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The Charlotte Democrat. YATES & STRONG, Editors and Proprietors. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Friday, August 26, 1887. The Assessed Value of Land in Mecklen tur County in 1886 and 1887. Mr J W Cobb, Register of Deeds for Mecklenburg, a" permmea us to copy tjjef0jjoifiDg interesting statement from tit official Report. Charlotte Township Assessed value of Land outside of Charlotte in 1886, $398,756; in 1887, 420. Assessed value of City Lota in 1886, fi 838 985; in 1887, $1,901,975 an increase in 'vsl'uationof City Lots of $62 990 over 1886. Lt a decrease in the assessed value of Land out- Me oi the city of $38,336. Mallard Creek Township Assessed value of Land in 1886, $215,062; in 1887, $179,294, Berryhill's in 1886. $158,078; in 1887, $153,- 236. Steel Creek in 1886, $208,059; in 1887, $195,- 883 p'ro?idence-in 1886. $190,822 ; in 1887, $193.- 238. Clear Creek in 1886, $138,597; in 1887, 1 tl 16.504. Lemley'a in 1886, $172,495; it 1887, $131,750. Pineville in 1886, 101,356 ; in 1 887, $92,312. Paw Creek in 1886. $171,300; in 1887, $150,- 526. Morning Star in 1886, $123,325; in 1887. 123.292. Crab Orchard in 1886, $237,484; in 1887, t04 097 Sharon in 1886. $161,285 ; in 1887, $150,679. We hare not been able to get the re- turns from two or three Townships not named in the above. 23?" The firnt bale of new Cotton was -.-..: ; iViUincrtnn n thn iTth in.t ..... , . . T from a South Carolina plantation. It was sold at auction lor 13 cents per pouud. The first bale received at Columbia, S. C. on Friday last, sold at nine cents per nA I l I The nrel Dam oi new cotton was brought to Charlotte from Anson county I oo Tuesday last, the 23d inst., and sold I for ten cents per pound. ' J5? The Fall Term of Mecklenburg Superior Court will be opened on Mon- Uv next bv Judge McRae. The term is .-i. ..i,. a i rusir-o. ro iu u. u. .o uvF.u A U. I . a hniaH thnfl- Vt A I Judge will move business along so as to clear, to a considerable extent, the ao- otimiil-itpd TWlcet I 1-It is about time for Gov. Scales to nmt. ninn no mircrlara nr nnmmnt nir . j . vt i ineir ueam semeuuea. ov iuug ago had to insist on hanging two negro ties- peradoes in this city who burglarized the residence of Capt. Strickland. The . i amount stolen does not matter so much as tbe risk the sleeper runs of being murdered by a burglar. We have recently bad some experience ot a bad and dangerous burglar entering our bed-room. We think we were fortunate iu escaping with our life, but forever hereafter we intend to iwn.ua inai me law, aaugiug, u ea.o- cuieu uu an couvicieu uurgisrs. uecii . . . . . , , i c' 1 i ruaiueuuea iu iuis iccu mui- i : j i. : i. v . . Knv. glarized within the past few weeks. There must be a few more hangings. The Road Law. The statement we made last week about the Mecklenburg Road Law, is not exactly correct. The I Mecklenburg law is still in existence, but I the Secretary of State made the mistake of sending to this county the General Road Law, while the Mecklenburg law is I the one under which our county roads are worked, uur remarks last ween were m n n. t4nM lAAlr.nM tits 1aIAVAI I f k f I mm. 1 I uiauc unci iuuia.iu at tuo ucuci at xvbu i nfl ti.thA MWnhnra snecial aw I sa mi t i i . i . . 1 1 .3 I ine liioie says iuai vrou creaieu man in his own image. The preacher (or any other man) who holds the monkey Avnlnrmn iHe i nnonritic nf rpsnpfttfnl consideration.' If the Rev. Thos. H. Law. . : i the agent in North and South Carolina of the American Bible Society, does not re-1 pudiate such a humbucr as evolution in re- I ar. in monbin.l v,an plain, the Meckleuburg County Bible So-1 r ' " J I cieiy snouia repuaiaie mm and an otner . ... . , . I cranks of that sort, and withhold all con-1 tributions. Mr Laws' letters on the sub- I ject are evasive and unmanly. The statue of either Nat. Macon, Gen. Nash, or Cornelius Harnett, should occupyNorth Carolina's niche in the Capi tol at Washington. It need not be a Revolutionary Boldier, or a soldier ol any . m i:i, -sr.,. Macon, although he was a considerable demagogue from the habit of being a can- j didate for office. The suggestion of Col. I W. L. Saunders, that a Mr Harvey should I have the place, we do not consider a good I one. Macon, or llarnett, or jn asn. or I mm w .T I Ashe, or McDowell, or Polk, should be I the name chosen. I I3f The first drummer's license issued J from the State Treasury this month was j lanen out to-day by i New Jersey torm. Kaleigh Utter. lhat shows that there are some North-1 em dealers who want to do the right I thing in North Carolina, and our mer-1 chants ought to patronise such firms. Hundreds ol Magistrates ap pointed by the last Legislature failed to qualify, and the Governor has had to ap point others in their places. That shows that the people generally don't care much Igogueswhoprate about electing Mais- I P. t- 7 nr ;..:; ' tffl,." "" "'j goiKiuiucut it is uniy dema- the people. i,a'i uJfLast season some 25.000 bundles were Thk State University. The session of 1887-'88, of the State University. ODen- ed on Wednesday last. The indications lor a brilliant and prosperous session were never oeiter. New Advertisements. meuty bhoe House of W. W. Pegram & Co., u ? r aaverusement. ' LhllJ)9 erc?aaA' amaii dii0 6 " H. Baruch, see his notice of fixed prices for cer - tnltl finnAa 1 W e suggest that Democratic pa pers had better not talk too much about Jobn Sherman favoring the abolition of the miserable Internal Revenue Law, and abuse him for so doing. It might make a good many people (ignorant if you please to oall them) vote for him for President, should he be nominated by the Republi can party. No one living away from the Mountains of North Carolina, and outside of the old Sixth Internal Revenue Dis trict, has a correct ideaol how the people are oppressed and dogged by the Internal Kevenue Law. The law has done about as much harm as the mean whiskey made by the violators of the law. j- Our usually coirect friend of the x, ' ,. . . , Newbern Journal, speaking of the late storm in Newbern says that a "cheney' , m , , , tree was blown down. We respectfully KKe ma.- ne snouia say "nioar tree. It is said that many years ago the first China tree was brought to Fayetteville and planted. It was imported from Europe. And so was that nuisance called "Nut Grass," tirat imported to Fayette- ville as an ornamental plant. That, and the Cane Grass, cannot be eradicated where it gets a footing. We once beard of a man who sowed his garden down with salt six inches deep to kill Nut Grass, but it didn't kill the stuff, for it came up the next year as rank as ever. But the China tree- makes a good shade, and at tracts robbins in the winter lime so you can kin lhm- That's about all we know about tree-ology and grass. JEsr The New York Labor Convention in session at Syracuse, had a big fight over temporary chairman. The struggle hit. LrmU F Pnt n.nr. George's candidate, and a negro named Ferret!, the same fellow who caused the rumpus in Richmond when the Knights of Labor met. Exchange. 0-L 3 IT i ouco dynamiters as xienry vieorge ana hia crowd are no better than the negro Ferrell. If white men associate with ne groes they should be made to take the consequences, J3gT" It is now said that the cause of Rev. Thos. II. Law's resignation as agent Uor the American Bible Society in the I liarnlinda ia that n a ia a niaAin anF liar. wiQ r0n0Wer of Woodrow and a firm . believer in an ancestry of immense mon key power. Mr Law is from South Caro- llna - 1Q North Carolina Law wonld have been a better selection as it turns out - lhat monkey business is doing a P ... ...'... buzz saw" is suggested by "evoluting ifrotn a gorilla. Wilmington Star, You are mistaken about Mr Law re- 8j2njD hj8 Bible Agency. He has not re B:nj unt on nH imnndflntlv aca , i j j - to the Executive Committee of the Meck- ienbar2 County Bible Society that they have no riffht to que8tj0n hm about theo- ri or wbether he believes man was evoivej from a m0nkev or created in God8 own imge. As the Star jiays, 4lhat monkey business is doing a great . , f . viva, vra umu. mi , , , . , , -pj (- xr u.u .ru. ... Blacknall are pleased to know tnat ne is interested in the purchase of the Atlantic Hotel at Morehead City. He is a clever gentleman, an experienced Hotel manager and with the plentiful supply of capital which the new syndicate will furnish, can make Ihe Atlantic a supurb pleasure re- 80rt, and be able to please all as near as eUch an extraordinary feat can be per fornud j-The Inter-State Farmers' Conven . . . . . .x t (recently in session at Atlanta) has resolved to bold the next meeting in Ral- mh N f5.. in Ancrnst. 1888 J&f" When Senator Blair desired sup port some time since for bis Bcheme to aDDropnate a certain sum out ot tne puo treasury, to cover a period of ten , years to De aevoiea iu euucauouai mieicum iu sta nn tha nf illit- IbUOVCkS IUUU w Uv VV U V kuw vawuw eracy, he was not governed by sentiment, but arsrued from the standpoint of self-in- terest.tor he told bis mew n.neiana inenas 1 . D ft,: aaUr, maaaaa tun 11 111 hfl tn 1 llf.rPSfi t nelT CSnaClt V to earn better wages and thus create a de mand for a higher grade of manufactured gooda, the result of which would be that New England would, in the long run, be benefited. The fact, however, that the Committee on National Affairs in the New Hampshire Legislature recently, by vote of seven to three, recommended me indefinite postponement of resolutions commending the measure, ehow that Mr Blair's constituents do not agree with him. If they thought for a moment that way buegeted by Mr Blair they wouldn't hesitate long in endorsing the scheme. Norfolk Ledger, Dem. The day that Blair's educational squandering Bill panses Congress, will be the day for the m . m . t a. Tt auguration oi a tyrannical uovernmem .Bureau in the South worse than the miserable Freedman's Bureau during the days of Reconstruction. Gov. Gordon of Georgia, has been notified that John Taylor, colored, in Somerset. Ky.. has confessed that he com mitted the crime for which Henry Pope colored, is now under sentence of death. Beware of circumstantial evidence. Let the proof be direct, unless the prisoner Has a noto rious bad character. Scarcity of Cottox Ties. For sev eral weeks there has been considerable solicitude respecting the sapply of cotton ties at this port. Although several com mission merchants were fortunate enough to secure a thousand or more bundles these will only meet the demands of their P?,, ' V? I will not permit of any outside transaction. disposed of by the merchants here and by I this time definite contracts were In hand 1 which relieved them of all anxiety. This I reason it is far different" One broker has (disposed of 7,000 bundles, of which be has i aeuverea x,bus Dundies, leaving ,tvx bundles vet to be delivered, and no trans- I actions are made for delivery short of Oo- tober. &uch a state of affairs baa not ex- isted since the adoption of the tie. and the t"de making a bale of cotton only mer- chantable when properly iron-tied. The 1 scarcity of cotton ties it appears is general I TTT-I .... mr Good WoEK8.The Young Men's Chris tian Association of Raleigh has opened a Dispensary to furnish medicines to the destitute sick, and in winter the Associa tion supply the poor with wood and coal. That's the way to do good nurse the bodies of the poor and destitute, fill thtir stomachs with food, aod warm them in oold bad weather, and then there will be some room for taking in religion, and hearing prayer and song. Also, we see that the charitable people of Wilmington get up Steamboat excur sions for the poor and sick in that com munity, and take them to the pleasure re- j sorts along the lower Cape Fear. That's practical charity and Christianity. iii ifesT Farmers who grow cotton shoufd make it a point to have their bales pack ed of not less than 400 pounds weight, since by the new regulations one-fourth of a cent per pound is to be deducted from all bales under that weight. It is quite an important matter and is regulated by the New York Cotton Exchange, the new rule going into effect September 1st next. Exchange. It is an unfair and tyrannical tule, but we see no way to avoid it, unless the farmer would quit raising cotton, or only enough for a little surplus money. Have a plenty of bread and meat on your farm, and then be independent of the cotton manipulators. A North Carolina correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch says of the farming interests in this State: "It is felt by tobacco dealers that they are only showing a proper State pride in taking steps to get credit for their fine to bacco. Heretofore the leaf, &c, has been sold to people in other Slates, who worked it up and then sold it as if it were their own growth, or else shipped it in its orude state as their own product. Whatever can be done to make North Carolina to bacco show what it is and where comes from will be done, and the action of the tobacco convention as to these matters is in accordance with the views of growers and dealers. The fact that North Caro lina is ahead of every other Southern State so far as agriculture and kindred matters are concerned was plainly made known at Atlanta last week. There has been no boom here, but a steady and constant growth. When people get down to bed rock on manufacturing matters it will be found that the State is about as far to the front as any. Commissioner ot Agriculture Robinson dwells upon the fact lhat the farmers are so much more earnest about iheir work. They are literally "going to school," and are keeping up with the people who are so interested in normal schools and teach ers' institutes; for the farmers' institutes are the equivalents of these. They will in a twelve-month exert a powerful influ ence for good." ii SSdT" Three years ago (says the Wil mington Review) lbeDemocralio party of North Carolina, in convention assem bled, declared, with one voice, for the unconditional repeal of the obnoxious in ternal revenue system, with all of its at tendant evils. This makes the repeal good Democratic doctrine until the same authority shall withdraw the issue. As for the sentiment of the people of the State let Col. Jno. N. Staple?, who beaded the Cleveland electoral ticket in 1884, be heard on the subject. At the White Sul phur Springs, a few days ago, he said to a N. x. Herald reporter: "1 do not believe you could raise a corporal's guard in North Carolina in favor of the present in ternal revenue system. It is regarded as a war measure of the most offensive and obiectionable character. The people of the State are overwhelmingly in favor of its repeal." As a matter of temperance and morality, we favor a repeal of the iniquitous internal revenue tax. The tax is an odious, oppressive and un just and unfair one, and should be repealed in order to promote temperance, morality and religion. We have said that many times hereto fore, and now deliberately repeat it. J&r" At the convention held in Louis ville of colored editors a memorial was drawn an and sicrned and sent to the Georgia Legislature, protesting against . I. n Wilt an.... MH.Inw m t v n A urtlila flnn.. gia. This is a straw that shows the way tha colored stream ia running. These ne gro editors are desirous of forcing mixed schools between the races, we mav sup- - - t 0 K pose. If not this, then why protest? The Northern negro editor cannot do a worse thing for the education of bis race in the Sonth than to press their opposition to , separate schools. The whites may resolve not to maintain pnbho schools, and then what? The only way to meet such insolent demands is for white people to refuse to impose taxes on themselves for the support of neero schools. It is fast coming to that. Jlf The South Carolina phosphate in dustry is forming a ''combine" in order to raise nrices. Then let farmers refuse to buy the phosphate. 1 1 1 "One of the mail agents on the Carolina Central we would call his name if we did uot know how modeet he is says that the moBt pleasant night's rests that ha cetfl are those enioyed in Wil mington, especially "when the tide rises early in the morning. ne ssys idsi "Wilmington beats the mountains all hol low." He oucht to know, as he was born and reared at the foot of the mountains." Wilmington Star. Probably your friend enjoys the de lightful buzz of the mosquito and his bite mi The Fratttttt.hxt Special Tax Bonds As those bonds were forced upon the people of North Carolina under ttepuou- can rule, and as there are certain parties at the North trying to give them a signifi cance which thev oucht not to possess. we transfer to our columns the following letter to a prominent Chicago lawyer from Dr. Eugene Grissom, one of the most clear-headed and influential Republicans in the State. Dr. Grissom has for nearly a. nnnrtcr nf a cnntiirv been ablv and sym pathetically associated with the benevo lent institutions of NortbUarolina. i nougn a Republican, be is first of all a patriot, a nhilanlhromst. a devoted friend of the helpless. He knows that to pay these bonds would bankrupt our people, ne knows that in inch an event the insane. the deaf, the dumb and the blind would be swept out of the cherishing arms of the Commonwealth. And so witn mat fidelity to his native State, so character inti of him. he nlainlv and forcibly pre sents the case of the special tax bonds to . . ni! J . VM.KiMMt DlS imoago correupuuueui. zjcwisfn JSf" It will be a hard matter to find the man (or woman) who can write a fair and intelligent history of North Carolina. The people will not tolerate another aris tocratic concern puffing "professional" men, aud leaving worthy men of other professions and occupations without men tion. Hawks, Caruthers, Wheeler. Moore. Williamson, &c, have all failed to meet public expectation. The weather reports sent out from Washington by Gen.. Greely, who has charrge of the weather Bureau, are uot near as correct as those that used to be sent out by Gen. liazen. We have no ticed several erroneous predictions re cently. For instance, rain wtfB predicted n this section for Wednesday, but Wed nesday turned out to be a fair, beautiful day. The spider web sign even failed on Wednesday. m The Big Suit at Shelby. The Supe rior Court of Cleveland county was occu pied all of last week in trying tha McKee- Davenport case from Gaston. Over 100 witnesses were examined about 30 lor Davenport and the balance for McKee. After about 24 hours consultation, the Jury rendered a verdict in favor of Dav enport. Another appeal lo the Supreme Court was taken, this time by McKee. Davenport was represented by H. C. Jones, F. I. Osborne, Geo. F. Bason, T. H. Cobb and R. McBrayer McKee by Hoke & Hoke, W. P. Bynum, R. W. Sandifer, and Gidney & Webb. The cost amounts to three or four times the amount of princi pal involved, which principal is about $1,700. Davenport was the County Treasurer, and McKee wae the Sheriff. McKee held a receipt for county funds, which Davenport pronounced a forgery. 33" Bishop Key of the Method ist . Church, South, will preach in Charlotte on the first Sunday in September.' The Bit-hop has published in the Raleigh Ad vocate the following list of appointments: Rutherford College. N. C, 4th Sunday in August. Charlotte, N. C , 1st Sunday in September. Concord, 2d Sunday in September. Mt. Airy, 3d Winston, 4th " u Goldsboro, 1st ' " October. Raleigh, 2nd Harrison's 3d " lie will be present and speak at an educational mass meetiDg in the interest of Trinity College at Concord, JS.(J.,on Saturday before tne 2nd Sunday in September, and there will be an edu cational meeting at Harrison's Church on the Pineville circuit the 3d Sunday in Oct., the time of his visit there. He will be in Asheville a few days next week. On the 19th of October he is to be in Nashville at a meeting of the Bishop's to look over the work of the Hymn Book Commit tee. After that he will probably g into Virginia and remain until the Virginia Conference con venes. Bishop Key is an able man aud a splen did orator, but he has some very cranky ideas about Entire Sanclification for poor fallen humanity, and Heart Purity, &c. Southern Farmers and the Tariff. We have'already- alluded in these col umns to the remarkable speech delivered by Gen. Miles of Mississippi, belore the Inter-State Farmers' Convention in At lanta. Indeed, we have printed the speech itself, and have thus been the means of placing before the farmers of the South the common sense views ot one ot our most successful fanners. Combining the views of an agriculturist who knows all about the situation at the South, Gen Miles7 speech is worthy ot the serious study of Southern farmers. He touches upon some very serious and severe subjects, and his comments throw a flood of light on the . situation, lie pre sents some facts that our farmers - would do well to consider seriously. Gen. Miles tells the farmers that it is very convenient for tbem to trace all their ills to a pro tective tariff. In this they only follow the cue given them by the small poll ticians and the demagogues who seek to mislead. There is nothing more convenient, for instance, than for the farmer who is un successful to trace all his troubles to the protective tariff. Every little cross-roads politician every little whipper-snapper, who wants to eo to Congress, will con vince him lhat bat for the tariff he would be rolliog in wealth. Gen. Miles makes short work of this sort of poppy-cock. He tells the farmers that if they expect to succeed they must live quietly at home, wear level heads, . , , . , . ... : i : and use Keen, orient eyes in ineir uusi- uess. The tariff falls as heavily on mer chants and business men as on the farmer, and yet, because some whipper-snapper wants to secure their votes for Congiess, the farmers are told that the tariff is ruininer them. This is one of the most convenient of arguments, and it has been ding-donged into the ears of those who till the soil until a great many of them have come to believe lhat the tariff is a tax levied on them by the crowned heads of Europe. Gen. Miles makes short work of this sort of nonsense. He shows that the tax paid every year by the farmers on their hoe and mule flesh is ten thousand times more than the tax imposed on them by the tariff Compared with the taxes which the farmer imposes on himself by his extravagance, the tariff tax is but as a mote in the sunbeam. Since the war Gen. Miles has paid debt of two hundred thousand dollars, with ten per cent interest. How did he do this? By sitting down and discussing the tariff? Not at all; but by putting his shoulder to the wheel; by economizing; bv adapting bis business sense to his farm operations; by taking such advantage of circumstances and conditions as any sensi ble man would do. When Gen. Miles comes to discuss the tariff, he puts in some chunks of common sense lhat are likely to prove somewhat embarrassing to the pseudo-statesmen who go oeiore tne iarm ers hereaiter with a lot of gibberish in fa vor of free trade. Gen. Miles wants to know what the tariff is on a Cincinnati hog, or on a Kentucky mule, or on western hay and corn, or on northern made fertilizers. These things are not put down in the tariff list, but the tax they impose on the farmer amounts to many thousands more than the tariff tax. But the politicians never touch on these things. They know nothing of them. The tariff is the thing, Atlanta Constitution, Dem. tT The N. C. Tobacco Convention at Morehead agreed to meet annually at the same place, the fourth Tuesday in August, and hold two sessions daily daring the meeting. Chieago Grain Market Chicago, Aug. 22. Wheat was slightly better at the opening to-day. For Sept. delivery sales were made at 69 cents per bushel. After moderate sales at 68 J and 69 cents, the market picked up to 69J. It grew stronger as the visible supply figures were coming in and rested at the outside fig'ures. When the de crease was announced to be 771,000 bushels, which was somewhat better than was expected, from C9i September eased back to 694 naif an hour before the close. and closed at 69J and 69J cents. Corn opened about the same as it closed Saturday, September delivery starting at 404 and 4U4. lbe market was barely active and fluctuated freely within mode rale range under good local demand, and ou rumors of prospects of frost in north ern Iowa, the market advanced lo 4l cents, but reacted some, declining to 40f cents upon more liberal offerings, due to arger expeeted receipts; it then ruled firmer, the visible supply showing a de crease of 700,000 bushels, and closed at 41 aud 41$ cents for September. Oats claimed but little attention, and the demand lor future delivery was slow. Th greatest fluctuation was in May, and that was confined to $ cent. The visible supply showed an increase of 723,000 bushels for the week. May sold at 304 cents and closed as on Saturday, at 30 cents. American Wheat. Mr J. R. Dodge, statistician of the De partment of Agriculture, in article enti tled "Products and Prices of Wheat," says: "The official record of imports of wheat into the United Kingdom for the first half of the present year shows a large increase in the proportion furnished by the United StateB 68 per cent, against' 54 per cent, in the first six months of 1886 and 1885. Counting flour as wheat, the proportion is 73.5 per cent., against 60.8 in 1885. There is a great reduction in receipts from Rus sia, a decrease from India of 20 per cent., as compared with the first half of last year, and a decrease from Australia. Out of the 48,053,484 bushels imported during the last six months, 32,718,576 bushels were from the United States. "The value of wheat from this country is eight cents per bushel more than from India, and five cents more than Russia wheat. It is higher than that of any non- Jiiuropean country, and yet the quantity furnished is twice as much as that sup plied by all other countries." Mr Dodge s report further says: "It is a significant fact that the average annual export of the past three years, when the export price averaged about eighty seven cents, is almost exactly the same as for ihe preceeding three years, when the ex port price averaged nearly ft. 13 per bushel. That is a sudden decline of twenty-three per cent., operating for a period of three years, has not diminished exports. Why? Simply because we have had crops lhat were ample for feeding liberally a popula tiou of 85,000,000 people, and the surplus must be exported at auy price offered above the value of feeding wheat to farm animals iu competition with corn. "in two years of ihe past decade the ex ports amounted to 366,000,000 bushels, at nearly f l is per bushel. in only one year of the ten has the export price been materially above that figure, showing that tiie- tare -exports have occurred when prices were near the highest; but the cause was manifest a great reduction of the products of souie. other countries, mainly England and r ranee, for a series of years The law of supply and demand, therefore, proaucea wnai seem to ine uniniormed an anomaly. 51?- Ella Wheeler Wilcox is disgusted with what she has seen at a New York seaside resort. Ella has looked upon the half-nude figures of the bathers at this re sort when they were in scant attire, and she is satisfied that bathing at the1 surf is not conducive to modesty and decency. "1 cannot help wondering, she says "why Mrs Grundy, who is so particularly critical in some things, should eave so long ignored the vulgarities of the ocean bath. ' When the dear creatures come out of an ocean bath many of tbem look like a starved shanghai chicken. But few female bathers have flesh enough to show to an advantage. The angle represents tives had better remain encased in dry goods if they want to make a good im pression. B3F" Dr. Cyrus Edson says that the best and : most ' wholesome summer drink is cold water; it should be freely used, and should be cooled by keeping' it on ice, and not by putting ice into it. A few bottles placed in the refrigerator every morning would be sufficient to supply the family during vbe day. Steam fob Factoeies instead of Wateb Wheels. Mr Jobn Hill of the Eagle and Phoenix Mills at Columbus, 6a., gives it as his opinion, the improve ment ot water powers to run cotton mills is a thing of the past. He says of the milling in the South: "The average results in profits from manufacturing cotton South iu well-constructed mills are as great as with any other regular business.- Profits and losses depend largely on the capacity of the gen eral management, the same as with other business. The improvement in machinery and appliances in cotton mills for the last ten years have been such that a new, mod ern, properly constructed mill has very considerable advantage over one with less modern machinery." Air Assignment. The Noith Caroli na Mil) Stone Company, which has exten sive quarries of millstone-grit at Parke wood, in Moore county, has assigned to A. II. McVeill. It is said that the assets are about $125,000 and the liabilities ul der $1 00,000. The liabilities include $30, 000 of first-mortgage bonds, which are preferred under the assignment. The af fairs of the company are said to have been somewhat embarrassed since spring. There is no doubt, however, that it will adjust all its indebtedness and soon be npon a sound footing. in w IST" To the farmers assembled in At lanta last week, Mr Henry W. Grady spoke in these glowing terms of the new South: There are 230,000 artisans at work in the Sonth to-day that were not here in 1880, and this does not include the thoussnds that are building new enterpri ses. We manufactured last year $2 13,000, 000 worth of articles that six years ago we bought from the North or West. In six years following the Cotton Exposition of 1873, new cotton mills have been built in the Sonth starting 1,000,000 new spindles. The South to-day is witnessing an indus trial revolution for which history has no precedent. Figures do not measure it and amazement is simply limited by comprehension. Local Items. 15? We regret to learn that Mr Eugene More- head of Durham, (brother of Col. John L. More head of this city,) is suffering with a tumor of the stomach. He has been at Philadelphia for some time under treatment, but was this week removed to Asheville, where his family has been Summering. At last accounts his condition was low. Mr Morehead has been one of the ener getic, live business men of the State, and, his many friends hope for hia recovery. . , , tW Rev. E. M, Jordan, of the Virginia Con ference, has been spending a few weeks in this city, as Ihe guest of Mr C. N. G. Butt, whose wife is Mr Jordan's sister. He has preached some excellent sermons in the Second Presby terian Church and Try on Street Methodist Church, showing high culture and deep thought 1ST Cannot something be done by the officers of the law to prevent so many people from car rying concealed weapons. It ia said that almost every negro on the street has a pistol or dirk knife In his pocket; and the same is true of many white men. It is a dangerous and disgraceful practice. The lazy scoundrels who lie about the city and won't work have to steal to get some thing to eat. They have commenced depreda ting on the farms near the city. Col. J. M. Earn hardt's farm, near Query's, was robbed One night this week of potatoes, watermelons, geese, Ac Several thieves must have been engaged in the work. Unless more speedy 'and severe punish ment is meted out to thieves, it may be necessa ry for good people to organize a Vigilance Com mittee. . , ,, , 3J The thermometer fell to 67 s Thursday morning quite pleasant and clear weather, . , The census of Bchool children in this city (between the ages of 6 and 21 years) has just been taken by Mr Robt. P. Davidson, The number of white males between those ages are 728, females 762; colored males 678, females 776 total whites 1490, colored 1454 white and col ored combined 2944 a large increase over last year. Many negro families have come Into the city from the surrounding country and squatted, for the purpose of sending their children to the Uradea school; nine-and-a-haif tenths of the ex pense for which is paid'by white tax-payers. . Many farmers (cotton sellers) complained last year and the year before, of annoyance by cotton-cutters. We have reason to believe that it has injured the Charlotte market Cannot some plan be devised by cotton-buyers to avoid what is considered by country people a nuisance T Our neighbor, the Daily Hornet, makes a sug gestion about selling cotton which it might be well for dealers to consider : "Would it not be well to opea a cotton exchange at which planters could visit daily and expose their samples Calls might be made at ten a. m.. and two p. m A very slight tax would sustain an exchange ot tins cnar&ctor. Why do not pedestrians, when meeting ou our sidewalks, turn always to the right, instead of having no fixed rules to govern them. A good many collisions and no small amount of prancing around from side to side might be avoided. In case of collisions either on the streets, pavements or roads, we think there ia a state law which imposes a penalty on the person wagon or carriage that neglects to move to the ngnt. tW The new line for Street Cars was onened on Monday last from the Public Square along Uiast 1 rade street to near tne creek. Start a new building if you want to see how many idlers there are in the community, The digging out of a cellar, and the laying of tne street car tracts mrougn J.ae square, are particularly attractive. A sad accident happened to young Clias McLaughlin, at the Columbia Factory in Ran dolph county, on Tuesday last His right hand was torn off by getting caught in some part of the machinery. The young man is about 18 years old, a son of Mr Joseph McLaughlin of this city, and was highly appreciated for bis good department, industry and energy. A Stock-Law Man Evidently. The Murphy Bulletin says a Murphy man has the following posted in bis field: "If any mans or woman s cows or oxens get in these oats, his or her tail will be cut off, as the case may be.' I am a Christian man and pays my taxes; but durn a man who lets his enters run loose." IST" A new party with "America for Americans" as its motto has made its ap pearance, and will figure: it is said; in the next election. . Its projectors say it is but a revival of the old American party which never bas been really dead, .though with the objectionable features of the know nothing movement lopped , off. Genera Master -Workman Powderly ' isaCpjomi nent advocate of tne new idea, the . cen tral principle of which, of course, is restric tion of immigration. iW Rev. T. W. Guthrie, the esteemed Presiding Jilder of the Wilmington Dis trict M. E. Church, is in this city, the guest of Mr and Mrs W. W. Hodges Mr Guthrie is here under medical treat ment, and a host of friends wish him speedy recovery. Wilmington Messenger. An assault was committed on young lady of high chsracter by a negro man in Forsyth county last Tuesday. The negro was arrested and taken to . Greens boro to prevent lynching. , Great excite ment prevails among the people of that section. The trial of the Bald Knobbers in Missouri, began yesterday. There are about ninety-five case to be tried against members of the organization for whipping their neighbors, and lor other crimes com mitted under disguises. Another ku-klux business. " tSIT" A gentlemsn asked a convict in a penitentiary, "What is the charge against you?" "O " he said, "i am the victim o a little mistake. I borrowed a horse, to try him, and agreed that, if be suited me, I would buy him. He didn't suit me, so I sold him." . CHARLOTTE MARKET. Ancrnst 25, 18S7 Consumers of flour, generally, bny Pat ent, Roller Flour, shipped here by Rail roads, consequently the Country Mil Floor has little demand say $2 to $2.25 per sack of 98 pounds. But few bsles Cotton offered this week best grade 10. A bale of new Cotton, green, sold at 10 cents on Wednesday. Corn and Meal about 70 to 71 cents per bushel demand good; Onions 55 and 60 cents per bushel; Sweet Potatoes 55; Oats 40; Peas 15 to 80. r " ; Chickens are so abundant on the market that it is hardly worth while to quote prices. Commission merchants , get all they can for conaignmenti,but try to keep prices too high for poor, half-grown chick ens, v. ' ; - In Lenoir, on the 18th inst. bv Rev. C. A. Munroe, Mr Thomas M. Vance, (son of Hon. Z. B. Vance) to Miss Gertrude Wheeler, daughter of me laie jou Junius i. nneeier. i In Rowan county, on the 11th inst, Mr A. M. robst to Miss Maggie Kluttz. ' A l- Prof. J. C. Meares of Raleigh, and Mlss' Patti'e L. Allen of Jackson, Northampton county,-were married in the latter place the 17th -instant Near Pineville' on the 16th tostf MrarDaVieE. Smith, aged 41 years, wife of Capt 8. W. Smith. ' At his home sear Farmington. - Davie county, on the 8th inst, after several week's sickness. Burgess Gaither, Esq., aged 69 years. 11a was a man of large Intelligence, a useful citizen and consistent member of the Methodist Church. PEQRAH & CO., gj .-:: - PEiTiEB , IK - M it. r-A "ft If ; Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Trunk? ; , : 1 And Valises; r,(. Firtt National Bank BuUding , South Tston St., Charlotte; N. C. ' - . ;,.. i.iw t'f Specialties in Hats.' v - i The "Boss Raw Edge" Soft Hats. ; the ."Light Weight" Bilk Hats, most approved style. Trunks and. Valises, very superior line? a-' Ladies' High Button Boots, Misses' High But ton Boots, Children's High Button Bootai e 5 Leather Back Bound Slipper Soles, Latah's Bound Slipper Soles, Porpoise Laces, Alma Polish, Fine liutton noons, stocking tieei pro tectors. ' ,.' .,. .'i 'iis itis.ott. Aug, 26, 1887. TO MERCHANTS : And those about to enter ; into'' MERCANTILE PURSUITS. The unprecedented large sales by my House as evidenced by Railroad receipts for shipments be tween August 1st and 20th, of the nine hundred (900) cases and bales of goods, show how success fully - my . v W hoiesaia" business is. . i x et far larger shipments would have been made- were it not that my salesmen were prevented, by. the heavy rains from making all the points mapped out by me; and to all such of my old customers 1 say come to unarioiie, see my colossal, lines oi Goods, from which you can make your selections far more satisfactory than from sample.. And moreover, l will retmourae you ia part and per haps in full of your outlays." Is this not fair and liberal on my part?,' , . A Word to NewBeginBersr After 83 years of close observation la business. I am fully convinced that by . far the greatest number of unsuccessful County Merchants is tracable to their "first purchase.' ' How? I will tell you. By being lured by men representing "Northern Houses" logo there for their first purchase, and many a one in doing so is thus vir tually "Dusted" uerore getting, home. iWnyr Because, , - 1. Buying iu Northern Houses ' where the Goods kept are not selected (like mine) -to suit this section only, the chances are that the new be ginner will buy the most unsuitable stock for his section; hence ha. has his shelves fall, yet none to suit his customers, f atal mistake No. 1. 2. In the excitement and rush of Northern Market he buys twice, perhaps thrice, as much as he can and ought to. Fatal mistake No. 2. . 3. The injudicious and disproportionate quan tities brought too much of some things and not enough of others (generally the most needful) the new beginner finds out, too late, that while he has more Goods than he ought to have, yet must order more Goods to help sell off the badly bought ones, thus being loaded too heavily at the start you can Imagine the rest. This much and more could be said, but a word to the wise is sufficient. . ? , - ; y v a How to avoid all this; r .i. ij ;'- .,; ' I have now been iu business near rou I or S3 years, commenced from the stump up at a cross road and grown up with the country, know - ex actly what and how you ought to buy, and I point (with just pride) to my record as a min and merchant, and say come to me and 1 pledge my record to take good care and protect you, and you will say, as hundreds of others have done, I owe my success to you. - . . 8. WITTKOWSKY, Aug.28, 1887. Charlotte, N. O. NEW FALL GOODS H XL. JJAnUUU o ii't n Regulator of ton .'Prices. i ft Best . Inducements that can Possibly be offered by any House in the JState, 51 I am selling Alamance at 6 cents per yard; ' ! .4-4 heavy Shirting at 6 cents per yard; 1 -J' jC .-. ;4-4 srood Bleached at 6J cents peryard;'' -M Si; My Jeans at 25 cents per yard, has no eusl in the South; : ?, , ,.Ui.t j 9 , Complete line of Fall Prints, at 4 cents ' per yard; " . ' ' J - Complete line of Dress Goods 'at pricef' away down.: .;; !.,,.;- ; i hoi Ituiii ( .; . - IbBAItIICEUs.i . ! Regulator of Low Prices'. Aug. 26, 1887. -3 - 1 v : ' CHARLOTTE f y' t FEMALE INSTITUTE." - No Institute for .Young Ladies in. the. .South has advantages superior to those offered here in every department Collegiate, Art and Music. Only experienced and accomplished Teachers engaged. The building. la lighted with Gas, warmed with the best wrought-iron Furnaces, has Hot and Cold Water Baths,' and first-class appointments aS a Boarding School ia -. every respect no 8chool in the South has superior . ' For Catalogue, with full particulars, address. Rev., .WM. R.. ATKINSON j . .July 22, 1897. . .lm:. f. n Charlotte, N C, Greensboro Female j College, , GREENSBORO, N. C-i-" ' n r l' The 8ixty-Fif th Session of this weft equipped and prosperous Bchool will begin on the 24th of August, 1887. Faculty able, accomplished and faithful. Instruction thorough Location health ful. Fare good. ' . : ' Special advantages offered in the Departments of Music, Art, Elocution, and Modern Languages. Charges moderate. For Catalogue apply to - , . T. M. JONES, ui June 24. 1887. 2m : ( ,: President. 1873. MACON SCHOOLiudli Opens its 15th Session on ti AstofBept 1 For Circulars call upon R. E. Ccnranef Es,' No. 7, Tryon street. : ': ' - 1 - j W. A! BARRIER,"- - .: t Principal; jr.;jiaATZ,jrh.iV Aug. 5.1887. tf Yief Principal., PIEDMONT , SEMINlOTV" Lincolnton, Lincoln Co.; N. C A School for both sexes. Wide awake and tip' with the times. -Thorough, practical and relia ble. Prepares for College or for Business.? The. success of our pupils our best advertisement.; Location healthy. Of easy access by Railroad., Next session begins the last Wednesday in August, 1887. ' - '' W A want rrm tn bm 05inlr 'PIamu'. MIt for one to. w ? ' r i "nnV " D. MATT, THOMPSON, f Joly29.,1887. . t6w , J'riqclpsV peace vjnstitiite,;; Raleigh, N. O. The Fall Session commences en the first Wed cesday in September (6th day) and ends the, first Wednesday in June, 1833. "t ' ; Every department of instruction filled byex- -perienced and accomplished Teachers. ; - Building, the largest and ' most thoroughly equipped in the State.' Heated by Steam, i Study Hall lighted by Electricity, t v u I ana" v. , Special rates for. two, or more,; front same' family. :, f . ; .f. , ,.r ,., ...'. -, . For Circulars and Catalogue, address - . Y ' " jRkR.'BURWELSON, r July 8, 1887.' v 2m' ' . IUJefchN. 0,. Journal.