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THE NEW ERA. Published Every Wednesday, SHELBY. N. O. I GEO. -A. FUICK, U Editor. Subscription $1.00 1 Tear, is Idiance. tW Contracts for advertising for any iace or time may be made at the NRW ERA Office. ! A.11 subscriptions are due in advance. . If Advertising accounts 'transient) A le in advasc: ; when contrac'-od for three in mths or 1-mger, due every Ui ec months y Advertisementsdiscontinued before the time contracted for hasexpireit.eharged ntrHient rates for time actnally published WKHNESDAY. JUNE 8, 1837. We wish that President Cleveland would come down- here and go fishing in the First' Broad River. Me. Petek M. Hale, who! died on Saturday, was one of the ! greatest journalists that North Carolina has produced." He was a patriot, aceoin rwliliArl man and fearless writer. We know of no North Carolinian Who can take the place he filled wheti in the vigor of life- . ! ; ; . I l Members of the I New York Riding Club' have recently- made a two weeks' equestrian tour over the excellent roads of Newj York and New Jersey and they are given great credit in the New -York papers for their feat. In North Carolina, nobody would think anything at all of such a little matter. .The latest Republican ticket for 1888 is Blaine and Sherman and a fine ticket it is!. Blaine and Sherman! The "Tattooed Man" and Honest;John,?' "Honest John" who has gotten so rich on the the salary of a Congressman ! The sycophant pf Irish Catholic ttemo crats and the man who regards all Democrats as Confederates and there fore traitors! Blaine and Sherman ! ' THE May Bulletin efthe North Caroli na Department of Agriculture is an inter esting and valuable number. It contains a full official report of the Board of Agriculture, copy of the act to promote the cultivation of oyster, an appeal from Prof. Atkinson, of the State nniversitg, for specimens of all orts of insects for ' examination and study, the usual reports of analyses of fertilizersj and other interesting matter including Mr. Whitney's report of pot experiments with cotton. .We are glad to see the Asheville Citizen again taking1 press dispatches. It is one of the most welcome exchan ges that come to our fable and is, .13 we think, about as nearly right on all the important questions before the peo pie as any paper with which we are acquainted. Asheville should "be able to support a first class- daily newspaper and the Citizen has upon its staff the ability to give it one. Of course, for .this, dispatches aie essential and we are grind that our contemporary has them.. The death of Mr. Wm. A. Wheeler, vice president under J r. Hayes, which oceured last week, has occasioned less notice than that of any other man who has ever been bo prominently connect ed, with the government. . But Mr. Wheeler wa not a distinguished man when be was made vice president and, since ; the expiration of his term of office, be has not been at all before the -public , Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first vicepresident,is now the onlyliving dm who has ever been vice president of the United States and he, we think, Is eighty-eight years old. Some weeks ago Candidate John Sherman wait traveling through the South and telling us what nice people we'are and how rich and intelligent we are getting and how truly good we should be if we would only become Republicans and adopt the benign principle of taxing men to make them rich, otherwise known as protection. Now the Honorable John is once more in the North and he tells the people of that section that the Democratic party ; is the Confederate party and goes' on to explain that there is noth on earth so wicked as a Confederate. This pesty fallow, John says, is not only plotting to destroy the business of the country; with his vile notions of free trade, but is actually intent upon disrupting the union with his antiqua ted ideas of constitutional government, while property is even menaced by this outrageous wretch because he would like honesty; and economy at Wash ington and takes considerable interest in poor men's rights. But John has surprised and deceived nobody. For uo sensible man believed - his gush when here and no intelligent man be lieves his venom in theNorth. Our esteemed friend, the editor of the Rutherford, Banner, has evidently lost his temper. In the kindness of our hearts and purely out of considera tion for our brother, we recently, m the most respectful language that we could command, made a suggestion that, if followed, we believed would redound to the benefit of our friend and his paper ; but straightway he be comes greatly excited and savagely at tacks us right and left..; "As is usually the ease with men in a temper, he has said things that are not only unkind, but extremely indiscreet. ; Thus, he de nounces as an "upstart who has uo in terest in common with them" (the peo ple of Rutherford) .a gentleman who has done much toward building up Rutherford county; Now, our brother is mistaken if he imagines that his readers like to hear him call;'upstarts," people who come among1 them with no sinister purpose, still lets 1 those who. would help them and are able to do so. It is even possible (hat maliciously di.s posed persons might ask the editor of the Banner what he considers himself and how great his own interest in the county and how has he shown it Then the Banner indulges in wiid glee at having "caught" the aforesaid gentle man in an inconsistency ; but, if it will permit us respectfully to say so, it has merely succeeded in displaying- the dullness of vision that amjer so often produces. Further;, the Banner "goes for" Tite New' Enk itself, in siteh a way as might makelus, if we were not unusually mild and gentle in disposi tion and kindly 'dispose! toward its ed itor, lose our owu temper. We have, however, restrained ourselves, again out of i regard for him, because we knew that if we should become ex cited, we wuld say things that would be unpleasant to him. Thus an angry and disagreeable person might have ; returned some such epithet as. "drun ken. beat" for "upstart," bestowed upon a connection, and he might have e-one further and have said some un- o -, kind things concerning "unpaid bills," &c, and might even have deuied that the people who pay for the Bitnner re ceive the worth of their money. But, Brother Ivy, we shall do none of tese things and we beg tq assure you that, as we have not infrequently in the past proved our willingness to serve vou. we hold vou still :n the same kind regard, despite your indiscretion, and are equally disposed to serve you in the future. We are even willing to withdraw our suggestion and to admit, if you wish it, that your paper is as good as you cafTmake it. v We must beg, however, that, in return, you will remember the courtesy for which your native state is so famous and not be come private and personal when you wish to be severe. Our public utter ances are legitimate objects of com ment, our individuality and the indi viduality of those connected with us are not, though we are as able to de fend the Tone as the other. RALLY, BOYS. It is to be hoped that the ex-Confed erate re-union proposed to be held in Shelby in August will be a grand suc cess. These gatherings are productive of probably as much good as any that can take place among men. They are eminently social and bring together friends who have long been separated. Ties that were about to dissolve are at once felt to be as firm as ever and the man who but a moment before felt as if he were alone in the world suddenly finds that he has hosts of fiiends and old and tried ones, too, men who, with him, have suffered and lost. But soldiers' re-unions do mote than merely make men feel good. They in crease men's patriotism and they each the rising generation there Li more to live for than self and money, that men have died for home and country and principle and that men will do all this again. I he tales the ex-Confederates tell are, indeed, stories of battles against the stars and stripes, but these men are not less loyal for all that aud it is safe to say that never do they feel so thoroughly that they would fight for the old flag now and tell their boys to do so, too. as when they recount with pride the .lories of the dajs under the stars and bars. Our Cleveland county soldiers have never yet met together in this way and it is high time that they were begin ning to do so. Thousands of gallant teilows went trom this county, many of them never came back and others have wandered away, but many are still left and it will be a great thing for them all to eorue together k1 have a big old soldiers' meeting. By all means, let the- re-union be held and let everybody put his shoul der to the wheel to make it a grand success., If everv man iloes his part it will be a grand success. - THE COl'STY FINANCES. The joint board of County Commis sioners and Justices of the Peace has done well-in the levy of taxes for the ensuing year. All of the obligations upon the county have been provided for, the expense of county government has been taken care of, and the tax has been kept do-vn to the lowest limit. Of course, there will be no one in the county -who will object to the levy for county and school purposes and the provision for meeting the cost of the new poor house was equally essential . With reference to the railroad tax, the board would appear to have taken the wise course. The legal status of the bond debt is the same as it has al ways been. The Supreme Court has said that the injunction prayed for should have been granted until the validity of the bonds could be tested.. But the in junction was not granted and the bonds are now negotiable se curities. There is. hardly a possibility that they can ever be declared invalid. Then the county certainly should be ready to meet the interest when it be comes due. ', I But,to assume that there is a chance that the bonds be illegal, it is still bet ter that the tax be levied; for now the county will not be made defendant in many suits that might otherwise be brought against her. Whatever may happen to the bonds, she will . be spared the shame of wanton repudia tion and, if there be more litigation, its cost will be borne by others and the county will be saved from this expense, at least. v . The decision not to begin a sinking fund at this time was, we think, qually politic. It is not probable that the peo ple will ever be less able to bear a heavy tax than they are at present, while soon there will be a greater mar gin for a sinking fund tax than there is now. Next year the poor house will be nearly paid for,and there will be no accumulated interest to meet. A tax for a sinking fund will then be less felt. ; But, besides this, we think that the railroad debt will be met more jeasily than people generally imagine. . Over a year ago we made a calculation and found that, at the rate of increase that hnd been observed i.t the property of the county for the last few years, if the tax first levied were sufficient to meet the interest on the bonds and the rate were kept up, there would be sur plus enough from it toraeet.if properly invested, the bond debt when due. There is now more property i the county than ever before and unless the uew assessment puts a' lowwr value upon property than has prevailed in the past, there will be a small surplus this year and a somewhat larger one next year. These surplus sums, small at first, will, if properly taken care of, in twenty years be sufficient to meet the principle of the debt or, if there should lie a deficiency, it will be a very small one. ' Of course, if we should prefer to have a special levy for a sinking fund, there would be ho loss from such a course, since, as the taxable basis, be came larger, the rate of the levy for the interest, as well as that for the sinking fund could be reduced. The same result would be accomplished in the long run, only, in the one ease, Aw burden would be more equally dis tributed during the coming years and, in the other, we should the sooner get rid of the bulk of the debt. 4 iiUUi'M 1'OI.OK MXKS. It is to be regretted that the recent troubles of the Episcopal Church in North aud South Carolina over the negro .question have been the subject of so much comment in the secular press, because, while in most cases the remarks have been made both in good faith and in good taste, a few newspapers have recalled Milton's sen tence of "the fools" who "rush in where angels fear to tread."1 But it is important now that the public should see the situation as it really is. As a gentleman whom a contempo rary has styled "a writer who signs himself Calbraith B. Perry," but who is a distingu'shed High Church clergy man of the diocese of Maryland, a man of breeding, culture, refinement and devotion, who has given his life to work among Southern colored people, has pointed out, the case in South Car olina is very different from that in this diocese. In the former, the trou ble has arisen over negro representa tion in the diocesan convention, in the latter, this has not yet been questioned, but the discussion has arisen purely out of what has been denounced as an at tempt to force social equality between the races. And yet, in North Carolina, noth-, mg has been done to which honesr. w Christian white men, secure in their own position, can object. We have taken some pains to ascertain the facta in the case and we learn that at the con vention the-, Bishop invited the dele gates to a reception at his. residence and that the invitation was repeated and in such a way as to make it apply to all. Two colored members felt the delicacy of their position : but, upon the repetition of the invitation, they concluded that they would be doing the Bishop a discourtesy, if they did not attend. So they went to the re ception, went late, kept themselves in the background, and acted altogether unobtrusively, though they were spoken to kindly by several gei.llemeu of unquestionable social position. And this is all there was of the incident, which would probably never have got- vten into the papers, had it not been for the outrageous effort of h Republican paper to make political capital out of the event. We have no desire to dis cuss it, for it speaks for itself. But the position of the Episcopal Church ui the South as to colored membership in its conventions is one of peculiar delicacy. Nothing so dis tinguishes' it as its claim to beiug Catholic, one and indivisible. The evangelical denominations make no such claim, at least not in the same sense. They can, without violence to their constitutions or the spirk of their institutions, if they deem k to the best interests of either race, separate the whites and the blacks into different organizations. But the Episcopal Church cannot do this and be true to what it regards its " most distinctive principle, and the feelings of white men or black men have nothiug to do with the matter. Practically, the talk of the danger of social equality is absurd. ' There is no more danger of social equality arising from negro membership in the conventions, than there is in negro suffrage and not as rffuch asnh negro membership in the secular learned pro fessions. Taking the historic theolo gical position of the Episcopal Church into account, the - bugaboo of social equality might as logically demand one church for the poor and one for the rich, one for aristocrats and one for plebeians, as one church (not con gregation) for whites and one for blacks. WI1KN HUE t-O.WKH HOME. When she comes home again ! A thousand ways I fashion to myself, the tenderness Ot my glad welcome : I shall tremble yes; ' And touch her, as when first in the old days I touched her girlish hand, nor dared upraise Mine eyes, such was tny faint heart's sweet distress. Then silence: And the perfume of her dress: "The room will sway a little, and a haze Cloy eyesight soulsight, even tor a space: And tears yes and the ache here in the throat, j To know that I so ill deserve the place Her arms' make for me : and the sobbing note I stay with kisses, ere the tearful face Again is hidden in the old .embrace. fames Whikomb Riley in the Century. . Ktttrus ir 'htmny Rotk. Chimney Bock, June 6. -A big storm visited this part of the county last. Wednesday, With hard rams and heavy winds. Several houses were upset- Mr.l Sam, Williams' mill was blown down and torn to pieces,' as was the house ot Mr. Walker j Robinson. For several miles along Bill's reek Att1mnr. not a tree-ia left 'Standin. It was a distressicglime among the folks of this part of The eountyf .We have had so much rain that it 'has been hard for people to work their crops, but these are doing well.' ; There is considerable sickness here now, many persons having . the" flax. Mr. Lawson Elliott. ja supposed .16 be fatally ill. Messrs. Carl, J. W-, John and Martin William? went from here on the' excursion to Wilmington.' .- - - E.H.D. " Rnlhrlrd NeXca. Bureau of The e New Eka, ) :T)T0N; .irNK i. t f . Guthrie Hor f r' - RrTHKRPORDTON "Mr. S. P. Tanner, the secretary and treasurer of the company that to build the uew plaid mills on Double Shoals.arrived here on Saturday night und has since been engaged in exam ining the property of the company pre paratory to beginning operations. Work will be begun at once with a capital of $100,000, which will soon be increased. The mill will start with 6,000 spindles. The company has been authorized by the county commission ers to erect a bridge over the river at a cost not to exceed $2,000 and, this, sum will be allowed them on their, taxes. Our people are much rejoiced -.t the excellent prospects of the mill and re alize that it means much for Ruther ford county. It nas been ascertained beyond a doubt that the dog that recently bit Mr. Mae Morris was not affected with hodrophobia. - - The residence which is being erected for Mr. M. H. Justice is now nearly roofed aud weatberboarded and work on other buildings in proceasof erec tion is going forward rapidly. Mrs. Revely has been quite ill for some time, but is now much improved. Her son, Howard Revely, who had been here to visit her, Las returned to his post in South Carolina. . - Mr. M. H. Justice has deen ill sev eral days this week, but is now better. Mr. W. S. Guthrie, of the Guthrie House, has- already had ner forty applications for board during ' tho summer and it is known that other houses in town will receive summer boarders. , - There is now a marble yard at the Carolina Central depot. A money order department has been ' added to the postoffice at Forest City. ' 4iu-M nuixTiii jii:iv. The I'resbj lrlnn rbiirrb Slrl-k-n Ity Iia-Ilniix ro I'rtttiieef n. Kixo'a MorxTAix, N. C. June 4. The late wet weather has retarded farm work to some extent and our farmers are having sone fun with the grass; but as the rain has ceased things will soon Im; in ijood shape again. X utli of this place, quite an excess of raiu lwis fallen, while north of her only good seasons have fallen out. The new- board of commissioners, with I. W Ganett as Mayor, met the other day and made some new'arrange meut.s of affairs. They added Mr. C. It. Falls to the police force and 'determin ed to carry out several plans which will be very beneficial to our town. Our streets for the past twelve months have been worked by eotitraet, and I understand tliey will be so worked for the next twelve months. In tho matter of street wormog it seems to be hard to do justice to all concerned. As is al ways the ease,' some good taxpayers think certain work should be done in a certain way. Some of our streets during the past year have been much improved, while others have sono un touched. It seems that jrith very little cost our city fathers 'might, during the winter, set shade tiees on all our main sidewalks and thus prreatly improve tho appearance of our town. This, how ever, is a matter for our board to con sider and we feel that they will act judiciously. During the prevalence of a thunder storm on last Wednesday evenincr, the Presbyterian church at this place was struck by lightning. One of the door posts was shivered to splinters and the weather boarding up tho entire front on one side of the door and the plas tering were torn off; the upper two rows of shingles were torn off from the front and both those opposite the'flrst window, from which joint it passed down the roof on one side, tearing up the shingles for the width of a foot or so, then, passing over the window, the upper four lights o! the side row were broken and the post of the window from this point down was torn up. The damage done was considerablejbut the good citizens of our town and com munity will make up money enough to repair the breakage. Workmen were put to work on Thursday morning and soon the roof was repaired The ice cream supper given by the ladies for the benefit of the Presbyteri an church was a success. I have been informed by some of the ladies that the amount usually giveu by Mrs. George E. Coolidge, as well as her untiring efforts to bring in cash, were greatly missed on this occasion. I have been shown some very fine bright tobacco by Mr. J. F. Herndon,' who thinks that with close attention the crop could be made a paying ona. He says a man with a tobacco crop on hand has little time for protracted meetings. ' Mr. A. W. Harmon sold his cotton crop one day this week at 11.15. If more of our people could hold their cot ton till the price suited them they wonld be more independent and much better off. ' -" ; Our Mayor's court has' been undis turbed for some time pat," but you may look out soon thingstare getting wrong. ' ' . - Seyeral little cases have been before H. P. Allison, Esq., lately ' for assault and battery. Some people : will fight and then pay for it, ' ' Mr. W. A. Falls has made a 'great "improvement oubia lot: by enclosing the sam With a new felU'e- aud pallif 4B"irf&frW iof our cjitizens - should toKols-the ex W ot Mr. Falls in his V iWboardtnir'lious" pre constantly wutaitMiii.' I'tters in .-rt'Siii rd ,to board A nrim the hol iU il s -h'M which ojpeus here outtheiVh. We wish our wotrthy sapenntendent. much success irtitnis ,rtr 'tAi.il. nin experience, we-know thaf no one wish.hr oj.teaoli should fail to attend this sehooU t It fulfil Tirra a longtime to learn howjto teach, j - ; The sickfolks of our town are some what betfef now aud-we hope soon lo see them all i The harvest Iglupoh osjah.l many arc cutting wheHtjfdaK Ti"' croP 1S good- i DiOK- . . . -. r ! f sunn 1RY Of nit: SF,W4 : v MAvbl. TTESnAV, A mtion of want of conn wna i;t'; the new French Ministry was4d. ie.aled by a lare majority. Th ;'dem;irst rations i:i favor of Rmhuiger ai the milita ry fete in Paris threatened at Vn tlm" to become serious and ihc G;trJe Rcpublicaine had to disperse the , crowd. -UjThv Bclgjan House Of Representatives! is discussing the extra military credits, and the strikers are making new accesion3 In some quarters, while in others' Work is being repumed. - John W. Davis, the first dem ocratic Governor of Rhode Ialand ia many years, was inaugurated at : Newport. A noted swimmer of Richn)ojid, Va.,-.lost his lift in the canal basin , there on a i ... wager of ten cents. j WEDXESDAV. JUxkl-1.' , Frank lice, the son of Mrs, Hattie Tensiyrs, on trial at Buffalo! for the mur der of her husband, testified for the pros ecution. Ex-Congressman George L. Converse, of Ohio, comes out strongly for Allen G. Thurman &3 the proper nominee of the democrats of that state in the. next gubernatorial campaign. Judge Ly man D. Follett, of the Kent county (Mich.) P-obate Court, is reported a fugitive with a large shortage in his accounts. Sen ator Shermai made a characteristic ad dress at Springfield, 111 cae of im ported smallpox in the' thickly jlopulateil Italian section of Chicago has alarmed the health authorities into vjgorous pre cautionary measures. THURSDAY, JVVE 2. The resumption of eviction's at Bodyke is creating a great excitement. A hole had to be made m thcvwall of i a house in I i i ! order to remove the furniture, -i A j j theatre being built in Brussels is to be! made as nearly fireproof as possible, and : numerous exits are to be provided to prei vem uie Powo""J i tiqiocan.t such as that of the Op-ra-Comiqne in SParis.It is reiorieu inaioiie oi ine men concerned in a dastardly assault upon a girl at Kcl kerty, Ind., was buried alivo by a m h. Charles H. Saw-er. republican, was inagurated as Governor of Sew Hamp-i shire. Oistrict Attorney Marline has been informed by three of ttie jnrvmi who had been selected tor thejbhjrp tnal that an "attempt had been made to 1 , ri !: them by the defence. Defendant's law- vers indignantly deny this.-!- William. O'Brien, editor -of the frniCl Irehind, wa? most intlinsiasticaltv recbived bv a I crowded audience at the New! York Ar-J adeniy ot Music. FRIDAY, .TI NE 3. j Frightful scenes are taking platv til B-nlyke, vvhe-rc evictions are luing c n- tinned under great diffieultil-s. Gt-r- nuny is s:id to look npon -the re.-etit events in France a an assiuaiivc of wsic:'. La France, of Paris, ssvs; that iVer two hundred person? prisTie 1 in tlie Opera C'oiniqne fire. Frankford, the Wilniiiigtou (l'l.) barkeeper wfho sh-t a desperado, was exonerated by a coroner's jury on tlit? ground of selWeff nca -A slight slKK-k- oi earthquake revived the fear of the inhabitants of jCohiuibia, S. C. Judge Thorn of the jpity Conrt of I'a.lucah, Ky., siiitencej a dUs.ilute .vomaa to lie s. id into slavery to the, highest bidder for a tefm of thirty, days. S.V1TKDAY, JI NK -1. ! George U. Tarks, a young; ackir of Boston, is mtemi, and it is. feared that he has committed suicide. Mr. ijames G. Blaine lctt Augusta, bidding farewell to his friends and neighbors, pnorio his de partnre for Europe on the steamer Ems next Wednesday. More than ?ix hundred bears were killed in Mains last year. Ex-Governor Franklinf J. Modes', of South Carolina, who. was serving a term in the Massachusetts Statb Prison, has been pardoned by G vernoV Ames. Ex-Vice President William A. j-Wheeler breathed his last at his home in Malone, Franklin county, without haying re gained consciousness Colonel .Ileri nandez, of the Mexican armyl having captured fourteen bandits whont he had been chasing some days, summarily exe cuted them. Eight men were killed by me premature explosion ot a I blast at Birmingham, Pa., and three by a similar accidental Bennewater, N. y. Cotton crop in sight, 6,300,458 bales.'-i j-Three men adrift in a boat six days without food or water, were piJced up at sea by the barque Kate C. Maguire. Two new cases of yellow fever are reported at Key West; no deaths. Thirteen clerks in the U. S. Treasury Department have lost their places. , j- . . i 'SUNDAY,' JUNK 5. j- Lawrence Donovan, the Brooklyn Bridge jumper, leapsd from London Bridge into the Thames as a jubilee of fering to the Queen. -The New Zealand Ministry, having been defeated j in the Colonial Parliament, caused a dissolution, and the general election will take place in September. The President passed a quiet Sabbath at his mountain resort. A: negro was taken, from the jail at Clarendon, Ark., and hanged to af neigh boring tree. Two Seminole Indians, executed publicly in the Territory for murder, were shot with revolvers.- Two gallant little boys named Flaher ty rescued a little girl "from drowning at Ansonia, at great risk to themselves! " MONDAY, JUNE 6. , Instruction have been sent to prevent the landing at San Francisco of French convicts from New Caledonia. Simon Nelson killed Mrs. Bhaw, her son and hef sister, and mortally wounded a man named Kelsey ar, Huron, Da.; Nelson afterwards committed suicide. So far, there have been f ix deaths rom, yellow fetfe'it at Key West M. B. Ferley shot and killed G. W. Garner at Danville4 Va.; Confederale Memorial day was celebrated at Winchester, Ya. JENNIE. the wf rl' m j ' &n beel ovef head, I An kings may turn tae yeoman, &aer3may forget their creed, An' iagea gang like showmen. 1 I But wane I earn a penny T maun Maw, nae rain maun fa' On Jennie. Her beart I won when it was new. An' Her wee ban' she gied me. Sae I nLaun aye be leal an' true, In case my dawtie need me. : run! prood tae win a penny. An' crtfck my thoomb at care an1 gloom i' I Wi' Jennie. ; i . - w iii ' It has been uphiU oor daya, . 3ut aire when cauld care Beared me . My lassfa, wi' her winsome, ways, i f Stood: by my aide an' cheered me; ' : An' itae my last guid penny What een betide, I'U aye deride Wi' Jennie. Some diy, an' Death, the orra loon, . Will grin ia balth oor faces. But viceX I ken he canna' drooa - My lassie's modest graces. . I'll ager ye a penny f THat suAe or long content I'U gang i- 1 Wr Jennie. - ByW, whw we cross the Jordan's tide, An' si4ht you lan' sae bonny, . The anil's whaur the door Stan's wide , Will uever speer at ony , i "Ho the wail's big pennyf", , . ' " But welcome gie baith her an' me I - ' My Jennie. ! Norristown Herald. PERIPATETIC -1' PHILOSOPHER. A. iUronsuui Alcott JSarly - Life On of , j the ,aio Unpractical ot Mortals. . A. Broitedn Alcott, still alive and men tally clear, notwithstanding a recent stroke of apoplexy, at nearly 87, is one -of j the ? most remarkable and peculiar tluuv-cters o the time. He is an idealist a:;-i Flatoniat and one of the most un practical of portals, though born, reared tuid living nearly his whole life in pru dent, thrift New England. A Con- n&icut ; farmer's son, be was sent by a country 1 trader, soon after reaching his majority, to Virginia with a lot of knick natiks, to-; pe4dle through the state. So rare andj eccfentric a peddler has seldom beoii.seen. One of his last thoughts was io ne!l ajiythitig- Hk chief desire was to talk, and talK has continued hia dominant desire ever since. He went from planta tion to plantation, and as he was amiable and! interestinjg he staid at the planters' bouses,- read books and discussed phil osophic themes. i After twele months bis employer suc ceeded in getting Mm home by remitting Linn money, when he found that Alcott luid given away most of bis stock to ' the hlavbs, pobr whites and children in the soil tji. PoddSngwas decidedly not his vocation, as lvo perceived himself, and he no: undcittook teaching. He went from Boston to Concord, where he still is, as vmviorldly as'a child, and'as dreamy as a Pertaan pqet. lie has tried to establish several ideal iCommunities they failed, of course and for many years traveled about 'the country holding what he was ple&sed to( term conversations, mainly trauficcndental t monologues on . fate, ixwtry, natures divinity, manhood, sym pathy and Jdhdred topics. Hp is mcapable of earning money, and liis family wold have starved long ago but jfor hU eldpst daughter, Louisa, who lias been writing since girlhood and has become a very popular author with young foiki. The elder Alcott is said never to liavcj liad $10 in his possession but once, and he gav thkt to a professional tramp, who told hiln transparently false story. Hearing tine diaracter of the man, the vaaibond af tetward returned the bank bill with anap6logy. Such perfect inno cencp as hhi is fcliarzning in the abstract, asperating. m0 has never had but m tlie lieaaof a family it is positively any plac0 in Ameriea in the nineteenth cent ury, j His 'proper sphere is Utopia, where some ; of Jus theories might be re duced to practice. His mind is very sug gestive, and Cmersou, practical even when most poetic, was one of his ardent tidinirers Ne York Commercial Ad vertiser. I i iA Wcsteraj Weather Prophet. Foretelling: te weather is beginning to affect Cap;. Glassford, who has charge of tl ;at department on this coast. He be- i ghis to talk f jthe winds and the rain and the bint afl'if they were personal friends of hi ori a globe trotting tour. I asked; lnm thfi other day a somewhat im ixrtinent' question. . "Wbat's going to liappen in weather?" ; He didn't ilook up at the sky as any body else would; do. He didn't hesitate and say, "Well,! think ." He was lapjiarentfy quitfe confident, knew all e'ootit it. H epoke up like a fellow who : raa responsible I for it and ordered its Scourse and his $one was just as if the ; weauicr was a man or a party and travel ling on his OrdersJ "Tliere will boa few showers here to morrow, he'said; "only a few showers." lucre s a storm p fn Oregon now, but it Swon't be down f a few days, and it may 'perhaps be detained a while longer, it takes time, don't yoa know, to work those tilings up and down the coast. San .francisco Chronicle, : History of a Madstone. W. 11. Sonner,! of Fort Worth, Tex., has a madstone tjiat has been used over 100 times and with success. It has a history!. In 848 Capt Wilson, of Ala bama, killed a white deer, and, knowing the Indian theory, looked in its stomach and there found, a stone as large as a goose jegg that ! resembled a petrified eppngq. This ,, was tb madstone. The Indian theory is that the white deer is more SBusoeptiblej to vegetable poisons takon into the; stomach when eaten with grass than other; animals. To preserve the lifej of the aniinal, nature has placed in the!stornachthis porous stonewhich absorbs the poison, neutralizes it and eaves the deer y life. Tlie stone, applied to a bite into fwhfch poison has been in jected,, at once draws it out, and when its pores are; filled ; drops off. Being soaked; in milk, the stone is made pure again and ready for another application. NewiYork Sun. . i l '-4 -4 : 5 ' Uow jMnih Blesseder. Bayaja writer; j'lt i a blessed thing foi; any, one to nave a friend whom he can utterly rtrust."; So it is; but just think how mnch blesseder it is to have a Mend who will trust bimkitterly, and how much more pi?ontabl4 tod--New York Graphic f civ411zed man ivill never want to Bell a thing for niore- than It Is worth, nor will bei want to buy anything for less tnan wnat it UCwofth. Cob Bob Inger ou. ThoaTTri(l aiifiTtutieB for pUU la n. tt . u iihim ana roraira oona ptlilwhra of tho Soiastifla t uhtina to act ao aolioitara , envot. tradoHBarka, eop. . , . " " . y ' w j anra owtti.ua Jgobtam too;.;in Oaiuula. EatUnd, Mml Qonaaar. and ail 01 ! ai,ii.t.n Th.i. otpooM aooqaalod ;nd th, aoUUiaa ato aanii. "i?" "" Pofieitioas propand and Hot in toe etent nice on ahort notice. Torma Tory naapnable. Xo i hsrge for examination of modala r drawHur. A.lvico b mail freo. ummaamm ,Jtt0'?yVn, 'hrortch MnnnJtOo.annotlood ci".-VfIJ.;iC AMKrUCiS.whiehnju" utolarcest circn'.4i.n aiid in tho moat influential awspaper of its k.iid published ia the world, lae edrantave ot aochi a notioe aTary rltanlae nnaarstjuiiils topnb!t-hed Wl'KKJUYat $3.00 a rear. andS ' maohsoirJ. in-.-ei.i.i,::. e.iir Bearing work TZt pUiet ui,,inu,t. ij ot idntial proereaaTpob. li"l in a"- f.-.:..;-.,-. it containathenamea of allpatuiit. eaen ii J t -itu i.t ivery invention patented I r f- : ! n.r Smoutha for aaia AnUm "j .r,,i 1 " ' iwtent write to ouiu u a. iKsWMiKir-r-t. i rr ' - y - ' iV' iiancinc .Itauaua -Hiui patuuM au.i!ed free. in Br zh- -SUCCESSORS TO K. D. LATTA & BRO One Priced WE HAVE NOW THE LARGEST AND BEST SELEtTKD s T - MEN'S, YOUTHS' AND BOYS' C:L:0:T:H::N:C In the State, and we invite and solicit of our Prices and Strck. Gents' Furnishing (Joo(s and our stock of HATS includes everything lo be desired in ;l, if n, LICIT ORDERS FROM A DISTANCE, towhich ! ' Personal Attention. Ve will send gvxls returnable at our expense. All We Ask is a Trial. 8-tf. THE EUTHJ8EF0KD BUYS, SELLS, RENTS, and Agricultuial Ls.mls.iiid Mining Interests Loans Money Exceptional Facilities f-r Advice as to T. 3. JUSTICE, Manager, Rutherfordton, -1 J. E - SUCCESSOR TO- BOSTIC & MARTIN, Will astonish To Reduce Which consists of almost ANY THING Along SOME OF THE BARGAINS, -FOR High Arm Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machines ALL THE -ALSO- C00KST0VES Even for the NOW IS Til GAL, L EARLY!! Thkie 1I lor past for, lo the old flrm, I liopc to merit a conllnua-ice the same by Fair and Square Deal Very SUBSCRIBE FOR uiotliiers all Cl.jhing Purcha.r t We al.st imve the Latest Stv -II --; 'S ill to ntij; part of the fi.unti v , a'el"' y - ''" :tWir v:, PHARR & LONG, EEAL ESTATE AG-MCI EXCHANGES TOAVN PROPERTY, and on Mortgages. Speculative Purchases. HAT- you. He intends His Stoc k, YOU NEED ; SO- ami .'eture HIS- -FOR- LADIES, poor old Bache lors!. J TIM E C..J Respectfully, SWI fftCT MARTIN, THE NEW EK A OHa W aulUohaod irSTJ
New Era (Shelby, N.C.)
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