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LINCOLN TON, H. C, JAN. 15, 1892
ANXOUXCEMEXT FOIt 1N93.
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itor of the country newspaper. We
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1892. In order to be able to afford
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what the people make it. If it is
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if it is allowed to get hungry it can
not do the work it desires to do.
Let everybody co-operate aud it
will accomplish much.
Of course all editors are
not supposed to have all practical
knowledge of farming, but that does
not hinder them from giving timely
advice with reference to certain
points on the subject of agriculture.
For instance all surely know that 20
and '20 make forty and that 40 from
40 leaves nothing. They know that
if the fertilizer and the labor and
other expenses (oot counting the
farmer's own labor) iu raising a 500
pcuud bale of cotton amounts to
$40,00 and the same is sold for
$40,00 that the farmer has lost his
labor. Tfaey know that the farmer
who has not couuted the actual cost
cf raising a bale of cotton does not
know how much he has made or
lost. Everybody knows, if he will
etop to think, that if he raises his
own wheat, corn, oats and meat that
he will have Fomething to eat and
by racing a little surplus ot these
to sell he can luy something to wear.
So we think the movement that is
now gathf ring itself together iu the
Souih and West to reduce the acre
age of cotton aud increase the acre
age in the cereals is to be highly
commended.
There is another point that con
cerns tho farmer, on which we would
like to veoture an opinion, and that
is : That it is no use to fight the
moneyed men "off hand" while they
have got the National Government
for a "rest.'' So long as the mon
eyed men have the tariff and the
pensions to back them, all efforts
to get an equal distribution of
wealth will be in vain. So, let the
farmer to his plow, the mechanic to
his piane, the merchant to his
measure, the editor to his pen and
the Congressman to the tariff
We published recently a din
patch taken from the State Chronicle
stating that Dr. Grissom, formerly
superintendent of the lnsano Asy
lum at Ralein, was himself an in
mate of a similar institutioh in Col
orado. We learn from the Wilming
ton Messenger that the report is en
tirely false.
"My head ! My head ! My God,
My head 1" These were the last
words of the late Senator Plumb.
The doctor gave him an hypoderm
ic injection of morphine and ho
died. "R. J. H. Hatchett, M. 1)
takes the case for a text, and says
through the Durham Globe:
Was it right to give the mor
phine ?
' Was it wrong to withhold the
lancet ?
From an old fogy stand
point, the administration of mor
phine to an individual threatened
with appoplexy, is a murderous
practice.
But, "it relieved the pain," you
say. Yes, and in so doing you
robbed the man of hi- best fiiend.
The pain was the voice and lan
guage of nature crying out that the
brain wanted reliet from the ures
sure of its engroged blood vessels.
I appeal to the old fogies
ot all Christendom to all those who
have not entirely ignored the wis
dom, experience and teaching of all
the fathers of medicine, from Hipo-.
crates and Galen to Rush and Phy
sio and to those who have not
ignored their own experience in the
many thousand cases in which they
have seen prompt relief afforded. I
appeal to them to say, if, in Senator
Plumb's case, a free bleeding would
not have afforded him a chance of
recovery, and if there were but one
chance in a million, he was not en
titled to that chance ?
Lots of common sense in all that.
Statesville Landmark.
A Chronicle reporter interviewed
a number of business men yesterday
about the effects of prohibition.
Some of these men rent houses
and they report that the rents have
been more promptly paid the last
week than heretofore. Clothing
men say the poor are buying more
and better clothing, and grocery,
men say they are better providing
themselves with food. Maoy a day
laborer who Is dependeut on his
day's wages for a living, went home
last uight sober, with meal in the
larder aud money in his purse.
There is a new and brighter ray of
light shining across tne heath stone
of many an humble home in Char
lo'te and Mecklenburg county now.
Prohibition is for the poor. Char
lotte Chronicle.
No Third l'arty.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 9 At
the sessiou to-day of the national
conference of the State presidents
of the Farmers' Alliance, held at
the Hillman House, the following
resolutions declaring against a third
party movement was unanimously
adopted :
"Resolved, That it is the senti
ment and desire of this conference
of the presidents of the Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union that
the delegates for the F. A. and 1
IT. who attend the industrial confer
ence to be held in St. Louis Febru
ary 22, 1S92, use their influence
and vote to establish aud perfect
fraternal .relations with all the labor
organizations represented iu said
meeting, with the Oeala demands
as a basis for a platform of princw
pies, and that such platform be pre
sented to the national conventions
of the democratic party, the repub
lican party and the people's party
this year, with an earnest request
that the principles involved be en
grafted into their platforms for the
coming national election of 1892.
But that they carefully refrain from
committing our orders as such to
affiliation with any political party or
parties."
The conference was presided over
by President Polk, with W, F.
G wynne as secretary. A memorial
to Congress has been adopted,
which deplores the agricoltural de
pressiou and asserts that it is due
mainly to partial and uufriendly
legislation. It is claimed that the
financial system is defective j that
all money should be issued directly
by the government to the people at
a low rate of interest and iu suffix
cient volume to meet the legiti
mate demands, and that silver
should have all the rights in coin
age and the qualities of legal tender
that gold possesses, Charlotte News.
you can get it for $1.00
Merchants should Advertise. It
helps them and speaks well for the
town.
C.lmrlolto'rt Imminent PreIy
lerian Divine Ih no More,
Iy telegraph to the News Observer.
Charlotte, N. C, Jan. 11:
Rev. A. W. Miller, D. D., pastor of
the Firht Presbyterian church of
this city, died yesterday atternoon
at 4:20 at the Manse in this city af
ter an illness of three weeks. The
angel of death has hovered over the
home of this goodlv mau lor the
past three days, and this noble life
bag been flickering as only human
life can when fanned by the swift
wings of the messenger of death.
Bat tew even among bis most inti
mate friends were aware of the ses
riousoess of his condition, and when
the quiet of the Sunday afternoon
was broken by the tolling of the first
church boll many wondered without
knowing what it meant. Like a
clap of thunder from a clear sky the
news went around town, "Dr. Miller
is dead." Dr. Miller has been pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church
of this city for the past thirty-six
years with the exception of a short
period during the war, when he was
stationed at Petersburg, Va. Dr.
Miller went to Huutersville three
weeks ago to act as moderator, and
while there he caught a severe cold
and returned home sick. A week
ago he appeared to be better, and
was able to sit up when he had a
relape from which he never rallied.
He was to have preached his fare
well sermon yesterday a week ago,
having recently accepted the posU
tion of pastor Emeritus, but was
too sick to appear in the pulpit.
Few. then realized that bis last sen.
mon had been preached. In the
death of this noble man of God, the
State in general, aud the city of
Charlotte in particular, has lost one
whose place cannot easily be filled.
O. A. Mathews.
Every Inmate at The Home
Sick.
Raleigh, Jan. 11. Every inmate
at the Confederate Soldiers' Home
here is sick with the grip, some se
riously so. Four deaths have oc
curred in the past few weeks. The
dead are John Priuce, G. H. Thom
as, J. H. Sand i ford and B. M. Cole
man. The last named died jester
day. He was in the fortyNthird
North Carolina Regiment and a na
tive of Carbarrua county. He was
buried to-day in the Confederate
cemetery, very near the Home, and
oue of tne saddest things was that
not one of the inmates ot the Home
was able to attend the funeral,
which was conducted by the Con
federate Veterans.
The general sitiiug room of the
Home has been converted into a
temporary hospital. In this and the
the regular hospital the thirty sick
are receiving most careful attention.
For the courier.
Railroad Officials.
Mr. Editor : To be a GEN
TLEMAN in any and all places of
pub'io trust, is a true indication of
a good heart and a sound mind. To
be the reverse iu most cases shows
a base heart.
I have been led to these conclus
sion8 from observations taken along
the line of travel during the last
year aud a half. It is astonishing
how soon a position on a line of
railroad, and a little brief authority
can frizzle out all elements of bus
manity from the soul (?) of the
beardless brainless boy of this gen
eration. A large number of the boys of to
day, who manage the depots and
telegraphic lines along the roads,
left their homes too soon when they
should have been developing their
mines in some good school, and they
imagine (oot all of them) that a po
sition iu a depot, as agent or operas
tor, places them so far above the
ballance of mankind that to speak
civilly to a stranger would be a con
dccen3ion upon their part. Some
of these "young bloods" left the
parental roof because they could
not stand parental restraints. They
left, too.'destitute of Common Sense
and to date, they have held their
own remarkably well.
One cold night some weeks since,
I entered a depot with an old min
ister and several strangers, to await
the arrival of a delayed train. There
was a good fire in the grate, and
the old man, half frozen, attempted
to step forward to warm himself. A
lad of probably 16 summers who
Was sitting in a warm corner with a
little girl on his lap very pompously
ordered him out ot the room, stating
that there were other fire places
where he could warm, if he was
cold.
I watched the poor old man as he
walked out, and heaving a deep
sigh, he placed himself in a corner
of the building outside to be shield
ed from the cold wiud. I confess to
you that, minister aa I am, I fell
grateful that I was not the man or
dered out. Such a temptation and
from such a source, would have ex
cited my Saxon-Scottish blood, and
the insulting chap would have been
taught a leeson that his parents failed
to teach him.
Railroad men should see that they
put men of Common Sense in their
depots, and be sure they are GEN
TLEMEN. R. JL. Abernethy.
Loweavllle Letter.
The following communication
was crowded oot of last week's is
sue. It contains some good, aensU
ble talk, Ed. J
Editor CouRiER:The old man
'91 is gone the way of the good and
the young man '92 has started on
his journey. He will bring many
jolts and jars to the people ot thi3
grand old county or rather the
people will jar and jolt themselves
and their neighbors while he is on
his sojourn with us. He will also
bring many pleasures and joys to
us Lincolnites. The Politician of
all shades and persuasions will
make their qoaddrennial visits aud
vie with each other in their elucida
tions of their particular creeds and
Planks that make up their party
platform.
But for all this the Tax collector
will make his annual round and the
farmer will live by the sweat of his
brow and the corn and cotton he
can raise.
The Tariff may oppress him. The
crop of cotton and corn may fail
him. But for all these, the farmer
is the bone and sinne of the Nation
May he prosper in this year of 1892.
It is an eld adage that the harder
the times are, the more the people
msrry. This has been verified down
here this winter. We never knew
ot more marriages in one winter
here There has been several
deaths also. Belle Robersts one of
the most respectable colored wom n
of this neighborhood, died here last
week. She was beioved by all, both
white and black. She was raised in
Lincolnton and has been living here
eleven years.
Mr. Bart Nixon had the. misfor
tune to spraiu his aukle last week.
Master Will Gilleland left for Ash
ville last Monday. Mr. J.L. Thomp
son of Statesville is visiting relatives
here, Mr. Jasper King of Harvey
left for Catawba College to-day.
The closing exercises of Prof H.N.
Abernethy's school here Dec. 24th,
1891, were quite eutertaining and
showed the training ability of Piof.
Aberuetby. The farmers are speaking of using
butlittle guano this season, a wise
conclusion we think. We are not
much of an expert on farming but
we can "figure" some, and how a
farmer can pay thirty dollars for
guano enough to raise one bale of
cotton is more than we can "figuie
out.'' Let the farmers plaut less
Guauo ana more "hog and hominy"
is our motto. Tueu the monev
lords may hoard all the money in
the universa and so contract the
currency as to bring cotton to one
cent per pound but the farmer can
'chaw h's own grits" and live on
just the same. He can store his
ootton In his own " SubTreasury"
and show to his posterity what a
fool he had been to raise a comodity
the production of which cost him so
much he had never beeu able to sell
it This is a glorious country, but
we fear little Ben's Engineers are
letting some of the machinery run
too long without oiling. It may
cause a wreck on their cars this
Fall.
Wishing you aud your many lead
ers a happy New Year and hoping
the "wolf" may be kept far from all
your doors the present year and
prayiog that all may reap the full
measure of their expectations iu
their battle for supremacy.
I am yours obediently,
Bill Shanks.
Lowesville, N. C. Jan. 5th, '92.
CIIEKHYVILLC UETTJER,
Bob Peak Talks Sound
Doctrine.
I wish those who do not know the
facts, to know that I was raised on
a farm and taught to. aud havo fol
lowed nothing else as a whole bosi
ness during my life, and feel as much
interested iu the farm business as
any man of my size and age, and
claim to be one cf the first to advo.
cate the organization of the farmers
for their own defense aud mutual
protection, and so far aa these print
i Ciples are maintained I am with and
for the organization allowing all
men freedom of thought, freedom of
speech and freedom of the press,
each one serving God under his own
viue and fig tree, none daring to
molest. These- are doctrines taight
by the Democracy of the nation,
handed down from sire to son, and
will bo perpetuated as long as time
lasts. Men's minds may change,
priuciplds never no, never. Some
leaders, or wonldobe such, have
taught and are still teaching the
erroneous doctrine that all men who
dare differ with their views or ideas
are deadly enemies of the Farmers'
Alliance. This idea is a false and
malicious blander and calculated to
stir op bad blood in the hearts of
good and honest men, and therefore
should not be tolerated in a civilized
and religious nation. All men eves
rywhero who will so degrade them
selves will come to naught soon or
late, aud the sooner the better. The
Alliance is made np of our best and
most honest, hard working men, aud
it is truly surprising that they will
allow themselves to be driven into
the slaughter pen, roped and knifed
by a set of leaders who doubtless;
uever were producers but scheming j
politicians filled with deception and;
demagoueijm ; playing the part of
Arnold, yea, even worse Judaslike
betraying their followers with even
what they would have them believe
a holy kiss. Shall we do evil that
good may come to us f God lor bid.
The Alliance leaders are like spoiled
childreu always begging tor candy.
Some of their demands are righteous
and ought to be grauted, and I as
8ert will be if the Democrats ever
get control of the Na'ional Govern
ment, while others are iidiculou,r
absurd and mischievous. R-.ad aud
study this : "We demand the most
rigid and honest aud just state aud
national governmental control and
supervision of the means ot public
communication and transportation,
aud if this control aud supervision
does not remove the abuses now ex
isting, we demand the government
al ownership of such means of com
munication and transportation.' I-
th's financial reform? The Col.
must be a poor calculator. If com
munication aud transportation
means aoytbing, It means every
thing, the ships on the high aeas
the steimers on the bas and uavi
gable rivers, the railroads and tele
graphs, etc. Will the Col. or some
of his satellites inform his Alliance
brethren aud the anxious public how
he intends to gi-t mto the possess
ion of this governmental contiol, or
if in possession, what he, bis Alli
ance brethren, or ike nation would
be benefitted by tuh control uh!ei
the present ailminisfriUon, or ih
next, if he oiiiirnies to eow h
seeds ol discord and plow ;hu ticij
billows to the dividing of the Dem
ocracy, the only true reform party
that has evvr existed. Does the
Col. iutend to force Congress to eo,
act a law to compel the stockhold
ers composing the great companies,
first, to lease on trial, and if not
satisfactory, fiualiy to nell out thtir
entire interest to the Government
and take trust for pay. Oh, con
sistency, wbere hast thou flowo T
Would such a law be equal justice
to all and special favors to none ?
Where is that liberty guaranteed to
Americans to own and control prop
ertyf What amount of monev
would it take to pay for the trans
portation and communication fix
tures and machinery, say nothing ol
salaries? If tho Col. will give me
the interest at his 2 per cent., I will
pledge him my honor, if 1 havo auy,
I will never try to get between him
aud the Presidential chair. Win
the Col. make the enumeration iu
eluding the expenditures ot the 51st
Congress? So much for reform and
3rd partyism or nou-partisanism. If
the Eon partisan leaders will drop
their third party tomfoolery and let
the good honest D. mocr Uic AI1U
ancemeo alone, uext November will
chronicle to the nation's credit aud
safety one more national vietory,bur,J
this of itself couid Diing very little!
relief with a Republican Senate.
Very little reforms could be brought
about. The Republicans have the
executive and the Senate now, c.;u
sequently the great Democratic ma
jority in the Houe of Represent a
fives is worth nothing to the nation
more than to hold in check the vile,
ambitious executive and jacobin
Senate. The House oan pass any
act of reform it may wish, for in
stance repeal the heinous McKinley
tariff law. The Senate would not
concur, and if it does, the President
will veto it, and still the law will
stand for it can not be passed over
bis veto. This is exactly the condi
tion of affairs aud it is to be hoped
that Democrats will expect bat lit
tle reform from the 52nd Congress,
but abide their time and when No
vember comes go to the election and
in solid mass of true Democracy
come down upon the ballot box like
a mighty avalanche aud victory will
perch npon onr banners, but listen
to demagogues, and reform of every
nature takes the wings of the morn
ing and flies to the uttermost parts
of the earth, never probably to re
turn. Bob Peak.
Cherryville, N. C, Jan. 11, '92-
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RAMSAUR IAI10 BURTOil
HAVING purchassd the stecfc of
II. K. & J. B. Ramfiaur, wa will
eentinne to carry the same lint of
goods.
If yon want a STOVE or RLNflfi
or the vessels, or pipe, call and ex
amine our stock.
We keep on hand Baggie a&A
Wagons, Harness, Saddles and Qoi
lars, "Handmade," alio the best
sole and Harness Leather.
Large stock eat soles.
Old Hickory and Piedmont W
008 kept iu stock.
Glass Fruit Jars, Fiowe Pols,
Glass Ware, Tin Wart, Jug Town
Ware, Iron ot all kind, Nails, Mcutv'
wire aud bortjeshoe, Horse aud iiaJe
shoes, oue and two bor&e Roland
and fejteel Plows and repairs, Tae
largtst stock of Hardware iu town,
Bucketi, Tabs, Churns, wheel barn
rows, fence wire, in fact EVEBY
TH1NG kept in Hardware and
Leather goods line.
The thanks of the old Urm are
hereby tendered the publio lor their
liberal patronage aud encourage
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