f*
>SEE £L
OUR PREMIUM |
G'by-f!
5 Cffbr.
I'olume 10.
EA. MURRILL, - - EDITOR. ;
IP OIIIR C J£ 1R S .
Fresh Momaja coffee at Latta A:
Beards.
Wait for the market, Dec. 19th, at
Shuford's Hall. 502t
Knterprise should be encouraged
and uot taxed. j
The X. V. World says we can all
j i c pare to sneeze.
A lost key awaits its owner and
pay for this notice.
A Banquet was given to Col. L. L j
1 'oik in Raleigh last week.
Fill the stockings from the White
Front Clothing Emporium.
i
Greatest variety of silk handker
chiefs at the White Front.
Miss Clinard arrived at Mr. F. A. |
(Miiiard's last Tuesday morning.
With the exception of a few fjet
Main street is now solid granite.
S o the doll 1 I ill at Shuford's j
Hall, Ihursday evening. Dec. l'Jth. j
Select your Christmas gifts from,
Ko\ster A, Martin's show windows.
i
Brother Jo. Caldwell's editorial
la.-t week on Jefferson Davis was
very line.
Ten cents is all it costs to go to j
Shuford's llall, Thursday evening, !
Dec. 10th. 50 2t.
Give your minister for a Christ-
mas gift one of Uoyster A: Martin s i
clerical suits. * 1
|
Messrs. Roystcr A Martin and j
Davis Bros, have very much im- [
proved their fronts.
!
Give your boy a §1.50 suit or a
52.50 overcoat for a Christmas pres
ent, Koyster A: Martin. * j
The "Ten Times-One'' society gave
an oyster supper in Elliot's Opera
House last Tuesday night.
You are liable to a tax of S2l if
you give your best girl a present to
induce her to answer •"yes.''
Silk hats, line umbrellas and
walking canes for Christmas pres
ents on sale at Rovster A: Martin's.
The many changes that are to be
made with the beginning of the new ;
year show the enterprise possessed
by Hickory's business men.
Link, McComb A; Co. have the j
exclusive sale of E. P. Reed A Co s
ladies and misses tine shoes.
A. A. Shuford A: Co.
The new preacher for Hickory 1
and Lenoir M. E. Church will fill 1
his appointment at Hickory next !
Sunday morning and night.
(
Lost on cotton platform, one gold (
horse shoe scarf pin set with pearls. |
Suitable reward will be given for re
turn of same to E. L. Shuford.
t
We offer as an apology for our
early appearance this week, the fact
that the trade issue is coming out 1
and we must work ahead in order |
to b» on time. *
After the 1-t of January our 1
customers and patrons will find us
nicely fixed up in the nicest otlice in
the South —in Elliott's Opera House ]
building. Call around. ; 1
Mr. A. A. Shuford is to have a J
glass front put in the building now
occupied by A. A. Shuford A Co..
but which will be occupied by Link, 1
McComb A Co. after January. , '
j £
We thauk Biother Scott for his
kind approval of our free bridge
. (
scheme and if Lenoir will help we ;
will soon open the gates and have
• i'ee pa:-sa«:e between Lenoir and
Hickory. 1
Abemethy A \\ hitener have dc- i
solved copartnership in the livery
-table business. Mr. Shuford White- ;
ker has formed a copartnership c
Mi. L. H. Phillips in the Rack- . s
tt Store. t
A good livery stable, run by a a
o' "'1 man, will pay well here. . i c
Spontaneous Combustion.
Quite a little scare was caused at
the shops of the Hickory M f'g Co.
last Tuesday morning, by finding the
effects of a smouldering fire.
On Monday evening Mr. Jim.
Hearne, an employee of the shops,
was polishing a very fine piece of
walnut furniture with some "waste"
saturated with linseed oil. He
rubbed it hard enough to cause the
waste to become heated by friction.
W hen the whistle blew in the even
ing he laid the waste on a shelf near
by and went home. During the
night the waste was consumed by
spontaneous combustion. The shelf
and wall were charred to some depth
and a stick—the size of a lath—was
burned in two. Fortunately the
waste did not blaze up and thus the
shops were saved.
Spontaneous combustion is often
caused by contact of linseed oil ami
cotton, so if you hr«ve any old cotton
rags saturated with linseed oil in
your house you had better throw
them away at once. Machine oil
will not cause it.
Monument to Kx-I'resident Davis,
The Ladies' Memorial Association
of this city proposes to erect a
monument of bronze to perpetuate
the memory of the late President
Davis on the public plant on Mar
ket between Front and Se?oud
streets. It is intended that the
monument shall be large and hand
some, something that our people 7
may well feel proud of, and to which
they will no doubt freely contrib
ute.— [Wil. Star.
Fieduiont Supper.
As is his custom Mr. Hall, presi
dent of Piedmout Wagon Works,
will m the magnanimity of his heart,
on the evening of the 25th of De
cember, at 8 o'clock, give his annual |
supper, in honor of the employes of !
the shops, at the Hickory Inn. j
Seats for over one hundred guests 1
have been engaged an d Mr. Lough- i
ran promises the most gorgeous !
feast ever spread in Hickory, and he :
knows how to get it up.
>lakt I s Happy.
It would make us very happy if
each one of our subscribers would i
send us in a new subscriber as a
Christmas gift. Many of them ;
could send two or more, but by a
better effort, showing your paper
and a little talk about the election
news next year, all could procure
one. Won't you try it? It won't
cost you much and will be a grtat
kindness to us.
Swallowed Another.
The Richmond and Danville Rail
road Company has obtained an op
tion on the bounds of the Danville
and New River Railroad Company,
and will soon purchase that proper
ty. The Danville and New River
Company is a short line from Dan
ville to Patrick Courthouse, and
in the direction of the proposed ex
tension of the Atlantic and Danville
Road westward.
i
George Foi WHS arrested and
bound over to court last week on
suspicion or circumstantial evidence i
of having shot Miles Huffmau in
Clines Township two or three weeks
a;o. Fox drinks too much some- j
times and while in this condition, it
is said, LMS dropped some word indi
cating his connection with the shoot
ing.
Au entertainment will be given
consisting of a Punch and Judv
show for the little folks, a (.'all drill,
tableaux, duets and solos. A smal
admission of ten cents will be
charged at the door. 50-2t I
Ibiche»r*>, fftortb Carolina, Cbursfcap, December u\ isso.
i
iift Enterprises.
Last Saturday morning, according
j to the Mayor's instructions, the city
Marshal called ou the PRESS AND
CAROLINIAN*, Davis Bros., Latta A
Beard and Roystei fc Martin and
j demanded a tax of 524 for ruunincr
gitt enterprises, each firm refusing
tto pay the tax. .Messrs Royster A:
Martin give with each suit of boys
clothing a small set of tools—or sell
a suit of clothes and a tool set for
so much money. Messrs Davis
Bros, sell you a dollars worth of
goods and GIVE you a ehauce at three
presents. Latta & Beard sell you
six five cent cigars for tweety five
cents, and GIVE you a chance at a
gold watch. The PRESS AND CARO
LINIAN oilers to EVERY SO.BSCRIBER WHO
PAYS UP ALL BACK DUES AND FOR ONE
YEAR IN ADVANCE, AND TO ALL NEW SUB
SCRIBERS WHO PAY A YEAR IN ADVANCE,
; the PRESS AND CAROLINIAN and the
AMERICAN FARMER, each one year,
j for Si.so. For these thiugs we are
pulled up, made to pay an attorney's
fee, and tried for running gift enter
prises. It is our humble opinion |
I that none of these are to be classed
under the head of a "gift enter
j pri&e."' A gift enterprise, to our
mind, is where you pay out MONEY
I FOR A CHANCE, and not where you
receive an actual fiuaucial value for
your money and have a chance at
something given you. It is a pecu
liar man that would buy a boy's suit
of clothes just to get a child's set of
tools —if he had no boy to wear the
clothes. If a man wants a Bible for
a dollar he is going to buy it. If he j
does not want a Bible at all is a
CHANCE at a plush album going to
induce him to bluy the Biuie? This
is true reasoning and clearly shows !
that the offered CHANCE does not
I
induce people to buy, but after they l
have bought what they want it is ;
. human nature to take all one can get i
, for one's money. A gift enterprise
is a scheme where the chance of i
t. . I
i [fttiinff iii(j is sold —the Louis- j
iana Lottery for instance—and not j
where a financial value is given for
: the money and a chance actually j
I j iren aicaij.
If the PRESS AND CAROLINIAN is
' taxable every paper in the State is
taxable and everv time a merchant
: throws in the buttons and thread
with a dress he is taxable. But this
is straining the law. Yes, that is
exactly what we think. It has al- '
ready been strained to the last
notch. In the first place because ,
these are not gift enterprises. In |
the second place because the charter ,
of the city of Hickory does not
empower the Mayor to tax a gift
enterprise—but in the face of all !
i this decision he was in favor of the
plaintift on last Saturday.
The case against the PRESS AND
CAROLINIAN has not been decided
i upon yet, and it is so absurd that
;we feel safe in making the same
offer to our subscribers till the Su
preme Court tell** us to stop.
Call and pay us \our subscription
and get the PRESS AND CAROLINIAN
and American Farmer for si.so.
Last Sunday Mr. Jason Coder's
barn was destroved bv tire. Mr.
» •»
Yoder lives just across the South
Fork, and his barn, it is said, caught
from a straw stack which was set on
fire by the carelessness of a boy
with some matches.
We would gladly have published
the resolutions adopted at the me
morial services in Newton, but, al
though the resolutions passed, we re
ceived no copy of them.
Col. W. H Williams, of N* wton,
accompanied Governor Fowle to
New Orleans to attend the funeral of
Ex-President Davis.
|
Tlie Free Ilrid^e.
This matter is a serious business
matter and worthy the consideration
and encouragement of many in Cataw
ba county. It is no canard, but we
mean, with the assistance of the peo
ple, to opeu the bridge FREE TO ALL.
Do not put the matter off and
"have to think it over." You all
know the importance of the move, so
encourage the matter and let it be a
free bridge by the l>t day of Jauua
ry.
We have seen the stockholders
of the Bridge Company, and while
the bridge is paying a much larger
dividend than the rent will amount
.
to, they have agreed, verbally, to
rent the bridge for SGOO per year
and agree to keep it in first class
Older. This is SSO per month and
it is well worth that amount to the
1 merchants, lumber men, and rnanu
facturing establishments of Hickory
If all chip in the amount can be
raised without any trouble. It is
small, so let every one take the
proper interest in the matter and
I open wide the gates that bar our
commerce from us. Write the
amount you will give on a postal
caid and send it to us.
Robert IlrowniiiK.
The famous and soul-stirring poet,
Robert Browning, died in London
on the 12th inst., having lived out
seven years of borrowed time, seven
beyond the allotted seventy. He
did not grow old gracefully, for he
, disdained,to grow old at all. The
, body had been weak for some time,
but the mind was as radiant as the
i
: sun in an afternoon sky, and the
mind was all we knew of Browning.
Few of us have seen his face; all of
us have been inspired by his work.
' He affords another illustration of
j Holmes' happy saying, "It is better
! to be seventy years ypung than
forty years old."
A (i(>od Clianee.
| Advanced age and a press of work
in the law office makes me desire a
| sale of my half interest in the Hick
-1 ory Printing Co. and PRESS AND CAR
OLINIAN. The paper is doing well
and would do better in the hands of
owners who could give it undivided
attention. Mv son owns one-half:
is pleased with the business. I
would sell my half to a young man
of sober habits, good character and
Democratic principles. None else
( need apply. J. F. MURIJILL.
Link, McComb & Co. have rented
the building now occupied by Shu
ford &i Co. and will succeed them in
; business after the Ist of January,
1890. This enterprising firm al
ways keeps up with the progressive
element of Hickory and will carry a
very large stock of good- when they
get in their new quarters.
Notice.
I have been informed that a per
son calling him>elf a piano tuner
has been using my name as em
ploying him. This is to notify all
persons interested that any person
whom 1 en dorse will always have a
; written statement over my signa
ture. I shall have a competent
tuner in about a month who will do
' first class work. Orders for him
may be left at the Book Store.
WILL li. SANBORN.
The Mountain Post is the second
paper that has been started at Elk
Park, N. C. Like its short-lived
predecessor it is for the "advance
ment of its section and the- support
of its editor." We wish it success
m both undertakings but we remeui
ber how numerous are failures for
want of patronage in such small '
towns and even in large ones.
Youn
P ' Subscription
J /
j t
«~*>3 Expliv* .* rh r n»» '•'* I
V. w dare aft»-r your
ni me More ltuj
IP E IK S C HI H X 5.
Mrs. J. X. Boh annon is visiting in
Wadesboro, N. C.
Mr. John Micbal and lady were
i ill the city last week.
F. L. Clitic, KMJ., is attending the
Supreme Court in Raleigh this
week.
i
Mr. J. B. Beard and wife returued
|
i last week from their wedding tour
North, bavin** spent some days in
Washington. D. (\
i
i
Conover Items.
Rev. Prof. 11. A. Voder will preach
at St. Timothy on Ghiistmas day.
Prof. .J. P. Miller amVMissJC'audia
Smith are teaching the public school
1 in Conover.
There will be an education mass
meeting held in the college chapel
on Tuesday before Christmas, nt 11
o'clock. All who are interested in
education and especially all who are
: interested in Concordia College are
invited
Mr. Knox Smith, formerly of tho
firm of Smith Bros., has put up a
new store in Conover. The post
oftice has been moved into his new
store building.
Pi of. J. P. Miller has moved into
the house of Mr. Phillip Carpenter,
; his father-in law.
Mr. \V. C. Smith is teaching in
! Iredell county.
Conover Sunday-schooll will have
a Christmas tree on Tuesday night
i before Christmas.
Mr. M. H. Vomit has gone to
; South Carolina to teach. There are
I now three of our young men from
' Conover in South Carolina working
( in the educational interest of that
i commonwealth, Messrs. E. A.
! Smith and P. K. Hunsucker having
gone before Mr. Yount. This ought
not to be so, their services are need
ed in their native State, but unless
| North Carolina adopts a better svs
| tem of public schools she may ex
. pect to loose more of her sons es
; pecially those who are preparing
themselves for teachers. A. L B.
|
I
Items from I'enclope.
PENELOPE, Dec. 14th, ISH9.
DEAR EDITOR :—The L'niuii meet
ing of the Baptist Association is be
ing held at this place. It opened
Friday, December 13th, with a small
delegation. Prof. Math en e y
preached on Friday evening. Ho is
formerly of Texas, but now of, Lin
colnton, and is a very able speaker.
School at the Academy is in a llour
i>hin' condition with lie v. C. M.
I °
, Murchiso.n as principal. The free
school near this place which opened
more than a month a r o is in fuil
J °
blast and has o2 pupils. Mr. W. S-
Pollard is principal. The farmers
here have a very fine looking crop of
wheat and are looking forward to a
bouLtif.il harvest next year.
The Alliance at thi.r place is in
fine working order with Maj -J. F.
Click as president. D. \V.
■
A I.etter I'rom Mrt. I)a\N.
• The following letter is self-expla
natory :
NEW ORLEANS. Dec 7, 1889.
Agent of the Associated Press :
DEAB SIP. :—Will you have the
kindness to say for me through the
Associated Press that it will be a
physical impossibility for me to
answer the thousands of telegrams
of condolence that have poured iu
from all parts of the United States.
I therefore take this means of ex
pressing my appreciation of the
profound sympathy exhibited by so
many of Mr. Davis' friends to his be
reaved and grateful family.
Very respectfully yours,
! YARINA HOWELL DAVIS.
number 51.