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mm mmm m VOL V LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, APR. 22, 1892. NO. 51 Professional Cards. gt. B. g. Mutt, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offers his professional serviceto he citizens of Lin coin ton and surroun ding country. Office at hia resis dence adjoining Lincolntou Hotel. All calls promptly attended to. Aur. 7, 1891 ly J. W.SAIN, M. D., Ilaa located at Lincolnton and of ffcry his services as physician to the citizens of Lincolnton and surround ing couutry. Will be tound at night at the res ideDce of B. C. Wood March 27, 1891 ly Bartlett Shipp, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. Ci Jan. 0, 1891. iy. 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 COBB BUILDING, MAIN ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C July 11, 1890. ly I DENTIST. f LINCOLNTON, N. c. Cocaine used for painless ex- trading teeth. With thirty , years experience, satisfaction ivpn in nil nnnrntinns Tnrms 2 i cash and moderate. Jan 23 '91 lv GO TO BARBER SHOP. j Newly fitted up. Work aways neatly done. Customers politely j waited upon. Everything pertain- j this coffee hereafter. What a bles ing to the tonsorial art is done ; Bns the McKmley law is to heads according to latest styles. of families who ' have limited in- HeNRY Taylor. Barber. comes ! J. D. Moore, President. L. L. Jenkins, Cashier, No. 4377. F1KST NATIONAL BANK OF GAST0NIA, N. C. Capital 550,000 Surplus 2,750 Average Deposits 40,000 COMMENCED BUSINESS AUG USTl, 1890. Solicits Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Guarantees to Patrons Every Accommodation Consistent with Conservative Bankinc, BANKING HOURS 9 to 3 p. m: Dec 11 '91 for Infants and Children. t recommend It am ruperior to anj proscription tnoirn to me." II. A. JUlchzb, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, BrooiijTi, N. Y. "The use of 'Cantorta' is w unirfrsaJ and ita merits so weU known that it seenia a wort ot supererogation to endorse It. Few are ine Intelligent families who do not keep Castort. within easy reach." Late Pastor Bloomingdale Eefonhed Church. new xor v-iij. T CwTAtm Itch on human and Horses and all anis mala cured in 30 minutes by Woolfords Sanitary Lotion. Thia never fails. Sole by J M. Lawing Druggist Lincoln ton, N C Cleveland anI the Force Bill. The statement that Grovor Clevei land uttered no worda of protest against tho iufarnous force bill has been made about often enough by the llill organs in the sooth. In an address to the Democratic clubs ot Philadelphia, delivered at their cel ebration of Jackson Day, January 8, 1891, Mr. Cleveland said : ''When we see our political ad verparies bent upon the passage of a federal law, with the scarcely de nied purpose of perpetrating parti san supremacy, which invades the states with election machinery de signed to promote federal interfere ences with the rights ot the people in the localities concerned, discred iting their honesty and fairness, and justly arousing their jealousy of centralized power, we will stub- bornly resist such a dangerous and revolutionary scheme in obedience to our pledge for the support of the state governments in all their rights." PRONOUNCED HOPELESS, YET SAVED. From a letter written by Mrs Ada E Hurd of Groton, S. D., wo quote : Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my lungs, cough set in and finally terminated in consumption. Four doctors gave me up, saying I could live but a short time. I gave myself up to my Savior determined if I could not stay with myjfriends on earth 1 would meet my absent ones above- My husband was advised to get Dr. King's. New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. 1 gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles; it has cured me and thank 1 God I am now a well and hearty woman." j Trial bottle free at Dr J M Lawing's drug store, regular size 50c and $1. We produce no coffee in tbi.; country, and yet, intelligent people are expected to appland tbe action takeu by the administration, unde authority couferred by the McKin ey tariff actj in restoring the dutj on coffee from Venezuela, becaus,. . t . liiMU VyUUUliy UIU UUU UOO UU IU C LI into a reciprocity agreement with j us. Last year Venezuela sent us 57,420,171 pounds of coffee, all o the best grades. From three to five I cents a pound is the increase thai i the customers will have to pay for CfMtorla cores Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, ives sleep, and promotes Ci- Without injurious medication. For several years I have recommended our Castoria, ' and shall always continue to lTo alUbaalnvariably produced beneficial results." Edwiw F. Pabd. M. Dn 44 The Wlnthrop," 125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City, C-paht, 77 Mnrnt Stukt. New Tors. "YOU KlMSi;i ME." The following beautiful poem was written oy Miss Josephine Hunt in 1851, while the author was yet un der 20 years of age ; "You kissed me! my head Propped low on yonr breast, With a feeling of shelter And infinite rest; While the holy emotions My tongue dare not speak. Flashed up in a flame From my heart to tny cheek,"" - Your arms held me fast Oh ! your arms were so bold Heart beat against heart In that passionate fold, Your glances seem drawing My soul through ray eyes, As the sun draws the mist From the sea to the skies ; Your lips clung to mine Till I prayed in bliss They might never unclasp From that rapturous kiss. 'You kissed me ! my heart And my breath and my will, In delirious joy For a moment stood still. Life had for me then No temptation, no charm, No vision of happiness Outside of your arms, And were I this instant An angel possessed Of tbe peace and the joy That are given the blest, I would fling my white robes Unrepentingly down, I would tear from my forehead Its beautiful crovvn, To nestle once more In that haven ot rest. Your lips upon mine My head on your breast." New York Ledger. THE TRIALS OF A SMALL GIRL. Br EMMA M. COX, I was christened in a respectable manner, and my name written in the Bible with due solemnity and awe ; but I doubc now if one of the relatives could tell you what it was without first consulting the family record and running down the list under births. If I had had no name and then they had called me "Muf fet,7 1 should not have felt so badly about it ; but to be the proud pos sessor of two such titles as "Olara'' and "Louise," and to have euch lovely names torsaken by everybody is dreadful. My uncles even short en it to "Muff"' sometimes, and they say it was all because of my early literary taste. It is a tradition in our family firmly believed by the older mem bers (and especially by two young uncles of mine, who told my moth er, in my hearing, one day, that they would willingly swear to it in any court of justice) that I was fond of being read to at a strikingly ear 'y age, and was remarkably partial to the rhymes of a certain "Mother Goose" and the pathetic tale ot ''Little Miss Muffet and the Spider'' in particular, and which I called for unceasingly,my demand being made upon any one of them without res gard to age, sex or condition; neith er did I consider the convenience of the aforesaid family. As I advanced in years, being possessed of a good memory, I could repeat the story of "Miss Muffet'-' in a manner, 'twas said, that would bring tears to the eves of an audi ence, and so ever after I had to an, swer to the call of "M utfet7' or not at all, for I knew the name of "Olara Louise'' no more. I sometimes wonder, if I should die, iroold they place the name ot "Muffet" on my tombstone T I be lieve, if I am ever so sick that I fear I may die, I shall make a will, and leave as my last request that they think of me forever more as Clara Louise. I am still fond of reading ; of course I am old enough to read for myself now, but I have a brother younger than I am, whose tastes are not literary. He chooses that I Nhall be hia companion at all times, and wants me to be his horso;to gallop around the house and be frisky, while I prefer to play the part of his mother, and graciously send him out to amuse himself, while I seek a sbady nook and bury my self in the pages of my book. We have some cousins we play with sometimes, and also have some aunts. I love one ot my aunty very much, but she has so many pairs ot pants to make she doesn't have much time to love me any. She only has five boys, and fehe makes all their clothes, and whenever I go there she is always making paots. She said, the other day, that she intended to make something nice for my birthday, but she had to make Walter a pair of pants and didn't get the time. Whenever we are looking for her to come and stay all day, and she doesn't come, mam ma always knows that she had to jstay at home and make pants. I guess my other aunt doesn't Mke me, because whenever her chil dren do anything that is bad she always tells me that that is just the way I did when I was little. She says "her girls are out and out llob insons, every inch of them,' and she acts like I was personally to blame. She allows her children to play where they please, and go and come as they wish ; and I asked her one day if she wasn't afraid they'd get hurt some time ; but she answered mighty quick "that she guessed the Lord would take care of them." I didn't say anything back, but I thought to myself that if I expected the Lord to take care of my child ren that I would be afraid he would fake them up to live with- flim so he coold watch them. There is something else I feel bad bout sometimes, but not veryott en ; because if I lock pretty to my own papa and mamma, I don't care whether other people think I am or not. Still, if I ever grow up to be a woman, I am not going to say to a little girl's mamma, right before that little girl, that I think her boy is to much prettier than her little girl. But I haven't told you my great est trial yet. I know something ay mother doesn't know, and I promised I wouldn't tell. Did you 'iver hear of a man that ate children chat din't obey when spoken to? Wel!, one day when I displayed a reluctance to go for Uncle Jim's slippers, which he wished me to onng from upstairs, he told me in a solemu manner that I must be careful-how I bebaved that way before Uncle Jess, because he had eaten a iittle girl once, and ber name was Mary Smith. "Yes," said Uncle Jess, "she was the daughter of a -clergyman a beautiful girl !" "But," said Uncle Jim, "she had one fault ; she was not obedient.'' Did both of you know her, Un cle Jim ?" I asked. "Yes,'' said Uncle Jess,'' "we boarded there one summer; but, alas ! poor child ! we had to eat her!'' "Boues and all." said Uncle Jim ; "and all her own fault, too. But, of course, you must understand that it wouldn't be right for you to speak of this to any one." "No' said Uncle Jess, "never ! But we cau count on your arlection for us to bhield our reputations, and you know we were really not to blame. If 3he had been obedient we should never have been tempted to eat her." "Hush sh " said Uncle Jim; "your mother is coming ;'' and plac iug bis finger on his lips, he added : 'But remember Maty Smith.'' In fear and trembling I left the room, and, indeed, the knowledge of their crime seems to weigh heavier on my mind than on theirs. If I am ever inclined to be naugnty, and especially, disobedient, all I need to check me m the downward career is a look from Uncle Jim, or the solemn voice of Uucle Jess, that calls to mind the fate of little Mary Smith. When Eaby was sick, vre gave her Castorla. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them CastorV GOOD LOOKS. Good looks are more than skin deep, de pending upon a healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the liver be inactive you have a bilious look and if your kidneys be t'ffecled 3'ou have a pinched look. Se cure good health and you will have good looks. Electric bitters is the great altera-1 we ana ionic acts directly on inese vital organs. Cures Pimples, Blotches, Boile, and gives a good complexion. Sold at J. M. Lawing's Drugstore, 50c per bottle. Lieller From Texas, Pittsbuko, Tex., Apr. S, 1832. Mr. J. M. llOBEKTs : 1 beg space in your columns,hop mg you will publish a short letter from me. If we are wrong.we want to know it. If you and your side of the political issue are wrong, you will certainly condescend to right and justice. The campaign is coming : neither passion nor prejudice shonld hold sway in our councils, "Let every one be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him." What is tne attitude of the masses of the people at this time towards the great ques tions that are agitat jtig tbu public mind and what is their condition and the causes, and what of the fu ture ? 1 propose to give you to-dav in my feeble way the causes of the great unrest among the masses of the people, as I see them, The fur mera of this government are thor oughly aroused and extremely sen sitive touching political questions and methods, which have grown ont of their peculiar circumstances. They believe that the same are traceable in all sections to the finan cial and taxing systems of class laws. They believe that the ma chine politicians of both of the old parties have strayed far from the principles that were banded down to us as a guide to go by, by JetTer son and others, and we believe that A. Lincoln's principles, equal rights for all and special privileges for none, were buried when Lincoln was assassinated. The ereat West has asked us to join them to overthrow tois millionaire making Plutocracy, at the ballot box next November. They have concluded that they have reached that portion of the highway upon which all other nations have been wrecked that have dared to travel it. This far, class legislation, legislation for the few against the many. Plutocracy versus poverty, we have machine politicians who prefer to fight, quarrel and crimin ate and recriminate for the sake of office. Snch men have not the good of the country at hearr, they care nothing tor good and wholesome laws. Snch men and such politicians never lifted people ont of trouble. We will take for example the Mug wumps and Tammanyites of New York, wrangling over tbe spoils of corruption.' All the same, let it be DLill or Cleveland, so tar as we are concerned. We know Cleveland to bean honest man, and square a gainst the masses of the people and in favor of a moneyed monopoly ; and we know Bill to be a political demagogue, and as for Mr. Harrison wo all know in what harness be is working. Wheu Wall Street pulled the harness off of Cleveland, they fit Harrison and he wears thm to day, and he will wear them four years longer if the people don't think twice before they vote ouce, James G. Blaine sees the great cloud gath ering in the West, and he bears the rumbliug of thunder in the Soath, and we find him hid behind Recip rocity. We find the machine politi cians in Wall Street divided amongst themselves. "When the wicked rule tbe people mourn," and a party or "house divided against itself can not stand,'' (if they do own the gol den calf) is one grand consolation tbe masses have. We believe this political machine was born wheu Horace Greeley was nominated for Presideut on tbe Democratic ticket in 1873, and has developed to be a political giant and the people should rise up and slay it as David did Go liath. This same political machine of Wall Street ground. Samuel J Tilden out, and Hayes in 1877. This same Wall Street and New England Democracy would have us to believe that the reduction of the tariff on borax and put fiddle strings on the fres list, is absolutely essential to tbe calvation of the Repnblic. Ob, yee, these same machine doliticians call us "calamity howlers." Sacred and profane history agree that the cause of all the calamity howling was a just retribution on tbe nation for the acts of oppression upon tbe people by wicked, tyrannical rulers, who robbed the masses of their las bor, and returned nothing to tbe laborer for his services. Nero, who fiddled while Home was burning, was no calamity howler. King George III., who sat on England's throne and ruled the colonies with an iron hand, was no calamity howU er. George Washington and John Hancock wero calamity howlers, and we know what came to pass. Hor ace Greeley was a calamity howler after we fought him for 4 long years and sacrificed hundreds of thous ands of the best men South. We find the machine Democrats nomi nating him for President. Who are the calamity howlers of the l'Jth century ? The oppressed laborers of all the States in this Union are howling calamity. The victims ot soulless corporations who require the products of the labor of the peo pie to support their corporate rob bery. The Democratic party was born of necessity, was the outgrowth of tyianny and oppression and was nurtured in principles as broad as the universe and high as heaven; but that great party, the pride of Jefferson, Jackson and Calhoun, has degenerared into an organized ef fort for spoils. The position occu- pied by Jeffersou and Jackson and Calhoun are usurped by such men a Cleveland and Hill, mere place hunters. Tbe same can bo said of tee Republican party, the party tbat said that freedom aud slavery could not grow upon the sam6 tree and be blended in the same sitting, has helped to lorge the chaius that bind millions of working people 10 a condition of industrial servitude that is little better than chattel sla very. Tbe places occupied by Lin coln and Stevens and Seward, arc now occupied by such as Harrison atd Qaay & Co. Pasties may cbange cr die, but principles never do. Thousands of people are cruci fying principles to-day by worship ping party. I can remember before the war when a question was asked by statesmen, "wheu a measure was presented, was it right' How will It affect the interest of my constitoens cy ? Is it patriotic 1" Now the first question is, "How will it affect my purty f Any machine politics on tie free coinage of silver on tbe 22d of March ? Most assuredly Wall Sfreet had the machine well oiled Now who are we to stick to, the masses that constitute fifty millions or thirty thousand plutocrats of Wall street ? We are face to face with a problem that must be solved Our volume of roouey mnst be in creased to correFpond with the ever increasing necessity of the people or the collapae of the republic will soon be upon us. Common sense demands that the United States ad opt the Alliance sub-treasury plan or some better syetem to get money ont into circulation, then abolish the national banking system and every trust and combines will fade away like a snow ball before the noonday sun. The Wall street machine says you shall have no financial relief. Congress has refused. Now the question comes home to every one, Citizens, what are yon going to do about it? There are but three things you cau do: 1st, Enslave yourselves and your posterity and let the republic tbat cost so much treasure die; 2nd, Plunge the coun try into a bloody revolution. 3rd, By your ballots, elect men to Con gress that will carry out the man dates of the Constitution, vote all machine politicians to the rear. If the old party has crucified Jefferson principles, tbe Wall street wing can go, and we will take tbe true and bnild on another rack. The golden calf can corrupt the party, but the principles are invincible. The greatest curse under which American people, from a political standpoint, have labored for 16 years, has been ihe curse of parti san slavery which the masses have arrayed against each other in two parties, aud have been driven to voie againsr each other at tbe ex" pene of principles. It has been the ruii ation of tbe masses, and to tbe gloiy of Wall street Plutocracy. No'v let us lay down forever this par y prejudice and vote for tbe TLt mas Jefferson pi inciples, let it be in the 1st, 2od or 3rd parties.bnt those tbat have been tried and have beei dumb to tbe people's demanda, let them stay at home and let thei history speak for itself to the rising generations. We are well pleased at the course our Alliance Congress men have fought for our demands. Give us an Alliance President in the White House and all will bo well.4 Choose this day whom yon will serve. D: B. SMITH. About Hie "12th l'lank. Estimating the burden such a principle of legislation, as the pen siou "resolution," would impose up on our people, the Charlotte News says : "There always was a difference from tho time the first greenback was issued until the Hose of the war, the difference for a cnsidera ble portion of the tune being as much as two and half to one. The total number of men enlisted for the war was 2,778,301. the aggre gate reduced to a three years stand iug being 2,326,lgS, every one ot whom would have to be paid the difference not for one month or three months, but for Ihree years. Five hundred millions would not touch it. Whatever the sum might be the Southern people would have to pay about one third of it, and not one dollar in a hundred of what they paid would be paid out in this section, but nearly the whole sum would go to benefit people on the other side ot the line. Tbe South-, erti people are now taxed about l),OOO,00O ayear to pay pensions to Uoion soldiers, and yet the roeu wfco framed the Third party plat form, have the colossal cheek to ask them to shoulder the burden of at least a couple hundred millions more, in order that these Third par ty advocates may capture pome soidier votes in the North and West, for which they are playing.'' Carolina' IVmiie. We observe that the Lincoln COURIER has printed a letter from Hon. Kemp P. Battle on the origin of the name of our State. Bancroft, the historian, and some of the earli est writers about the settlements in Carolina trace the name to the French lodgment made about Port Boyxl, in 15G2. They indicate that the name Florida was applied to the country occupied by the Span iards and that the region northward was called Carolina by the French until Virginia was reached, WThen in 1C0G King Charles made grants for tho settlement of Virgin ia, which extended we believe as far up as Canada, he limited the north em se'tlement to certain bounds, left the centre open, and limited the Loudon Compauy to the region be tweeu Cape Fear and tbe Maryland line, That territory continued to be called Virginia, as it had been denignated from the time it was first named in honor of the Virgin Queen. Some twenty years later King Charles granted the territory from 36 degrees to 31 degrees, (from AN bemarle Sound down to the preweut Florida line) to Sir Kobeit Heath, and erected it into a province, and be said in tbe grant "we name the same Carolana." After that the people of Virginia apparently called that region Caro lina, and a Virginian going to Ro anoke Island spoke of going to Car olina. Mr. Battle contends that the ori gin of the name is this grant, and that it did not spring from tbe French lodgment at Port Koyal.and be says be is sostained by Justin Winsor, a recent writer who has made special investigations as to whether tbe French called the coun try Carolina, and finds that tbey did not, but did call it Nova Francla. For our part we tnink that Charles probably called the "province" he erected after himself just aa Eliza beth named Virginia in her own honflr. The name Carolina has been bonie by this regfon ever since 1029 and we suppose that Mr. Battle is rigl t, that it was so called in honor of r ie English King, and not be--cauiie of the French settlement,sixty yeai a before, Raleigh Netcs d- Ob. server. S ibscribe for tbe Lincoln Cou EiKfi, 1.25 a year.