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HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL n, 1895.
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5I10T DOWN FOM AMBUSH.
Two West Brothers Brutally Assas
sinated.
A.fiK -nK, N. C, April G. Ernest
... ,i 1 'liMt-liH West, the one fif-
teen, tu-- other nineteen years of age,
wl0' i.--ileii witli their parents, near
i" lhls ouuty, were assas
jiiuitt'i in a most brutal and cowardly
Valuer lt night, as they were re-tuniiu-
home from- this place, just af
ter c1j.ii-
TJjt' ut"ri ri(Ullt? "double" on one
lorH.. "..-uid were shot iroui ambush,
VrlU'H lit'.ll 1 1 JO uuuac yjx tj
Hnej-tlt.r and cousin 01 me oumner
bovkihed, the latter receiviug twen-
tv-two s,,ot m ns ac aU( n'ne Hl
hi riln arm, and dying instantly.
West'.! bowels were shot out, nd
though he .till lingers, he must die in a
few hour. Oilieers of the law were on
the ground shortly after the killing,
and thru investigation resulted in
forging Mich a chain of facts to lO.mect
Je.-.-e .Sumner with the horrible crime
that lie was' arrested and committed
to j;iii here to day.
Jt i.- reported here, on what 1 con
sider ;,'. ii authority, that shortly af
ter the iivCiU ahot was fired almost the
entire neighborhood, was aroused and
attracted to tlie scene of the killing by
the awful and distressful cries of West.
The Ihst uiaii to leach the scene ob
server a Ji'ht in the house of Jes
Stunner, about one hundred yards dis-'
taut. Though lie .immediately raised
an alj.ni:, and though the cries of
voting West who was aulTering inex-pre.-Mhie
airttty, continued, this light
was mo:j extinguished, and no one
-a::ie iroui 1 his house to oiler assistance.
Inspire of the commotion audstir
near t Ik-: e, the u t most quiet apparently
reignt-d m ' he Sumner household until
theolli-eis went to arrest J esse, about
;oV!oik in tue morning,' after having
foumltr.u'.v." leading from a point near
the kilm.g into a garden just in the
rear .of his house. When arrested, he
protested -hrj innocence, and- professed
total i. 10 ranee of the eventsof the
riuriit. ; -
The tracks were, measured, and,it is
said ciii M xpouded with tlie shoes worn
by the ;t i; oner. Itis stated also that a
sin-u-h.ii ielled, breech loading gun
Mas found in his house, and that evi-
deiHv u(ls n:t wanting mat it naa oeen
lately ;d'ischarged. One of the West
boyt-xaui to 1 lay that .Jesse Sumner had
lately Tind trouble with his brother.
The Simmers are well-to' do people; the
father 1 1 .Jesse was at one tmit sheriff
of Umieombe county.
Compliment to. the aDog.
A very delicate compliment was late-.
ly l:"stovt'l ly a dog lover upou the iu-telli--ru"Mif
his Skye terrier. The owner
f tho dug was sitting in his office ap
parfntiy alone- when an acquaintaueo
:t.r d. .
"o.; l to find yon alone, " said the
visitor, "because I have' a confidential
communication to make to you which
"0 oiy flso must hear. "
"Ilobi on a minute, " cried the other,
chec!;i'.'- him. And then ho called out:
"Here. Spot."
A squill terrier crawled out from uu-d-y
th. table, vassiug his tail.
"in tun, Spot," said his master.
TliH il.jg went out.
"Nov then, " said Ljtho owner, you
ffi3y t: oa with your confidential com-ttnnic-atiou..
Kow wo aro alone-"Ex-
Economic Theory o" Woman's Dress.
But ajiart from the exhibition of pecu
laary strength afforded by an aggressive
tasteful expenditure tho same purpose
niayal?o be served by conspicuous abstem
on fr-!.i useful effort. The woman is
y virtue of tho specialization of social
'unctions the exponent of the economic
unit s pecuniary strength, and it conse
quently also devolves on her to exhibit
Jfco unit's capacity to endure this passive
jor:;; uf pecuniary damage. She can do
lfc: I y putting in evidence the fact, often
action, that sho leads a useless life,
is iur chkf means of doing so, Tho
of arc"s on this heud is to demon
truo to all observers and to compel ob
"Mi. n of the fact that tho wearer is
'iri:fetiy incapable -of doing anything
ls Vf a:iv use- The niodern civilized
tio-ilai S 'irvS:4 attemPts this demonstra-
u 1 ef habitual idleness and succeeds
sumbly.
Ih rvin lies the EecreJ,of tho persistence
tho TU u the skirt and of all
umbrtms and otherwise meaningless
tru's which the skirt typifies. Tho
fc3Lv vrsist' because It is cumbrous. It
dCMT!the mov?ntsof tho wearer and
... . '; a4rin a creat lnpasnra fnr nnv
ufui
occupation. So it serves as an ad-
that the
means to be
ni" i m nn i ruA
rU? r th0 hih heel and in less
dmTtTii nfral ctber Matures of modern
MoaThSr? Veblen lQ Popular
w;:filt' f "en disingenuous,
'V to aJord the ldlene
ON KLS SILVER RECORD.
. Senator Blackburn Will Force the Kentucky
t-iltnt.
Lexington, Ky., April 9. Senator J.
C. S. Blackburn has defined his por
tion on the financial question in the
coming senatorial fight, in a straight
out letter characteristic of his career
in public &ervice in Kentucky.
This letter is his first utterance on
the subject which has reached the
public. Kentuckians love a fighter,
and it is the fact that Blackburn is a
born lighter that has so endeared him
to his Kentucky constituents.
As Senator Blackburn has refused to
submit to an interview since his return
to Kentucky, the following letter is o
great importance:
4Vashingtou, D. C, February 16,
1895. George W. Landrum, Esq.,
Grand Rivers, Ky. Dear Sir: I had
your letter of the 0th. I take plasure
in responding to your inquiry and say
I have always been and am now and
always intend to be in favor of the un
limited cosnage of silver.
I have been making this light as
earnestly and iersistently as it is pos
sible to do, ever .since it Wits demon
strated in 1670, by what is known as
the Sherman act, I believe that the sin
gle gold standard means inevitable
bankruptcy and ruin to this country.
I insist upon both gold and silver
being retained as the money of the
people according to provisions of the
cousin ution.
"1 have always opposed and always
will opfoe the single standard policy
that England and" Wall street have fas
tened upon this country for the pur
pose of robb ng the uiaes of the
Anierivan people,, and enriching the
holders and hoarders of gold.
"My '"record is unbroken as an earn
est, uncompromising advocate of. the
silver Hiatal, and in the coming can
vass in Kentucky I intend to force the
light on this line, and upon the record
that I have made I am willing to stand
or fall. J. C. S. Blackburn. 11
PUULIC PRJN'TING.
The Contract Awarded to Stewart Brothers
,o Winston.
The lollowing is taken from the
Henderson Gold-Leaf.
We do not receive t';e Raleigh Daily
P ress t o w h om t h e Gold Lea gi ves i t
credit.
The public printing has been awar
ded lb Stevart. Bros., Republicans,
of Winston, in disregard of the law,
which was that the contract should be
let to the lowest bidder, and facts and
figures furnished by reliable printers
show that the. firm of Stewart Bros,
were not tlie lowest bidders. Compe
tent printers went over the figures
earefully Mini found th-'t tM wards &
BiMUghton. t this city, in the ggre
irate, were over fViOO lower than the
Stewarts" hid. Yet in the face of this
tact they ride roujzh shod over th
law and award the contract to Stewart
13ms.
Machine Made Art. authentic history, and eulogized the
4,Is it conceivable that embroidery : military and Christian character of the
done on a sewing machine can bo a ; Confederate soldier, who .in the erv
workof artr'a(X)rreondentasks. Itis ;iceof lhl,tetcan8e foUght not from
conceivable, but highly improbable. A . ual rancor am, animosity, but
person of genius might give expression t
tohis art through any medium, how- for the maintenance of principle and
ever unpromising, but it is difficult to for the glory of the Old orth State,
imagine any one of ordinary artistic in- thereby winning a record at which the
telligcnce, still less of genius, making .
the attempt on a sewing machine.
i
A worker on a sewing machine may
impart to the object he is engaged upon
something of tho artistic qualities of
good design, and good color, but that
personal factor which distinguishes all
handicraft will, in all probability, be
missing, and without it there can be no
such thing as work of art. Mere perfec
tion of execution will not save it.
An old fashioned 'sampler,,, indicat
ing the bent of a child's imagination,
however halting the execution, might
more justly be considered a work of art
than the most "highly finished repro
duction of a painting' wrought on a
sewing machine smch as I saw recently
rommended as something to be admired.
Art Amateur.
A Peculiarity of the Trmde.
Hobbers I hear that American wine
company you organized went to smash.
What was the matter grapes give out?
Hubbies No. We lost our supply of
French labels. Chicago Record.
A DiTiftlon of Opinion.
Airs. Biuks (reading)- Women can
endure pain better than men.
Mr. 4inks Who says that, a doctor
or a shoemaker? New York Weekly.
XV ATE NEWS.
Col. J. H. Wethiinjton has len
nominated by the Democrats of Char
lotte for Mayor.
The Landmark say the Old Domin
ion'Building and Ixan Association of
Richmond, Va., wh'ch has been doin
a large business in the State, will lend
no more money in 2orth Carolina.
The law regulating assignments pre
vents further loans.
The Charlotte building and loan
associations had a case tried before
Judge Robinson in the Lincoln Supe
rior Court last week to test the present
assignment law. The case will go
promptly to the Supreme Court, for
final adjudication.
Rev. II. D. Lequeux, well known in
this section, and who has recently
been pastor of Poplar Tent Presby
terian church, Cabarrus county, has
accepted a cj11 to the pastorate of
Alamance church, near Greensboro.
It is now understood that Mr. Archi
bald W. Butt, of Augusta, Ga., Wash
ington correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle and the Louisville Post, has
been given the third subordinate and
only remaining place in the United
States legation at Mexico. He is at
home, preparin-; to leave. Charlotte
Observer.
In the Spring
Nearly everybody needs a jrood medi
cine. The impurities which, have ac
cumulated in the blood during the
cold months must be expelled, or
when the mild days come, and the ef
fect of bracing air is lost, the body is
liable to bo overcome by debility or
some serious diease. The remarkable
success achieved by Hood's Sarsapa
rilla, and the many words of praise it
has received, make it worthy your
confidence. Wc ask you to give this
medicine a trial. We are sure it will
do you good. Read the testimonials
published in behalf of Hood's Sar
saparilla. all from reliable,''" grateful
people. They tell the story; At
S Jldiers Re-Union at Catawba,
Correspondence of The Landmark,,
At Catawba station, on April 1st,
was commemorated the thirty-third
anniversary of the enlistment into
Confederate service of company I, 49th
North Carolina regiment. Of 141 orig
na! members but 2G survivors an
swered, "Here!': .t the roll call of
Monday. Many members of other
commands of both Federal and Con
federate armies were also present,. Old
comrades-in-arms, together with a
now friendly foe, some with brisk step
of rigorous manhood, some with
trembling step of old age, still others
with halting ctep or the battle-maimed,
fell in line and marched to the
place appointed for the exercises of
the day.
The acred proceedings were con
ducted by Rev. J. II. Sherrill, in an ap
propriate, touching manner, wel
coined the assembled veterans and in
troduced Major W. A. Graham, of
Lincoln, who commended the holding
of such re unions as a means of gaining
world wondered and of which none
need be ashamed. In concluding
he gave place to Hon. R. Z. Linney, of
Taylorsville, who spoke interestingly
of the causes of the war, of the hard
ships endured in the prosecution of a
struggle in which both sides were right,
arid of the humorous incidents f a
soldier's life. As the memory acquired
a reminiscent mood, 'twas a adly
pleaiant scene to observe the varying
emotions depicted on tho faces of his
hearers. Truth, pathos and humor
aroused in turn intelligent apprecia
tion, fraternal sj'iupathy, and laughter-provoking
mirth.
Our better halves say they could not
keep hotw without Chamberlain's
Cough Itemed y. It ued in more
than half the honuti i: L.-ed. SIMS
Bltos., Leds, Iow;u , This shows the
esteem in liich that remedy is held
where it has been sold for years and is
well known. Mothers have learned
that there is nothing so good for cold.,
croup and whooping -cough, that it
cures these ailments quickly and fier
manentlj. and that it is pleasant and
safe for children to Jake. 2. and ZO
cent bottles for r. le by O. M. Royster,
Druggist.
THE "TAR HEELS THE BE5T.
01 Leading Hospitals a Virginia Committee
Finds riorTanton the Best.
The Henderson Gold-Leaf has per
formed a crood service in cutting the
following from outside papers concer
ning the State Hospital atMorganton.
We clip, from it as follows:
There is gratification for North Caro
linians in the followiug newspaper
tracts, which explain themselves. The
first is from the Abingdon Virginian:
The committee of the Southwest
Virginia State Hospital, composed of
Dr. R. A. Preston, superintendent,
and four members of the board of di
rectors, have returned from their visit
to the asylums of the south, whither
they went for the purpose of learning
the practical workings of these insti
tutions, with a view of adopting them
in ourinstitutiou, in the improvements
they contemplate making. The com
mittee visited Tuscaloosa, Ala., Mil
ledgeville, Ga., Columbia, S. C, and
Morganton, N. C. They spoke highly
of all the institutions they visited, and
of the kind treatment they received.
Each of the ihstitirvions visited sur
passed the others in some particular,
but tho committee wen of the opinion
that North Carolina's institution at
Morganton surpassed any other in the
south in the charactered the buildings,
splendid, equipment and faultless
management of its efficient superinten
dent. The other is from the Wytheville,
Va., Enterprise:
Dr. R. A. Preston and four members
of the board of directors of the South
western lunatic asylum, at Marion,
have returned from a tour of observa
tion throughout tlie asylums of the
south, where they sought suggestions
of.practieal value in the work, man
agement and improvements of these
hospitals. The committee considered
the-Morganton. N. C, asylum the
model institution for the insane it the
south. : '''.
Interesting. Letter.
McAllister, Indian Tkrritory.
Editor Press and Carolinian:
I left Hickory January 24th, 1893,
for the State of Texas. After a few
days travel I arrived at Greenville,
Texas. Since I came here have had
an extensive tour through tho State,
taking in a good many of the princi
pal cities, Dallas, Austin and Sanan
tonia being the most conspicuous. The
State House is grand and beautiful,
built of Texas granite. Having spent
several hours in Sanantonia. I procur
ed a transfer on to the Aransas -Pass
road, theu on to the coast, now call
ed the new California, passing by
Goliad a beautiful place. 1 found the
climate of the Southern portion dry
and extremely hot and badly water
ed. To one who had been reared
near the mountains of North Carolina,
it was indeed a jrreat contrast, one
vast stretch of pi airic every side, dot
ted over by lovely flowers of every
description. I spent three weeks in
the city of Heesvihe. I saw there
trees laden with oraMges, dates and
many other :ro;iical fruits. Notwith
standing the thought and heat it is a
healthy climate, where invalids resort
from many states. 1 wa told that
malaria was never known. The Gulf
breezv i. very invigorating. It is
largely inhabited by foreigners who
have Mexican servants in preference
to the Negro, and they are more obe
dient and useful. The wiutergardens
are more luxuriant than the summer
gardens of N. C. 1 left Texas a few
months since en route for McAllister,
Indian Territory. I am now at tlie
home of my son, who In been living
here several years. The population
of this city is six thousand, the major
ity being whites. Railroad facilities
are good, a!s' fine Courthouse cost
ing $5,000.00 where United State
court is held. One large coal mine
which gives employment to about
men. The School system 4s not pood.
The place has some 10 churches ami a
bank.
V have some near relatives and
friends in Hickory and after all my
travels 1 find there is no place to ine
like my own native State, North
Carolina.
Mr.. S. M. DowniiTTiv.
Key acta Gets A Life Seoteace,
Yokohama, March 20 Koyama, Li
Hung Cliang's assassin has been sen
tenced to life imprisonment.
Prefect Hiroshima, Chief of Police,
has been dismissed for not protecting
the envoy.
1
A Chance to Hake 3Ionoy.
I saw one of yout subscribers tell in
your columns a few weeks ago how
she made money selling Dish Washers.
I wrote to the Iron Citv Dish Washer
Co., E. EL Pittsburg. Pa., and ob
tained one of their Dish Washers and
tried it myself first. It is just lovely;
you can wash and dry the dishes for a
family in two minutes, without touch-
n M .. It - 1 ? 1 111
j""' uaijus iu ix uisii or puuing
them in hot water. I made the first
day $."5.00, and everydody wants a Dish
Washer just as soon as they saw me
wash their dishes. Since then I have
made as high as $18.00 a day, and I
believe that I can get enough money
to keep my brother at school this win
ter and have money in the bank too. N
Any lady or gentleman can do as well
as I am doing, 1 am sure, as I had no
experience. YThen everybody wants
to buy, it is not hard to m?1I. Anyone
can get information by writing the
ubuve firm, and I am clad to add my
axperienee, because I think itis my
duty to others to help them over the
hard times.
VIRGINIA HERNE.
I-AV0R1NQ BIMETALLISM
Nam n of Democrats Who Signed the Circular
Made Public.
The following are the names of the
Democrats who signed the address re
cently given to the public, urging all
Democrats to make the money ques
tion the paramount issue and to en
deavor to place the Democratic party
on record in favor-of the "immediate
restoration of the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the pres
ent legal ratio of 1G to 1, without wait
ing for the aid or consent of any other
nation, as it existed prior to 1873, such
coin to be -a full legal" tender for all
debts, public and private:"'
R. IV Bland, Mo.; W. J. Bryan,
Neb ; II. A. CofJeen, . Wyo.; GV W.
Fitbian, 111.; J. V. Cock roll, Texas;
John L. McLauriu, S. C; James G.
Ma'jmire, Cal.; Geo. F. Ikert, Ohio;
Justin R. Whiting, Mich.; H. C
Snodgrass, t Tenn.; George F. Rich-,
ardson, Mich.; M. A- Smith, Ariz.;
A. W. Ogden, La; J. Capehart, W.
Va.; F. H. Moor. Kan.; H. I). Mooney,
Miss.; B. F. Grady, N. C; C. H.
Morgan. Mo.; G. W. Schell, S. C;
Edward Line, 111.; 11 D. Donovan,
Ohio; A. C. Latimer, S. C; Marshal
Arnold. Mo.; W. II. Denson, Ala.:
W.J. Talbert, S. C; J. S. Williams,
Miss.;T. J. Strait, S. C; A. .Cainen
etti, Cal.; W. II. Bower, N. C; An
tonio Joseph, N. M.; Evan P. Howell,
Atlanta, Ga.; J. Floyd King, ex-member
Congress, Ia.
They represent sixteen States and
two Territories. Thepafer was taken
to the Senate just before the close of
the session, but it was impossible to
have any conference with the Sena
tors, or iuMe any considerable number
of them. As it was not possible to
make any thorough canvass among
them it was decided to leave them out
entirely, so that no .misunderstanding
might exist between them.
Mr. Bryan said In regard to the ad.
dress that it had b?en issued in order
to call ih" attention of the rank and
file to the need of active work iu favor
of bimetalii-m.
Ifefp the Library!
To In ip the Library. I prottofce as
follows: V. hcuever a gentleman be
lougitig. m the Library Association,
lias his Pair cut at my place and pays
twenty-tie cent?, 1 will give him'a
ticket showing that 1 will pay the As
MioiafioJi !ie cents, which he can hand
to the 'J icasurer. At the end of the
month the Treasurer can get the tick
ets cash d by i r.e. This cdfer to be good
for three months.
14-tf H. C. DENNY. Barber.
GOLD IS A 0AVE.
Five Tbeusaad Dollars Discovered by m
Lucky Well Dizger.
Richmond, Ky., April 8 A rerwjrt
from I in lay. Iaurel county, rays that
George Wilson, while diia a well
near his residence, struck what Is sup
posed to have been an Indian grave, in
which was found $-Vj0 In gold and
other valuable relies. Much excite
ment prevails over the find.
It wil
ill 1m an agreeable surpri-e to
as subject to attacks of bilious
persons
colic to learn that prompt relief may
be had by taking Cliauiberlain'ft Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In
many instances the attack may lx pre
vented by taking thjs remedy as soon
as the first symptoms of tlie disease
appear. 2- and 00 cent bottles for salw
by O. M. Royster Druggist.