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frjfr J S'Ot j oUR PREMIUM | Offer W Volume 10. £OIIIHCEIRS. E. A. MURRILL, - - EDITOR. Boy suits, $1.50, at the White Front. Fresh Mornaja coffee at Latta & Beards. Call on us in Elliott's Opera House. Send to Rojster & Martin for overcoats. "Happy New Year!"' White Front Clothing Emporium. The gift-enterprise cases have all been dismissed. Sic semper. Services in the Reformed Church Sunday morning by the pastor. Photographs of Jeff Davis on sale at the Book Store, only 25ctseach. * All the uew styles in clothing at lioyster k Martin's, Hickory, N. C. A reward of $5,000 has been offered for the capture of the ab sconding cashier, Silcott. Christmas, there will be services at the Lutheran Seminary, at eleven o'clock. All are invited. l'he Ladies' Guild cleared about $(i() on their delightful entertain inent last Thursday night. Although this paper is dated Thursday it is issued Tuesday night in order to have holiday Christmas day. Dr. Ingold will continue to preach in the Reformed Church twice a month, as he has during the past year. Mr. Worth Elliott, of the copart nership of iiilliott «v Elliott, is now en gaged in a building contract in Dan ville, Ya. J. 13. Little, of Cline's township, killed the largest bog of this season. It weighed 750 lbs. uet. Can any body beat that ? The Wilmingion Messenger regis ters about fifty new subscribers every week. The people know a good thing when they see it. Send us a club or at least one new subset iber as a New Year's gift. It will cost you only a word and we will appreciate it very much. The East India Catarrh Root is for sale at the Chandler Hotel, Statesviile, N. C., all orders by mail promptly tilled. S. A. CHANDLER. Elliott's Opera House is now rented from top to bottom. The Hickory Printing Co. is the first oc cupant. Call around and see us. The Boston Quintette Club is the finest musical organization in this country. They will open the Elliott Opera House on Tuesday evening January 14th. Col. W. W. Lenoir was in town last week and renewed his subscrip tion to January, '9l. We would there were more such men as Col. Lenoir in this country. Have you a friend far away or near by, to whom you would make a New Year's gift? Send him the PRKSS AND CAROLINIAN for a year. It will keep him reminded of you the whole year through. On account of the fact that we were pushed with work aud could liot spare the time to make all our cuts for the trade edition we have postponed its appearance till the 'Hh of January, when it will come out. ii we have failed to mention arrv thii -in this issue that should have Wi-n mentioned we hope and pray f«-i forgiveness and excuse ourselves on the ground that it is very hard to move a printing office a:.d write Co i' v at the same time. Oimt I4IUI ni j }J rcss and Carolinian. Farewell to tne Old Year. Another year with its pleasures and disappointments is at an end. It is with feelings conflicting that we think of this. We mourn for the pleasures that have fled, we have an anxious and pleasurable anticipation of what the coming year will bring j fourth. Much good work has been accomplished in the past and we j hope more will be accomplished ; during the coming year. This is our last issue this year, j Instead of skipping the last issue of this year—as is usually done—on account of moving and in order to give the boys a rest, we will not issue any paper the first week in January. ; On the 9th of January we will greet i you with our first issue of the new • year in the shape of a sixteen-page illustrated trade issue. Uutil that ■ date, farewell! Let us all enter upon the new year with these resolu tions : To "do unto others as we would have them do unto us. 1 ' To pay all our debts—especially j our subscriptions to the different papers we take. To subscribe immediately for the PRESS AND CAROLINIAN. And above all—let every man put his shoulder to the wheel and do all j we can foj* the progress and pros | perity of Hickory. His Death Sentence Commuted. Gov. Fowle yesterday commuted to life imprisonment the death sen tence of William Alexander, con victed in Mecklenburg county of burglary and sentenced to be hanged December sth. He had been re prieved till January 3rd. The Gov ernor thinks trom the facts that the convicted man is not the burglar who would take life if necessary to his escape, whom the law means to punish with death, but that he is a sneak thief in the night time, and upon the petition of some of the very best citizens of Charlotte, he commutes the sentence to imprison ment for life. TOJSJ to Hickory, The manager of the new opera house of Hickory, X. C., which is %j T now nearty completed, has invited i the Salisbury Knickerbocker Com pany to present u The Little Tycoon" there about the 15th of next Jauu- I ary, as a christening of the new : opera house. The company has j consented to go. —[Chronicle. The Boston Quintette Club will i 'christen' the opera house. » Taking the census is a matter of vast importance to the country, and | yet there are some embarrassments about it: just think of the old maids who will have to tell their ages dur ing the next twelve months and an swer the question : "Are you single or married ?" What a horrid man the census taker will be. i The capturers of Jeff. Davis bid fair to outnumber the body-ser vants of George Washington if thev o o » are only given time enough. An other oi.e has just turned Chicago and received .*293. share of the £lOO,OOO of fered by the govejHmejK. — De troit Free Press. , ' / X * W pc* / Is tliis a "(iiffH^prisi?" Which prefer—to pay your snbsdßPnon befoje Jan. Ist. and g£l worth of garden seeds or book free, or to pay later no premium.— Gastonia (Ga zette. The Stntesville Landmark says: The Richmond A: Danville radroad now requires conductors to leceipt passengers for money paid for fare when they get on at stations where t here is no agent. Tbicfcori?, north Carolina, Cburgbap, December 26, 1889. Henry W. Grady It* Dying, ! ATLANTA, December 22.—Henry W. Grady is lingering on the portals of eternity. His mother arrived in answer to telegraphic summons, while his other relatives and friends are gathered in and around the house. The doctors, struggling against hope, are taking heroic measures. Said Dr. King to your correspondent: "Ever since Thurs day I have looked upon Mr. Grady's j case as desperate, aud if he lives it j will be a miracle." The people of Atlanta were not aware of the grave nature of Mr. Grady's case until the preachers in the various churches at noon to-day asked their prayers for his recovery. They had just been notified that the doctors looked more to Providence than to medicine, and Mr. Grady himself sent word to them that he trusted to their prayers. All the afternoon people flocked to the resi dence of the sick man with anxious ; inquiries. LATER. ATLANTA Ga., Dec. 23.—Henry W\ Grady is dead. Death came at 3:40 this morning. Its coming had been feared by ] those who had watched the case I closely, but nobody expected it so i soon. 4 The scene at his home during the . last hours were most pathetic. It was shortly after 11 o'clock that Dr. Everett announced tl at Mr. Grady was sinking rapidly, and that the end was near. Then it was that ail 1 the members of the family and rela tions gathered about the sick bed, hoping against hope, yet praying that the cup might be taken from them. Friends wh# ' ?.d at the Doc tor's suggestion left the house a few | hours previously, were hastily sum moned. The same question, brought i the same answer: "No hope. No —No!" i- Instantly Killed. ASHEVILLE, N. C., Dec. 21.—This , morning shortly after daybreak the gasometer of the city gas works ex ploded with fatal effect. Last night owing to some defect in the works the gas was cut off and the men were engaged all through the night mak ing repairs. The water was drawn I from the gasometer so that a man might get inside to stop the leak. While so doing with a lantern the gas was ignited and an explosion followed, instantly killing William Gates and Lewis Guthrie and slightly woundiug two others. The bodies of the men killed were thrown some distance and badly mutilated. The gasometer was to tallv destroyed and other parts of the work badly injured. The explo sion was heard all over the city. The fire alarm was sounded and the tire companies were quickly on the spot. Steps .were at once taken to repair the damages but it will be some the supply of gas will be i^newed. / __ ♦The Boston Quintette Club has a i-national reputation as being the finest musical club in the Union. It is simply grand. They will christen the Elliott Opera House on the night of the 14th of Januarv. The management deserves much for get ting ;-uch a company to visit us. Evervbody should go. A correspondent who has I een reading Stanley > letters asks i ow to pronounce Mpwapwa. Take a mouthful of hot coffee and try to sav •*} apa" without swallowing it.— Quincy Whig. Ingold's sweet potatoes in stock all the time at Bost A: COS 52 4t Goodbye, Old Year, Goodbye ! Thy wings beat slowly, floating thee back among the countless com rades of the past; ,are they heavy— those dark wings—with the weight of our sin and our despair, that they linger so, or do they wait to catch from the splendid pinions of the strong young year some radiance telling of our near repentance and our hope ? What is done, is don©, thy record of good cannot be changed, but may be bettered; as for what evil thou hast marked in us, may the memory of it pass as thou goest to greet that band of hoary kindred who marked Time's flight before the days of Noah, but may thy recollections of our kindlier acts and thoughts brighteu age after age, to greet us, shadowless, before the throne ! Stop a FOOIIMII and Costly Prac tice. The flag was not half-masted over, nor was the War Department draped in black because ot the death of Jeff erson Davie, a former Secretary of War. In no. doing this the Govern ment saved from $lO,OOO to $15,000. This is a good time to put a stop, forever, to the foolish business, Ex officials are entitled to no more re cognition at the hands of the Gov ernment when they die than other citizens are. Let some member of Congress, fresh from the people, who has not yet fallen into the be lief that theie is an element of royal ty in official position, introduce a measure that will put an eud to the continuance of such foolishness at the expense of the Government. He Mas Rc-courthiK !sler. A young man from Caldwell and a young lady from Lincoln went up to Lenoir last Saturday night with intention to get married. She cau tioned him of the danger of her changing her mind if she found out that he drank. With reckless disre gard of these words on Sunday I he got fool drunk and she saw it. On Monday morning she took the train for home and he went along trying to persuade her to reconsid er. He was re-courting, but with what luck we have not heard. Must Not Kun A "Gift Enterprise." We proposed to give one of "Rome" Cline's books on fanning to all new subscribers aud to old ones who paid all arrears and a year in advance, but that has been adjudged a "gift enterprise,'" and subject to a tax no newspaper man can pay. and we now propose to sell said books for one cent to the parties named. Mr. J. O. H. Nutall, or Rev. Mr. Dale as he persists in calling himself Las been released from jail at Dalton, Ga., four members of his Atlanta congregation going on his bond. He says he will prove that he is Mr. Dale, and will show that the real Nutall committed suicide in Atlanta in 18*4. A little three-year old child of Mr. Bow Clontz was burned to death last Sunday, making the third acci dent of this {errible nature that has happened in Burke county in the last thirty days.— Morganton Her ald The Australian system of voting v. ili be in general use in the L nited States at the next Presidential elec tion. Nine States are using it in its original and two in a modified forfti. Ticket-peddier* and vote persuaders will do well to hunt some other business; they will soon be banished from the pods.— New York Morning Journal. pcßsomais. Mr. J. F. Murrill left Monday for Lexington, Ky., to visit his daugh ter. Miss Beulah Greer, the^Tennessee belle, is visiting Mrs. J. M. Law rence. Mrs. L. G. Hay and her daughter, Errol, left last Friday evening for Raleigh. Miss Hortense lugold, o f Ramlle man, N. C., is visiting Mrs. J. F. Murrill. Mrs. W. S. Ramsour and Mrs W. i P. Reinliardt are visiting friends in j Iredell county. Mr. Will. Dickson returned last "week from i. long trip in the inter ests of the Piedmont Wagon Co. Miss Julia Wheeler, the highly accomplished bookkeeper at the ! Bank of Hickory, is visiting in Washington City. Tlie Scliool Teaclier. MESSRS. EDITORS: —The school I teacher is one who is chosen to have influence over another, therefore, he j should carefully and properly pre | pare himself for this great duty. How diligently a man who is to I speak on the stage piepares himself. He will obtain special instruction for the purpose, and in the same way it must be with the teacher. While the teacher is sent forth to govern others, he should be possessed of all I true character of self-government. 1 i For instance, a teacher who steps heavily, shuts the doors and desks noisily, or speaks with a loud and I harsh voice, will have a noisy school. And we can readily see that the , teacher who has not learned to con trol his temper, even when tired and ill, cannot control others. If a pu pil should do something impertinent the teacher should dare not to lose his self control. I really believe that the moral force of the teacher is magnified a thousand times by his perfect self-control under exciting circumstances. No rules, no max ims will serve in an emergency like the ordering of a sound judgment. To teach readily, quickly, natural ly and attractively, is a power every teacher should strive to possess and enlarge. The teacher must study to be a good tenr/ur; the art of school management in its best sense turns The pupils, as weil as the teacher, like to see the school in perfect order. The teach er should endeavor to bring about good government. It is like sun shine; it develops manhood and wo manhood in the pupils; as one has said, "the power to govern is the power to do good." It seems that some teachers go on with badly managed schools, just because they have never seen any better. He should endeavor to so organize and hianage the school as if he possessed the skill similar to that of a painter or sculptor. W. S. POLLAUD Penelope, Dec. 18. Coal has been d*scovered on the lands of Mr. Daniel Brown, near Bridgewater, and is an iron mine on the property, the ore of which yields 53 per cent, of iron. Mr. Brown will have Lis mineral in teiests examined by experts, and developed if the investigations are encouraging.— Morganton Herald. Col. Polk ha> tendered his resig nation as Secretary of the North Carolina Farmer-' State Alliance, to ta'-.e etFect January 4. IS'.H) He he will retain his membership in Oak Ridge A.liance. No. *24, hi-'re lation editor of the Alliance or gan. and his citizens lip is a North , Carolinian Ral. Call. jR YOUR Subscripts i Kxpin* *;th the dat* alVr your j name. Move it up.^^ Bumbcr 52.
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