; And I've lived out here iu Kansas more than fire and twenty years, A grow in7 poor and poorer as it cer tain ly appears. I seld m read the newspapers ; I work too hard for that And never knew why I got lean while other men got fat ; I didn't, fool with politics ; I had so much to do : But I always voted as I shot and as tbey told me to. The day before election, just imag. ine my distress, When I found my wife areadin' now whatever would you guess ! A free trade publication, and to make it worse, she said She'd road it regular eaoh night be fore she went to bed. And, do you know, that wife of mine just faced me up and down That farmers slave to make monop olists in the town. I always used to get aronnd these warm domestic spats, But when I praised Piotection aud she laughed and answered uRats,,! I bristled up ; it kindled all the sen timent of strife To think this free trade stuff should be corrupts of my wife ; I quit her then and there before her argument was through, As every good Protectionist makes it a rule to do. That night we had a camp fire and our Congressman was there; We gave him "John Brown's Body,' when he went to take the chair ; I wore my old blue uniform to spite the Democrats, But all the time I wondered what my Mary meant by "Eats." Our Congressman was eloquent, he made a stirrm' speech : And when be bade us vote as we bad shot at Malvern Bill, We rose with one accord and cried with one acclaim "We will." We sang the good old war songs and we ate a mess o' beans, And we passed the even' pleasantly recalliu' bloody scenes; And we took the straight-out tickets and we piuned 'em on our hate, But all the time I wondered what my Mary meant by "Rats." When I reached home I noticed my Mary wore a smile, Which seemed to me as indicating storms ahead or bile ; To head her off I said "You'll cal me early, mother dear, For to-morrer'll be the liveliest day free trade will have this year," Next mornia' just at sunrise, as I woke and rubbed my eyes, A wonderin what she meant by "Rats," I saw to my surprise My clothes and hat and boots all ranged in order on the floor, And bear in' each a card I'd swear I never saw before. My flannel shirt displayed this sign, "Taxed 95 per cent." My trousers "Taxed 100" so this was wnat "Rats" meant ; My vest said "Taxed 100," and my shoes "Taxed 25," My coat and hat "200" with "Pros tection makes us thrive." I went to fill the basin and I noticed as I came "Taxed 45 per cent." Groat Scott ! the towel said the same ! The soap was marked at "20," as I dropped it cn the floor, I cuauced to see a scuttle of coa chalke d "24." 1 passed into the kitchen aud it gives me pain to state That my wife nad on a woolen dress stamped "Only 58," And in shooing out a guineavhen she made a little dive, Which showed a pair of stot-kiucs with a card marked "35." The baby iu his little bed was Jyin last aaleep ; I always held the little chap as most uncommon cheap ; Bat when I saw them cards on blan ket, pillow, crib aud sheet, I felt a lump rise in my throat ; I i knew that I waB beat. No matter where I went I struck thom pesky little signs ; The stove, the plates, the knives,tbe forks, the window sash And blind.0, The scissors, needles, thread, all bore that terrible per cent; Bigosh, I didn't dare to ask what card was on the rent. That was the soberest meal I ever ate in all my life ; And as I left the table in remarkin' to my wife That I was goin' to the polls, she helped me with my coat, And said : ,4I reckon, John, I need n't tell yon how to vote." I walked down to my votin' place ; it looked like every yard Was fall of farmin' implements which bore a Ii'tle crd, And seemed to say, from plough to spade, from thresher down to ax, "Good morn in', John, and don't for get the tariff is a tax." I voted straight Oh, yes,-no doubt of that ; I voted straight; But not exactly in the way expected of my state ; And I showed the boys the In tie cards provided by my wife ; That night our Congressman took formal leave of public life ; I was one of them "fool farmers'' during five and twenty years ; Bat I've learned a little common sense, as doubtless now appears ; You can ran and tell McKinley, and say dou't forget to state That we've voted out iu Kansas,and we've voted darned near straight I New York Ledger. A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY. BY ANNIE SAEILLS. She was christened when she was a baby by the name ot Frances Hoyt Warburton, but from the time she opened her tkyblue eyes upon this prosaic, work a day world, nobody ever gave her that portentous cog nomen. She was not even Fanny or Fan.N She begau with Baby, Blue-eyes, Darling, and went on to Mother liuueb, Little Bo peep, Trot, Sweetear, rill at nineteen most of us settled upon Dor, and Dot she wan called by the whole forty-five of us. She was an orpbun, and we were her cousins. Her parents died on the same day, of a maliguant fever, and the baby, then three years old, became the idol of a htrge and adoring family. She would tay herseli : "You see I really belong to the whole of them. There are five uncles Bnd four aunts on papa's side, and three uncles and two aunts ou mamma's side. Tbey are all married, bo I have fourteen homes and fourteen mothers and fatberst and forty -five couius, who are all brothers aud sinters." And there was no exaggeration in this statemeut. We all idolized her petted ber, loved her, but never could spoil her. I am one of the fortyrive cousiug ; never mind which one, only that it is one of the Warburton clan. Dot was the darliug of each home. We might, each aud every one, pout for unattainable finery ; but let a mist come over Dot's blue eyes, and the hardest 'hearted purse-holder surrendered at once We might look with vain lotting at jewelers' and confectioners' win dows. Dot's trinket and bonbon boxes were always tail. We might sigh for concert, teatre, lecture or drive. There was always a ticket and an escort at Dot's command. Yet nothing spoiled her. Not one of us grudged her a bracelet or a Bngar plum. She was very gen, erous; always willing to Jsha-e or lend her U ensures; and oar oniy quanels arose when she left one "home" for another, each aud all wished to keep her forever. She was a bewitching little thing, so tiny that when she was nineteen there was not a cousin of fifteen who did not boast o! looking "right over Dot's head.'" Nobody could teil exactly how fhe got her educa tion. She flitted from school to school, as various cousin commend ed their merits or various aunts controlled her choice, and amongst them contrived to team as much as most maidens of her age, being neither a marvel ot erudition nor a monsti-r of ignorance. Every bov-cousin declared Dot to be -'awfally pretty," aud every girl cousin agreed. She had rippling, curling chestnut hair, which she wore bherf, and baby'.blne eyes, full of sunshine. Her features were fairly good, her mouth and teeth beautiful. Little fairydike hand and feet belonged to her tiny figure. Do you see her, the witching fais ry T Please, then, to imagine our con sternation when, out of all the nu merous beanx that she met every where, she seemed best pleaded vvitu the attentions ot Iladolph flerz, a big German artist that Paul net one summer sketching in the mountain regions of westtni Penn sylvania. Acquaintances become common -property with us, and we all rather like Mr. Ilerz, whose music was a splendid as his painting, until he showed signs of preference for Dot, No ; 1 am wrong. They all did that, and no one objected. What roused our ire was that Dot showed signs of preference for him. Dot, whom tbey all adored ! Not one of thegirla ever claimed an admirer until Dot had dismissed him. Aud now ! "Ugly ! Look at his great blond beard !" cried oue. "Awkward! He upsets every small article in a room 1" cried an other. "Poor, too ! swelled the chorus, "I've beeu in his rooms, and they are like barns ; and look at his clothes!" "His English is frightful," assert ed another. "He makes Dot talk German !'' vas the next startling assertion. We were dumb after that. Each one of us recalled Dot's tears over German grammar, and her utter de estation of Gothe and Schiller, Long sighs followed a longer si, 'ence, aud we submitted to fate. But if ever a maiden was wooed under difficulties, that maiden was Dot. We hat all agreed upon Dot's husband. He was to be an Adonis for beauty, of Eigh station, rich fas ciuating, everything that the hero of an old-fashioned, three volumn novel could claim to be; and a Ger mau artist, poor, ugly, big, awk ward was not to cany her off if the united efforts of forty-five cousins could prevent it. But il Rudolph Hurz did not an swer to our ideal portrait of a lover, nobody conld deny his good-uature nor h s wondirful geuins. Onr hearts were almost won, when we were invited en masse to bis great barulike studio to see the picture be was going to send to tbo New York Exhibition, It was a hack neyed subject to be seen, "Little Red Riding-Hood," life size. But from under the scarlet hood laugh- ed Dot's blue eyes, the short curls straying over the low, broad fore head. Dot's little bauds held the small basket. Dot's tiny feet peeped from the short blue petticoa. "But, after all," growled Bert Warburton, "who gave him per mission to paint our Dot!" "I did !" said.Dot, rebelliously ; so there was no more to be said about that. It was one of Dot's charm that she never flirfed. Not one of her discarded adorers ever accused her of "drawing him on ;" for she was as frank as a child,' and her pretty, winning ways were as free from co quetry as the smiles of an infant. So when she loved she frankly showed her preference, though no one could accuse her of unmaidenly forwardness. I don't think Rudolph Herz guessed that he had won her heart, bnt the cousins did and groaned aloud. It was at Chrktmas that we weie all at Uncle Walter Gordon's who was great. uncle to the colony ot cousins, being grandmother War barton's brother. He was a bache. lor. and Gordon house was one of the largest country houses I ever 1 saw. It held us all comfortably, and there "vas nothing ou arth in which our he arts 83 delighted as oue of Uncle Walter's family gatherings. We had charades ia the long, wide Lai, with one end curtained off; we anced, we romped, we indulged in e very gayety yoathful spirits conld ?;ggest; and Uncle Walder entered i :to every prauk as if he was eight- ton instead of eighty. We were all congratulating ourv stives that Rudolph Herz conld not 1 o included in a strictly farri'y par t, when in he walked, by tpecial invitation of Uncle Walter, who, we a:terwards learned, had purchased "Little Red RidiugHood," and who a. .mired the biij German arti9t. We could not fcuess whether he kmv Dot's preference or not ; but I im agined he was not long iu iguor ai.ee after Rudolph's arrival. 1 would like lo Uncr here ovi r the two days that preceded Christ mas, the one mournful Christmas of my life. There was plenty ot com .vy to precede tlu tiagody. We t; ado our German izuol as uii-tra. bid us we could, but he laughed sd our malice,and would no: be wie!ch et. We made him play Btit to Dal'd Beauty ; we lidieuied bib s z , aud siliiized his awkwardness ; but hr hhowed his milk-while tee.h through his blend beard in broad s jiles and said : Z3 young folks is always ze young folks." Christmas came. We always had ol r twert and our festivities on the evening of Christmas Dty, and on ttiat day we made no exception. After church and dinner were over, wo played in the hall until daik, when the parlor dcor were opened, and Uncle Walter's tree blazed in I the center of the room, Gifts were showered on all, as theio was al ways an interchatigi', even if tie v.due was trltliug. As usual, the cream of all was for Dor, but no body was euvious. Poor little Dot ! I. was the lasr. time we saw her lovely winsome face ia all its bau'y, ft hen she stood u tno mid-t of us, b ddiug us good night, with a ludi. c ou i attempt to display all her g.tt;. She had on three necklaces, t vo sets of far-, bracelets nearly to h r elbows, four new breast puts siuddiugtbe Iront of her dress, a marvel of a white felt hat with blue fe libera, six pairs of kid gloves dangling over oue arm aud her over skirt daintily held like an apron, brimmed over with gifts. "Good night !" she cnei, mei 'ily "Dou't I look like a fe-nak' Santa Ciaus t ' The blue eyes laughed under the bio id hat riu, the sweet mouth smiled, and then with a courtesy she left us to see her lovely face no more in this life. It was after midnight, when through the wide halls rang out the fearful cry of "Fire !" In every loom frightened sleepers were wakened, to huddle in their e'ethes, gather up a few valued possessions, and rush out franticaU ly, to find the dear old house,arouud which clustered so mat)) tender as sccialious, 'rapidly yielding to the ravages of the rearing blaze that made night h!deous. Everything was confusion. There wire so many of us that it wa iin- posssible to tell who had escaped aud who were still in the hou.se. Screams prayets, groans were heard on ail sides. Childish lamentations ming led with fervent tries to Heaven. Suddenly every voice denied io anite iu one appuling cry, as an up pr window was thtowu open and Dot stretched out her arms from it in an appeal for help. The who'e lower part of the houe ws in flames, for the file must have originated in the Christmas-tree. It seemed as if no help could reach her. But, while we stood paralyzed with hotror, a tall figure rushed np the vetar da pillar throagb a sea of fire, across the veranda roof, in at one of the second-floor windows and vanished. Still Dot leaned from the window of her room, t;.e lurid flame lighting ber agonized face, until we saw Rudolph HeizV blond beard over hr shou'.der.when she fell back fainting into h;s strong arms. It must have taken all his Hercu lean strei'gth to cairy her through that awful fire down the blazing staircase into safety again. But when she was pat into iLe loving arms outstretched to take her, the great, awkward German staggered back aud fell insensible upon the ?rAfla Weary, heart-sick days followed. The dear o'd house was utterly de stroyed, and we all ecattered to our various homes. Dot was taken to Grandmother Warburton's, and Ru. .1 -'. tr TT..-I- . iwiu urii utuiiiue uocie JOUU Ashton's gnoat and patient. Being a skillful surgeon and phy sician, Uncle John brought back both those young lives, under Prov-. idenoe, to health again. Dor our pretty Dot was disfigured foi life. All one side of the sweet, winsome n( e was a srar, a d I ho sight of ii.e yo was goin: ntirtlv. For a long time dle refu.-ed to be comforted. Sh-i had neei been vain, but .she shrank fioin the ti ougut of being repulsive, as who would uoi! In all the long mouths before July came, kIi would t-ee no one but tho family, and to Rudolph tleiz's note?, nr.er.s and cal!t, only answered by tears and niunm ra of: iit' i-au mwt-r iovt inn now v When Ja'y t ame, 1 alone ct all tie eousins went with Dot to Grandmother Warbmtm.rN iarm in Lous Inland, to see il rhange of air ou'd lriu7 back some stientli to .itr uer wasted form. She was a very shadow of our pretty Dot, when we were wrlcnmed by ol 1 .Mrs. Wright, ihef trmei'H wife; hut ntw milk, long walks and peibiet, quiet soon J'ean their w. ik id eio:aiou. Jf ill .1... I . - ! j mm mic w.ta wry lauuui, very s.id, until ouo day? as I ra hewing sho e'line in fnui) a walk, ami crept into my arms to whisper: "Dear, I am no happy 1 I nut Rudolph to-day, suddenly ; aud be fore I had time to run away, ho was telling me he laved me. It was bread sunshine, aud he looked full in my poor wearied- face and i ever .-blank. lie l ves me ! Iletb.is rn.t e.are that loves me !'' Alter tha unanimously sixth cousin. I am boird)le lie Umloljdi Ile:z wv.s adopted for a o 1 1 W ; iiiiiub. t n.o: e, now, but Dot'., mh ding, and th; re ! I he fo we l iui oi.e of th-r dan moio de;ri li.vedthin l.-er big German a:t s, !ni m r mtsim :m miss anv heau'y" fiom tLo fco of his id jbzed wife. DO HOT SUFFEii ANY LONGFK. Knowing that a couhcan be checked in a day, and the sUgi'S of eoiisurniition bro ken in a week, we hereby guarantee Dr. Aker's Eoglisli Cough Keniedy, and wdl refund tho money to all who buy, tako it H3 per directions and do not lind our stateS meat correct. Dr. J M Lawinir, Druggi-t LMe ami it uI. Remember for what purpose you wern,born aud through the whole of life, look at its ends. Consider,- heu that comes, in wh'at you will put your trust. Not in the bubble of worldly vanity it will be broken ; not in worldly pleasures they will bo gone; not iu great counections they cannot serve you ; not in wealth you cannot carry it with ou; not in rank iu the grave there) is no distinction ; not iu the recollection of a life spent in a giddy confoimity to the eilly fasbious ot a thoughtless and wicket world : but iu that of a l.fe spent soberly, righteously and godly, in this pres out world. Ex. THAT TEURIIiLE COCiill la the nioniio?, hurried or diiEcult breath ing, raising phlegm, tightness in the chest. uickeri;d pulse, chiliitie.'s in the ev riiug or sweats at night, al or any of thtv; thine are the first fctages of consumption. Dr. Acker's English Cough Kemedy mill cure these fearful-symptoms, and is sold under a positive guarantee by Dr J Law ing, Druggist. Abraham Lincoln said once that it is possible to deceive all the peo ple for a while and some o them ail the time, but it is impos.-ible to de ceiv all the people all the time. The Republicans apparently diff-r with the old man they expect to fool every bcdy al way f. The protection humbug has served them a long lime. Norfolk Landmark, Dem. OCR VERY liET I'fol-LE Confirm our ttatement when we fray that Dr. Acker's tnglish Eemedy is in every way sujerior to any and all other prepar ations Iot the Throat and Lungs. In -Whooping Cough and Croup, it is niagio and relieves at once. We orter you. a sam pie bottle free. Kemcmher, this remedy is soMon a positive guarantee. Dr. J. M. Lawing, Druggist.