IrPAiToQiv . THE TEOrLE W . .. - i . ........ - ;t). - l on luviiuuoo iu u o Tho best way to invito ttiem U to aj k vcrtiae in lie I til . Com crclal I'riiitliKj Lotto Iieailn, rill Heads, Note . Heads. BthtvmcuU, Business Cards, Envelopes, cto., Executed Neatljr aail rroniptly. VOL. V. WAWttUELUlito ELKIN, N. C.t THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 1897. . 1 1 i The Comptroller ol the Currency Sees ' ' No Indications of a Panic. BUSINESS OUTLOOK PROMISING. The POULTRY SHOWV Over Five Thousand Exhibits In Alinoit Seven Hundred Classes. The New York Poultry and Pigeon Associa tion openod Hi eighth annual exhibition ia Madison SqUftre Garden, Now York City, witll over Ave thousand exhibits, divided Into al most seven hundred classes BILL ARP'S LETTER. DISCUSSES CHURCHES AND THEIR MANSER OP GOVERNMENT. Dcpaslts are Increasing ee.4 leant and Discounts Expanding He Predicts ; That Money It Coming On of Hoard. . In, and 'Will Be Willlnjly Invested ' Ths Percentage or Failures It Bmalli Washixotojc, D. C. fSpeolal). The causes o! the numerous bank failures in virions pvtsof the country have puszlel even the flnnnolal experts, and no satisfactory reason bns as yet been advanced in explanation of the unrest In banking clrolet. In order to give the aspect of the situation a viewed by the Treasury Department, Comptroller Eckels Submitted to a formal interview, JIls views are, tn part, as follow 'There is nothing in the chtraiter of the bank failures which have ocaurred in tho West and Northwest within the past week or mouth to cause any publlo apprehension of a general return of bank troubles. If sny deduction is to be drawn from them, quite the reverse would be true. The genor.il eltuaiion for strength in the banking world of Ohloago, for instance, could not be better Illustrated then by the fact that, without previous expectation upon the part ot the public there or elsewhere, the second largest National bank in the city could be closed and no other result follow thnn the failure of Institutions for whioh it had long been the feeder. The Atlas went out ot its own mo tion, paying all ot its creditors on nemauu, nnrt wns in a perteotly solvent condition. "At Minneapolis a bank bslonelng to the National system has been closed beoause of a-want or immedlnte convertible assets, tho accumulation of a penod when fortunes were being made by the mechanical act or marking up the price of town lots. Tho in debtednesj due is not beyond a quarter of a million, and will probably be paid without the intervention of a receiver, as will that of the bank which failed in Dulutb two weeks since. When you add to these two the one . which failed at Sioux City. Iowa, three , weeks ago; tho one at Sioux Falls, South Dakota: the one at Garnet, Kansas, and the one at Kansas City. Mo., you have a total number of failures of National banks in the West since November 1 ot eight out of total of 1533 located tn that section. The percentage, it is teen, is exoedingly small. "Out ot tho total of 1539 National banks In the East, only two have failed, and of the 657 in the South, only three. The grand total failures has been only thirteen out of 8830. "It would be remarkable if after the long strain of a political campaign turning so Inrgely upon the discussion ot the money ' question, with an aggressive earnestness on the part of both contending parties, some bank and business undertakings did not feel tho strain and glvo way. An analysis of each case, however, demonstrates that in the failing bank itself is to be found the direct cause of the failure, an t while general con ditions may have hastened the end, they could not alone have accomplished it. Bad methods of bauking, negllgonce of officers and directors, whether tn a large city or a small town, can resnl; in only one thing, and that fillura. These same Institutions would fail in good limes under similar management, aud therefore it cannot be nrsued from them that even under a con. tinuatloa of preseot business condition fatl nre will come to any banking Institution which has been conservatively aud honestly managed. : "As an offset to these sporadia failures, we llnd on an examination of the bank re turns under the call ot December 17 that de posits are increasing and. though In a small er doereo. loans aud discounts expanding. It is certain that money is coming out of hoarding, and will be willingly investro. whenever It appears that the American peo ple are ready to devote themselves strictiy to their own business affairs. "In the meantime, before anv one enter Inlns the belief that because thirteen out of a total of 3580 banks have closed since No vemb3r things In the National or other bank ing world are going to the 'demnilioa bow-- wows,' let him consider each case specific ally, and know how absolutely individual is the caue of each failure. "In the light of things doneand the things rtiitiiKpted to be done, the wonder is, not . tiiot the failures have been so many, bat lhat they have been to few. It all bears testimony to the fact that, despite our fre quent disregard of wholesale business prin ciples, wo yet remain an exceedingly rich and prosperous peoplo a people so rich that Mulhall the great English statistician, . recently sa d ot us that 'In the year 1893 the nnnnla ot the United States must be con- idered as the rlohest people of either ancient or modern time', with their wealth Increasing at tbe rate of seven million dol lars per day.' James H. Eckls, "Comptroller of the Currency." JwS The Pkilosopher Civet Quotation from Dead Bwift on a Pastor Without Following. starve him out. This method will move hiui as effectually as smoking t rabbit out of a hollow tree. Tbe rrosbyterian mode of calling t preacher has much to commend it aftei It is happily done, but it is beset with nbarrassnient in the doing oi it. int tat ideal Burr cochih. Among the prctrtnmt exhibitors at the show are the Hav meer brothers, with nu merous entries from Mountain lJ rm-. Mahwah, N. J.; Joseph Forsyth Oswego . . Y :H. T. Peters, Isllp, I Htb? "h"laS Farm Holbrook, Mas., W. T. Lever- fBr'Ii; ... it'i . nH..I Warm. Taun- ton Mass.; Geone W. Mitchell, Bristol, Vf. .' . Ui.V.i ri, T.nn.lon. Ontario; F. L. Mattison, South Shaftsbury, Vt.; E. 1 . Sheppard, Croton Falls, K. Y. i Orr-s Poultry Yards, Orr-s Mills. N. Y.i Ira 0. Kellar, Prospeot, Ohio; Ezra Cornell, Ithaoa, N. Y. U. B. Blacch.r.ebanon. Penn.; 0 P. Earle, Gouvern-ur, N. Y., and Dr. F. M. Bobluson, Pawling, N. Y. , t. . Additional lntorest is given to tho show by reason of the meeting of the American Poultry Bhow. Other meetings called during the week include the American Black Minorca Club, the Leghorn Club, the Amerl car Jacobin Club, the Nationa Ban am As sociation, the American Tumbler Club, the American Owl Club and th jWaterfow CM. Bpecial prizes have been offered by all these organizations. BRADLEY TO RESIGN. Has Grown Tired of III. Office as Governor of Kentucky. Governor Bradloy, of Kentucky, Is tired of offloe already, and has at last confirmed a rumor prevalent for some days thnt he Is to resign. He says the worms nuung mm. WILLIAM O. BBADLET. me admits bis intention to resign as Gov- t vr .1. THREE THOUSAND CHINESE DROWNED Chuantung City Carrlad Under a Flood by m Land.llite The steamer Peru brings news to San Fran cisco that in addition to the smallpox epl domlo at Japanew ports, oholera has revived at Hong Kong, and though there are not yet mnn, deaths, the nlacue is increasing and serious results are expected. The disease bad made much headway in many Chinese cities and on tbe island oi jrormosa. The Jnnineas norts have declared a quar antine lurainst all cholera infected districts. A severe famine is reported from Western China, It is particularly severe in tbe eity f rhn Vnf. la 8z3Chuea Province, where h.n haa hMn a nrotonced rain, oausing noods, which have spread over vast areas of country, destroying almost tho entire rice and vegetable crops. The inhabitants are dying by scores from aiarvatinn and to aid to the horror of It a nnrt Inn ot the cllv. situated on a bluff nr hand n( the Klnsba Biver. was carried under the flood by a landslide and about 3000 of the starving Chinese were drowned, 'the flood bad undermined the base ot the bluff and a portion of the bill aoout nve acres in extent piungea inio me wuiet. I Faraan. Bloodhounds Sold.- Sheriff "Ben" Hayes, of Crown Point, Ind.. has sold "Buck" and "Jim," his two man-hunting bloodhounds, to the State of Minnesota for a handsome price, 'l nat mate will use the dogs to watch the State Prison an trai-k criminals who escape. A great many have Teoently succeeded in getting away and the State will now adopt this muhnd In eatchine them. "Buck" and "Jim" received their training on criminal farm. a Texas ) A Gms Expoaltlon. Af an exposition at Madison Square Garden Sew York City, opening on January 47, 1897, and holding for two weeks, will be sl.own every practical apparatus and nppliaooe vhii-h entt ra into ihe manufacture or dis tribution of gas as an Illuminating or betting airent. There will be d,iy coo it in oenv onatmtions. and a eas tower of large dlmec sions will be one of tbe greatest curiosities brilliantly lliuminateo. " Girl Charch TJ.hera. ' vGlrls as ushers have solved the problem ot filling the front eals of a Carthage (Mo.) church- - - " There is no truth in the report that Governor Bradley is to have anofllee under McKinley. r.m-Brnnr Hmrllev lilmBeil favs mat ne nas written McKinley a letter saying that he would not accept any office within the flft of the President. The Senate muddle bas doubtless neipea to drive Governor Bradley from allien. The candidate who can be elected by the Legisla ture, Dr. Hunter, is unacoeptutuo to uovcr nor Bradley, and he declines to call nn ex tra session. Should be appoint his friend, onnW. Yerkes, Governor iiraaiey wouia come in for still more censure. It is thought thnt Governor Bradley, nfter resigning, will lot Lieutenant-Governor Wortnlngton ap point whoever he deems fit. A PLAGUE OF HYACINTHS. Navigation on the St. John's Klyer, Florida, Almost Stopped. The cold weather this winter has had no sffeot on tho water hyacinths iu St. John's Blver, Florida, and unless Congress soon takes some step to rid this river and the tributary streams of the plnnt before next summer, navigation of tho upper St. John will De ectireiy Diocneu. On the last trip oi mo steamer tiny oi Jacksonville from Jacksonville to Sauford, great difficulty was experienced in getting through the solia Dea oi nyncimus wuicn ex tended for out mile aud a half south of Volusia bar at the head of Lake George. Wlndsblowiog from the north nua northwest have caused Dlai.ts to be blown out of lakes and streams ami luto the form of a solid muss across the river. Captain Shaw, ol the steamer nays, states that in places the byacimhs roll over nnl over until a solid bank several feet thick is formed and when tbe steamer gels into tbe floating mass it is with the greatest difficulty that she can be extricated. Only a few days agi a small steamer on tbe upper river was completely stalled and it took halt a day for the men in row boats to open up a passage for her. At every landing along the river mill men and loggers complain that business is being ruiued and all hope that Congress ill soon take some action to auora reuer. The mone'.ary interests at stake are very large. LANE COUNTY INSOLVENT. A Kansas County Declares That It Can Pay Mo Mora Interest on Its Bonds. Lane County, Kansas, in the western part of the State, bas been formally declared in solvent by its Board of pommlssioners, who decided to pay no more interest on tl25,000 In bonds held in New York and New Eng. laud. In the past tbe interest nas peen pain promptly and the bonds have been quoted at par. The Lane County folk declare they are not repudiators, but cannot collect taxes as sessed against Eastern loan companies which own large properties in tbe county. Seminole Indian In Disgrace. A spree In Northern Miami, Fin., brought one Seminole Indian into deep dis grace before his tribe. Soms one cut his balr, and be bas been forbidden to return to the tribe until It shall have grown again. His fellows think a mean white man tricked him. CUIlPK Bones to Save Feed. Bather than stand ths cost of feeding hones through the winter, farmers la sec tions of Northern Indiana have killed them and disposed of the carcasses to fertilizing factories. There is an old English rhyme which says: "A pastor without any people Is like a church without a stecpls." Dean Swift added two lines, which said: "A people without a pastor Aro like a dog without a master." This fits us better, for we have lost ours and are now groping around in search of another one. Calling a preacher is always a perplexing and tViincr to do. 'What is the best mode of procedure has long been a v;xed question among the churches. There are some objections to every method that has been tried. It is like the election of judges of our courts; nine times in my recollection tho mode of their election has been changed in Georgia and now the press and the people are howling for another change. 13ut the churches don t change. They think it better to en dure the objections rather than aban don the faith and formula of their fa thers. The Methodists get their nroachers from the bishops and the people hav6 no choice in the selection. If they are disappointed they make no complaint, for they know that the year will soon pass and a change will come. The rotation must go ou. There is no interregnum. They are never without a preacher. This plan saves the people some em barrassment. It is hard upon the preachers and especially upon their wives and children. No permanent abode: no home attachments; no vine and ficr tree; no neighbors of long standing who have been true and tried in sickness and health. Ey the time thev betrin to know them and to love them the year is gone and they must separate. Pr. Johnson, the great phi losopher, said: "I have always looked npon it as the worst condition of man's destiny that persons are so often torn asunder iust as ihey become happy in other's society." Methodist preachers' wives and children are the gypsies of the church. I have always sympathized with them. Another objection to the Wesleyan method is tho bishop's lack of infor mation as to the needs of the different churohes and the qualifications of the preaohers to be assignel. Of course he has to consult the elders and these have thsir favorites, their college mates, their likes and dislikes, and the appointments sometimes are disap pointments and cause heart burnings that are smothered, but felt. . We see by the papers that Eev. Robert Toombs Dubose, a grandson of Bob Toombs, was given six little scattered country churches for the coming year, and he'says he cannot take the burden, for his health is very poor and the win ter's travel from church to church would endanger his life. It looks like somebody ought to have known this before. Some forty years ago a Mr. Graves wrote a sarcastic, unkind book about this power of the bishops over the people, and pictured a great iron wheel revolving horizontally and the bishops sitting on it in dignified ease, while the wheel rested on the bowed shoulders of the humble preachers. The Episcopalians tret their rrcacb. ers from the bishops, too, but they don't rotate, neither do they cet fai away from railroads or civilization Thev are the most devoted sectarians of all Christian denominations de voted to their church, its venerable re nown, its rituals and traditions de- voted to their bishop almost to idola try. An iudifferent preacher is all the same to them as the most eloquent di vine, for they perform as much of the service as he does and only need him for a leader. If he can lead the ritual massing well and administer the com munion he is all right with them. It is an admirable feature in the ritnal of this church that the people both young and old take so prominent a part in the service. I asked a critical cynical friend one Sunday morning where he was Koing in such a hurry. "I'm going no to my church to worship God, not man," said he. I read the other day about an old fisherman who had taken a great liking to an Episcopal preacher w ho was fishing in his neighborhood and he accepted his invitation to come and hear him prt-ach in neighboring chureh next Sabbath. lie put on hi b ft clothes and rode the old mare to the little chapel and took a front seat and tried to be devout for the first time in his life. Alter the service was over he took the preacher by the hand aud said: "Well, parson, I promised to come and I come. I didn't understand much of what you was saying and do ing, but I ris and sot with you the best I could." I have always thought that there was most too much risin and sot tin in that church and not enough in the others. We took a little city boy with us to church last Sunday. It was his first adventure of that kind, but he had been going to matinees. "AunJy, what are they all doing now," he whispered. "They are saying their prayers," she said. . So he bowed his head and repeated, "Twinkle, twinkle little star." After the service he said he didn't think it was much of a show. The Baptists have the most demo cratic method of calling a preacher. It is the very essence of simplicity. They call whom they please and every mem ber has a vote. They keep him as long at it is mutually agreable and either part j can dissolve the relation at pleasure. Of course there is always some embar rassment about getting rid of an un welcome preacher, but there is one waj that is generally successful. They can ; i,h Ia ttia rich! sort of a man. Maybd he does not wear well and his pe -pi are tired of him. And so he is ft sus pect. The test of a preacher irom a single sermon and a day's acquaint- uniair iriai ooiu anoa is a very to call is strictly democratic for everj nnmr.or inn a vote, but after the call is made aud the preacher ordained ai pastor the presbyter locks the dooi and puts the key in its pocket and sayi now that you have got him you mus1 teen him 'till I say no. It is like the l.w nf marriaore and divorce. It iseass uough to get married, but it used to be dUite a difficult thing to gel unmarried. I say "it used to be." It is not much trouble now, neither is it as much trouble as it used to be for a preacher to get divorced from his church. If he gets tired he goes. If he has a more inviting call he goes. If the climate does not agree with hiu health ho goes. If his salary is noi prompuy paid, he goes, and I see iu a late paper that a preacher says the reason why he . rrnod his pastorate ana is eeeaiuK another is that he has finished his work in that community, mat is what the paper said. I would like to see that church. Everybody sainted. roMrnn. and no outsiders to be .nlntfld. Sure v he dulent say mat. When a Presbyterian pastor has made up his mind to change his base the lmrl iust as well submit as orncefullv as they can, for the presby- i:f it- XT-. rrn rrfrtryftfl Ofl terY win rutuj ak. -"no should try to keep an unwilling, dis nastor.and they don't. Treach ers are just human, and will seek to DOLter lllmr tuuuiuuu. -- -i- r get the best places, ana this is right. It is the unwritten law oi we church and of the state the law of business and commerce and art ana society. For ministerial talent there is always room at the top. I was ruminating about these things because we have lost our preacher and are looking around for another. He had a call to a bigger and maybe a bet ter place with a larger salary; and he accepted before we hardly knew he was called. He hadent finished up this church and he knew it but I reckon was afraid that it would finish him up if he staid, for the times were so hard we couldn't pay him promptly, though we did the best we could. Preachers want their salary in the bank, and it ought to be. I was present once when a preacher was ordained. After the ceremony, when the people went up to give him their hands and their bene dictions, one old man said, "May the Lord keep vou humble; we win Keep you poor." And they did. For forty veers I have been looking for a country church that paid the preacher a suffi cient salary and paid it promptly. Favincr the preacher is the unsolved problem and has been ever since there were preachers, ueacons sua ioku to cret to heaven, for they have a a 07- .... , 1 . hard time here. (Jolasmitii tons us 01 the village preacher A mnn he was to all the country dear. And passing rich at forty pounds a year. preaoher and people. But what else can be done? The result not unfre- quently ia that one or both are disap pointed and another chnnge in wanted. The churoh ia split up. There are majorities and minorities until nnany the subscriptions fall off and th prnaebef has to go or starve. Mone is the sinews of church prosperity as wall as of war. Ihe love ot money is v.. mnt. nf all evil and the lack of it W wva " - ...i 1 io nearly as bad. It win emu ana pa-alyze the spiritual life of any church. Bill Abp in Atlanta Constitution. There mca 1 suppose," eho re marked, pensively, "who a-e engaged to nore than one girl at tts same time. "Yes," he answered, "but I am uot one of' them." "I am glnd to hoar you eny that. 11 Is so frivolous and Insincere." -Of course. Aud there's no reason why . man shouldn't make one engage m.nt riiiu eo all the way around If hi takes his tlme."-WashUgton v-ar - City Supported by Krupp Foundries Tim Kruno gun foundries at I-.ssbu, near Dussehlorf, employ 27,155 per sons, whose families amount to 07,507 persons. mmmm CONSUMPTION m CAN BE CURED. . A. Slocum, M. C, the Great Chemist and Scientist, wil Send Free, to the Afflicted: Three Bottles of his Newly Discovered Remedies to Cure Consumption and All Luu Troubles. WITH THE NEW r,cc WITH THE OLD AND ON vi 1 CKaNaaaVMUsI What is mm has o creat and good a man as Jona- han Edwards after twenty-four years of foithful service at Northampton was mtnrt out of his pulpit, and like an old Vinraa turned out to craze and die. We find dtiod deal of fault with the preach ., a or. annifltimes with their wives and nhiWlren. but after all they are as jiwii .'ts best people wo have got ana apt us the best examples. How soon we would lose our morality without them. They have their likes and dis likAfl. and perhaps their favorites in the church, and so do we, In the old times they preached for smaller saia ries. rue salary was a secouumj cuu siilArntion. but now it is the first. Over fifty vears aso I went to scnooi to an Irishman who suddenly took notion that he would quit teaching an aa to preaching. He studied a year and then applied to the presbytery at Columbus for examination and license The committee reported favorably and he was about to pass successiuuy, when Dr. Goulding, the moderator, leaned forward and said: "I will ask the candidate a single question. Broth er Gray, do you feel in your heart that the Lord las called you to preach the gospel to tie people?" "Yes," said he, "if they pay me for it." He was not lioensed. He attached too much im portauce to the pay. The other day I met my friend Mil ton Candler in Atlanta and asked him about a young preacher, and he said: "Yes, he is a very promising man. I expect you can get him. What salary can you pay?" When I told him he looked surprised and raid: "No more than that? I don't think you can get him. Good preachers have gone up." There are but few long-continued pastorates in these later years. As soon as a preacher gets a reputation he is called to a wealthier church, and he noes. It is easy for him to see that the wav is clear and it is the Lord's will when the salary is increased. The pastorates in England and Germany are life-long and their is no chance for the college graduates save to wait for their death or superannuation or for new churches to be established. The Presbyterian mode of calling pastor has no fixed rules or usages. For awhile the vacated church is all at sea, but by and by the applications be crin to come in and references are given. A correspondence is had and inquiries are made as to the applicsnt'a character as a man and a preacher and a worker, and as to bis wife and child ren. If it be practicable he is invited to come and preach a trial sermon and mingle for a day or two with the peo ple. This is a hard experience on any sensitive Christian man, for he realizes that he is on trial and the jury is com posed of perhaps hundred men and women to whom hi is a stranger and who know nothing of his inner life, his emotions, his straggles and mis fortunes, The situation is against him, for people will naturally won der w hy be does not tay where he is 1 Nothinar eould be fairer, more phi lanthropic or carry more joy to tbe af flicted, than the offer of T. A. Slooum, M. 0., of New York City. Confident that he has discovered a reliable cure for consumption and all bronchial, throat and lung diseases, general decline and weakness, loss of flesh and all conditions of wasting, and to make its great meiits known, be will send free, three bottles to any reauer of the Elkin Times who may be suf fering. Already this "new scientific course of medicine" has permanently oured thousands of apparently hopoless cases. Tbe Doctor considers it his religious duty a duty which he owes to human ityto donate his infallible cure. He has proved tne areaaea con sumption to be a curable disease be yond any doubt, and has on file in his Amerioan and European laboratories testimonials of experience from those benefited and cured in all parts of the world . Don't delay until it is too late. Con sumption, uninterrupted, means speedy ana certain deatn. Aaaress x. a., am- cum, M. C, 98 Pine street, New York, and when writing the Doctor, give ex press and postofllco address, and please mention reauiog una muvio m Elkin Times. Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants tmd Children. It contains neither Opium, juorpnir r other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' uso by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishncss. Castoria prevents vomiting: Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates tho food, reffulatcs the stomach and bowels, giving: healthy and natural b.cp. Cas toria Is tho Children's Panacea-the Mother's Friend. Castoria. the CAPE FEUR & YADKIN VALLEY VI Jos Gill. Receiver. CQNDENSEDSCHEDULE. In Effect November 16th, 1808. vnnrff artfiyn. No. 2. Daly. Leave Wilmington 7 50 a. m Arrive rayeuevuio Leave FayettevlUe 1 jjj t f..A c.ua,fllA Jnnntlnn 11 117 c.jvitvi.w- Leave Sanford ?5 -m' Leave Climax artlve Greeoiboro T.Aava Arnanahnro 8 Leave Stokesdale W Ivive Walnut Cove JJ Leave Rural nail. - Arrive Mt. Airy 6 35 niTTtr RnnxD. No. I. Dally r... r air. . .Hiua. m. Leave Rural Hall -V0 Leave Walnut Cove Leave Stokesdale U 07 Arrive Greensboro H TjtavA nmnnubnro 13 10 P- 01. Leave Climax " Leave Sanford ? 66 irrlra Favatteville Junction .... H Arrive Fayettevtlle.. Leave Fayeitaville Arrive Wilmington hosts: sound. Castoria. "Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chil dren. Nothers have repeatedly told me ol us good effect upon their children Lowell, Mass. - Castoria Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real intert of their children . and use Castoria instead of the various quaclc nostrums wnicn are destroying their loved ones, Ly forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby tending them to premature graves. UK. J. f. MHCHIiWKi Conway, Ark. " rn.lr.Ha la so well adapted to children that I recommend It as superior to any prescription known tome." u. a. Archer,' M. D., in So. Oxlord St., Brooklyn, N. Y, " Our physicians In the children's depati mcnt have spoken highly of their experi ence in their outside practice with Castoria and although we only have among out medical supplies what Is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that tha merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it." UNITED HOSPItAl, AND DlSPENSARV, Boston, Mass. Allen C. 6iirra, Fret. The Centaur Company. 77 Murray Street, New York City. is 4 35 75 No. 4. Dally. . . B 30 a. m. ... 40 ... 950 ..10 18 Leave BennetUvlUe Arrive Maxton.. Leave Haxton T . . a M.1 Anrlnmi . Leave Lumber Bridge 10 S3 Leave Hope alius " - Arrive FayettevlUe 11 I south bo iron, No. 8. Dally. ... 4 28 . ru. ... v ... 536 ... 60 IT Leave FayettevlUe. Leave Hope Mills... Leave Red Springs. Arrive Mazton t .... Mnirtnn ... Arrive Bennettsville 7i NORTH SOUND, rnailv Enwut Sunday.') No. 18. MUed. Imm Ramseur 6 45 a. m, Leave Climax 8 85 Arrive Greensboro Leave Greensboro 85 Leave Stokesdale H " Arrive Madison " & SOOTH BOUND. "Mali. F t.v tit Sunday.) v No. 15. Mixed. r.M Variant, 12 30 p. IU. Leave Btokeevlale 1 28 Arrive Oreensboro 10 Leave Oreensboro ' 20 Leave Climax ' Arrive Jlatneeur " vr,BTfl anrifn roNNErTIONa at Fayntteville with Atlantic Coast Line for .ii v-nrth anrl Faat at Sanford with tbe Seaboard Air Line, at Oiw-nsboro with the Southern Railway Company, at Walnut Cove with the Norfolk A Western Railroad lor Winston-Sal'Mn. BOUTS BOUND OONSrCTIONS at Greensboro with the Southern. Rail . r'n,r..n. tnr Raleitrb. Richmond aud ail poinU north and east; at f ayc-tteTille with tha Atlantic O ast Line for all poinU South; at Maxton with Ihe Seaboard Air Line for Charlotte, Atlanta and all points south , and southwest. W. E. KYLE, . J. W. FBY, GB'l Paa. Agent One 1 lTaai PROMINENT PEOPLE. LI Huuk Chauir will write a book on America. The Prlnoe of Wales Is a determined up holder ot English made goods. A memorial to the late Robert Louis Ste venson is to bo erected in Edlngburgh. Charles A. Collier, who has just been ele ed Mayor ot Atlauta. Ga. , will be tbe Brit native of Atlanta to sit la the Mayor's chair. Next to George Vanderbilt, the largest land owner in North Carolina is Minister Ransom, who is now at home irom aiexiou on his Roanoke plantation. PrlneeBoirldarKarBKeorB'vllch. who in ter, sted Paris oy his lavish display of wealth and by his proilalency as a musician and connoisseur of paintings. h.is left Purls tor a year's exploration ia India. The Earl of Dunrnven, descendant of two Ceillo kings, is entertaining the Viceroy ot Ireland in Adore Manor, bis anocstrnl home. The mansion is celebrated tor its plot are gallery, which is 132 feet long. Carl Linden, the Swedish artist, now ia Paris, began life as a slim painter, but was enabled to beoomamn artist through the lib erality ot a oitiaen of Chicago, who met him when he was about to go West and beoome a cowboy. Grover Cleveland, will. It he lives until the fourth of Marou, have one distinction that no other President bas enjoyed. He will be the only occupant of tbe White House that has ever ridden to tho Capitol with two different soocessors. The salary ot the Archbishop of Canter bury is 75,0O0 a year. He has two palaces provided for him'rree of cost by tbe Britiah Nation, and his attendance and maintenance are also settled for in great part by the British taxpayers. Perhaps the greatest benefit ever per formed for the world by the lide Coventry Tatmore, whose life was long and useful, was to save from destruction the manuscript of "In Memoriam," whioh Tenyson had lert among some discarded rubbish ia his lodg ings. The oldest aitor In the world in Henry Puel. He will be ninety-three on his next birthday, and was an aotor for sixty-five years. As a child he was rowed out to Ply mouth Seund. and saw Napoleon walking the quarterdeck ol the "lilliy numn. i ne veteran actor now keeps a tavern ia Ply mouth, England. Charles Crisp, son of the former Speaker Crisp, who died recently, was sworn in at Washington as Representative from the Third District of Georgia, to PH tbevacanoy eausod by his father's death. Tbe Foune de parted In his ease from the rule requiring formal credential, accepting as satisfactory evidence of his election a statement by Gov ernor Atkinson. Mr. Crisp was applauded as he took ai seat. The Charlotte Observer DAILY & WEEKLY Qal P9BLL a TBOat pkins, Publishers. J. P. CaLDWBIX, Editor rBSCRiPTioN rnice. BAELT OBSMTm, I Tear. 1 1 Months 1 1 " 9-MkXY Oi -""IS Year, Moults MOO 13 W 11.(0. 11 00 . . .IS Full TtUgrtphleesrvlrt, Mid Urge corps Dorrs pondenta. Best advertising edlum betrceo waahtng ion, D. C , and Atlanta, O. A. 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