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SEE OUR .EXTRA ORDINARY. CLUHUING OFFER ! yfr rtlT ! '? JBSCRIBE ! fiKT Up A CU'D Vat THE CAMPAIUX irr: p'V 25. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1894. $lf' 'Mil I . 1 T III X 111 WALTER L. MAIN'S CIRCUS. A (jorcus Street Parade and a Splendid Performance. Th - famous Walter L. Main circus mu ared in Albany, Saturday, and ex rf.f(Ml in grandeur and splenuor the ,.j)t t;itions of our people. Mr. Main has ;i large and wonderful aggregation, in fact is one of the most successful ,-ircus managers now living, and his ,;i"p- than satisfactory performance has added to his popularity in thissec uon. The street parade was an impos ing one. Chariots, bands of music, handr-ome and gaily caparisons horses, lens of wild animals, and a caliope mad- up a parade that was admired by throngs of people. The perfor inan -f s were given on the fair grounds ami thts monster tent was packed with people. The circus has the honor of having had the largest crowd ever as sembled under the canvass in this town. The two 1 ings were kept going , constantly. The trapese performance, horseback riding and leaping was of the best. Especially good was the fea ture of a riding lion, the elephant per formance and a dog and pony exhibi tion. The men connected with the cir--us are well versed in their business ind eonducted it in a lair and satisfac tory manner. They expect to show here next season. Albany (N. Y.) Ar gus, Sep. 10, 1804. Will exhibit at Hickory Wednesday Oct. 24. There never has been a better circus in Dover than that given by Walter L. Main, aud he lias the reputation justly earned of giving a better show each succeeding time he comes. He exhib its here to-day (Friday) and the erowds in the streets prove that the people know a good thing when it comes along. Dover, Del',, Index, Oct. 10th. ' To the Democrats of Catawba County. Earnestly desiring to promote the best interest of our grand old party, I take this method of urging upon each one to do his whole duty from now un til the end of the contest going on be tween the party of the people, and the combination of Republicans and Po pulists. " If the people in any section of the county no matter how remote, at sehoolhouses or cross roads desire speaking, let them write or send me word expressing their preference for any of the following gentlemen; all of whom 1 have not consulted personally; but I feel sure they will respond to any calluion them to address the people on the issues of the day: Col. Ti. L. Witherspoon, Maj. S. M. Finger, I Ion. R. J. Shipp, A. P. Lyncl Esq., and Mr. W. 13. Gaither of Now. ton. Col. M. n. Thornton, Messrs J. (i. Hall, T. M. Huiham, W. A. Self, and J. 1). Elliot of Hickory. l)r, E.G. Elliot, Dr. Mack Yount, Messrs J. W. Mouser, P. K. Little. P. A. Hoyie, M. Yoder, M. F. Hull, C. L. Turner, Chas, L. Coon, J. F. Jor len. and others of the count v. If any Democrat be he young or old, has it in his heart to enter the cam paign and speak for the good cause, let him make known the fact to me and due authority wil be given and ap pointments advertised. This is a time when all should work or speak, and all who can do both should get down to it at once. A yreat victory awaits us if we work faithfully until sunset November 0th. Yours very truly, i A. A. SllUKORD, nun. Dem. Ex. Com. for Catawba Co. A I'afse Kumir Anfxrrd. Having heard, "on numberless occa sions, that the fusionists had about raptured' all the voters in the neigh borhood of 'Squire Whitener's, and the regions of Baker's Mountain, we u,i'l"-d the "Squire on the streets of this city Tuesday and inquired as to the ei rre.-tness of the reports. He as ure,l us . their falsity, saying, if any chan-r- haw occurred, as to relative strength of parties in that vicinity, the DeKKH i-atie party has been the gainer. i.verv us .ther h0Ii(i know that croup can bo prevented, The first M inpt. ui ,f true croup is hoarseness. a ins j followed by a peculiar rough cough, if niamberlaiu's Cough Rem edy iv -ivcu freely as 5oon as the child utwiui's hoarse or even after the cough nas developed it will prevent the at -tacK 2. and GO cent bottles for sale b O. M. Royster 40-4tf. THEN AND NOW. Or To Be Well Shaken Before taken: add Be fore nd After Takfnz. Just for the fun of the thing and to produce the "dry grins" where they will do the most good we herewith publish some deadly parallel extracts from our neighbor the dead left Mercury: "We hear it frequently said that the Alliance is going to split the Demo cratic party and put the people again under the Republican and "nigger rule." They further say that the Re publicans are looking forward, and working to that end. "Take the negro out of the Repub lican party South and the Alliance out of the Democratic party, both of these parties will look like a starved pea cock with its tail just pulled out, hav ing lost its balance of power. So we ask how can the State be put under Republican and negro rule again by the Alliance." Mercury. Aug. 12, '01. "If the Farmers Alliance as a body go into the Democratic primaries, then to county conventions and appoint delegates to State convention and it is found that a majority there areof that organization ancl they nominate a State ticket and make a platform, will it not be a Democratic ticket and platfor ii is it "not Democratic for a majority to rule?"' "The farmers came en mass (to Hick ory) took the (primary) convention by storm and had every thing their way. At Catawba Springs the farmers did as they did at Hickory,'" etc. "Some think very hard of the far mers for taking possession of the con vention Saturday. Who had a better right? Will some one please tell who are the appointed guardians of that party? If a majority does not rule, it is not Democratic. In the goodness of the farmers they gave the town 5 and the county 18 delegates." Mercury, May 11, 18U2. "When men slot together to double team on another because of his politics and give him a whipping, it is evidence that they can't counteract his influ ence for the want of sense on their part. Mercury, Aug. 24, 1S92. "The lo'west down and meanest man the devil ever made, is a traitor. He has blended together, to perfection, the liar, the rogue, the slanderer, the hypocrite, the seducer and everything that has ever accumulated in the mind of Satan in a constant study for over six thousand years. Mercurv, Jan. 27, 1892. Asheville, X. C, 9. One of the most disastrous wrecks that ever oc curred on the A. & S. Railway took place near Melrose this morning. Mel rose is a station at the foot of a heavy grade on the Saluda mountain. At midnight a freight train, with fourteen loaded cars, left Asheville, bound South, and struck the Saluda grade at 5 o'clock. The first half mile of the grade was made safely, but suddenly thetrain shot forward and got beyond control of the crew. It then began a wild run awny down the mountain most of the crew staying with the fly iug train till it reached the foot of the mountain, nearly four miles from where it started. The train went through Melrose like a Hash, but when it reached the deep cut a short distance beyond - the engine lei t the track, plunged into the side cut and twelve cars were heaped upon i:. Fire:, an S. 1. York was caught under the cars and killed. Neal Ewing a. stonecutter of Asheville who was ste.ilmg a ii:le was ais killed. Engineer Ira Brooms bod wa.vuot loasid. out sapp-K-ed to be uuui'i- td engine, Brakeuum r D. 1 Aden is uo believed tu be kid un der ' the v.-reel :-d ir.uu. voinlueior Will l'attoti wit b:i iiy injured and one leg had to be a.n;a.;;ted t i,., eve ning, ium iia-si shgut irue: irv wt ihe skull, lirukeiuati Jona M.ikw ji.mp-M oil the engine and :is o.iy .-.igiuy huit. Wrecking l ;iiis vnu to u.e scene fit once, but ;u too .av:; was in a deep cut, work in getting to the bod ies was necessarily J? iOW. Livi.ig. tb- man who Wits stealing a riue. former, r 1 lived m C-harloite. i Messrs. Fred Laxton aud Uobt- McConnaughey will open up their cash warehouse aud general grain business next week in the store room, lately vacated by Claywell Bros;. : Morganton Herald. HELD UP AND RIFLED Daring Train Robbery Below Alexandria. PROBABLY 180,000 BOOTY Seven .Masked Men flade Off with Their Boo ty in the Direction of the Potomac River, After Detaching the Engine and Pull in?? the Lever Wide Open. The northbound express train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg arid Potomac Railroad, leaving Richmond at T o'clock last night, was held up about twelve miles the other side of Quantico about 9:30 o'clock last night, and the express messenger robbed of about $1S0,000. Seven masked men committed the daring dead, and after securing all the money in the -Adarns express car, they compelled the engine crew to uncouple the locomotive, jumped aboard, and made good their escape in the direction of the Potomac River, where it is supposed they had a boat in waiting to take them to the Maryland side. The train left Federicksburg at 8:."8 o'clock, on time. The robbery oc curred nee r Acquia -Creek, between Brook's station and Wide Water. It is not known at what point the robbers boarded the train, and the first intima tion anybody had that troubled was brewing was when two men jumped from the coal car down into the cab, and, leveling revolvers a the astonish ed engineer and fireman, ordered them to st&p the train. The engineec hesitated for an in stant, but when informed that he must stop the train or be killed he closed the throttle, and the train, which had been running at about forty miles an hour, slowed up, and finally came to a complete standstill. The fireman and engineer were com pelled to leave the, engine and sit quietly on the bank alongside the track. After securing the plunder tb rob bers compelled the fireman, who is a mulatto, to uncouple the engine, not forgetting to caution him about dis connecting the airbrake tube. The gang then hoarded the engine, one of them yelled go ahead, and the engine moved ofT. leaving the train and its excited passengers standing on the main track. For the first mile it is said the engine ran rather slowly, stopping'for a nionent when' about a mile from the scene of the robbery. Then a full head of steam was tnrned on. and the locomotive plunged ahead at the rate of about fifty miles an hour. As it passed Wide Water competent railroad men estimate that it was run ning nearly a mile a minute. The robbers are supposed to have left the engine before it passed Wide Water, and the train dispatcher at that station, comprehending that something was Wrong, telegraphed ahead to Quantico to look out for a. wild engine. A switch was thrown just outside of Quantico. and when the engine arrived it was thrown over on a switch, crashed into a number of empty freight cars, and in a moment more a huge pile of debris marked the siots where the collision occurred. The engine was thrown on its side and is a complete wreck. The freight cars were reduced io kindling wood. The long Atlanta special was stand ing on the main track at Quantico, and narrowly escaped being struck by the runaway engine. A brakeman had just thrown the switch as the wild engine dashed into the yards and oat the side tracks into the freight cars. The railroad company ris orTered l.t) reward for the arrets of acy oiie of the robbers Express Messenger J. S. CrutcLfield, who had ch.nrge of the express car, ehi on through to Xew York last iiij;hr. lie i:i.o!e .i stxiteiaent to the cjndueior and iii .a!trs of the train crew. He said he thought the thieves got f.bout l$oV. "Hat one robber' the mes senger, "entered the car. He .vjs of heavy build and dressed like a farmer, althotu'h he seomed to thoroughly ;feuderstauil the express business. lie j had a red handkerchief over the lower part of his face. When the train was stopped I opened the door of my car. The robber fired and shot at me. I dodged back and closed the door. He called, 'Open that door!' I didn't do it. Open that door or I'll blow the whole car to pieces with dynamiter 'Then he threw a stick of dynamite. It struck the door and shattered it and the casing. The force knocked me off of my feet. "I then opened the door. One rob ber came in, and made me open the safe. He took everything. There was one package which he must have thought contained only papers for he threw it into the box. It contained $0,000. Then he said. 'Open that other safe:' " 'That is simnlv a deadhead safe I said. 'The li- it is he roamed. 'Show me you waybill for it "I started to get the bill, and he said, 'Keep your hands up. Show me the paper. Til get it. "He looked at the bill and was satis fied that the second safe contained nothing, which was true. "The man was very cool all the time. We had seven or eight through express pouches, each containing packages of money; how much, I can't guess. The man cut a small slit in each pouch and took every package."" Frank Dellager, the engineer who left the train at Quantico, lives in Richmond, and will be able to gie good descriptions of the robbers. The engineer and fireman sat on the bank on one side of the train during the whole robbery, aud were not ten feet from two or three of the robbers, as fired shots into the air. The man who entered the car seemed to be the lead er, although a man on the outside, with a key voice, had a good deal to say about things. This man was tall, and ran about a good deal. He drove Charley, the porter, who rushed ahead at first, thinking that tramps .were shooting, back into the sleeper, and fired two shots at him. This tall man also fired the shot in to the express car, and after the rob bery had been completed, which took a - good twenty minutes, gave the word. "Go ahead with the engine." The night was as dark as pitch, the hour being just before the moon came up.,. The place was a deep cut, just the place for a robery. The train crew, the postal clerks, and all the passengers were throughly cowed, the terrific dynamite explosion having caused them to fear that they would be blown to pieces at any mo ment. Conductor Birdsong, who is one of the oldest conductors on the road, alone of those in the rear coaches, was brave. He went out on the plat form and frightened back a bandit who was there for the purpose of keep ing the passengers on the inside. The conductor called for weapons. One single revolver was produced, conductor then told them to :et The their k n i ves read v. All t h e pas; enters hid their valuables, and many of them dropped down in the 'a;s!es and be tween the seats. Among the passengers weie W. H. Perkins, of-Philadelphia; .J!r. firing fellow, of Richmond; Sol Haa " the Richmond and Danville ro;d; l?iert Simpson and Frank D Syr'ch, of this city. The latter was in the car next the smoker. There vere seven postal ch-ik in the car ahead of the express cr.r nostal car was full - of window- i .:e the clerks were badly frightened They had no arms. The postal car had many sacks of registered mail, but no effort to touch Uncle Sam's property was made. Washington Post. 13th. PHbfic Sp:r kins. Hon. L. C. Caldwell, of Iredell coun ty, one of the lead'ng speakers of the State, will address the voters of Cataw ba county at Hickory, October 24th.; Plateau, October 23th. day; Xewton, October 23th, night; Catawba, October 2Cth, clay; Conover, October 2Gth, night; Oxford's Ford, (Smiths Store) J October, 2?th, day. Speaking will commence at 1 o'clock p. in. and 7 o'clock p. iu. W. p. New hind will probably b present on the above date. A fair division of time will be accorded to any Populist or Republican. . Newton Cornet Band will be at Plateau and Oxford's Ford on 25th and 27th. A. A. Shu ford, Cliairman Co. Deni. Ex. Corn. TRAIN HELD LP IN CALIFORNIA. Two Budnes5-like Bandits Easily 5efwf Four Bzs of Col J. San Francisco, Oct. 12. A i port from Sacramento states the east b modi overland train, due there at G oVkxuc itusw miii, wiis ueui lip oy two men. about six miles below the citv list night. The -track-walker was first robbed and then forced .to sta r to town. The train robbers then cover ed the engineer and fireman with gunat and compelled them to accom pany t bent to the express car. Messenger lage shot twice at the bandits. , The engineer and fireman called up on Pa-re to open the door, as the train robbers were going to shoot th in if he did not and were prepared to blov up the car with dynamite. He eor plied with their request in order ta save their lives, and the robbers loot ed the car of four b;igs of gold, the value of which is unknown. They then cut loose the engine, boarded it and ran toward the city. The engine was then released and set on a wild run toward the train, but by the vine it had reached its destination.' the stream had run so low that the colli sion caused little damage. The rob bers made their escape. The amount captured by the train robbers was $5l,UO0. ' ' Free Coinage Certainly. Commenting on the determmatioo. of the Ohio democracy to, make the campaign on the free silver issue, The New Orleans Picayune puts in eooie good licks for the cause. Without advocating silver, The Pica yune says that it is enough to know that the people favor it, and they are bound to have their way sooner or later Our contemporary puts the matter in this shape: The authorizing of a state bank cur rency, and the rexeal of the tax on state bank notes have gone far towards pacifying the dissatisfaction and moder ating the demands of the western peo ple for some financial relief. But every demand was met with. a flat refusal, and the western people, who are weighed down by mortgages on their homes, and who have been bankrupted, by bursting booms, in 1803, found the president opposed to every appeal Vv mnilA nnrm f!nnfrpss for .iskia tance. The result of the president's unyield ing opposition to every appeal for a financial policy which the western peo ple thought would give them relief has been to arouse and consolidate the demand for Unlimited silver coinage until it is overflowing the country in a tidal wave, and the finances of the na tion will be put upon a silver basks, and that will be as soon as the people can speak through their representa tives. ; ; There is no question that a silver flood will be welcomed by a majority of the American people. More than this, the people are determined to have it, and to that end the comifig; campaign for congressmen is being: made on the'free coinage issue. These are prophetic words. Party leaders have wavered, and party plat forun have been smashed, but the people h ive'from first to lasf remained true to the money of the constitution gold and silver. They have never con sented to the demonetization of either, and they will never rest satisfied until silver is retored to its rightful place Silver is tin winning issuConstitaE tion. The Newton Cornet Band will be here the 19th inst., the day that Hoa. R. B. Glenn speaks in our Opera House, and will furnish the inssie for the patriotic Democrat ie sons of toiL Everybody will be given the most cor dial welcome, and all rrodigal Pope lists, who have repn!d of their po litical wandering d would return to Use home of their fathers will be accorded plenary absolution. 'Many of the c'llzch'i of Ruiusvific Indiana" are never without a bottle of Chamberlain's Couzh R:nedy in tiw lion says Jacob Brown, the leading merchant of the place. TUU Ilelnedr has proven of hj much value forcolw and croup in children tLat fewtnoth ers who know it worth are willing be .without it. For'i!? by O. VL ltovsier, uruggi. - w Children are Wt 11 arriving at the Deaf and Dumb School. Supt. flood- . ll g-r uvun . v -.-- - j " ..... . - y in ship-shape in M.ca a rGt time. as. the building wa hardly ready i move into. Moryoiito:. Keraid.
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