Newspapers / The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, … / March 21, 1889, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
ritfy ADVERTISE" ET3 i." ANYOUR CARPETS . f Shout Two Them Uf. x sew' process & thoroughly 1 without taking them .he flooK ' Avoidf one big y l soring cka"ir- Wo In- J ; ihe 'febnc r Old. carpeu or ; made to look like new. ' ' .HrAen at the Dixon House ill there w-newispewwwvi .THE NEWS.' ' ' Y M , ' C1U J. P. SOSSAMON, to nnc WANTED. Girls i operas sewing, machines. Ap- A UT i-..- Ifnittinor Mills. . . Mtnanww ....... .-.-n ) Il.tf Jowki & Lock wood. 1 r ANTED. A young man i V sal Rood experience in grocery Jan Good wfres for a good Address NewaUHk. CrivAL ARCANUM Charlotte (Council No. ici6, meets tonight rull sttenasnce rvqucmca. r - . . r m si w w a u v Mttjdthurs Secretary. 3ASEBALL GOODS ATSJc. tot.ci. BALLS, 5fc 'to $1 "jxk' v ''"v'i" belts,;". TOPS, Etc FuU supply At W. B. TAYLOR'S SOITH Tit VO fTREET. i K SUCCESS IN CHARLOTTR. .AA ij'" lebsabtilseif ka Mfbl M aMfcfj say , ,, '; , Hew Buttons. 4v caoica MtoMtoa T L .m Bill tioia torr. tauO. W MfcalafcUn Mr mi cmm ifcU vwft la bliaca, 4 Vm- Liawm Wktt Canto. a 4 bf fc.jtog af aa. Our Kid Glbres M oka," tori to atotca. at war $tm warfka EaWiHirrSaa iHW 1 Hi 1 In mi Cm Mm taa! lev Lot Hosiery. ar Pa aaal Heater at a -Dreis Goods.- V- TkakiVatAav Ona Oa Bayaif aa. XaHM fcmlaa, W Wa W.ii. at nr I 'VMaatrwA amSky i toilim. JAKrS tUKKlSOM co. UTLER ) THE JEWELER : THE - LSON DRUG CO. (n cvcrytfnn lx- line ni icU o our -lie tt VOLUME i. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1889., NUMBER 90. CRAYON PORTRAITS. Call and see how Fine and Cheap they can be had. . 4. FRAMES.- , . ' t have the largest and best assort ment, of Frame Mouldings in the Sutrv Canvas and Crayon Stretches made to order. VAN NESS, ' '"'r ',; I,' t N. Tryon S- LOCAL RIPPLES, Cot. Wra. Johnston and his son, Mr. Frank Johnston, lett to-day for a trip to Mexico. - ;v-' Tail-end collisions come high, but it looks like the Richmond and Danville is bound to have em. ; - --There will be services at ; St Martin chapeL corner of ' D and Tenth streets, at 7:30 this evenjng. Mr. S. Wtttkowsky leaves, this evening for a trip to- the Northern markets to lay in still another supply of new goods jforhia big wholesale house. There will be a business meeting of St Martin's Guild immediately after the close of services " at the chapel io-night..; A. full .jtttendance it desircdi 3 JOi St X U It was snowing in Washington and New York to-day.' In Charlotte we had the 'brightest of spring sun shine,' with the fruit trees burstmg out Into big boqqets of bloom. ,- i r-Wm. Wood word, ol New York, one of the millionaires ol the Cotton Exchange and a prominent manipn btor ot the cottoa market, died , to day.,. J Is was aChariotte correspoa Messrs. J. C. Leonard and J. L M. Lyerly, of the Catatba College, at Newton, passed through the city yesterday -on their; way to Wilmlng' ton as delegates to the Y. M. C A. Convention. r '.it The omcers of the Second Pres byterian ' church held a conterencc with their pastor, Rev. J. r Y. Fair, last night, and advanced reasons why he should stay here. Mr. Fair has the nutter of his call to ' Richmond under conaUeratioo. The aal preparations lor the concert to be given to-morrow night at tht Y. M. L A. ,hH have been completed, and according ; to ' all DrobabOitT there will bo a treat in store for everybody who msy attend. Yew had better gov ().,', 'Col Frank Cost arrived at the Central resterdav afternoon.-. He says that the Thrte Cs Railroad is progressing la a very. saUsfectary sod tha oaks u tat great line between Chmiestoa and Cndfl- nati are being npklly joined. - "Mecklenburg Iron Works at Charlotte. N. C (JohaHkes, maa- arer.) huahipped milling machinery direct to South America, , Theirs is all tWt-ckaa; Vork. Englnes,,sump mills, pumps, Ac. So aays the SaEabory Herald. The MeckJeoborg Iron Works has been) dotog Uns kiwi ol busiircas for years past Its mia log machinery is at work la the mines of aO qmrtrrs ( the gtotx. ' ' ttWMl ka kar WMpOa. - A party of childrew were, "playing Oa Mint street day before yesterday, ben a boy lold a Hlthe gai lb hide a PMC of chalk about" her person, ben be would tQ her iter it was. Sba hid th 1 chalk, and ths boy thea told her so'ooen her snonth... As she did so. Ve threw a handlul of 1 4iM a to her mouth and tome of the panicles Touted ia her indplpe. For doctors aiterxled IttU suh fartr. i She Is now beuw. Ul for a time k was feared that sh could not survive.' This b a wareing to chUrea,'"' ' ; ,": sSMAitat oaia. 4., ; -I Dr. R. M. Earn, mining editor of the SalUburr IfctiJd, says In that paper thai wtekt ' "Several so-called mloes. or mmly holft woken on toiae ol swlphUe orva, are sow being aximined and rvpotled oa by w of our k-4mg sprts.j I Is rrp w, so Ui, the hurectioa has proved mtJ. Kona of tons of workaUe ore wn in a ra i:us of tea mites fiom Chr Ui. I 'm are anil eonlact veins of t'.iUt tt iron aid coffer, an ... ,r toa rJ S OL iMMtodi, Wfft b.xi.'S ctvjrt OTTS (oaleol Wv) ht 0!f rf(i r Um4 ad ! .!. in I c.iuT!iiwn of I Ha hfrf ; B8QUIRB NEWELL PONS VP. All $l ef the Rooms la Hia Hoasa SacfcadT ' by BorgUri-.Th Family Foun4 Clothinf Vaiy Scarpa. . Esquire John A. Newell, of New ell's station, six miles from Charlotte on the Richmond & Danville road, came into town" today, dressed In an old auk of clothes and wearing a hat that Had 4oat Its symmetry and had through long wear resol ved itself into a shape similar to that of a pineapple cheese. ; The Esquire had been vis, ted by burglars the previous night, and that was the best thing he could do in the way of a rig up. ;?; He was in town in the hope that he could come up with the burglars, as he had tracked them in the direction of the city. - ., The burglars made 'themselves at hooin in Esqoire NeweU's house, They broke' open A window in the e!L and thus gained admittance to the whole bouse. They went through six rooms, and In four of these rooms people were- sleeping.' , ; Manlius Means of Charlotte,: who was com pleting a contract for painting Esq! NeweU's house,-and a young man named Smith were sleeping in one of the upstairs rooms. The burglars went to the head of the bed and stole all die wearing apparel of both men. They went into Mr, NeweU's sleeping room and stole Mr. NeweU's new hat, hia new suit of clothes, his watch and chain, $45 is cash, and also took aU of Mrs. Newcll's clothes. The other rooms , were sacked of dotbes, dresses, shoes, bed-clothes, etc!, and after securing a trunk and a valise in addition to all this booty; the thieves departed.1 As they were leaving, Mr. NeweU's ' mother was aroused by a noise, and she raised an alarm. Mr. Newell got bin -gun and gave chase, but the burglars had the start of him.' The young man Smith aays that he distinctly saw one of the men fleeing down the,, stairs when Mrs. NeweU gave lit alarm. The trunk, rifted of its contents,' was found la Ma NeweU's barn yard. Mr. Newefl tracked the burglars' in the direction of Charlotte, and had no diflkuky b following their track lor several mSea along the railroad. The burglary Occurred between it and 1 o'clock. t: ,,' . ' . The south-bound passenger train on the Richmond and Danville road, due here at a o'clock this morning, did not srrive until is o'clock to-day. The delay wan caused by a block aded track, between Jamestown and Greensboro. The first section pi the north-bound weight train jumped the track last a'chL and the second sec- don crashed into V dcnoli.hirg',anP Q""a man. It BEAT A FOX HUNT. J" M .'i f- .' ff Mt. Hotly Tttrai Out ao4 Captures a - Meertt who had Jffred Two Stores. . i Tbeyhad a lively time of it at Mt Holly 'yesterday, in a-- successful chase after , a negro who bad fired two stores in that town last Monday. The negro is named Thomas Jeffer son, and suspicion "had pointed very clearly o bis door. When it be came known yesterday, that he was in the vicinity of MtHollyhe whole town turned out, - and no 1ox hunt was ever mxciting. The ocgr4 Jed his pursuers, , who nxre armed Willi guns and pistols, towards Dutchman's creek, a deep, sluggish stream that empties into the Catawba just above Ml Holly. They ran him through stomps and briars for a mile or two, and when the; negro came to the bank of the stream he plunged in, swam across and hid in a patch of thick vines and undergrowth on the opposite side. , His hiding place was discovered and be was hauled out a captive. ' Several shots ' had ' been fired at him durmg the chase, but be was unhurt. The negro was escorted to jail at Dallas by over half the male population of Ml Holly, and was to have been arraigned for trial before Judge Clarke . to-day. He burned Mr. White's store at Ml Holly be cause Mr. .White refused to credit him. - He also fired the store of C L Hutchison & Co., but this fire was extinguished. -" i ' ' - Handling Barot Col too. A News reporter got on the trail of a IS of burnt cotton on College street this avwning, and following it up he found that it led to the b'g warehouse of Sanders & Orr. . ' Fol lowing the trail up the first flight of stairway, the reporter twund himself in a larve McmMia..Uk. noor-ot rVhlA was covered a foot deep with burnt cotton, at wnicn a doxen pick era were at work "picking out the burnt stuft and sorting the grades. This cotton all comes (rotn tha recent platform ore.. It is sorted out into four grades, 'the highest being as good aa tne cottoa before ine ore, and the others going dowato the kind that is rood (or ropes, etc. The second and third floor ot the big waxcbauM are devoted to this sort ing business, and two sets of hands are employee. . un tna tmra njor, bales that were only aiicbtlv cam a fed. are picked clear ot black cot' ton.' when two bales are dumped into ooe, covered with new bagging and pressed by hand power. Lain grade u carefully assorted and placed lo itself. The loweat grade is thorough ly dried and sent to a gin, where it is again baled - ana reaay tor io market ' It is troublesome and ex pensive work and tfte cotton an who comes out square oa a deal in burnt cotton, has cause to coagrato- late himself as an able inanoer and a , ; REDUCEP PRICES IN COY'S AND CHILDREN'S ; CLOTHING. WE INFORMED YOU LAST WEEK, ABOUT OUR FUR NISHING GOODS, also COLLARS AND CUFFS. We have found plenty of buyers at the prices which we have been selling them at and they are still going at the same prices. . But (his week we are making a special cut on our ghiiJre knee pants Such as we have never done heretofore." We do not mean to sett you ahoddy goods. . No, by no means, for our reputation is too well estab lisned for selling a good quality of Clothing at low prices. So we start to give you a few sketches of the prices for which you can buy v v BOTS AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING - At our house. Children's Knee Pants at cents. , Of this lot we have about 75 pairs, and sizes to fit boys from 4 to 8. - We sold them at 50c ;' ine next 101 we nave jo pair 10 ciosc. , ancse arc au iuu, aim wc sell them at 50 cents. --'' ' : ' ,:! .' '' sold at Si. 00, $t.a$, $i-y S-73 and $2,00, all go at this sale tor 85 cents. Our Children's Suits which we offer in this sale are extraordinary quality for the prices which we let them go at this week. We single out , 100 suits, sues 4 to it. heavy and medium wngnts, some suuaow tor . spring wear, we sold tfiem st S4 00, fa. 50, 25.00, aoo, $7.00 ana S7.50. '' AU are included in this sale at the unheard of price of $3. 50. These suits are strictly aU wooL We return money to any purchaser if , he can duplicate any suit for double the money elsewhere. O SH1BT WAISTS- We have an eletrant assortment, and Intend to stop ladies from snaking . ihem at home, because it is a very tedious iob for a lady to make a waist lor a boy when she will be'able to buy at - KAUFMAN'S KAUFMAN'S eight cars, and filling the cut. in which the accident occurred, with wreckag. . The engineer and Sre- aaaa of the second section leaped from the engine and escaped being mashed wo ia the wreck. None of lb crew of either train was hurt The engine of the second sect too was badly broken hp and thrown across the track, auk Ing the work of clear, br the wreck a very tedious one. ay Geukrs trsut was caught on this side of the wreck, and could not pass antil to o'clock this morning. .The orth bound paaarnger train which passed here st 5 o'clock this morning was slso blocked. . -. , 111 iii Otewse M OawM. Ycattrday's iasve bf Thk Ntws containing an announcement of the coming of Jsy Could, was circulated on the stmts half sa hour before tht arrival of lbs train, and asatrsu't, there was big crowd at tha depot htn the train came w, to see the tr money king. Mr. Gould ap- peartd oa the mar platform his tit, nrnh to the tlttctiol ol the P.!, looked pale sad me hat of sa IhImI. Mr. tooU was et by Cot Was. Johnston J I he wo hJ Culls a plraaael talk during trf to rivnutrV stay rf therta'n at Chfl. . Mr. GU rloMV r!t ",?rt I ; t',1',1. 1'1 Abwat IV. Wood. The Charleston News and Courier 1 received yesterday has the following from Its Columbia cormpondent that will be of latere to Uiartotte peo ple, in view ol recent publications made in The News: "It in already well known that several weeks sgo the Rev. Nrander M. Woods, of the First Presbyterian church, received a flittering caU from the congrrga- tios) 01 iae second tTrsovtenan church of Memphis, the pulptt of whkh had been vacated by rhe ac cepts acy by the pastor, LV. Ifoega, ol the chanotlkinhip of the Uoi yersity of Georgia, and that LV. Woods went oa to Mrmpha tn meet the congregation. Sine, his rttwm to Columbia Dr. Wwds has given wtoM caraeM ' eooaairraiHMt to tbt rutjt. anJ it was hoped that he would conclude to remain in Colum bia. Ia tep04A hoaever, to aa U-uiry nude by the News ami Courier correin-eit Dr. Woods to-aight MiJ lhat he had j rwhed a decuioci, and that much A be re- gretted the severanea of reUtiow hich nad nKH hm stay m t.iiimita pteaMDt. Ha thowf hi it his riuty to aocrpt th rU to Memphis, The fj-U I here wj a very wkU on aoj the chuith t- whn.h he hJ beea fmllrd was frrticKinced the mt fluniUI Uxir 4 l'hrr4int In Mca- j 4iuv. i 4J wnl-rs IfKtudir.g masy nf b most prtvnmrrt ruew iJ lliecily. Wh'Ic It"! bd SurancxS ol a pet (rcifr r't, be uV ifel it u" ! llxl tHit h flsarpp r( ,:, u!i at ' l 1 1 .'l'f f !i'. ). aiviM I -I I - nil ( 11 t i '( I 1 I4, . : 1 . .iiit ('.' ' A waist to suit and fit her boy at 15 cents. This waist we sold at 5 cts. last season, and we have a lew to close and they all must go. . We bare a large lot of dark wai&ts such as Polka Dots snd Stripes and Fancy Figures which we sold at 35. 40, 43 and 50 cents each. We have put them in this sale at 33 cents. These waists are Percale and the prices we sell them at are less than the cost ol the material. .1 . m ivs wg finance, as mesa bargains cannot last long;." . " ; - - - KAUFMAN & CO.'S. ' LEADING CLOTHIERS, FURNISHERS ako HATTERS, V ' . Corner Central Hotel Charlotte, N. C ' ' ' NEW THINGS. Tfc wk wOl ifcew M bOnrlac are ikc h ar Bock. W krriM nw piliAt W odl , NrraiOaaavaa.aaaa.aa4aay Htm rabriaa, Nia toUa. HalwaalA fha M Si aa ruth SUk la Kadk mi Cmx. h, W loaW Ja Am dqr. . Nra TitwM Wmcf Srika. aarn aaa am mmm mwk m k Sa rjmtnmm WM a FiMml tot an am miai4 to n'lifc Moaa. Fulto. Nra fi In la wton. TVm m U Wiwaluai la TrSaaaaga. wm4 m mijmi iW. wraaftt laa I to HUck. c. Pmmu'j it loai aaWfcaaf M aJc. kSAaa. a. tmr4CmwmHmm - . Kn tot Caiaw. to Sm iM 4 A OUSiia . Lata Caya awl aw pntn md mmp. - SamaM UMt mmmt hi la toaaa r- Xm M to f &- h- AaT aaA A. atoaeatortSR. Tto MM Sm k naara fe S. UanSxM Ifartm. ASafStoxatw a(taa1kaWraAartoff aa. - T. UfWOUICW., SpringStock Shoes. NEW SHOES. NEW SUITERS. ' ; NEW TRUNKS. NEW VALISES. Styles and Lowest Price CaU aad Sew GlLREATH & Co;, (SCCCKSOM TO rECAAJI & Co,) t6 S. 7jm Sirttt, . , , CIIARLOTTJ I. C. Children's School Shoes. v rt aV tJ to Eat TaatE St -A HEW DROG STORK We have received another ahipmant ol our cele- , STONEWALL TIP SHOES, Tbe gnoda navr been Bmg our trade waiver aal saUrfaCUna Bad i kaowa today S the bast ha - 4 S1 Leather TV iJou .SUea for boys and girls that I manttUctured, U l!ic City ol f1uU4r!- Every gentWmaa U need of a f ie Ires Shm she aid s our iUnstrr iftoes. Tby are opewg an taach hawWcaarf than ever sad are SoUmnaja. Ur low for these gob. GRAY & CO, E TiNROSE n.U)VIN. o JljWfl Tri'Je Street V - I rr-i )!Ct-9 C a. II IVptiW bees ie t! !-. Try sad crw pare It w.:h aryje. Lu! Fisl!ccrichiui Cxi:. vrtj -It , .1 i I i ' l a A r. i ny m '. 1 - '- 1 .-11 I ! r f . ' ' : " ; I . ! r r 1 1 r ' 1 1 iOM miens! 1 is ! u r
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 21, 1889, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75