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NEWS
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VOL. 15.
MOUNT AIIIY, N. C THURSDAY. DECEMJ3HII 18.J0.
NO.
Heart Treobfa Quickly Cored.
A Convlorlnc TratlmoolaL,
Mm Ella Kuhtx
"For 19 year I aurnrud finm heart trou
ble. During that time I wan treated by
e different physicians. All of them
claimed that I timid ruif Ik curol. I iu
jrently tmuWud with iiUortnpwi of lnvnih,
palpitation autl imlri In the utile. If I be
came exeitrd, or Morted nynclf In thn li-ant,
the pain In mjr al'lo Ix-cums virr kw. At
time U. arcmcd as tlmuiru nevtlltt uvmtwit
ino Uinmuh my lr. Snimttlinc In the niuntb
of Novi'itiIkt ltu.1, I cuminf-nTd la kin?
DR. WILES' HEART CURE
and alnre tlisn I have Improved at-adlly.
I ran now l-poii my loft He, amnctliln I
bad Lever Urn ahla to io Ufnro. I can
walk mihout U'lnit f.illtu1, and am In
murk. hrfUr htaUh than ever btfort, 1 would
rocommi'n'l all aufferera from heart trouble
to try Ir. Mik-a' Invaluable nmidy without
Ailay" MISS ELLA KUI1TZ,
818 Wright St. Milwaukee, Wla.
Ir Mlloa Ttwirt ftir In anil on a po)flT
r'mriiUf thai Hii. Iirt.1 Lull.' oill lMi,rlt
All druiTKisUM-ll It m II, 6 l.it. f,,r.1, or
It will be m nt. jri'iHll. n rw-i-tpt of prlfe
by the lr. Uilua klixlkal Co , hlLliart, lud.
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure ka,Z"tu
J. A. MARTIN,
HOTAFtV PUBLIC,
rllONKH 20 AM) 28,
Mount Airy, N. C.
K P. GUAVKS,
Attorney-Bt-liaw,
MOUNT AIHY, N. C.
tri'rwtirfi Id tsiate ard tedcrul t'ourta.
IToir.pt attention to oolloctlon of claims.
V.f5. NKKDIIAM.
Attorney-at-Law,
Pilot Mountain, N. C.
o-c-c
irWIIl practice 1n Hih KtJit Courts. Col
lection ol claim a Bperlalty. Jaiit-lxm
GKO. V. SrAKGKlt,
Attorney-at-Iiaw,
MOUNT AIEY, N. C.
Will practice in fctat and ptnioral ( ourta.
(If( lnJ aiU'Oilon to cuiltnrilun of claims ana
lieifitlaULg Ioj-LB.
W. F. CARTER,
mount aihy, K. c
J. ft. LEAXILYN,
LXJWjUM, n. c.
Carter & J.kwkllyk,
Attorneys-at-Iiaw.
rwPra-I,l'e lu the Htal and Federal court,
l'nimpt at tention given to all busluew) enlruat
ed to their care.
J. H. Slakemore,
PHDTOQRAPHER
MOUNT' AIRY, N. C.
1b prepared to muke all the New and ArMxtic
Btylea. la up with the times and will (five you
nral-clawi work.
DF. C. W. BANNER,
4-DENTIST.4
Mount Airy, N. C.
Olliee over Taylor & Banncr't Drug
Htore.
(.mice Lours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
When you lime alone work In do j ou
will find it Ui uu inlerert to aee J. 11.
Walker, lie will lu'inih none hut l'8t
franita, either rough or cut. Cemetery
work a apecially. Apr-'J hn
ACADEMY AND COLLEGE,
F i iK nearly led yearn this luslltutl'ih for the
hih'lier eUiK iiiloii ot ,uu!ig women inut mM'u.
j. ted ihe very truiit mill, and vua never nei.e
niiineroiiKly a' tended limn now. n in not only
i.r'U'i.'d W illi a lnk'h fr.i(le i ollee cmirw bui
Iimm e.voertw In all ol ll Ml-etHl w leiolh of Millie.
Art. Kloeiitl"!!. ( 'iiiniiiereml and lodiinlrlal
htud eH toe will be picaacd to aend eniHi.iL-ue
ou application. Term tn'tii septemoer ;itd.
JOHN U. t'LKto Kl.l., Prliielp.il.
btUeiu. Norm Uiirotlna.
JOS. NATIONS,
IIKAI.KU IN
Watcbes, Clocks and Jewelrj
Of all kinds, Hewinp Mnfliitiea, M'laical
Inatriimeiita.&i'. Wntoheg, t.'liK'ka and
Jewelry repaired in bent iot.,.ible man
ner and aatiafui'tion guaranteed. If you
want to aave money nee me before
making your purchase or having your
work doti.
-nicAi.Ka is
Coffins, Mill
.Earial Robes, Slippers, 4c.
A full atark of all !" aad qualilie. kept
01 hand, and al rea-ooabU- prieea.
More roont, iik-taira ew M. L.. ratter
a,m'a turt, nn Xaiu Htrtet. KealJosoe,
1.. V.ih iU the railroad.
E111I,
Wo Want Business
Now fur tiUHini'Kft, nrxl wo lulipve
tin-re ia K'linK to Ihj hiihinei lioncc
for;h anil tt a lunjc tinu-! The t-k-c
tiiri umiktd tlio turninfl; "int.
Tlio imliiii-Hl cHint'iiiL'Ti is iN-hinJ
tin, aijl we are Iicartii J j.'Ihi1 that
wc have ?i'toiir Imckfl to it. It
n h endi'Hvor to forgt-t, if wo cinnot
forgive, tail of the trouble that it
(avo iig and the injury that it did
the country. A a paralvzer of in-
dnalry and a scotch to the running
works ot commerce it was the big
cost gucct of the iiRttt century.
We look for the money t!mt lia
for many months been stored in tlio
Rtronif vaults of the banks to bo put
".i..: '.... ;i..l l,a i;,,,l,l
HI Oircillttlll'll. vnjoini, iou v.i"-j
tliinj,', will ventnn; tortli sp;nin
There in not Koine to bo a llood
tide ot prosperity; but an imtnedinto
improvement may oe expecitu, nnu
times will steadily et better.
The narlv that is to take the reins
of the natioual government for tho
next four years will be on proba
tion. It fias promihi'd to puoh
away the dark elotidn. It has prnm-
ibeu to reopen too mine, anu boi hi
bir laboring and taming wages
aain. It has promised investmenU
in new Industrial ciitt-rj ries. It has
made various and sundry promise
to quicken trado Bud restore these
I'nitcd States to a healthy condi
tion, and unices it comes pretty
near living up to it promises, sure
defeat awaits it at the next general
election, and years and years and
years will have elapsed liefure it is
entrunttd with power once more.
The leaders ot that pii ty know too
well the burden ot reepontibility
that retts upon their shoulders, and
influential men in private lilo who
aided to elevate that party will aRtiht
in making good its word if for no
other reason than to avert the radi
cal change in public policy that has
been proposed.
We louk for the Lot tied Etinshinc
to be uncorked! And tho South
especially will get her full share of
it, for Hub h regarded as the fairest
field in the I'nion to-day lor profit
able employment of capital.
Then uet ready for business. It
is coining:
-Winston Tobacco
Journal.
Running for Office.
A gentleman who is usually a
home keeping man, but ho was
induced to enter the race for a
minor office early in the cimpaign,
whs giving his experience outside
of tho meeting the other day. lie
said : "No, I shall never run for
ofiice again not if I know it. For
three weeks after I took the stump
I did not tee my family, and duiing
my abrerice at tLe time a fellow
who wan shipping water melons tor
mo pocketed the returns on lour
car-loads and skipped the country ;
a tramp rode away on one of my
best horses; my wife invested 2"0
in bicycles: my youngest uauguter
ran away and married a fellow for
rne to support, and all our mutual
relatives came to congratulate my
wiTo od tho honor which had been
conferred upon me, and, incident
ally, to siend the summer. I hose
three weeks cost rue in round rium-
hers $4,f). to say nothing of the
son-it) law, who threatens to bo
permanent, and the othce for which
I was stiiving is worth $000 a year.
I wasn't elected, however, and
I'm glad of it ! liut this has been
a campaign of education to me, tor
iu it I've learned just how much of
r x ii . . t i .
a tool I really was: Atlanta
Constitution.
Germetuer is the Best.
Mr. C. P. McLain, Acworth, (ia.,
says: '"Several years ago my wile
suOered from attacks ol bilious colic
and indigestion. She ued different
medicines and tried several doctors,
but all without permanent benefit.
She used Itoyal Germetuer some
years ago, and it has given her
more relief than all else, and she
recommends it to the afflicted."
Write to The Atlanta Chemical
Co., Atlanta, Ga., for AS j age book
giving full information, free. New
package, large bottles, 108 doses,
$1. For sale by Taylor A: Manner.
-
The New York World says : Hu
mors still continue to be circulated
about an impending settlement of
the war that lias mod between the
tobacco manufacturers. The Sorg
Tobacco Company, of Juddloton,
Ohio, announced an advance ot one
cent a pound on its three principal
grades of plug tobacco. Thia is
regarded by insiders as an indication
ol a final settlement of fhe tobacco
rate war.
All during the past two years
the most general and conspiciotis
utterance and icmatk among the
people has been "hard times."
EXPECTANT
W e Offer Vmi e i
H'MI liV W hich '
: MOTHERS,
INM lrii .Hefetv
Mother
"MOTHERS'
FRIEND"
RahCMfiMmotofHiPaii, Horror tndR: si.
Mr wife Bed "ITMI V I Birnh" be
for.- tiinh of hr nnt eii i.e U.d tii!
offer 1 1. mi. luapNe. CIN-r ii, klv
'Uevrl el ti.e entivttL Hir autTerintf Sul
t l.uie kob hl tie pu.it. atirward and her
pxiomrj w Am rapid.
i. i. ii annon, i;ufauia. Ala.
Int l,v MU or Fxpresa oft reeelm of
rw. f Lao r- MU. toooa "To MoUi-
en. a. iia t r.
taikiri) i a kikn iTuB f.. niuu, w.
OLD T tu pioooim.
A
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON WRESTLING WITH
THE SUPERNATURAL.
He Drawl Lestont of Remarkable Power
From a Strange Bible Scene The
Strupplei ot Life- It Is Prosperity
Kills and Trouble Saves. ,
Out of this strango scono of 1'ible
timet! Jr. Talmnee, in his sermon
in Washington City recently, draws
rematkable lessons of good cheer
and triunit'h. His subject was
''Wrt sti ng With the Supernatural"
and tho text (ienceis xxxii, 25, 2'!;
"And when he saw that he prevail
cd tmt against him he touched tin
hollo .v ot his thigh, and the hollow
of J icob's thigh was out of joint as
he wn.'ttJed with him. And he
6aid, Iet me go, for tho day break
tth. And he said, I will not let
thee go except thou bless me.
Tln.ru ia a cloud of dust from 8
traveling herd of cattle and sheet:
and L'oats and camels They are
the pr sent that Jacob sonds to gain
the good will ot his offended broth
er. that nigtit Jacob halts ty the
brook Jabbok. l!ut there is no rest
for the weary mab, no shining lad-
dor to let tho angels down into hie
dream, but a severe struggle that
lasts until morning with an un
known visitor. They each try, to
throw the other. I ho unknown
visitor, to reveal his superior power,
by a touch wrenches Jacob's thigh
bone from its socket, pel haps maim
ing him for life. As on the morn
ing sky the clustersof purple cloud
begin to rijnn, Jacob sees it is an
angel with whom ho has been con
tendingand hot one of his brother's
coadjutors. "Let me go," cries the
angel, lifting himself up into in
creasii g light ; "the day breaketh."
1 ou see, in the first piace, that
God allows good people sometimes
to get into a terrible struggle. Jacob
was a good man, but hero he is left
alone in the midnight to wrestle
w ith a tremendous influence by the
brook Jabbok. For Joseph, a pit;
for Daniel, a wild beast den ; for
David, dethronement and exile ; for
John the Uaptist, a wi!deine.Ls diet
and tl e executioner's ax ; (or Peter,
a prison ; for Paul, ship wreck ; for
ohn, desolate i atmos; for Christ,
the cross. For w hom the racks, the
gibbets, the prisons, the thumb
screws? For the sons and daugh
ters of the hold Almighty. Some
one said to a Christian reformer,
"The world is against you." "Then,"
le rep. ;ed, "I am against the world.
TUK STlil iJi.I.K.
I will go further and say that every
Christian has his struggle. With
financial misfortune some of von
have lad the midnight wrcttle.
liedhot disaster have dropped into
your store lrom loft to ceWar.
What vou b. 'light you could not
sell. Whom you trusted fled. The
help yea expected would not come.
Koine giant panic, with long arms
and grip like duath, took hold of I
you in an aw ful wrestle, from which
you have not yet tfVaped, and it is j
uncertain whether it will throw vou
or you will throw it. Here ieanother
soul in struggle with some bad
appetite. He knew not how stealth
ily it v as growing upon hi in. One
hour he woke up. IJe said, "For
the sake of my soul, of my family,
of my children and of my God I
must slop this: And behold he
found iiimself alone by the brook ol
Jabbok, and it was midnight. That
evil ap.M'tite seized upon him, and
he seized upon it, and, oh, the
horror of the conflict ! When once
a bad habit hath roused itself up to
destroy a man, and the man l as
sworn t'jat by the help of theeternal
God he will destroy it, all heaven
draws itself out in long line of light
to look lrom above, and all hell
stretches itself in myrmidons ot
spite to look up from beneath. I
have seen men rally themselves for
a struggle, and they have bitten
their lip, and clinched their lis:, rind
cried with a blood red earnestness
and a rain of sliding tears, "God
help me '."
From a wreetlo with habit 1 have
seen men fall back defeated. Calling
for no help, but relying on their
owu resolutions, they have come in
to the struggle, and for a time it
seemed as if they were getting the
upper hand of their habit. Put
that lisbit raliied again its infernal
power and lifted ihe soul from its
standing, and with a force borrowed
from the pit hurled it into darkness.
Put, thank God, 1 I.hvc often seen
a better termination thun this. 1
have seen men prepare themselves
for such a wrestling. They laid
hold of God's help as they went in
to the combat. The giaut habit,
regaled ley the cup of many dissipa
tions, came out strong and defiant.
They clinched. There were the
writhiegs and distortions of a fear
lul struggle. Put the old giant be
gan to aver, and at last, in the
midnight alone, w ith none but God
to witness, by the brook Jabbok,
the giant fell, and the triumphant
wrostkr broke the darkne wich
the cry, "Thanks be unto God, who
giveth Us the victory, through our
h ud J i ens Christ,"
III HULK 1IKK LS.
Theic is a w idow's heart that first
as desolated by liereavemeiit and
since I t the anxieties and tiiak tlu-t
came m the supjurt of a family.
It i eud thing to see a man con
tending tor a livelihood under dia
advauiiigee, but to see a delicate
wotmi-, with he!ple link- ones Ht
her baLk, lLting the giants of
prove! ty and sorrow i more affect
ing. It was an litimblo home, and
piiasersby knew not within those
four walls were displays of courage
moro ai'mir iblo tlmti that of llanni
balcroi -ing the Alps, or In the p'u?a
of Thermopylae, or at Palaklava,
where "into tho jaws of death rode
tlio six hundred." These heroes
had the whole world to cheer them
on, hut there was no one to applaud
the stri gglo in that humble home,
She fought for bread, for clotbin.tr.
for fire, for shelter, with fching
head and w eak side and exhausted!
strength, through the long night hy
the brook Jabbok. Could it bo that
none would give tier help! Had
God forgotten to be gracious? No,
contending soul. The midnight air
is lull of wings coming to the res
cue. She hoars it now, in the aough
of the night wind, in the ripple of
tho brook Jabbok, the promise
made eo long ago, ringing down the
tky, "lhy fatherless children, 1 will
preserve them alive, and let thy
widows trust in me !" Some one
said to a very poor woman, "How
is it that in such distress you keep
cheertnl t She said : "1 do it by
what I call t ross prayers. When I
had my rent to pay and nothing to
pay it with and bread to bur and
nothing to buy it with, I used to sit
down and cry. Hut now I do not
get discouraged. If I go along tho
street, v hen 1 come to a corner of
the street, I say 'The Lord help me!'
1 then 1 1 on untu 1 come to aiioth
er crossing of the street, and again
I say 'The Ird help me! And so
1 utter a prayer at every crossing,
and since I have got into the habit
of saying these cross prayers I have
been able to keep up my courage.
Ixjarn again from this subject
that people sometimes are surprised
to lind o it that what they have been
struggling w:th in the darkness is
really an "angel of blessing. Jacob
found in the morning that this
strange personage was not an en-
my, but a God dispatched messen
ger to p-oinise prosperity for him
and for his children. And so many
man at the close of his trial has
found out that he has been trying
to throw down his own blessing. If
you are a Christian man, I will go
back in vour history and lind that
the grandest things that have ever
happened to you have been your
trials. Nothing short of scourging,
imprisonment and shipwreck eould
lave made Paul what ho was.
When Dtvid was fleeing through
the wilderness, pursued by his own
son, he was licing prepared to lie
come tho sweet singer of Israel.
The pit and the dungeon were the
best schools at which Joseph ever
graduated. The hurricane that up
eet the te'it and killed Job's chil
dren prepared the man oi Ur t I
the subject of the magnificent poem
that has mtounded the ags. There
is no way to get the wheat out of
the straw but to thrash it. There
is no way to purify the g dd but to
burn it. Ixik at the people who
have always had it their own way.
They are proud, discontented, use-,
less and unhappy. If you want to
find cheetful folk, go among those
who have been punned by the fire.
After Ptsini had rendeied "Wil-
am Tell" the five hnndiedth time
company of musicians came un
der his window in Paris and sere
naded hi: i. Thev put upon his
brow a golden crown ot laurel
eaves. Put amid all the applause
and enthusiasm llossini turned to a
friend an 1 said, "I would -give ah
this brilli.-.iit scene for a lew days
of youth and love." Couirast the
melancht !y feeling of ICoHSini, who
had ever) ! hing that this wor'd could
give him, with the joyful experi
ence of Paac Watts, whose sorrows
were grei t, wheu lie says:
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand aen d sweet
Before v e reach the heavenly fields
Or a:k the: golden streeta,
Then le! our songs abound
And every tear be dry,
We're marching through Imiuanuel's
ground
To fiirer vvorldB on high.
TKOIULE AM) PKOeTJiKITY.
It is prosperity that kills and
trouble that saves. While the
Israelites were on the march am'd
great privations and hardshitw they
behaved well. Atier awhile they
prayed fer meat, arid the sky dark
ened with a great flock of rjuaila,
and these quails fell it. great multi
tudes ail about them, and the Isra
elites ate and ate and stuffed them
selves until they died. Oh, my
friends, it is n t hardship or trial oi
starvation that injures the soul, but
abundant supply. It is tiot the vul
tore of trouble that eats up the
Christian's life. It is the quails
It is the quails. You will yet find
out that vour midnight wrestle by
tke brook Jabbok is with an angel
ot God c -me down to bksg and to
save.
Iearn rgain that, while our wrest
ling whb trouble might be trium
phant, we must expect that it will
leave its mark upon us Jacob pre
vailed, bi.t the angel touched him,
and Lis tigh bone eprang from its
s ckct, ai d the good niau went
limping cd his way. We must
carry through this world the mark
of the ceiubat. What plowed these
prvmatur". wrinkle iu your faet-J
What wh tened your hair betore it
was time tor frost What silenced
.forever a . much of the hilarity of
your houtcholjf Ah, it is because
the angel of tiouble hath touched
you ttiNt you jo limping on your
way. You need not be surprised
that those s bo tisve passed through
the lire do nut ft el as gay at once
they did. Do not be out ot patience
witU thi so who coiue not out of
their desjKiudency. They may tri
umph over their loes and yet their
gait !u!l tell you that they have
been trouble touched. Arc we
Stoics that we can unmoved sto our
cradle rifled of the bright eyes end
the iwec.t lips? Can wc stand un
moved and see our gardens of earth
ly delight uprooted Will Jesus,
who wept himself, tie angry with
us if wo pour our tears into the
graves that open to swallow down
what we loved best? Was Izarus
more dear to him than our beloved
dead to us? No. We have a right
to weep. Our tears must eoino.
You shall not drive them back to
scald tho heart. They lall into
God'a bottle. Afflicted ones have
died bccuise they could not weep.
Thank God lor the sweet, the mys
terious relief that comes to us 'n
tears. Under this gentle rain the
flowers of hope put forth their
bloom. God pity that dry, withered,
parched, all consuming grief that
wring its hands, and grinds its teeth,
and bites its nails into the quick,
but cannot weep. We may have
found the comfort of the cross, and
yet ever after show that in the dHrk
night and by the brook Jabbok we
were trouble touched.
THE HAT liAWN.
Again, we may take tho idc: of
the text and announce the approach
of tho day dawn. No one wits ever
more glad to see the morning than
was Jacob after that night of Htrtrg
gie. It is appropriate for philan
thropists ami Christians Ocry out
with his angel of the text, "The day
bieaketh." The worlu'e proMHiits
are brightening. Superstition has
had its strongest props knocked out.
The tyrants of eaith arc falling 11 tt
in the dust. Tho church of Christ
is rising up in its strength '.ogo torth
"fair as the morn, ch ar as the sun
and terrible as an army with ban
ners." Clap your hands, all ye
people, "the day breaketh."
As I look around about mo I see
many who have passed through
waves of troublethat came up higher
than their girdle. In God s name
I proclaim cessation of hostilities.
1 ou shall not always go saddened
and heartbroken. God will lift your
buiden. God will bring your dead
to life. God will stanch the heart's
bleeding. I know he will, hike as
a father pitieth his children, so the
Lord pitiesyou. the paiii6 ol earth
will end. The dead w ill rite. The
morning star trembles on a bright
ening sky. Thegate6 of the ea.-t be
gin to swing open. "The day break
etli." Luther and Melanchthon were
talking together gloomily about the
prospects of the church. Thev could
see no hope of deliverance. After
awhilo Luther got up and said to
Melanchthon, "Come Phillip, let us
sing the Forty-sixth Psalm, 'God is
our refuge and strength in every
time of trouble.' "
THE IUYISKKAK.
Death to many nay, to al! is a
struggle and a wrestle. We have
many friends whom it would be
hard to leave. I care not how
bright our future hope is, it is a bit
ter thing to look upon this fair world
and know that we shall never tgain
see its blossoming spring, its autum
nal fruits, its spaikling streams and
to say farewell to those with whom j
we playecTin childhood or counseled
in manhood. In that night, iike
Jacob, we may have to wrestle, but j
God will not leave us unblessed.
It shall not be told in heaven that j
a dying eoul ciied unto God for
help, but was not delivered. The
lattice may be turned to keep out
the sun, or a book set to dim the
light of the midnight taper, or the
room may be tilled with the cries
of orphanage or w idowhood, or the
church of Christ may nionrb over
our going; but if Jesus calls, all is
well. The strong wrestling by the
brook will cease. The hours ot
death's night will pass along 1
o'clock iu the morning, 2 o'clock in
the morning, 4 o'clock in the morn
ing, 5 o'clock in the morning
"the day breaketh."
So I would have it when I die.
I am in no haste to be gone. 1
would like to stand here 20 years
and preach this gospel. 1 have no
grudge against this world. The
only fault I have to find with this
world is that it treats me too well.
Put when the time comes to go I
trust to bo ready, my world iy affairs
all settled. If 1 have wronged
others, 1 want them to be sure of
their forgiveness. In that last
wrestling, my arm enfeebled with
sickness and my head faint, I want
Jesus besiJe uie. If there be bands
ou this 6ide of the ftaud stretched
out to hold me back, I want the
heavenly hands stretched tut to
draw me forward. Then, O Jcsn3,
help me on and help me up! I'n
feariiig, undoubting, may I step
right out into tiie light and be able
to look back to m kindred and
friends, who would detain me here,
exclaiming: "Let me go! The day
breaketh."
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS,
STATE ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE GATH
ERED fROM OUR MANY WIDE
AWAKE EXCHANGES.
Governor Carr has refused to
pardon tho men convicted in the
Peaufort graveyard insnranco cases
and they will have to serve their
full terms in tho penitentiary or
JHll.
A meteor fell in tho yard of Mr,
N. W. West a le v days ago a
genuine article and weighed about
three pounds. One ol his little boys
picked it up and dropped it with I
howl. Ualeigh Press-Visitor.
Colonel Dockerv claims tho anti
democratic members-elect ot the
legislature from the Sixth district,
republicans and populists alike,
solid for him. If this is true, ho
certainly has a very excellent start
lor the senate.
Some davs ago Mr. II. Mack Lea
zar, of Eoochville, Uowan county,
was shot in the hand by the acci
dental discharge of his gun. The
Salisbury World Ii -trua that Mr.
Ix'azar d ed FrMiy hs a result of tho
accident, death ben g duo to lock
jtw.
Excepting Mr. Geo. W. Vander
hilt, General IUnaom is the largest
land owner in tho state, and he is
by far tho largest planter. He owns
12,()'til acres of lurid on tho Poan
oke, in Halifax and Northampton,
has 150 head of horses and mult,
and w ill muke this year l,nn) to
I,iH hales ol cotton, which is two
thirds af an average crop for him.
Mr. John Howard, widow of tho
fireman recently kilh d in tho w reck
near It nnd Knob, bus instituted a
suit against tho Southern lUilway
Company for $5',0'i damages. A
suit for 21,'mnj damage has also
leen instituted ag-iinst the South
ern by Mrs. Florence Poyd, widow
of Fireman Poyd, who was killed
iu an accident on the Southern yard
at Asheville some time ago.
The National P.tnk of Goldeboro
was swindled out of $5) Thursday
af'ernoon by means ol a draft issued
by Pi'Jiard Johnson, formerly of
this city, but mure recently a resi
dent of Hickory, and bearing the
fi rged endorsement f Messrs. Pest
A: Thompson, of this city. The
draft was made on II M. Johnson,
of Asheville, the lorgcr's dead
lather. Johnson left the city im
mediately, and although arrested at
Clayton that night, managed to
give the bungling officer these the
slip, making g'joi his escape.
Goldeboro Headlight.
Mr. Ixxmard Mort n is one of
Onslow's farmer who doesn't loose
any sleep in attempting to solve the
financial puzzle, or rck his brain
in a vain effort to frame a tariff
measure. Mr. Morten is 67 years
of age, and is a firm believer in the
theory that a farmer should produce
everything he eats and wears, and
up to this date La never purchased
a suit of clothes ; all the cloth his
family uses is manufactured at home
from the wool and cotton produced
on his farm. Mr. Morton never
purchased tneat tot once, and then
only thirty jounds. That his plan
is a good one is demonstrated by the
fact that he doesn't owe a dollar
and never has the nightmare worry
ing over hard times. Jacksonville
Times,
It goes to the credit of the West
ern North Carolina Conference that
at its session it declined to takeBny
action whatever with reference to
the State appropriation to the Uni
versity. It probably conceived that
its mission does not lie in the
direction of influencing legislation
tiin any other than moral and re
ligious questions. Iu taking this
position, it is keeping in line with
the declaration of the Master when
He said, "My kingdom is not of
this world." Without any sug
gestion whatever from the bishop's
chair, or even the face of a contrary
suggestion, the Conference action
would perhaps have been what it
whs, but it is not wrong to say thai
Pishop Galloway's silent influence
was against tho resolution and for
this the friends of higher education
in North Carolina must thank him.
Charlotte Observer.
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A Colony of Michigandcrs,
TLe Citizen a week agj published
a dispatch from Detroit, Mich.,
telling of tho purpose of a number
of Detroitera to organize a colony
for eettlcmeut near Ashevillo. The
following from the Detroit Evening
News gives additional particulars,
being a portion of a report of the
meeting ot the colonists :
"The report of the committee ou
constitution provided for almost
every imaginable contingency. The
committee'" recommendations were
substantially as follow : That 1,!X)
or 2,000 acres of land be acquired ;
that tho colony number at tho start
about 500 persons, who shall set out
before January if possible ; that
(20,000 tie raised to pay for the
tiip and for the site ; that for two
years the principal work shall be the
construction of homea ; that the
government be conducted by a
president, secretary, a treasurer, a
physician-in-chief, superintendents
and i council consisting of the
whole colony : that all children un
der 13 yearn of ago bo tho wards ol
tho colony, and bo clothed, fed and
educated by it : that all memljcrs
etween IS and i labor according
to their assignments; that all be
tween 45 and 55 constitute a work
ing reserve; that members more
than 55 years old bo superannuated;
that there be no money, the medium
of exchange to be a certificate of
labor, the unit being a day t work,
that the work days for the roughest
and hardest kind of labor be the
shortest and that no member work
more than eight hour a day ; that
no member take away from tho
colony at any time he may leave it
any more than he brought in ; that
nember without means be trans
ported to tho colony with a debit
equal to the cost of carriage charged
against him or her.
"lhe committee decided to send
William Hoffman and W, E. Whita
ker to North Carolina at once to sur
vey the promised land and to
secure an option on a Bite. A large
amount of cash was paid iu last
evening."
The Detroit Journal says the new
colony is to locate in a region of vir
gin forest west of AiLevillc and
south of Marshall. -Asheville
Citizen.
Potatoes are bo cheap in the West
that the railroads refuse to haul
them nnlesa the freight is prepaid,
and they will not take freight in
potatoes.
This vear'e raw sugar aupply of
the world surpasses that of 1695,
despite the enormous Cuban deficit.
A Never-die.'
The "life-time" of Dr. Bulll Cough
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When a mother once uses It, the con
tinues its use right along ; because, she
found, for curing cough, cold, croup and
w hooping-eough Dr.Bull's Cough Syrup
unequalled by any other similar, med
Iciue. "I have used Dr. Cull's Cough
S3TUD, fot'vun or fifteen yean In the
family, for coughs and throat troubles
caused by colds, and have found do
superior article." Mrs. D. T. Clarke,
163 Congress St., Cleveland, 0. Dr.
Bull'a Cough Syrup can be had every
where for 25 cents. Dealers will say
they have something else "just at
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make snore profit. Don't be "taken
ia." Dr.Bull's Cough Syrap ia the best.
W. H. SIMPSON,
AGENT
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Is War Cumins?
It looks perhaps threatening aa io
a war with Spain, Put wo have a
strong hojie it will not come. Why
should it corno ? Why shall Spain
declare war against the United
State?, or why should our country
go to war with . Spain ? It is a fear
ful thing to tngngo in war, It
ought never to be done if it ia pos
sible to avoid it. Exhaust all pcaco
fnl measurer before deciding npoa
so bloody an arbitrament. The
United States government is get
ting jiartly ready for the worst.
That is all right. Wc have held that
this great republic ehould bo ready
all the time for war. In time of
peace prepare for war. Our very
extended coast is practically de
fenceless. General Miles, hea l of the army,
says this conntry hag a very insutli
eient ripply of guna for infantry.
Our navy is email compared with
other power. Our coudition ia
not one to invite a war or to preci
pitate one by r.vhnew. Tho war
and navy departments arc alert. It
is said that lO'V OO rilh s aro to be
made, but it takes a long time to
make that number. What ia tho
actual supply of heavy cannon a
compared with tho nectssitics ot
coast defences of a substantial and
effective kind I Do not have war
if it can bo prevented. Get ready
to fight before beginning to fight.
In a great republic with 7,'i0(',
000 people there are not enough
arms to equip 1 "0,000 extra men in
case of war. Soeayg General Miles.
Tho government spends annually
more than $500,000,000. This
shows the defects in part of our
government as administered. There
ought to be in tho arsenals of this
great country with such enormous
yearly expenditures at least enough
of improved arms to supply an extra
quarter of a million of soldiers, if
not a half million. Wilmington
Messenger.
The Railway Coniuuteion, through
its chairman, Maj. J. W. Wilsuii,
has forwarded the sixth annua! re
port of the commission to Governor
Carr.
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weak and debilitated. It is ersy
to keep well and strotig by taking
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FOR
Tin and Ptr-el Roofing.GjttPrinjr
Ppoutinjf, Valley Tin all widths
t-hingle ttripa, &c, Ac Ac.
Water and Hteam Vittirga of ill
kinds kept on tand. 1r Old
Reliable Jrikins Ulol) A Cheek
Vavles, tbenrian Injectors, Pe
troit Lubricators are a few of tha
many reliabla supplies In stock,
Guns, Pistol, Seair.it llachinet,
an 1 P.icycle repaired by the best
skilled workmen at ihort notice.
We keep (iood Old Fashion Coffee
PoU, Lish Paris, and in fact
everything in the Tinware lin.
T. M. Everett & Co.
The
Year
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Some Kedicinea btloos to or,
ason ond some to oncther.
C3. lm mil GERMETUER
IS IN SCASON ALL Tr!C YEf!t KOINO,
IIN THE GfRINO
It rmrifles the Hood, remtm UnpiiHr
Hid prrksi'in. stiei,'ort4 aud xhi:a
ratc the w hule ys.U;ra-
IN THE SUAIMCR
It Ofrsimiss tbe reisrat itj and tli -M! it.r
td ty hTt WT'atfccr aiiii turrwi
bowel troulilea that are ao imcvatftit
then. l"!.:.:t.r-, it rt.aVea th mutt co-lig-hlful
ai.i refrshi::J irtuk.
IN THE PALL
When rr,a1f ria "rHe on rw-rr tk:'i!jr
bre.e." it ia the gnvtit pM'VMitive Bn,
the onfailitiar cttrW of troubl. mit
ir.g from that rauan.
IN THE UINTER
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atsrrh, Llnimntism, aui tLe s.iati.at
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