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f:r- : - VJ - ' ' '- ;v ' " Vol. III. No. -5. TAIXORSVILLE, ALEXANDER COUNTY, 1ST. G , THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1888. $1 Per Year. LOCAL DIEECTORY. CHURCHES. Presbytkhtan. Rev. A. W.'-Wh ite. paster. Preac'iin? every second aud IrtUTT-ii nuiiuiiy. 11 a. m. nv mnv. praver-meetihs: every Wednesday night. Sunday fs&iool every Sunday at $ m., A. C. Mclutosh superin tendent. Uethodtst. Rev. Dudley, pastor. Preaching eve ytbird Sunday t 3 p. m. BAPTIST. Rev. L. P. Gwsltney. pastor. Preaching every Krst Sunday at 11 a in. and it 7 p. in.. Sunday jJchool every Suttndy ct 10. in. E.A. 'Womble, Superintendent. SOCIETY MEETJtffcS. A. F. & A. 11. tve.e Los r 2& 'meets the first Saturday ot each mouth, : at I o'clock p. m. COUNTS OFFICRRS. Sheriff. R. M. Sharp. Clerk ot 'Court J. T Mcintosh; R. of D. J. XI. Oxford Treasurer, C. J. Carson; CountyCotn ; profession so difficult to fill as moaners. J. B. Pool. W. R. 'Slnai t . . . ' . ... . . . V W. Teazle; AC. Mclnhwii A. V : that ot a coautry editor. In cities Marsh, W. W. Teaue, Boar 1 of E In a man who can do one depart ?et?eu well bothem himself about corporation OFFICERS. no other- Nor -ueeoMio; he gets A. A. mil. Mvof; V. B. Mathesrjn, flatter forteiHier of these 'mails should be in the office by B p. rti. Lenolr-lvtfsves TueMsy'fr nda.vs fct 1 . p. mi. and irrivea W edVesd ays a ud Saturdays -at 15 p. m. Xcwtnii-Arrive Tn JuTar, Tleir day's and Saturdays at 12 m. url leaves same d ijrs ai I p. in. Bom .r - Arrive' Ved?-a'-sd.tys V suel Saturday 12 Hi. "and --leaves -itiii.e. days at I p. in. Beiniy--Arriv.s . V,:. , '::y " s..t- 'urdsys at 12 ih. n . K ;tv; uu days 1 p iti. HaiiiptA)iiillv Arrivt-s Tiuday :and I"r"nl iys at p. ;m. and it-kves V 1 in s!ays and SUurda a. t a. tn. - Ruck .Cur L -i vc l i id :ir S a. hk and arrive S.ii'ir iys at 4 ;. Brusity M "i:ir.:ii:i Vnives Vr-.Ine-5-day and Saturdays ar 12 m. and leave.--, same days at I p. PtDHOUT MR LINE. RICHMOND & DANVILLE 11 R SOUTH CARoMXl LIVISIuN. 'Cnnd ned Sc-'n-d:!! ii t-tr t .?:?. 15 ( Traika run by l4k Meridian 7 ime s i; Niihth Ftvi :ht ; Xn. 51 No ".3 b.lvd. 1.i:Jv ! railv. D Vlv. ex Mm. ria s. c.R.t; :l,vCI(rtrl--''n ....... Aug'ist.itw . 6.ipin! 6.fM i.:j:tn ' GlillJlfv':- Tn liton... ' J husi'ns. (' jitnb'a. ..i6 :7 10.15 - PUS'-.. .LI9 -! 4- Wii.'wl.'ro 8.-V2 " l2.3Uani l.:8pni liL33 " ! " Chester ... " IJo kHiM. -ArCiiarl.tte. " Salishnrv. Or', s U-'rn : Uidnn'tKl ash-tn l Raltiijiur: 'u Phili.Pa-.. 'SewYv.ri L7aui 4.2-V" 6.44 0M5 8 5 9.4 i " G.Lram 8.KI." 8.4piu v..; ii.t- 'ani.i-2..i5pii! K.ls "TsOUfH T ft t No. .c Fff-jghr Daily ex ,S its. EOL'Xl . Da.Jv. Dail . LvJfewiYorki 4..H)p:u " Philad'a...! .57 " Ii.l5n'i '7.2(am Baiti.moro; 9.4 '9.45 v ll.0 14.24 Richmond -2.:tomi S.48 k H.J3 " Gr'nslKr. IM4" I2.7nvt LlwrloUe. LuOpm 2.3 ain 4.03 5.00 ' 4.3'Jaui 7,ij 9.35 -l2.2.Jim 3 35 iuK'K lliil. 2.02 'Chter ... 2.45 ' iw mm in i . 3,4, 'Cuhiaihia.! 5.-13 4 44 Joitastoiis 7.51 " Trenton..! 6.03 " " Graiiiti-'le! g a.- G.55 9.01 ' 9.18 i --Ar-AllgilstA... 9.15 1N.5V 'VCharlM'n r viaS.C.Jt.U. STA TKSVILLE i i'vfcs rsy R."V: No. IS, mix ed. Ihiiiv 8orTIIWRD 17. inix STATlNs. t; U Dailv. XOKTHWU'D 6.2na.nlv 6.43 4 7.03 44 7u A 8if 4- .,p 8 44 iVl. 10.30 arx l'H1..h,v-ni- 0.20 f in ai V Iliddenite" 19.57 " -...Sioan...... 9.37 -TStatixviUe J 8.40 Ive -Stesvlil"..'- 8.30 - arv .-Cti2:iot6.... G.35 he Irauisou the Western North CNroli-' iu ua t..Uvf. srati-sville fur the easi at p.m.: for tl west at -12.2d p m. t Piillnianrlaci' cars rM tween Cliarh s "B aud Daiivilk- n NdJ. 5. 50 and Zl. 1 ""ami Palace Ruffet c;irs lietwi-u ti i 1 51,1(1 Widiiion .n N. 2 aiitl All .111,1 S I I.. . JJr -lumbia C. & G. Divi to a Ironi points w-rt via spsitimhur 4-vdleand Paint U. k. - . . . JAS L. TAYLOR, G P. A. -fiundda. S. C. bOL HAAS, Traflle MAhager. . -. v I ltKtlVl Clll-K Cl.'11111'l PKASTUS B. JONES, PiW . Altorney-at-Law, Cata vvf l ,Vie court8 of Alexander, '"0lll an- . .i. nv i i lives, rtiueii, ireuen ana Wilkefc. o him. E. Hedri-k. J. M. Slatheon. Com- ; continues at it. But the country missioiier; E. 1- lledH-.'k, Town Clerk. J e-J! .i.n "ects; hembst l,e ld to ai,. r'ISlC.'llIM: -oil! : ti iir. 'fii,-T. i The Country Editor. There 'is an idea in 'the minds of many who ought to know bet ter that the "comrtry editor" stands on the lowest platform of tho profession, and that he who is employed in any capacity, no matter how humble, on a metro- IKnitan journal is his superior. There is no greater mistake. An editor who has held important chairs in metropolitan offices, and who has the reputation of having been successful! remarked: I do not hesitate to write the leaders of the tubAt important joni-iiars, but I would toeiuble to undertake the management of a village ncws- paper." There is no place in the the knack of his specialty and cern the 'trend of the public mind in politics religion add social troi ks; he -must discuss agriculture j and anarchy witlt equal precision, he uiust be tlueifton polemics and politics; he must write of the PresiikMit and pumpkins, he must mind'inen of high degree and de gree and descend to things of ;1?vv tule, hi sun he must be an .H roiijld mail' It is this that i Utakes the mitioii of a country i 4 editor o hard to till. It is this training' that makes the good country editor such a splendid manager for a metropolitan daily. There is no place in the country office, where such all round train ing can be had. Tiie position of a '-country editor is not held in the esteem ii should U. Country pupers are not re peeled as they ought to be. If a family can 'afford only one paper, let that- be the home paper;- for it concerns a family more to know what is bema; done m its owhJ ctianty than it does to know the news of distant places. The city paper cannot give, and does pre tend to give, the local news that its country readers must have; but the good country paper'-does a very fair epifoine of the woiWs news. Xo other publication can sup ply the place of good local pajr It b;th cannot be retrained-il either the, city journal or country newspaper must go, letjt be the former; for 'nothing can 'supply the place of the local paper. The.l?eiiniuif of Printing. -It is pivbable that the eaiHest impressions were taken by p mal let and planer (a smooth faced block of wood used for leveling the type liefore printing), as proof slips now bfteu are, or by a brusli in the Chinese manner; bat press es were soon invented for the pur IK)se. There are engravings rep resenting the press as it existed about 1520. It was large enough to print to folio pages, and for thi.s two' pulls were requud. The foi was applieil by a simple sciew and lever-. About 1620 llaeuw, of Amstenlam,' produced a greatly improved press, which, Reujaiiiiu Franklin worked in Loudou in 1725, is preserved in the patent office at Washington It is a clumsy structure, almost eutirely of woodj known as the 1 la mage, press, of which many were still lu use more than a cen tury later4 Iron was subsequent ly used for some of the parts un til the beginning of the present century. lriuting machiuervj how brought to such a high de gree of perfection, was not much ahead of Franklin's time titty years ago. Business repute is better than istocksj louds or money. Revul sions can't shake, robbers cau't j 01UU3 jiU V Ollclivi j vy i o va u u U, d.the cyclone." of trade can't engulf it. Important Discovery. From the Wilmington Messenger. "Mr. TV . A. Martin, an experi mental 'chemist of this ciity, has discovered a new oil ;rind a pro- cess for obtaining it. In scieutfic! point of view the double discovery Chandler was directed, for flgtfr is quite a valuable one, and prom- ing crtfispiccoasly ia the recent ises to be c, source of profit to the ; election held in Jackson, was tel- discoverer, besides beirig an. ac- quisition to the industries of the country. ' The process of obtaining the oil is, of course, a secret, but llr. Martin has not taken out a 'pat ent and is rather inclined rifct to do so, as giving his formula might be the means of defeating the ob ject, which a patent Is supposed to cover. The oil is a hydro-carbon oil, and being vegetable ia nature, can be obtained from any source not mineral or animal. It can even be made from wast3 paper, woo, v&c. This oil is a pure grease, is colorless and has only a very unit ana hardly percep tible ouu tL.,t. i wot u.t all disa greeable. It is free from gum or nrucila ginoMs substance, is jherfeclly ueu tral, will not ferment or get ran cid, and remains perfectly limpid in cold weatiier. Its specific -gravity is from fit teen to twenty gives, Bauiie's hydrometer. Ax an il!i!!iiuaiit it has been tested and gives a strong, brilliant light, and is uon -ex plosive, it makes a splendid lubricant for machinery of all kinds, and iu every respect, it is claimed, is sujerior to lard oil, and is a great deal cheaper. The fact is there is nothing like it known to scieiroe and conse quently there is nothing on tire market that assim dates it. The process for its manufacture is simple and inexieiisive, and the mateiial from which it can be made is limitless and right at our doors. It can, therefore, be made cheap. Mr. Martin has been XiSperi iiienting with diflerent material in us manufacture but has not de termined what is the most pro ductive in its results. The ma terial is treated with chemicals and is afterwards distilled to pro cure the oik The oil so produced is limitless hi the uses to which it can be applied, and leing antisep tic, is uneqnaled for medicinal purjK)sesv It is a very supjerior dressing for leather, owing to the I act that leat her treated with it will not miildew. Unacoaiitable Enmity. Fi-om the Landmark. A communication from TaySor loi'iiviUc in the Charlote Ckroni cle of the 24t h manifests an un justifiably bad feeling toward Siatesvillei. It is an effort to di vert the trade of Taylorsville and Alexander county from this place to Charlotte, without giving a single reason why Statesviile is not as mneh entitled to it as any outside ton. Iredell is the nro ther of Alexander; their people are united by ties of blood and intimate association; , the two counties are- almost as onej the feeling of our people of Taylors ville and Alexander is the very friendliest; Statesviile merchants are large supporters of Alexau der's paper, and through it they aak the Alexander people for their business (there is not a Charlotte advestisement in the Jburnul, and when Taylorsville haid her celebration just two pas seugers started from Charlotte to it: one nu invited speaker &ud the: other a machinery drummer); Alexander people have dealt with Stdtesville for years and years, and our merchants prize tneir trade, deal with them on a liberal basis and offer them advantages in trading which no other place possibly cau. Then why seek to injure Statesviile which is Alex ander's natural market without rendering a reason! And why seek to set enmity between these two peoples. The S. Akto?itey Trot!e. From the'Ch&rloit Chrcniele. ' United States Biatrict A'ttcr ney Harris, of Mississippi, against whom anong others, th ?invsti- gation asked for by Senator egragUed to promptly by Attor ney Uenerai Garland to know what part 4te played in the affair, lie wsn t to Washington in per son to make hfe reply. He con. fessed to. the Prcnident he acted a coT!&j)icbouH part ia the electtou matter and assigned as a reason therefor thatHhe man the negroes murdered was a n?ar releative. As a reporter softly prhases it, "the President expressed to 'Mr. Rarris his regret that au appoin tee of his, holding a Federal com mission, should have led a move meat which resulted in the dis franchisement of a large number of colored men." Mr Harris re plied by offering to place his rss- ignation in his hands. This offer was rejected, but the revelations published about their colloquy go to show ttiat the President, very property, told him caudidily that his resignation would be Called for ia due time. Mr. Hards' 'resignation has since hujformH'.ly tendered, is the latest news about the affair. While there may be palliating circuui spates iu --tie case, yt it taust be conceded',' that Mr. Har ris' conduct iu view of his high aud rHpou.Htble pasition, was very improper. The government ought to have withdrawn his commis sion, i OvJ? A Thousand LiTaS. Judge JrF. Kiuner, agent of the Yankton Sioux Indians agen cy in Dakota, arrived here after being nine days on the road. Five "days were necessary for the party to travel thirty miles. The thermometer was at 40 degs. be low zero most of the time. The judge says the loss of life in Da kota has been greatly underesti mated. E e described the scene which took place on board the cars. The fcoal was running low. The pas sengers were crowded into one Car trying to keep warm. Two babies perished. The men dis carded all the outer garments they could spare and gave them to the ladies and children. Find ing these not enoagh they brought mail sacks from H!ttib postal car and wrapped the children up in them. While at one station in Bon Homme county, the jndge says, nineteen frozen bodies were brought iuto the depot in one day. In 3ou Homfcie county the list of dead will reach fully 160. The estimates as made at Yank ton of the loss of life throughout the territory figure np over 1,000. The counties where the loss of life was the largest are: Bon Homme, 160; Hatchihgson,' 14; Lincoln, 13; Beadle, 25; Spink, 12; Hand, 10; Ward, 15. ' iTt -I ! Maxims for Merchants. In every line of business some man must lead Young men make positions; positions rarely make them. Some men buy when they should sell and sell when they should buy. Goods frequently changed upoil the shevles give them & fresher look. v When the customer loses his temper, that is time that you should keep yours. A man who has a good trade or business-, and brings to it brains and diligence, can afford to wait. What men call luck or accident is often the fruit of years of care ful studyj patient endurance and devotion. No past popularity, no fame earned by a lifetime will avail if men do not keep to the front and keep op the stroke. Tka Graat Snow Storih, 0YACU3a, If. Jan. 28. At Waterloo the wor&t storm ever known is no raging. Biiroitd4 are blockaded and country roads are impassible. At East Palmy ra, Way ji county a stock train is now eitow'botiud ots the Anborn branch of CeatraB rod and an toher ot Gresii'a iossingf aear thefe. 2ucu Snffertug i report ed among the animals on board and aiany cattle and hogs are freezing to death. Biujbaaiptoo9 Jan. 28. The present utot ea io t h etoat igeiete ever experineuced its thi sectioa. Last night the wind blew a hur ricane and piled up the now in drifts ten and fifteen iec high. The mercury ranged from 8 to 10 below, drains !cn the Erie & Lacka Road are doing a little bet ter than yesterday, coming iu five and a half hours late. The coun try roads are almost impassible, and many farmers in attempting to make their way to town have been compelled to abandon their sleighs in the snow drifts. J)amariscotto, Me., Jan. 28. Yesterday forenoon a passenger train was run from Rockland to Wiscaset. At the latter point the conductor was ordered to put up aud take the passengers to a hotel until the track could be cldared. There is no communica tion with the towns off the rail roads. No mail has arrived from the west sines Thursday. Coutccooke, Me., Jan. 28. Peo ple iii t his vicinity are just begin ning to move after three days blockade which is the worst for sixty years. Travel on the rail roads will probably be fesumed to-night. Pitfcsfield, Mass., Jan. 28. Con ductor Chapin, of the Boston & Albauy railroad, says that yester day was the worst day he had ex perienced in the 45 years life has been conductor on that road. He says the drifts are mountain high all along the line of the road through Berkshire county. They are the worst at the State line on the bolder of Massachusetts and New York and the cuts are badly filled in Hirsdale and Washing ton. Damariscotta, Me., Jan. 28. The passenger train bound west due here at 10 o'clock this niorn iug jumped the track in a deep cut near the depot. A snow plow and locomotive collided with the bridge causing it to, partly fall. Nobody was hurt. r New York, Jan. 28. The delay in the arrival and departure of mails owing to snow blockade continues and were worse last night than during the procedure 24 bonrs. The trains have not been s6 irregular for years. Ner York, Jan. 2& The ice blockade in Long Island Sound remains unchanged. The First American Abolitionist. Baaiuel Sewali, chief justice of Massachusetts from 1718 to 1728, when he resigned on account of age and infirmities, seems to have been the first outspoken aboli tionist in onr country having writ ten a tract against slavery, in which he gave it his opinion that there would be "no progress in gospeling" until slavery should be abolished. Judge Sewall was borii at Bishopsgate, England, March 28, 1652, graduated at Har vard university in 1671, and died January, 1730. He studied di vinity, preached awhile, came in to possesion of wealth by mar riage, by marrying the daughter of a Boston goldsmith, and was annually chosen a meember of the council from 16D0 ttntii 1725. He was judge from 1712 until 1718, when he became chief justice. Judge Sewall shared in the gen eral belief of witches and witch craft, concurring in the condeni: nation of many of the accused, but he afterwards publicly ac knowledged his error. North Carolina News Notes. I Another Baptist church is to be organized at Durham. The fertilizer-manufacturers are rapidly taking out the necessary licences for their sale as fast as the old licenses expire. The bad weather has almost caused a suspension of worK on the Durham and Northern arid Durham and Lynchburg railways. It is now progressing very slowly Tbesiieriff of Catawba brought two convicts to the penitentiary, on of tJieen being the man who trac concerned in the recent in cendiary ;fle sft Hickory which destoyed several buildings. Meningitis is reported, as pre vailing at several points in the State. It is due in large part to the weather, many persons be lieve. Mr. John Carter, a well- 'known planter, of Bbckiheham county, died of it. ' The Republicans are endeav oring -to strengthen their news papers. It is said that several more will be established. Prob ably some of the fund which it is claimed w ill be set apart for work in North Carolina will be used in thisVay. , j A fire at Tarboro burned the jailed of Edgecombe county. Several prisoners were in the building. All were safely res etted. Fireman's Hall and two private residences were also burned. There was no insurance on any'o'f the property destroyed. . . . . - i .. Professor J. T. Corlew, the su perintendent of the Charlotte graded schools, who has recently Teen the cause of a decided sen sation there has returned from NeV York an cl announces that he proposes to face the music. Ho will not leave Charlotte until the charge (that he jhas a wife and child, and, keeping that fact a secret, has played a false game at Charlotte) is either proved or disappoved. Meanwhile the Char lotte pedple are casting about for a frie'w principal of their schools. There is a great cry about the public roads and their bad coftdi-. tion. It ntay be said that they never were worse than to-day in say lialf or wo thirds ot the State. The Farmers' Alliance, it is said, intends to take the mat ter of road improvement in hand and push it to a finish. Great pressure is to be brought to bear on the Legislature to this end. It is said that the question will bo an iss& in the campaign. The Legislatures heretofore have fail ed to improve the antique road laws. Some very sensational reports have been circulated with regard . to an outbreak of meningitis at Asheville. It was alleged that people were dying there like sheep and that there was a regular ex odus from the place. The facts appear to be that there have been some forty or more cases, of which perhaps half a dozen were fatal, that a few people left, and that the disease is abating. There were exeaggeated reports last summer to the effect that Asbe vilie was being depopulated by typhoid-lever:. Bills have been introduced in Congress to secure the ref unding by the Government of the cotton tax; The question is asked, Hpw many farmers in North Carolina have cotton-tax receipts for any oi the years 1863 to 1S66! It is said that sharpers have bought up the bulk of such receipts, some say at not over 1 per cent, of their value. A prominent gentlemau says that in 18GS-'69 he saw a merchant and broker buy t;uch tax receipts for a mere song. Senator Vance's bill proposes to return the money to each State instead of to the sharpers who bought up the receipts from the farmers who paid the taxes. i
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