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Charlotte Democrat.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
FOB THE CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT.
A Needed Reform.
Mr. J. W. Mehaffey, a skilled surveyor
of Concord, shows in the last Standard
that most of the land measurement here
in North Carolina are full of errors, giving
iostanoes of as much as five acres in sixty
and thirty-four in four hundred.
Mr. Mehafiey also calls attention to a
law passed in 1870 providing for a "True
Meridian," and thus aiding in correcting
such errors. I am also told by Capt. S.
B. Alexander that he helped to secure
such a law and that if the commissioners
of the several counties would only carry
it out, it would prove of untold benefit in
quieting titles, saving suits and other
annoyances.
I ask Messrs Editors is there nobody to
tir up our leading men (politicians, law
yers, educators and preachers as well) to
some consideration of the trouble and
evils under which our people suffer?
Won't the editors continue to stir the
commissioners, the legislators and others
Up ? A SUFFEBEE.
The Tangled Raft or an Editor Afloat.
Yes, our ride from Goldsboro to Wilson last
Thursday night was an exquisite feast of delici
ous delight, for one of the purest, sweetest,
loveliest and most bewitching maidens we ever
met, was by our side, and flung over our feelings
that entrancing witchery which made onr sense
drunk with the delirium of rapture and delight.
Yes.drunk with estacy,for as we feasted with en
raptured vision on those transposing smiles
which played upon her beautiful cheeks, and as
we would now and then catch the glimmer of
her radiant eyes we felt as if we were on the
glittering raft made of tangled sunbeams, and
were being wafted to that sweet isle of' enchant- j
ment, around which the purest ripples break and
die in echoes full of rapture. Yes this young
maiden did make us dream for a time of Para
dise Regained, for she was bright as star beams
and sweet as flowers and beautiful as an angel's
dream of Heaven, and moments were made to
ripple by as sweetly and as musically and as
beautifully and as radiantly as a streamlet or
crystal waters flowing through banks of bloom
ing flowers and kissed alone by trembling sun
beams as they came down in dazzling showers.
Wilson Mirror.
This poem of Brother Blount's is thus
unjustly jailed behind the prison-bars of
prose. We protest. Give it the lreedom
it deserves. Give it air, thus
Our ride from Goldsboro on last Thursday
night,
Was an exquisite feast of delicious delight ;
For one of the loveliest maidens we ever have
met,
Made us as drunk with delirium as we well could
get:
Yes, drunk with ecstacy ripe for the feast.
Of smiles as rapturous as dawn in the East ;
And as we would catch the glimmer of eyes,
We felt ourselves drifting toward Gained Para
dise On a glittering raft of tangled sunbeams
To the rippling enchantment of an island of
dreams.
Yes this maiden young did make us dream,
Ah !
She was sweet as the flower and bright as the
star,
In beauty like angel's dreamings of bliss.
The moments flowed by with sunbeams a'kiss,
With music of waters by flower-bed bank :
The only word here that will rhyme is a drank,
Or a lank, or a crank, or a flank, or a prank.
And betwixt me and you,
Nary one here will do.
But betwixt you and me,
Then, Prank let it be
Simply a prank of pleasantree.
Thanksgiving Day.
Thursday, November 28th, the Day Ap
pointed. Washington-, November 2. The fol
lowing proclamation, setting apart Thurs
day, November 28, as a day of national
thanksgiving, was issued late this after
noon :
'By the President of the United States,
"a peoclasiation.
"A highly favored people, mindlul of
their dependence on the bounty oi a Di
vine Providence, should seek fitting ocoa?
eion to testify gratitude and ascribe praiBe
to Him who is the author of their many
blessings. It behooves us, then, to look
back with thankful hearts over the paBt
year and blest God for His infinite mercy
in vouchsafing to our land enduring peace,
to our people freedom from pestilence and
famine, to our husbandmen abundant bar
vests, and to them that labor recompense
of their toil.
"Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do earnestly recommend that Thursday,
the twenty-eighth day of this present
month of November, be set apart as a day
of national thanksgiving and prayer, and
that the people of our country, ceasing
from the care and labors of their working
day, shall assemble in their respective
places of worship and give thanks to God,
who has prospered ub on our way and
made our paths paths of peace; beseeching
him to bless the day to our present and
future good, making it truly one of thanks
giving for each reunited home circle as for
the nation at large.
"In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
-Done at the city of Washington, this
first day of November, in the year of our
Lord 1889, and of the independence of the
United States the 114th.
"Benj. Harkisox.
"By the President :
"James G. Blaine,
"Secretary of the State."
CrsJ" Here is how the best newspaper
in Virginia, the Norfolk Public Ledger,
speaks of race matters in North Carolina
and of the best Governor our State haB
ever had: "The fair which opened in
Raleigh, N. C, yesterday, for the purpose
of displaying the products of the colored
people of North Carolina, was an effective
answer, so far as North Carolina is con
cerned, to the "fasting and prayer" move
ment recently started by the negro
preachers of Chicago and Indianapolis to
"relieve their long suffiering race in the
South from oppression and "wrong." The
opening address was made by "the Gov
ernor of the State, who alluded Co the
kindly feeling which exists in the South
between the two races, and bis remarks
were endorsed by the colored Secretary of
the Fair Association. North Carolina, as
one of the Southern States with a large
negro population, presents a fair speotacle
of what is being done in most, if not all of
them, to improve the condition of the
aegro race. The aim there, as elsewhere
throughout the South, is to adopt such
helpful methods as will best accomplish
the ends sought to be attained, one
evidence of which is the fact that sixteen
thousand colored teachers are at present
employed in teaching colored schools in
the Southern States."
Students have been entered Su the
Washington Catholic University.
State Lines as Cbnierence Boundaries.
I have watcheJ with interest the
progress of the discussion, ia the re
ligious and secular papers, in refer
ence to a change in the lines which mark
the boundaries oi some of our Conferences;
and I have beeo surprised to see a conflict
between the Richmond and Raleigh
Christian Advocates on this subject. It
seems to ma that there is a principal or a
reason, if you choose to so call it, under
lying this -discussion, which has a common
application; and upon which these two
great Church papers might stand side by
side in friendly accord, and work together
for a common good. Let me Bee if I can
not point out this common principle. To
fully appreciate it, it may be necessary to
revert to the past.
When the Methodist Church was plant
ed and established in Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee
the country as is well koown was sparsely
settled; and it was generally the case that
the "Methodist.meeting houses" stood far
apart. The Circuit Kider had to make
long journeys on horse back, or in the old
"stick gig," to make the round of bis
circuit; lor they often embraced a large
extent of territory. There were no public
modes of travel, or at best but few; and it
became necessary, in grouping circuits
together to form Conferences, to have an
eye to contiguity and to conveniences.
The church was weak in numbers and
means, when it was proposed to start a
church enterprise like a Church College
or a Church paper, 'it was necessary to
draw patronage and support from a great
extent of territory in order to make a re
spectable showing. This sense of weak
nesa and dependence, coupled with an
earnest desire to build up, togrov and to
prosper, ignored state lines acd state pride,
ileoce when Randolph Macon Cullege
was established more than half a century
ago, it was very largely the joint work of
the Virginia Methodist and the North
Carolina Methodists; so much so, that it
was named for a Virginia Statesman and
a North Carolina Statesman; and, although
located on Virginia soil, it was very near
the North Carolina line. For years it was
the Denominational College, for North
Carolina as well as for Virginia Methodists,
and the sons of the former as well as of
the latter Bought its benefits, and received
its blessings. What is trne of Raudolph
Macon, is also true to a greater or lees ex
tent, of the Richmond Christian Advocate,
and other church enterprises in which the
Methodist people of both States bad a
common interest and felt a common sym
pathy. And this was well so long as the
condition of things continued which cre
ated these enterprises, and which required
the united support of North Carolina as
well as Virginia Methodists. All honor
to the men who wrought the good work
of their day and generation ! They had
their peculiar work, and they did it well.
But we also have ours, andwhile it may
not be, in appearance, on the same line as
theirs, it is in fact and in truth ouly con
centrating and making more effective the
agencies which they set on foot lor the
elevation of the people and the up buildiug
of the church.
The situation is changed, entirely
changed. The condition which existed in
the days of the Pioneers of Methodism do
not exist now; and it is no reflection upou
the wisdom of our fathers nor disloyalty
to their memory, for us to pursue that
line of action indicated by the peseut
order of things. We live in a thickly
populated country in which our denom
ination has grown to be a stFong aud
powerful factor for good. Public modes
of travel have been opened up, till one
may go in any direction almost at will.
Our Conference lines need not, and should
not be determined by the same influences
which located them in the past age, be
cause these influences do not exist, and
any effort to revive them or to appeal to
them, must when subjected to the light
of reasons, end in failure. Iu forming
new Conference lines, or in making changes
in the old, we should Btudy the present
conditions and seek for a rational system
which shall be adopted as the policy of
the denomination, and adhered to as far
as practicable. What simpler or more
natural system of church government, aud
in many respects it is like the American
system of Political Government. The
circuit or the station is the unit, and cor
respond to the county, while the Quarter
ly Conference of the Circuit or statiop
may be likened, in many respects, to the
local government of county or town.
Our Annual Conference correspond to our
State Legislatures and our General Con
ference to oar National Legislature.
Changes have been made from time to
time in the details of our system of church
government, but the great principles
upon which it is baied remain the same;
and it is not likely that there will be any
which will endure, the Annual and Gen
eral Conferences may be safely counted.
The State Governments and the, National
Government will endure for all time. I
do not believe that either can or will de
stroy the other. An ardent love for one's
State ia' not disloyalty to the National
Government. In tact the man who does
not love his state, his country, his town,
his home knows very little about the feel
ings that well up in the bosom of the true
patriot. It is therefore, not improper in
the church to inculcate in its membership
a love of state, and of home. Io laot, it is
in my opinion a part of its duty and of its
mission. If so, the sooner it puts itself in
the position to teach these lessons in their
broadest and fullest sense the better. To
do this, the church organization must be
local as well a the person to be taught.
The teacher as well as the person to be
instructed must be in sympathy with the
sentiments to be imparted, or else the
work will be in vain if not a hollow
mockery. Think of a Virginia Conference,
or a Virginia preacher, with all their com
mendable love of Virginia, teaching a
North Carolina Methodist that North
Carolina has anything as good as Virginia,
or that it is his daty to support North
Carolina Institutions in preference to
Virginia Institutions. They are pot in
sympathy with such sentiments, and it is
not likely they are going to teach them.
The same may be said of Conferences and
preachers from other States coming into
Virgiois to teach Virginians their duty to
Virginia. These views are not applicable
to other denominations, because their
system and methods are totally
different from cur?, especially in selecting
shepherds for their flock?; but, if I am not
wholly mistaken in them, it seems to me
to follow that we should make our Con
ference lines the same as our State lines,
where it can be done without great injury
to some peculiar local interest. It seems
to me that this is the trne policy, and one
that should ba made the imperative rule
of the church as rapidly as circumstances
will allow ot its adoption. It is upon this
line of tboeght and action that I supposed
the Richmond and Raleigh Advocates
could stand side by side, advocating a
principal which is right in itself. This
principle, if adopted, would give to the
Virginia Conference all that part of Vir
ginia now embraced within the bounds of
some other Conference, and it would do a
like thing for North Carolina. Your
Virginia brother- ought not to ask any
more, he ought not be willing to concede
any less. Certainly a paper so full ot
years and of honors will not demand from
one what withholds from another.
I was born and reared, as you well know,
within the bounds of the Virginia Con
ference. My boyhood's home, in ihe
county of Currituck, where sleeps the
remains of my sainted father and mother,
ia tho dearest spot to me on earth. I re
muiber with the sincerest reveremie, the
pious and holy men who ministered to the
people at Mount Zion where I was wont
to go with father and mother in my child
hood. As I write, the names of Robert J
G. Scott, Humphry Billupf, lbomaa
Crowder; James D. Cowling and many
others, ol pure live and precious memory,
occur to me. No man can revere the
memory of these men more than I do; and
so far as 1 know the men who have suc
ceeded them, even to this day, are worthy
of them. It is also true that these good
men have baptized the living and buried
the dead for the Method iats in that sec
tion for nearly a century past. Iu all
thing they have served their people faith
fully and wll. But it is also true that
their peoplehave been equally faithful in
building op and in sustaiuiug Virginia
Institutions, while similar Institutions
in their own state have been struggling
for an existence. Well may our Virginia
lrieuds poiut with pride to old Randolph
Macon It is a noble Institution. It is a
grand old College. But as glorious as
has been its pat, as exalted as my be its
present, I trust its future may far exotl;
all these. I remember ber benefits to me
with a grateful-heart, aud I feel the pride
of a loyal sou u her prosperity and
renown. I acn glad to read in the "Old
Richmond" that thU College is endowed
aud its position, among the great educa
tional Institutions, assured. This being
so, it need no longer be au object of solici
tude among North Caroliua Methodists.
They may, with propriety.be asked to
turn their attention to a "puny college"
in their own State and to give something
of their time and means to building up
and endowing that. A great College,
like Randolph Macon, is a blessing to a
State, even if it be a depomiqalipual CoU
lege. No man can measure the good that
Davidson, and Wake Forest do lor North
Carolina. That they may grow and pros
per is the earnest prayer of my heart.
But why does any man dare call Trinity
"puny," or even to repeat the charge? It
is weak, because North Carolina Metho
dists have not been united in its support.
Those Hying jq that part of North Caro
lina East and North qt the Roanoke River
have been giviog their support to n
dolph Macon, while those living west of
the Blue Ridge have been assisting iu
building another College, Now, we want
these North Carolina Methodists to oorue
borne and join their fellow citizens in
working for North Carolina. Io politics
they are North Carolinians, iu religion
they are something else. I want to see
them North Caroliniau iu religion as well
as in politics. With some raeu their re
ligious connections, their religious pre ju
dice, their reliyious associations dominate
all things else. This class of men cannot
be heart aud soul North Caroliniau as long
as their religious associations link them to
another State. While the State now. puf
fers by reason of their religions separation
from u,I do not believe ttey would suffer
by reason of being joined with qs. Then
let tbem come home and give their religi
ous as well as their political life to good
works in and for North Carolina. For
one, I want to see every inch of North
Carolina territory io one or more North
Carolina Conferences; and then I want to
see the Methodist people in these Confer
ences united in building up and endowing
Trinity College; and in making it, to North
Carolina, what Randolph Macon is to Vir
ginia. Then, no man will dare cail it
"puny." Other Carolina institutions will
receive like benefits from such an union.
The church itself would, in my opinion,
be benefited and blessed by it. Then
there would be no divided allegiance.
The time would soon pome when it could
be no longer said the North OarollqaCon
ference pan get nothing in the way of
boners or promotjou (or any of its dtr
serving and distinguished member?.
I have thus outlined my yiew? op the
transfer question; and, as I have no pou?
cealinenia in the muter, you are at liberty
to make such use of them a you may de
sire, Were I less of a North Carolinian,
it is possible J might he less pronounced
in some of them, but, being heart and
soul a North Carolinian, J wish to see
every citizen, as far as in him lies, work
for the exaltation ot his own State.
T. J. Jarvis in Rakish Advocate.
The Secret of It All.
Georgia is probably the most progres
sive of the Southern States, not simply in
the vim with which she pushes her indus
trial enterprise, but in the progress upon
the farm. The Savanoah News quotes
a manufacturer who had traveled over a
large portion of the State, as saying that
the condition of the farmers of that State
was ovver so good, that their cotton crop
is better than it ever was, that in addition
to this they will make more corn and meat,
and have raised more sugar and peas than
ever before, and that this crop will put
them all out of debt. The result of their
prosperous condition is-not found in their
large cotton crop, but io the fact that they
raised enough of home supplies to make
them independent, which every farmer
must do who would succeed. Wilming
ton Star.
Georgia will more completely merit her
enviable distinction of being the "Empire
State" of the South than ever before if
her farmers continue this wise policy of
raising their home supplies making their
barns important parts of the farm economy
instead of dilapidated, empty shanties,
and their smoke-houses the treasure rooms
of the housewife. This alone will secure
agricultural independence, and guarantee
to the Southern farmer the prosperity
which be deserves. Cotton and tobacco
are important and essential in the aggre
gation of the production oi the South
Atlantic States, but the men who till the
soil, and prepare and harvest for the mar
kets of the world its varied crops, fail
lamentably of that thrift which should
accompany their efforts unless they pro
vide well and bountifully for themselves
and their dependents out of the abundance
furnisbed Jor the world's consumption.
After all, energy in mercantile circles
builds up .cities, and the aggressiveness of
capiil $a manufacturing eu,terpris swells
the little settlement into the bustling towu
bet ' agriculture furnishes the . sinew
and the. bapkbone to it i,FayettviUe
Observer. ' " V v : :
Attempting to Discourage Negro Emi-
gration.
The Baptist Educational and Mission
ary Convention of North Carolina assem
bled at Garysburg (Oot. 22-27, 1889),
adopted a resolution that a committee be
appointed to write a letter, expressive of
the opinion of the convention on the
question of negro emigration from North
Carolina, and other vital questions.
The following letter was presented and
ordered to be sent throughout the State,
especially to the various newspapers:
To the Colored People, Farmers and
Landlords of North Carolina:
It is the sense of the convention that
emigration in mass is impossible; and that
the present method of emigration- that
is, by agents and sub-agents, who are
doubtless prompted to agitate this move
ment solely tor the fee that is io it is
impracticable, untimely, and injurious to
our people.
We therefore most earnestly and sin
cerely urge, that, for the good of the race,
we be no longer led off as chattel slaves,
to build up for the waste places of other
States and to further the interests and
fortunes of other people at a dear expense
to ourselves.
We do not condemn emigration in a
general seuse; we believe in it. We com
mend it, when we can go as free people
upon onr own accord, especially when we
find a place where qur oondition oao be
bettered.
We advise our people not to let them
selves bd wrought upon by exciting and
riotous meetings and speeches. Further
experience has taught us the necessity of
abstaining from all useless expenditures of
mouey. We therefore exhort our race to
practice frugality and economy in a.l
things; to educate themselves and accu
mulate property.
Our hopes for future elevation and pro
gress depend upon God; and God has
endowed us wiib certain inherent powers
and talents, in consequence of which we
are responsible for our own developments;
so that, ultimately, .wherever we are and
whatever we become, depends upon our
owu personal energy and effort. We
furthermore ad visa our people to be zeal
ous and consecrated in their devotion and
service to Qodj to cultivate peace, and
harmony between the races; and to de
velop habits of patience, industry and
economy. f '
Further, this convention, in view of the
successive shortness of crops and the low
prices of cotton, calls upon the landlords
of the Slate to reduce their rents so as to
allow renters to make a better and more
respectable living, and tbns restore confi
dence to the tenants and harmony between
them and the landlords. Unless this is
done we cannot hope to retain the laborers
in the State.
Lastly, that the farmers of the State, io
order to oomribyjte to the above results,
be requested to pay as promptly as pos
sible to hirelings, the amount of wages
promised.
A. W. Pegues, Ph D, Raleigh; Rev C
Johnson, Raleigh; Rev R Shepard, Ral
eigh; Rev L II Hackney, Chapel Hill;
Rev W II Sb tw, Littleton, Committee.
Gash or No Paper.
Our subscribers can prepare
for
the
adoption ot the cash system by ns. We
have mde many liberal offers to you and
now we must have oath from the first ol
the year, or we can't send yon the paper.
Hickory Press.
The press of the whole State ought to
adopt the cash system. There are so many
under the credit system who don't pay
and that will never make any effort to pay
as long as they are indulged, that the en
tire profits ot the publishers in North
Carolina are lost to them in this way. As
a consequence there are notexceeding five
papers iu the Stale, if so many, that are
realizing from the paper alone more than
a bare existence. There are people who
subscribe for a paper and bang on as long
as the editor will send without pay, and
when he will uo longer, they get in a huff
and go off denouncing the editor and his
paper, aud subscribe for another with the
usual promises, but with never a cent of
cash. They must go the rounds of all the
newspapers office e, until they go back or
stop reading. Then, if they do not send
off for a paper, they go back to the first
and start at the beginning, paying a sma)l
installment, allowing the paper to run long
after the time after paid tor is out unless
the editor happens to think to stop it, and
promising every time they see the editor
to oall and settle, old scores aud renew
which they never do. Finally, the editor
is compelled again to strike him oft. And
so the old trick is pursued again. In the
meantime, if a new paper is started in the
town or vicinity, tbesa frauds rush in a
body to it with a shortsqbscriplioo, many
false prom's. 8 of support and good pheer,
and with as muoh apparent pleasure and
interest as are manifested by a crowd ot
mountain hoosiera going to witness a pub
lic hanging. Men who thus run from one
newspaper office to another, getting their
reading matter from year to year by
flattery, false pretense, and lying, are not
the Bort of patrons we are looking for.
This kind of patronage has already robbed
us of very many dollars of our bard earn
ings and we do not intend to be robbed
gio V
A person who gets a ' peck of meal, a
yard of clotb, a 'pound of sugar, or a
or a newspaper on the strength of a false
promise, or by saying that be will have
money due him at a certain time with
which to pay, or that he will haul wood, or
bring oorn, or wheat, or anything else to
pay with, aud never dses it, has laid him
self liable to prosecution for having ob
tained articles under false pretense, and if
he is not indicted and punished for th
fraud, it is because' of the toleration ami
forbearance of the party whotn be has de
Ceived and swindled. Salisbury Truth
f3f" Th world is indebted to the
Louisville Journal for the following
plausible story : "In Woodford county,
Ky., Mr. John D. Burns raised a large
drove of turkeys this year, aud by placing
a bell upon the old mother that led tbem,
he accustomed them to follow the sound.
When the time came to work his tobacco
fields he removed the bell, placing it on
bit own waist, and while working bis crop
with the hoe, the hungry turkeys followed
the familiar tinkle of the bell, picking the
stalks clean of the worms as they followed
him up one row and down the other. The
turkeys have done the work of five men
and saved the crop.
Appear op a Modest Man. This
week's Rulo Times is edited by one Mor
ton Potter, who has ss yet h$ po experi
ence io the business, and who would be
pleased if ye editors ot other papers would
.cast no reflections on oar inability to cope
with youros, as life ia ehort at best.
Rulo Timet. '
N. C. News.
JST" There is some talk going on in
favor of keeping the Supreme Court in
session all the time, in order that appeals
in capital eases can be at once taken up
and disposed of. Raleigh Call.
JST It gives as pleasure to note the
success of our North Carolina industries
in whatever part ot the State they may
be, and hence we are glad to learn that
the oottoo laotories of Charlotte are build
ing up a big business, and are in a
flourishing condition. Wilmington Star.
df" Mr. R. B. Joyner was exhibiting
around town the other day, with pardon
able pride, a boll of cotton from out of bis
crop. It was as large as the fist ot an
ordinary man, as white as snow aud in
texture was as sfi as silk. It requires
100 average bo. Is to weigh a pound; 32 of
the size ot this would tip the scales at a
pound. Statesoille Landmark.
SSf We learn that there are abont
sixty students at the A. and M. College,
of whom about one-fourth pay their way,
the others being county students. We
are sure that the College baa started out
on the correct schedule, and that the
teaching of agriculture, horticulture, etc.,
will be highly beneficial to the agricul
tural interests of the State. Even if a
boy has finished his schooling he would
be greatly benefitted by a couple of years
at this college studying agriculture.
Raleigh Observer. :
Many of the farmers who attended
the Weldon fair expressed themselves a
very highly pleased with a suggestion
which Gov. Fowle made in his address at
the fair. The Governor said he had been
much struck with a new substitute for
hillside ditches wbioh be had learned of
and which he wished to recommend as
worthy at least of a trial. When cotton
was planted on rolling land there were
usually hillside ditches made but it was
suggested instead that there be alternate
strips of land planted iu either wheat or
oats which would prevent the washing ot
the Und. -Raleigh Observer.
A Fox Killed in the City. Some
colored boys with a dog jumped a fox in
a vacant lot on Orange between Sixth
and Seventh streets yesterday afternoon,
and after a short chase killed it under a
stable on Capt. Skinner's premises adjoin
ing. The fox made a furious fight, and
the dog engaged in the encounter was
bitten in several places. The lot in which
"sly Reynard" was discovered, is filled
with a high growth of weeds, and it is
supposed the fox has been in that neigh
borhood for some time, depredsting upon
the hen roosts in the vicinity. Wilming
ton Star.
Jf" The Arlington company, recently
incorporated in Watauga coqnty, propose
to build a mammoth hotel at Blowing
Rock in time for next summer's season.
The building is to be erected on Fairview
Bluff, and to cost $26,000. Messrs. Harper
aud Bernhardt, of Lenoir, and Capt. A. G.
Brenizer, of CharloHe, have bought the
Wallace Estes farm, (the first beyoud the
Blowing Rock gap) aud will divide it up
into cottage lote and build a large hotel.
This will give Biowiug Rock four large
hotels, besides innumerable boirding
boutes and cottages. Jlforganton Star.
fdir Those who are in a position to
know Bay that never before since the war
have the people of Union county been in
so good condition to make another crop
as they are now. It is true the cotton
crop is short and money will be scarce,
but good crops of wheat, oats, corn, pota
toes, etc , have been made, and there will
probably be more pork raised in the
county this year than for muy years
before. There has been a large crop ol
oats sown this tall, and they are looking
well. The man who h out ot debt is all
right, and those who are in debt should
learn a lesson from this year's experience
and try to get out. Monroe Register.
O, Teupoba. A few years ago the
ooru-t bucking was common both with
while and colored people. In many sec
tions of the country where men did the
most of their own work during the year
with the help of their boys, about this
season of the year the neighbors were
invited to come in some afternoon and
help shuck coru. But the old lime corn
shucking is a thing of the past. It has a
new name now. "A busking bee," is
what they call it now. It really takes
the social idea out ot it to give it such a
stuck-up name. Were we farming agaio,
we think We should "shuck" our corn no
matter who else should "husk" bis with a
t'bee." Spoflafid Neck J)etnocrat.
4 Four Year Old Prisoner.
II.-I ry H. Miller, aged four years and
eight months, was a prisoner in the Essex
county jail yesterday morning. He was
sent . there in company with George
Tiacev, aged eleven, and Samuel McGee,
aged nine, by Justice of the Peace O'Reil
ly, of Souh Oranger N.J. Many fires
have occurred io South Orange within the
last few months and the circumstances
left no doubt that tbey were the work of
incendiaries. The latest was at George
Versoy's plumbing shop, a dilapidated
old structure, which was burned Wednes
day afternoon. Thursday a meetiug ot
local bneintes men was held and the situa
tion discussed.
. The bojs named bad been seen lurking
in the neighborhood aud oil and kindling
waste had been found after their departure.
Complain-s were m tde against the three
children, Traoey, McGde and Miller,- and
Constable Smith arrested them. They
were uken to Whelan's saloon, to. which
p!ue 'he learned Justice O'Reilly re
paired and set up court. He pr-omptly
conmittfd the iiiautile desperadoes to
the county jil.
"But ou are not fcoiiig to send them to
jail nighi ?" catue from the astonished
spectators.
Tne maj-my of .the law had to be vindi
cated ud the Justice sternly replied that
he could not do anythiug else. He
changed his mjnd after bearing a few
vehement protests and paroled the
prisoners in the custody of their parents
until yesterday, when he gave orders to
hurry ibem off to jail. Lawyer M. T.
Barrett applied to Judge Kirkpatrick in
the Common Pleas Court yesterday for
the release ot Miller, the four-year-and-eight-month-old
boy. The Judge ordered
that Miller be given iuto the custody of
his mother.
The complainants are collecting evi
dence to prove that alj the ffres" wergi
Started b the prisoners and other boys of
the village. New York World.
Will be States Hereafter. Presi
dent Harrison issued a proclamation ad
mitting North and South Dakota into the'
Union as tales o date.' from November
. Secretary of State Blaine, notified the
two governors of the presidents action.
The Snow Flower.
Something Very 8imilar Much Nearer than"
Siberia.
Acoounts have been received of a so
ceiled snow-flower, Baid to have been dis
covered by Count Anthoskoff in the most
northern portion of Siberia, where the
ground is continually covered with frost.
The wonderful object shoots forth from
the Irozen soil on the first day of each
succeeding year.. It lives for but a siugle
day, then resolves to its original elements.
The leaves are three in number, and each
about tbree inches in diameter. They are
developed only on that side toward the
north, and each, seems to be covered with
microscopic cry stsjs of snow.
We find the above floating around
through our exchanges, and it attracted
our eye, as perhaps referring to something
he bad seen much nearer than ."iberia.
We discovered our mistake; and for the
benefit of the curious, we will speak of
something to be found without going to
Siberia, without searching tor it on any
one day of the year, and something that
is noV fabulous. It is what we named the
Ice Rose. Hardly one io a thousand has
ever seen it, lor it does not grow iu towns
or cities or open fields. It is the product
of the woods. It forms or grows in those
cold nights and mornings where the clay
ground is found lifted or covered with
those beautiful spiculse of ice which lioe
the road sides. The same mystery of
crystalization which'forms these spicnlae
acts in the formation of the ice rose ; bat
the exudation of vapor as it passts iuto
the frozen state, instead of connecting itself
with the ground, attaches itsell to the
stem of a dead eed and crystalizes in a
form of woud.jfol beauty of shap and
coloring, forming around the stem, but
not adhering to it, a spiral, sometimes a
circle or riug of opalescent ice, from two
to three inches in diameter; the outer
surface rounded and smooth, the inner
side encircled with a delicate effloreceuce
of mioure crystals. Attached to its woody
stem and lifted clear from the ground, it
has marvelous resemblance to a beautiful
flower, a curious illusion in the cold
weather in which it is found. We
have cut many oi them with stem at
tached, and carried tbem uninjured for
miles, carefully proleoted io a handker
chief or a sheet of paper. When the
temperature rises they tall from the stem
and soon perish.
To find them, the woods must be visited
very early in the day, and the weather
must beoold, and also, the ground must
be moist. But the ice rose is no myth
like the Know-flower. Asheville Citizen.
ST" The action ot the white people of
Richmond to solve the negro problem by
employ ing aoy other than colored servants
is being widely commented upou, and has
attraoted the attention of the officers of
St. Stephens Guild, of No. 50 Fourteenth
street, New York, and sister Beatrice has
Hiitten to Mayor Ellyson, as we learn
from the Dispatch, saying: "We will fur
nish all the servants your people want.
We will investigate their references, see
that they are responsible and honest, and
see that the families securing this help
are satisfied with them; also, that they
throw no reflection on us alter tbey are
employed. This city is full of poor women
who would ba glad to have employment,
and it is a charity to send tbem to the
South, where they will see a belter side of
life than they see here. I will attend to
yi ur demands, and not charge you a cent
oi money. You pay the lervant' expenses
to your place, then deduct so much a
month from her wages until she pays you
what it cost for transportation. me
hear from jou at once, with references, so
as to secure the girls respectable homes.
This must be the first consideration." The
public will await the result of Richmond's
experience w'nh no little interest. J)x
OFFICE OF THE
WHOLESALE HOUSE
OP
S. Wittkowsky.
1889. SPRING AND SUMMER, 1889.
40 per Cent. Increase.
In my sales over the corresponding 12 months
of last year is what I have the satisfaction of
publishing to the world, as a result of my efforts
in the strictly " Wholesale" business, and yet it
ought not to be a surprise, as there is no House,
belt North or South, East or West, that can
claim advantages which I do not nossess.
Nor do I intend to rest on my laurels, but feel
that my desire for still greater achievements has
been "whetted," and to which end I am now
bending every nerve, and with my adopted
motto of
P. P. P.,
Push, Patience and Perseverance,
In the near future I expect to see my business
reach such large proportions as to "Astonish the
Natives."
For the past three months I have been almost
constantly among the Southern, Western and
Eastern Manufacturing Centres, placing orders
Boots. Shoes, Hats
AND ALL-WOOL FILLED JEANS AND
CA8SIMERES,
Amounting to pi incely sums and colossal pro
portions.
That it takes nerve and money to do these
things so far ahead of the Season, eoes without
saying, and I claim to possess both of these
qualities.
Seven (7) experienced Salesmen will, at an
early day, in my Interest, canvass the Trade In
Dotn tne carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee, with
Shoes, Hats and the Southern production of
Wool Goods, mostly of my own designs and
selections, anil it will be to the interest of buyers
to await their coming.
S. WITTKOWSKY,
Charlotte, N. O.
Feb. 15, 18S9
BUGGIES, CARTS,
HARNESS,
AND ALL KINDS OF
HOUSE ANP BIULE JEWELRY,
W. E. SHAW & CO'S.
Corner Trade and College 8treets.
8ept. 27, 1889. 3io
500 ozs. Sulphate Quinine.
25 lbs. Gum Oninm 100 n-ra oninv.- if
just received by
BUR WELL & DUNN.
All kindswof Spices.
Whole and Pnvriprmi
and retail, at
BURWELL & DUNN'S.
'Lewis Pure Lead.
St. Louis Pure Lead. Lowest market prices
. BURWELL & DUNN.
Aug. SO, 1583 " ' UVaa'
Comparative Cotton Statement
ThA folln wincr is the cnmn.roi:-
r ""ecottJ
tilemAnt for lh week endin XT.
... or, i
1889.
Net rtbeipts at U. S. ports 812,059
Tout receipts to date, 1.921,199
Ex porta for the Week, 826,640
Total export to date, 1,255,188
Stock at all U. S. ports. 497.824
Stock at all interior towns, 80,057
Stock in Liverpool, 445,000
Stock of American afloat for
Great Britain, 297,000
Total Receipts at all American p.
since Sept 1st, 1889.
The following are I lie tntal nai ...
of cotton at all United States setJb
since September Ut, 1889: QaWD
J7l,484 bales. Mew Orleans 5 43,335 r
bile 98,076, Savannah 395,080, CharWi
, Wilmington 54.426 Norfolk l$
540, Baltimore 3,027, New York 48
Boston 4,480, Newport News 3.037 Pk"1
v.yum o,o, u em x-oict 110,388 IW
wick 40,829. Total 1,921,265 bales.
Total Visible Sanolv of c,mu
New York. Now 9Tt. .
iuhi in'
ble supply of cotton for the world i
2,070,691 bales, oi which 1,737,091 J
American, against 1,097,786 sod 1,479 8?
respectively last year; receipts lro
tenor towns, 187,870; receipts from sJ
tations, 329,108. Crop in sight 2,143 $
Horse and Cattlo powder
5 If your horse or cow is reduced ig ,
not eat wen, nair rougu, uy our jtoha,- -
ranted to improve their condition or nun ,
W. H. WEARN & co.
Ready-Mixed Faints
In small Cans. You can give your old burn,
wgon a fresh coat, and be surprised how etn
can be applied, and what an improvement h i
appearance, i ou or your wue can repaint
chairs, tables, bedstead or anything else need:
' . 1 1 !J M .1 . . H
n, anu oe more man paiu lor lue co&i ana Ubd
SF" Pepotash and Huckleberry Cordial 1
I 1 li a i.li 1: t T). . w.j .
mmn truuuies. a. mil iiuc ui xraicui JueaiCM
oi au RiDa. uau ana see us.
W. II, WEARN & CO
June 1. '89.
THE WILSON DRUG C08
Retail Store.
MIHALOVITCH'S
Hungarian Blackberry Juice NonI
coholio. .
The Great Stomach. Remedj,
Aa a remedy against Diarrhcea and Uneaten
the juice of the Blackberry has been known uu
valued since time immemorial, andfra, therti
fore, needless for us to debate that ttibject inr
further than to say, that this partienbx ftuJ
garian Blackberry Juice, of which the bkdWr
is grown in a country which is famous for pre-;
ducing the best fruits on the globe, will beuos
its excellence against all others.
Hungarian B lacks erky Juics isiTixi
Ltjxubt. The fine aroma, pleasant taste si
rich body of the juice makes it a desirable u&
for table use. It can be mixed in all proportion
with all kinds of drinks, such as Lemoniiltl
Sherbets, Wines, Liquors, etc., and will impi
to them a delicious aroma, a fine acid taste it
i i i i A i j j?
a luscious uouy, wmcu uo uiuer juice cud
For sale at
THE WILSON DRUG CO.-fi
Mav 11. '89. Retail Bto
CORN AND PEAS WANTED.
We will p. y the highest market price, in at
for Corn and Peas.
STAR MILLS CO.)
We are prepared for GLanirujr Oottak and it.
guarantee as good work as can be done c
where. We charge the one-thirtieth part i
eive our customers ALL their seed.
Our Ginnery is located within 100 yardioflf
Cotton Platform, thus placing our patroni if
on the market. ' No trouble to sell your seed
highest price near by. (
Our capacity is 25 Bales, and by running t
and night we can turn out 50 Bales each24boti
We guarantee the safety of all Cotton left i
our care. A share of your patronage is soiicitEl
o l Alt MILLS (JO,
W. M. Crowkll, Msnajtt
Sept. 20, 1889.
IMMENSE STOCE
OP THE
Celebrated Elkins Jeans,
Cassimeres, Socks, Blankets and Tuk
NOW READY FOR THE TRADE.
Don't wait, hut oime nt num. for 'tis hard K
us to keep a supply of these goods on hand.
4T. L ALEXANDER & CO.,
18 West Trade stret:
Sept. 27, 1889.
SPECIAL VALUE;
We have received a large lot of Tricot fl
nels of good weight and style. They are do
width and go at 25c. Also a new line of Di
Goods which we shall run at 37. They aref
Wool and full SS inches wide. Latest colorir-
JarnnAinv Vlpnnfkla In fill rrro A c-c I-
and 75c. Some very nobby and stylish pattas
jerseys in new styles and at popular pncei
full line awaits von. Sashes and Ribbon
hpftntifil) vnriptv and wnnrirniixvtlnrinirL
Autumn Sashes are very stvlish and are K
latest "fad."
FRINGES! FRINGES!!
Have they mma hack Intn nnnnlar fti
Yes, they are quite the thing for trimmiDf
ends, Shawl Draperies and what not.
Silk Fronts are the' latest things that we J
showing for Trimmings. Sashes to match, H
short and long sizes. ' ' -
Remember that our Dressmaking won
now on second floor back Brvan's new boi
uo uvjvn vui,vnu BIV1S VU Miue
street . rn
T. L. 8EIGLB4C
Sept. 27, 1889.
BOTNE & BADGES'
JEWELERS,
Charlote. N. C.
Our stock of NEW GOODS is confe
We will sell you a Dair of Spectacles of J
snd Spectacles $1 to $3 per pair.
Watches
From $2 50 to $150. CLOCKS fr
to $35.
Diamonds for Sale.
Solid Silver and Silver Plated W
largest siock in tne city. f
tW We have the finest WATCH-!
in the State.
BOfNE&BAPb
June 28, 1889. .
w. h. wxijur.
NEW DRUG FIBil
W. H. Wearn & Co?
(Successors toL.K. Wtiston & 0
We are prepared to wait on onrinrW
the public 'generally the old Dr
fne'
or I
(lrwm's corner.) Where we RroPHpu-Aii
full stock of Drugs. Medicines, W J
Patent Medicines. &e. &c ' j
We are determined to do oar .?!?
Drug business in the city, snd tt f sti
interest to csll and see as When in
thing in the Drqg Une W?A?JI
Charlotte, May 4, '8.