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LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUG. 18, 1893.
NO. 18
Professional Cards.
J. W.SAIN,M. D.,
Has located at Lineolnton and of
fers his services as physician to the
cirizens of Lincoln ton ami snrroand
ing country.
Will be loan J at night at the Lin
col a ton Hotl.
March 27, 1891
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Cleveland': Menace.
To the Congress of the United States :
Cawtol, Washington, August 8.
The following is the President's
message as read in botb Houses of
Congress to-day :
To THE OONORKSS OF THE UNITED
States :
The existence of an alarming
and extraordinary business situa-
.tion, involving the welfare and
prosperity of all. our people, has
; const rained me t;o call together in
! extra .session the people's repres
Jentutives in Congress, to the end
that through a wise and natriotie
' s''lvis,! "' ""- lf!ijl:iiiv iliily
charged at presentevents may be
j mitigated and the danger threat -
renins the ftn, i... l
, , vn
, olu.llnfortute financial plight
Po3-;isri0t tlle re,ult of unt(nvar(ls
Wnts nor of conditions related to
,..,. ....
nor js il
traceable to a
any of the atllictioais
which frequently check national
growth and prosperity. Willi
plenteoue crops, with abundant
promise of remunerative produc-
; tion and manufacture, with un us-
i ..
assets Were not
immediately
vaihible to meet to demands- jf
ingntened depositors ; surviving
corporations and individuals ar e
content to keep in hand tii3 mon
ey they are usually anxious to
loan, and those engaged in bus i
ness are supiisod to find tnat tl le
securities they oiler for loan s.
1 hough heretofore satisfactory, a; re
no longer accepted. Values, su -posed
to be lixod, are fast becon 1
ing conjectual, and loss are failui -e
have invaded everv branch .of
business.
I believe these things are prin -eipally
chargeable to congression
al legislation touching the pur
chase and coinage of sil ver by the
general government. This legis
lation is embodied in
a statue
passed on the 14th day of July,
1890, which was the eulmiiwation
of much agitation o;i the subject
involved, and which maybe con
sidered a truce after a long s t nig
gle, between the advocates of liee
silver coinage and those inten ding
to be more conservative.
Undoubtedly tho monthly pur
chases Us the xoverninent ot ,L '00,
000 ounces of silver enforced u ider
that statute were regarded by th ote
interested in silver production s a
Cei tain quaranty of its increase in
price. The reault, however, 1 ma
been entirely different, for, imr. ae
diiiely following a spasmodic and
blight rise, the price ot silver began
to tall after tbe passage of the act,
and has inca reachetl the lowest
point ever known. This disappoint
ing result has led to renewed and
persistent effort in the direction of
free silver coiuage.
Meanwhile, not only are the evil
effects of the operation of the pres
ent law constantly accumulating
bat tbe result to which its execution
must inevitably lead is becoming
palpable to all who give the least
heed to financial subjects. This law
provides that in payment for the
4,500,000 ounces ot silver bullion
which the Secretary of the Treasury
is command td purchase aionth
there shall be issued treasury notes
redeemable on demand in gold or
silver coin at'the discretion of the
Secretary of the Treaaury, and that
said notes may be reissued.
It is, however, declared in the act
to be the established policy of the
Uuited States to maiutain the two
metals on a parity with each other
upon the present legal ratio or such
if by said action the parity between
gold and silver may be disturbed.
Manifestly a refusal by the secreta
ry to pay these treasury notes in
g )ld, if demanded, would necessa
rily result in their discredit and de
preciation, as obligations payable
only in silver, and would destroy
the parity between the two metals
by establishing a discrimination in
luvor of gold.
Up to the ICth day of July 1893,
these notes had been issued in pay.
meut of silver bullion purchases to
tli amount of more that $147,000,...
O00. While ad hut a very small
quantify of this bullion remains uns
coined and without useful! noss in
the treasury many of the notes givs
en in its purchase have been paid in
gold. This is illustrated by the
statement that between the 1st day
of May ami the 15th day of
j July 1893 ,,m aot"M wf M,m k,,ul
Hl,wl 111 l)avme,lt for ver bullion,
auoumeu to a uuie more ujan ..4,
000,000 and that during the same
p riod about Sf 0,000 000 were paid
y the treasury iu gold fur red em pi
tion of snch notes.
The policy necessarily adopted of
paying thesn notes in gold hjis not
spared the gold reserve of 8100,000i
000 Jong ago sot aside by the gov
ernment for the redemption of other
noter, for this fuud has already been
subjected to the payment of new
obligations amounting to about
150,000,000 ou accouut ofilver
purchases, and has, as a conse
quence, for the first time since its
creatiou, been encroached upon.
We have thas made the depletion
of our tiold reserve and have tempt
ed other and more appreciative na
tions to add it to their stock. That
the opportunity we have otfeied has
not beeu neglected is shown by the I
laige amounts ot o!d which have
been recently drawn from our treas
ury and exported to increase tbe fi
nancial strength of foreign nations.
Tbe excess of experts of gold over
its imports for the year ending
June 30, 1893 amounted to more
than 87,500.000. Between the 1st
of July, 1800, and the 15th ot July,
1893, tbe gold coio and bullion in
our treasury decreased more than
S132,000,000 while during the same
period the silver coin aud bulliou iu
the treasuty increased more than
147,000,000.
Unless government bonds are to
) be constantly issued and sold to re-
j pieuish onr exhausted gold, only to
be again exhausted, it is apparent
ihat the operation of the silver pur
chase law now iu force leads in the
direction of tbe entire substitution
of silver for the gold iu the govern
ment treasury, and that this must
be followed by the paymeut of a 1
government obligations in deprecia
ted silver.
At this stage gold aud silver must
part company and the government
must tail iu its established policy to
maintain the two metals on a parity
with each other. Given over to the
'elusive use of a currency greatly
depreciated according to the stand
ard oc commercial world we
could n o longer .claim a place am.
on" nati. JriB of the first class, nor
could our government claim a per
formauce - its obligations, so far
a such an o bligation has been im
posed upon it to provide for the use
of the people be best and safest
mouey,
If, as many oi its friends claim,
silver ought to occupy a larger
place in our curren '7 of the world
through general in ternational co
operation and atjret nenf, it is ob
vious that the Uuited States wil
not be in a position to gain a hear
ing in favor of such an arrangement
so long we are'willing continue
our attampt to accomplish tbe re
sult sin, g la handed.
The knowledge in business circles
among our own people tliat our
government cauuot make its hat
quivab jut to intrinsic? value, nore
keepiJ iferior money on a parity with
super ior money by its own indepeni
dent efforts, has resulted in such a
lack c .f confidence at home in the
stabil ity of currency values that
capita d refused its aid to new enter
. .. III: rv.u .mtllallfT
prists a, wiiiie mimuuo aio v,i.uj
witb Irawn from the channels of
trade and commerce to become idle
audi mproductiva in thebandsof
timi I owners. Foreign investors,
eq.ua : Hy alert, not only decline to
purchase American aecurith., bur.
make haste to eacrefico those which
they al toady have.
It. does not meet the situation to
say that tbe apprehension in regard
to the lutnie of oar finances is
groundless, and that there is no
reason for lack of confidence iu the
purposes or power of the govern
ment in the premises. The very
existence of this apprehension and
lack of eonQdeuee, however caused,
l a menace which ou;ht uot tor a
moment to be disregarded. Possi
ble, if the undertaking we nave in
hand were the maintenance of a
specific known quantity of silver at
a parity with told, our ability to do
so might be estimated and guaged,
and perhaps, in view of onr unpftral"
leled giowth and resources, might,
bo favorably parsed upon, but w.hen
our avowed endeavor is to maintain
such parity iu regard to an amount
ot Nilver increasing at the rate of
$00,000,000 yearly with no fixed
termination to Buch increase, it can
hardly be said that a problem is
prt-reuted whose solution is free
from doubt.
The people ot the United States
are entitled to a sound and stable
currency and to money recognized
as nueh on overy exchange and in
every market of the world. Their
government has no right to injure
them by financial experiments op
posed to tbe policy aud practice of
other civilized States. Nor is it
justified, in permitting an exagge
rated and unreasonable reliance on
our national strength and ability.to
jeopardize the sounduess of the
people's money. This matter rises
above the plane of party politics ; it
concerns every business aud calling
aud enters every household in the
land.
There is one important aspect of
the subject which especially should
never be overlooked at tunes like
the present, when the evils of un"
sound fiuauce threaten us: The
speculator may anticipate a harvest
githereti from the misfortunes of
others ; the capitalist may protect
himself by hoarding, or may even!
find profit in the fluctuations of
values. But the wage earner, tbe
tiist to be injured by a depieciated
caiieucy, aud the last to receive the
tbe benefit of its correction, is prae
t clly helpless, fie relies for work
upon the ventures of confident and
contented capital. Thisfailiug him,
his condition it without alleviation,
for he can neither prey ou the mis
forlunes of others nor hoard his la
bor. One of the greatest statesman
our country has known, speaking
more than 50 years ago when the (
adjustment of the currency had
caused commercial distress, said
'The very man of all others who has
the deepest interest in a sound cur
rency aud who sufiers moat by mis
chievous legielation in money mat
ters is the mau who earns his daily
bread by his daily toil.''
These words are as pertinent now
as on the day they were uttered aud
ought to impressively remind us
thAt a failure iu the discrage of our
duty at this time must especially
injure those of our countrymen who
labor, aud who because of their
number aud condition and entitled
to the most watchful care of their
government.
It is of the utmost importance
that such relief as Congress can af
ford iu the existing situation be of
fered at once, Tbe maxim, "he
gives twice who gives quickly" is
directly applicable. It may be true
that tbe embarrasmeuts from which
the business of the country is suf
fering arise as much from those ac
tually existing. Ve may hope, too,
that calm counsels will prevail, and
that neither the capitalists nor the
wage earners will uive way to unj
reasoning patience and sacrifice
their pioperty or their interest un
der the influence of exaggerated
fears. Nevertheless, every days
delay in removing one ot the plain
and principal causes of the present
state of things eularges the mischief
already done, and increases the res
spousibihty of the government for
its existence.
Whatever else the people have a
right to expect from Congress they
may certainly demand that legisla
tion condemned by. the ordeal of
three years disastrous expense shall
be removed from the statute books
as soon as their representatives can
legitimately deal with it.
It was my purpose to suuunnnd
Congress in special session early iu
the coming September that we
might enter promptly npon the
work of tariff reform, which the
true interests of the country clearly
demand ; which so large majority
of the people, as shown by the suf
ferings, desire and expect, and to
the accomplishment of which eery
effort of t he present administration
is pledged. But while tariff reform
has lost nothing of its immediate
and permanent, importance ami must
in the near Future engage the at
tention of CongresH, it has seemed
to me that the financial condition of
i he country should at once, and be
fore all other objects, bo considered
by your honorable body.
I earnestly recommend the prompt
repeal of the provisions ot the Act
passed July 14, 1800, authorizing
the purchase ot silver bullion, and
that other legislative action may
put beyond all doubt or mistake the
intention aud the ability of the gov
ernment to fulfill its pecuuiary ob
ligations in money universally re
cognized by all civilized countries.
Grover Cleveland,
Executive Mauaiou April 7, 1S93.
The President's message was lis
tened to with intense interest by
members ot the house aud at the
cauclusion of its reading was greet
ed with general applause uot con
fined to any sectiou of the chain
ber.
Not otteu has an execution docu
ment been listened to in the Senate
with such profoaud attention and
interest a this message was. Every
Senator was seated and appeared to
be ou a nervous strain not to lose a
word.' The message was ordered
printed immediately and refered to
the finance committee. Various
petitions tor and against the repeal
of the Sherman act were presented
aud referred to the same committee
Senator Hill introduced a bill to re
peal certain sections of the Sherman
act, referred to the finance commit
tee. Flowers in Midsummer.
At this sson of the vwr ue rR
pretty sure to have a spell of very
hot weather, aud plauts suffer greats
ly from it, and if it is protracted
they often'cease to bloom, and when
they do that it is practically the end
of the seayon with them, as but ie-.v
will .ecover from the effect later on
whf n laio.H comes, w.ites Eteu It.
liextordin a timely article on "Mid-
summer in the Gardeu" iu the Aug
nst Ladies Home Journal.
To avoid these results and con tinue
the bt-auty of the garden wa
ter should be given freely and regu
laily. In towns and viliiaes,
where connection can be made wi-b
waterworks, this will be aa easv
thing to do, but in the small place
and the country it olteu involves a
great amount of labor. Water at
night, oo that the eun will not
cause the moisture to evaporate be
fore it has had a chance to get to
the roots ot the nlants, aa it will if !
watering is done in thfj morning.
Instead of using a watering pot wilh
a spray nozzle use one with a spo-ut
Simply, 5is that will allow you to ap
ply the water in a stream about tbi
the base of the plants, thus getting
enough water wbere it is needed to
do good, wnich would not be tbe
case if you were to sprinkle it over
the surface of the ground.
Food for Tlioujr lit.
Every officer of the State Alliance
is a Third parijy mau. Every effictr
of the Cabarn s Couuty Alliance is
a Third party man. The editor of
this paper is pretty well acquainted
with the people of Cabarrus coumy.
We make the positive statement
tbat we do n ot know a single strarut
Democrat bj the county who beings
to the Alii iuce. If there is a surgle
Alliancem iu in the county v?ho
voted a st raight Democratic ticket
last year and who is now a Demo
crat, let 'somebody unearth hiai and
we will publish the fact, Concord
Times,
SabFiCribe for the Coueiek.
K'VKTIHlirAKUN.
MmuKh IVlilcli Have Killed
Many TlioiiHniids.
At I'ekin, Cbino, 300,001) persons
were buried in a moment in
l'jr,2, anil 100,000 again iu the same
city in 1731. Th" earthquake at Li
u a on Oct. 2S, LSlo, extended to
Callao, and 18,000 persons perished
Thin convulsion, which spread along
the coat i-'OO leagues, began abont
1O.30 o'clock at night. The noise
the tdiock and the ruin took place
if the space of only lour minutes.
The day being one dedicated to
St, Simon and St. Jude, tho people
if Luna attributed to tho agency of!
Chn.se snints the tact, that only IS,
O0O perished out ot a population of
50,000. Vast quanities of gold, sil
ver and jijvlrt A'ere buried among
t' e seventy-lour churches and the
monastries. Tho public touutalns
were buried, tbe si.atnes of the
Spanish kings crushed and the
streets ban leaded with laden hous--es.
Callao was utterly destroyed, and
even Un very shape was changed y
huge heaps ot sand and gravel. At
!h moment of the earthquake the
sea rose mountains high aud rolled
on till it. buried the city and de stroyed
everything except the two
gates. Of tbe 5,000 iuhabitauts win
ly 200 escaped by clinging to tim
bers aud pieces of wreck,
The most tremendous earthquake
of modern times was that of Lisbon,
of November 1, 1775.
The peeple had risen a usual
tnat morning, ami looked out upon
Beleiu and the Tagus, the little vil
la among the olivo groves, the or
ange trees, the bull nag, the hos
pitals, the cou vents ami the bops.
Iu the seventy-livtt convents and
forty ehuiches ot Lisbon the bells
had tingled ami early prayer had
beu said. The birds were gaily
iuing their matins in suburban
f.aideuti ot Alcantara and I'ampo
Grand-. The b!ue eky gave no
omen ot evil, and the river lay tor
mile alter mile smiling in the gold
en sunlight.
Suddenly the city fell to pieces
like a children's tower of cards.
Koofs crushed iu, arcades gaped iu
two, towers fell, steeples snapped,
1... ,..!!.. ..,...- !--ll
1 l';,w,"cs lutincu, r.c c..-
eo
The air gre black -with ri-iug
clouds ot dust and was tilled with
tbe cra'ib of ceaseless destruction
At the same tune, is if tbe terror
ol apucai.-M"-
I - C I. I 1 I . , . f ljt
' .'
,je,,s bv t,,e 1UVtU) Dvatsioa.ros
1 !Xliil 6Prtad over tht Uoie- ilw f,t
I. I... . ..I.,v if.. .1 .!- Jai.-j
'"M'-' .a,-.
ucid swallowed, in an mstd.n , ooJ
persons who has taken retugO ou K.otner jyy HJ niiuois to take the foul
n a miuule or two more !re.Hu c;t-
Umities fell on the unhappy city.
o the fires being hurled d.nm a-
ug the u;,eu timbers, coniJugra-
tious broke out ;n several p:iits of
the city. To add to the general
misery thieves and muiderers, es
caping from the shattered prisons,
laundered and robbed indiscrimin
ately. Cue ot these vidians con
fessed to setting fire to the Indian
hou.-e and another to burning the
ruins in seven places. The earth
quake continued with geutle. inter-
mitrinc tremors, feit even on tbe'.
river lor eighteen days.
The firfit great shock convulsed
(he earth for 5000 miles, overturned
many cities and never halted in its
tremendous march till it reached
Scotland. The year 1755 was very
wet and rainy. The summer was
unusually cool, and during the forty
days preceding tbe earthquake tbe
wvatber was clear, but not remark"
ably so. On the day immediately
preceding the ear tbquake a remark
able gloominess prevailed, bat ou
tbe morning ot the fatal day the fog
was dissipated by the sun.
There was no wind nor the least
j agitation of the sea, and the weaths
er was remarkably warm. This
. great earthquake of Libsou, when
m a few miuutes swallowed 50,000
.persons, had a precursor in 1531,
which in the srme city 1,500 houses
and 30,000 persona were destroyed,
and several neighboring towns en
gulfed with all their population.
Chicago Herald.
I Are yon interested in Lincoin
J county? Then take the CoUEiEii
L'ni verity CourncH For
Teuclierw,
The following courses of study la
the University have been arranged
specially for teachers. Instruction
will begin September 7. Bong fids
public school teachers will receive
fioe tuuiou, others will pay at th
usual rat-s.
A. MlOFESSloNAL COURSES :
I. Thk HisTOKv of Education : Ani
cient, Medieval and Modern :
(a) The history of educational
institutions, theories and methoda,
(u) Criticism uM)ii the same.
(c) Tho reading ot educational
classics.
II. The Pr.iNCii'LKs of Em cation :
(a) Study ol laws of the human
thought and mental growth of the
child
(b) Study of selections from phil
osophical literatnic, tne theories of
Plato, AridtoLlo, Kant, Lake, Mil
ton and others.
III. EnucATiONAL Ckiticism :
h) Educational retormeis and
critics.
() Analysis of their arraignmeut
of existing practices.
IV. Education Civets :
() The teacber iu relatiou to the
school and State.
(ti) Eelatiou of the State to edu
cation. (c) Sociological aspects of educa
tiou.
(d) State and city systems of ed
ucation. (e) School supervision.
b. teacheu's academic oouk8es :
I. Language and Liteuatuue : Eds
g!nh (four course), Latiu or Greek
(each two course), French or Ger
man (each two courses).
II. Mathematics: Algebra, geoin
er.i, trigonometry ad surveying.
Ill- Science: Chemistry, pb sics
geology, physical geography, phy
siology aud botany.
IV. IIistouv and PniLOsi'iiv : His'
tory (four courses), phychology,
political econeuiy.
Vr. Constitution and laws of U. S.
Constitution aud laws of N- C,
rights aud duties of citizenship-
Every teacher and every young
man intended to teach is cordially
invited to this instruction. The
tine to enter is either September 7,
18U3, or Jauuary 4, 1801. I shall
be glad to correspond with persons
interested in these courses.
Address,
E. A. Alderman,
Prof, of tbe History and Philoaos
phy of Education
Ct apel Hill. N. C July 21, 1803.
A Aovel MeflMMl ol Getting:
Foul Air out of a Well.
HtkW a curious method used tbe
j 0jr oat 0f well. Tbe well was to be
c:eaued out but the man that took
rtm job was afraid to go don until
be ivM ascertained the quality of the
ii at the bottom, Ue let down a
lighted candle, and when it decen
e'ed to about G feet of the bottom
it went out as suddenly as though
extinguished by a whiff of air.
That was all be wanted to know,
lie was then snre the well bad
poisonous gas in it and took a small
umbrella, tied a string to the handle
and lowered it opeu into the well.
Having let it go Learly to the
bottom he drew it upi carried it a
few leet from the well ana upset it.
He repeated this operation 20 or 30
times, with all the bystanders laagh
ing at him, then again lowered the
light, which burned clear and brignt
even at the bottom. lie then con
descended to explain that the gas
iu the well was carbonic acid gas,
which is heavier than air, and there
fore could be brought up in an umb
rella just a8 though it were ho much
water. It was a simple trick, yet
perfectly effective. &i, Louis Globe,
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until now it u clearly in tbe lead amon&
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the best and purest medicine for all ail
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