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DM THE SEMI WEEKLY LANDMARK TUESDAY MAY 13 1900 ADVERTISEMENTS al li able illustrat bc in the hands low April 2mos Lamps Lamps LAMPS At Greatly Reduced Prices i 0 51 GIBBS Proprietor To the Ladies The irst National Bank ROLLER MILL OR SALE STATE VILLE Have You A SCARPINS I have nice line Some Genuine In Sterling Plate and Solid Gold At A Sherrill Improvements are now Ueiotr RICKERT and Optlclnr Southern Our Railway Direct Line to All Point? The irst Inspection Now Selection ovelty Up to Date Are Yours truly and not not Davidson beginning of Lincoln ago in bis Poultry Netting and a full stock of general hardware paints oils and varnishes The most attractive assort ment in town to be sold A shipment of Venitian Enameled Ware consist ing of tea kettles sauce pudding and milk pans just in Good goods at a rea sonable price An Kptdtmfe of In llnrl Con espondoncn Charlotte Observer The scourge ot smallpox is sweep ing the Hunting Creek section of the southern poition of Burke county In a scope of cuuutry there about eight miles long and three miles wide there have been about 50 cases The disease is among the white farmers of that community Nothing so far has been done to check it Vaccina tion has been offered but the poo pie refuse to take it Persons with the disease alive on their bodies and in their clothes go abroad and scat ter it The State institutions here are in danger The situation in Burke is similar to that in Rocking ham county where the disease broke out several months Ago Some of the people are skeptical as to the dis ease Several doctors openly declare that there is nosmallpox in thecoun ty It is stated on good authority that as many as 400 people have had it io Rockingham and there have been 12 deaths Many white people have bad it in Burke no one has died yet Capital $5000000 Surplus nd Undivided Profits SI 3OOO Mr Gluabarna Success Goldsboro Correspondence Raleigh Post Ginsberg of Baltimore visited the city yesterday Thirteen years ago Mr Ginsberg came to this coun try from Europe having but $4 10 in his pocket and nowhere to lay his head Pretty soon some friend lent him $30 and ho began the career of a peddler He saved up $1600 and lent $1500 of this losing the entire amount With the remaining $100 he went to work Last year be did a business of about $200000 Thp Hoe ra KetreRt Before Lord ICb rli Bnlilinoro bun 11th Lord Roberts and the advance di vision of his army have crossed the Zand river in the Orange ree State where the Boors had been expected to make decided opposition The erossiug was affi oted yesterday the Boers being outnumbered and out flanked They had a front of 20 miles but Lord Roberts overlapped each end of it and the retreat of the burgh ora followed The British are thus well on the road to Kroonstad where the Boers have been constructing fortifications described as almost impregnable If Lord Roberts continues bis rapit progress ho may bo at Kroonstad by the end of the week A source of trouble to the British is reported to be developing in the eastern part of the ree State It is said that President Steyn has collect ed 10000 men in tboicksburg Sene kal district where ho will make a stand against tho force? of Generals Rundle and Brabant He may also delay a junction of General Buller's army with that ot Lord Roberts It ts believed that an important move by Buller is now in progress Apply to JI GRAY New Stirling or GRAY Dunlap lmrxt Mites mid rhe price nre right Corn Planters ertilizer Distributors opulUt Railroad Law Declared Void Topeka Kan Dispatch 5th Just before the Populist adminis tration went out of office in 1893 Gov ernor Leedy convened the Legisla ture to pass a new railroad law The Court of Visitation was tho result of the extra session This railroad court had power to make and enforce rates on freight passenger traffic and to regulate and control telegraph and express tolls Several months ago the ederal Courts here held in a Western Union Telegraph Company suit that the law was void To day the State Supreme Court banded down a decision that the law is un constitutional and that it sought to invest the railroad court with unlim ited powers When this law was passed the old railroad commissioner law was re pealed The decision to day leaves Kansas without legislation afft cling railroads The old fight will be ro newed and the pending State cam paign will be fought on the issue of railroad legislation Chief Justice Duster Populist dissented from the opinion rendered by the two Repub lican judges The lag Hoisted Ovr Our Part of Snimti Auckland Dispatch 8th Advices received from Samoa an nounce that the American flag has been hoisted over the Island of Tutu ila amid great native rejoicing and that the chiefs have made a formal cession of the island to the United States The inhabitants of Manua it is also announced request the formal hoisting of the American Hag over that island which will likewise be ceded The natives of the islands will rule themselves under Governors ap pointed by the commandant of the American Nayal Station Under the recent agreement of Germany the United States and Eng land to divide Samoa the Island of Tutuila over which the American flag has just been raised was made American territory as were also the so called subsidiary or smaller adja cent islands One of these subsidiary groups of isles is Manua whose in habitants have requested that the stars and stripes be raised over it The islands of Upola and Savaii were ceded to Germany Savaii con tains the important port of Apia Tutuila has an area of 55 square miles is 17 miles long and 5 miles in breadth and is cut almost in two by the harbor of Pago Pago It is well wooded and fertile and is watered by some rivers of considerable size Pago Pago is a highly desirable harbor from a strategic point of view made to it Pago Pago is on the route from San rancisco to Auck land from Valparaiso to China and from Panama to Sydney It is about 2000 miles from Australia about double that distance from the Philip pines about 5000 nautical miles from the Pacific coast and San ran cisco It is an ideal base for naval a i ns WRITE OR PARTICULARS Statesville March 16 1900 Wilson Aews Hon Connor bls written to all the members of tho General As scmbly asking whether they would be in Raleigh at the extra session on June 12 Every one who has repliid says and many pay they will remain in Raleigh at their own ex pense as long as tbe public needs re quire them Tbo oldest member of tho House Mr Abbott of Ma con despite the fact of the sickness of his wife says he will bo on hand One of the Republican leaders writes that he will be preeont The extra session will have a full membership present BUBUOHIbEToRTHELANDMAlik The first arrival of our spring purchases caused so much praise from our friends that our buyers were stimulated to branch out more extensively than ever before In fact we are showing a much larger line of Meeting of Cotton Spinners In Charlotte Charlotte Dispatch 10th The fourth annual convention of the Southern Cotton Asso i ciation was called to order this morn ing at 10 by President McAden of Charlotte In an excel lent address President McAden con gratulated the body on tbe large at tendance and said he hoped to see this association take vigorous action on the door" policy of the gov ernment should hold and gov ern the Philippine islands (Ap plause We should do all in our power to erect a standard of morals and dignify labor in cotton He said it would bo wise for tho as sociation to take steps towards estab lishing a magazine Theo Search president of tbe National Association of Philadelphia then made an ad dress on foreign markets for Ameri can goods and how to develop them The speaker said that during the year 1899 exports of raw cotton from the United States amounted to $191 167342 while exports of cotton cloth were only $19968470 or every worth of cotton cloth export ed last year ten worth of raw cotton was furnished to manufactur ers in Great Britain and in Europe These conditions ought to be re versed On account of the peculiar conditions under which our mills dis pose of their products through commission merchants the speaker attributed this state of affairs or thus the mills do not come in direct touch with the buyers either here or abroad hence they know only sec ond hand of conditions Also the re quirements of foreign markets as to width color payments etc are im portant factors in the development of foreign trade This is expansion There need be no fear that we will have too many cotton mills but rather a market too small to receive the output Arthur Lowe former president of the New England Association then spoke on the pro duction of fine cotton goods by Amer ican manufactures confining bis re marks to the discussion of fine finish ed colored goods He said that so much of tbe cost of goods is in labor that American manufacturers cannot compete with foreign unless there be a reasonable tariff to protect them American designers produce patterns as arfistic as any foreign markets Officers of tho association were elected this afternoon as follows: President II McAden Charlotte vice president Verdery Au gusta Ga secretary and treasurer George Hiss of Charlotte board of directors A Rhjne Ray Willingham IS THERE IS NO KINO PAIN OR ACHE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL THAT PAIN KILLER WILL NOT RE LIEVE LOCK our OR IMITATIONS AND SUB STITUTES THE GENUINE BOTTLE BEARS THE NAME 5 PERRY DAVIS SON cd pamphlet which should S) fffliBL CASE MILL tir sale cheap Any jui) one wishing to buy will do well to Boe us before buying as we are going to sell Respectfully NESBIT PRESSLY UOdillO DIRECTORS: II 0 Oowlos Cooper Geo Brown Jennings IL Bennett A Cooper urches i Irvin Miller Dec 13 1898 Trying to Accouut for SI 00000000 In Gold Washington Dispatch Lyman Gage Secretary of tho Treasury has instructed Mueblmann Assistant Treasurer in New York to discover if possible what became of $100006000 in gold coin which should be in this country but which has disappeared from the knowledge of the Treasury Depart ment Secretary Gage said to day department has long kept a careful record of the coinage and of the exports and imports of gold It was supposed that we knew exactly where tbe coin went to except that which is used in the arts and sciences and that which was lost There were good reasons for believing that we were not more than $1000000 or $2 000000 out of tho way A late cal culation showed that there should be in the Treasury the sub Treasuries and the banks of tbe country $1000 000000 of gold "Wo were then somewhat astonish ed when we found that $100000000 in gold bad disappeared We went over all of our figures with the same result Mr Mueblmann has sent in quiries to every manufacturing jew eler in the country as to the quantity of gold used in tho last year Other inquiries are also being made by Mr Mueblmann and in a few weeks we expect to be able to tell almost to a dollar how much gold there is now iu the Send name and address to GERMAN KALI WORKS 83 Nassau St Now York Texas California lorida and Porto Rico Every month adds to our list of sub scribers Our monthly card adver tises your business In more than a hundred houses and In nearly every shop ofilce and store In town It Would Surprise You to know what an enormous amount ot buying and selling goes on over ourwlres every day Can you afford to do without It It gives new life to a anguishing business II ROUSSEAU Manager Merlin of be Democratic State loiuinll ice At the meeting of the Democratic State committee in Raleigh Thurs day evening 28 members were pres ent II Bernard of Wilmington was elected a member of the commit tee from the sixth district in piaco of Duncan McEachern resigned Tbe following were elected as a central committee Cyrus Wat son Jarvis Davidson Pou Weddington Halo 5 Carr Smith Jno Cunningham Geo Warburton A Woodward oy A Lock hart Holt Lyon Brevard Spruill Busbee Allen Cotten Holt Rodman Guion Justice Lamb A Ashe A London A Hay wood Broughton Dr I Green Joo Webeter Wm Webb The matter of the nomination of a judge in the twelfth district was re ferred to tho counties in the district WE OER OR SALE a valuable farm of rw acres vn the Wilkesboro road two miles northwest ot Statesville It Is one of tho most desirable location fur a residence In the vicinity ot Vwn and the land Is Improved It has a young oraliard of select fruit a vine yard ol select grapes In full beat Ing and the finest garden spot to bo found In tho county Tnoro is a well ot trie very best water never falling All Hie land Is fenced with wire Imo Holds of from 10 to 15 acres each and so ar ranged that is connected with each field There are about 20 acres ot original forest and on the place Is a very good fi room collage granary and burn There Is also on the place a bed of very lino clay suitable for build ing and fireproof brick and Hie manufacture of nice ware Price $2lwu one halt cash All ot tho above Is very desirable property and offers an unusual opportunity for safe and profitable Investment or further Informa tion call on u3 or wrlto BROWN 2 UY A Real Estate Dealers tales lllo 0 ufilce in Bank Building STATE NEWS Davie county Demccratic conven tion will be held Saturday June 2d The primaries will be held on Satur day May 26 Yadkincounty Democratic conven tion has been called to meet June 4th to nominate a candidate for the Legislature and candidates for coun ty offices The Mooresville Enterprise says that Springs have been leased to Mrs low of who will run the hotel about June 1st Mr Jacob Williams county died a few days 80th year He served through the Mexican war and was an officer of the Home Guard during the ciyil war Chairman Simmons has written State Chairman Holton proposing a joint canvass between the Democrat ic and Republican candidates for State offices Mr Holton has not yet replied The Greensboro Telegram which is edited by one of the brightest young men in the profession has been en larged to an 8 page paper five col umns to the page and is very much improved in make up The Mocksville Times says that Mr Clement of armington Da vie county has a Jersey cow 2J years old which gave 190 lbs of milk in one week and from this milk 10 pounds and 2 ounces of butter i were made Iu Rutherford Superior Court last Tuesday a verdict of not guilty was rendered in tbe case of Clingman i Scruggs John aud Miller Proctor for the murder of Burley Moore last Jan i uary at a house of bad repute in the lower part of Rutherford county Mr Curry aged about 60 years committed suicide at his home in Shelby Thursday by shooting him self He was in the last stages of consumption and was confined to bed His wife died last summer Seven or eight children survive him The employes of the Proximity Manufacturing Company of Greens boro who were discharged last week have employed counsel to bring suit against the owners of the mill for a $90000 The employ es claim that they were discharged without cause The Lincoln Journal says that Mr John Jones of Creek town ship Lincoln county was at work about his saw mill Monday of last week when the driving belt broke and one end of the belt struck him a fearful blow on the bead His inju ries are believed to be fatal In orsyth county last week a ne gro John Glenn was tried before a magistrate for larceny and bound to court While a deputy sheriff was taking him to jail after night he was set upon by white caps who took the negro aud gave him a terrible beat ing They then returned him to the officer who'took him on to jail The Mooresville Enterprise says the six year old daughter of Mr Robt reeze of Mt Ulla Rowan county was seriously hurt a few days ago by a young rooster flying into her face and sticking his spur into her nose Tbe spur entered on the left nostril and coursed downward through the upper lip The child has suffered in tensely and will always wear an uely scar The Winston Republican says the 18 months old son of Mr and Mrs Carter who live three miles east of Madison was drowned a few days ago The father had been taking the little fellow with him when hauling wood He bad to cross a creek Wednesday he left all the children at home playing but in theevoning the baby was missing It was traced to the creek and found about 75 yards below the ford drowned SALE BY VIRTUE ot the powers contained In a mortgage deed executed to the undersigned on the 21(1 day ot October 1899 by I red Moore said mortgage being duly registered In Book 17 page 489 In the office ot the register ot deeds ot Iredell county the undersigned mort gagee will sell for cash to the highest bidder at the court house door In Statesville on MONDAY JUNE 1 1900 at 12 o'clock tho following described tract or parcel of land belonging to the said I red Moore located on GarUeld street Statesville and bounded as follows Beginning at a stake on the north side of GarUeld street run ning north 100 feet to a stake thence 8 133 feet to a stake on A Sharpe's line thence with Hue 1WO feet to Garfield street thence with north sjde ot Garfield street 133 feet to the beginning WALLACE KOS CO 4 1900 Mortgagees NEW AOVEltTIMKMKNTN A KITP'D honest servant Ail i HlU young man or woman for housework in small family near Toston Ap ply to WESLEY NICHOLSON Kelly street Statesville May 10th Promise of a Big ruit Crop Charlotte Observer In this section of the State it would seem that nothing at all was injured by the frosts of early spring and the year is one of great promise es pecially in tho matter of fruit Look ing at the burden on his fruit trees thus early there is scarcely a farmer in the country who is not expecting the limbs to break under the ripened loads Ou a drive through the coun try peach apple and cherry trees can be seen on both sides of the road apparently as full of fruit now as they were of blooms a few weeks ago and such a condition in this section rarely prevails It is destined to be a remarkable year for fruit The blackberry has never been known to bo a complete failure al though it is not so good some years as in others but this is one of its good years The bushes look like snowballs so thickly are they crowd ed with blossoms and housekeeper's may count on a big supply at prices WhJ tbe Water Was So Good Memphis Scimitar "In small country remarked a Mississippian at yesterday water at some partic ular weil or spring is the boast of tho whole community and becomes famed for miles around "There was a well of this kind ata cross roads near my home and a gentleman who lived some ten miles away knew the merits of this water and never passed that way without stopping for a drink "Ou one occasion aitor he had quenched his thirst on a hot summer day he said to the owner of the well: water has always tasted better to me than any I ever drank but this time it seems to surpass it gentleman then went his way while the old resident the same afternoon passed from the well a whiskey barrel he had let down in the water to soak VEBNON A CharJotUi Tronble tn Annwf (uetfoni LAND OR SALE Tract of land on fifth creek Beth any township containing about lio acres part woodland and part under cultlyatlODj in cluding valuable bottomland is offered for sale ns a whole or in part Will sell cheap for cash or on reasonable terms A Big Hail Tha Hall Lay our eet Deep in Places Shelby Star Mr Green a prosperous far mer of the Beaver Dam section brought a bucket full of hail to tbe Star office last Thursday This hail fell on Wednesday night April 25th days before Mr Green said he could gather up many bushels of it Where this was taken from the hail had been four feet deep and there was an immense amount of it unmelted in eightdays after and our people know how hot some of those days were Some of the hail stones were still larger than bird eggs That was a memorable hail storm on April 25th Wilkes Democrats will hold their county convention on the 4th of June Having neared ihnHervIrea ot A irst Class Plumber and Steam itter I AM NOW WELL TO DO ALL THE wort iu ttiB above nanic lines In addition to my General lirpnlr Work I keep con stantly on hand a full line of orce end Lift Pun: pe Iron lpo (Black and Galvanize) Steam rilling Boiler In fact everytbing kept In a Orst clMB Plumbing and steam itting ghep Estimates on plumbing and wind mill on application Thanking tny customers for past favor and uklng tor a continuance of the same MNIWCHT Breeder of avorite owls IGNOKANCE THE BIBL The Vouor of the Present Day Growing Up Without Knowledge of the Blreeed Book How a Class of College Students Exhlb Ited Their Ignorance Baltimore sun In a recent issue of the Century Magazine "ignorance about the is found by Rev Dr Thwinsr to be a growing phenomenon The young men and young women of the present generation are far less fa miliar with the Bible than were their fathers and mothers at the same age They do not read the Bible as much and are not obtaining equally the literary benefit had frqm constant acquaintance with its admirable Eng lish This conclusion is derived from the result of test examinations set for boys In an Ohio university and for girls in an Eastern college Twenty two passages con taining simple Biblical allusions were selected from poems and a freshman class of 34 men and a like class of 51 women were asked to explain them The men were from Northern Ohio Central New York and Western Pennsylvania tbe wo men from New England They were representatives of families in the en joyment of average incomes and had had opportunities above the average With one exception all had ecclesi astical connections Yet the men answered but 43 per cent of the questions correctly and the women but 49 per cent Only one a young answered all tne questions correctly Of the 85 students hardly over 20 knew anything of crown of 40 were ignorant of Cain Esau Ruth and the tomb in which Christ was laid 30 did not recognize the incident of striking a rock for water or wrestling with an angel 66 remembered nothing of gourd while an allusion to Hezekiah floored 75 The girls were pretty well up on the story of wife but of the 34 men only 22 bore it in their memories This same num ber of the male students were stump ed by a question relating to "pearls and and 40 of the girls miss ed a reference to the guilt of Iscariot One of tho answers indeed made the amazing statement that Iscariot meant the cross while another told of Ruth for her These were surpassed in an answer which seems to assume that gourd was the emetic that caused "the to cast Jonah ashore Taking the answers together they appear to Dr Thwing to justify the conclusion that the present genera tion are growing up to paganism The Bible he thinks is no longer a force in American literature theology "Young people do read it much or if they do are impressed by The cause of this state of things the learned doctor finds in the fact that young people nowadays have a great deal of reading matter thrown their way perhaps too much "The world has he says "a world of books a world of maga zines and a world of Many persons under 60 years of age can recall a time when the "Bible and constituted 50 per cent of tbo family library A weekly newspaper and a Patent Of fice report were the only other inter esting literature in easj' reach Now this is all changed books magazines and papers of all sorts are abundant and cheap so that the Bible has many rivals The removal of the Bible from the public schools dimin ished attendance at church on Sun day decline of family prayers omis sion of grace at meals these are other signs of the times The Sun day school does not the doctor thinks take the place of home instruction as to the contents of tbe Bible The tendency he says is toward worship of tho Divino person reducing the Bible to the level of other books The Bible in short doos not hold tbe place it deserves in the instruction of the young at the present time THE BOY WITH THE SPADE No weight ot ages bows him down That barefoot boy with fingers brown nothing empty In bls face No burdens ot the human race Are on his back nor Is he dead To Joy or sorrow hope or dread or he can grieve and ho can hope Can shrink with all bls soul from soap No brother to the ox Is be second cousin to the bee He loosens aud lets down bls And brings It Ills gum to naught but sweat upon bls brow slanted somewhat forward now Ills eyes are bright with eager light working with an appetite Ab nol That boy Is not afraid To wield with all his strength Bls spado! Nor lias he any spite at He's digging angleworms tor batt Chicago Tribune trictly IRST CLASS Equip ment on all Through and Lo cal Trains Pullman Palaeo Sleeping Cars on all Night Trains ast and Safe Schedules Travel bv the Houthorn and von assured a Safe Comfortable and Expe ditious Journey Twill pay you to examine them Art Store1 April 13 1900 Apply to Ticket Agents tor Time Tables Kates and Gcucral Information or address If DA HIIV At A Asheville 0 Desirable City and Country Prop erty for Sale Brown GUY A co Real Estate Dealers offer the following desirable real estate tor sale: City Property NO 1 Ten acres ot land on tho Wilkesboro road miles north from public square The property has 600 feet front on the Wilkesboro road and there Is a 4 room cottage and a 2 etory barn on the place This Is most desirable suburban property Price $800 Terms cash No 2 House and lot In West Statesville Six room dwelling and outhouses Good location Price $600 One tlilrd cash and remainder In 6 and 12 months No 3 House and lot In West Statesville House has ten rooms Price $1000 One third cash and remainder In six and twelve months No 4 HOUSE AND LOT cn Bell street Lot 115x500 Two room house In good condition well house and all enclosed Price $700 Terms one halt cash balance tn 12 month This Is desirable property In good location No 5 HOUSE AND LOT on Kelly street Lot 1s 87x253 feet and the house has tour rooms There Is also an outhouse ou the premises Price $1100 Terms cash So A LOT on northeast corner of Broad and Elm streets Statesville Size 250x75 feet Price $600 Terms cash arm Property NO 1 A farm one mile northwest ot 'Statesville Contains 87 acres more or less 45 In cultivation and 41 In timber and pasture About 85 acres In oak and pine tlmbor The place la well watered and fenced and has a good orchard ot select fruit Land grows wheat oats corn and cotton There is a 4 room dwelling and good outbuildings on tho place Price $15 per acre two thlrds cash and balance on terms to suit purchaser It properly secured NO 2 arm in Barringer township 14 miles from Statesville and 2X miles trout railroad station Church postofUce and school convenient There are 75 acres In the farm about 35 In cul tivation 20 In pasture and 10 lu pine and oak timber There Is a good orchard and water supply and the land produces cotton corn and wheat our room dwelling and good outbuild ings $1000 cash NO 3 arm ot 60 or 65 acres In Olin township 15 miles north ot Statesville and In 2X miles of Brushy mountains known as Eupeptic Springs property Schools churches and post office convenient About 25 acres ot the land Is In cultivation 6 acres ot It bottom Pro duces corn wheat oats peas etc Balance in vak and pine timber There Is trull on the place and the water supply Is good There are tour springs three ot them mineral springs the water of which la highly recommended tor indigestion kidney troubles malaria etc There are aleo Iron deposits which appear to bo very rich There Is on the place a good store house (a fine stand for business) two dwell ing bouses one five rooms and the other eight but some rf the latter are not finished 12 cot tages lCxl 2 story and various other out butidlugs luniber houses barns stables etc Price $2(XJ0 Terms: One halt ca di and bal ance tn 12 months No 4 Throe hundred acres of land tn Statesville township 2X miles east ut Statesville Tho land is level and prvdm es corn cutton and small grain Thera Is a considerable) quantity of nastureand meadow land and a large por tion of It Is heavily timbered with oak hickory and Pino There are two tenant houses The iaml Is well watered with creeks branches and springs and there Is also line mineral spring ou the place Price $10 per acre It sola as a whole ono ha'f cashund balance In one year with Interest ADVERTISEMENTS Twenty Years Proof LiverPills keep the bow clsinnaturalmotionand cleanse the system of all impurities An absolute cure for sick headache dyspepsia sour stomach con stipation and kindred diseases do without Smith Chilesburg Va writes I know how I could do without them I have had Liver disease for over twenty years Am now entirely cured Liver Pills Beginning this week we expect to give to our friends and customers some genuine bargains in the following up to date lines: Silks and Silk Waist Patterns Silk Ginghams for dresses and waists Line of nobby Ready Made Waists in Rs Lawns Organdiesand Dimities Also other lines of goods too numerous tomention We call your special attention to White Goods Department This line has been selected with special care and a look will convince you that it has no equal in the city See our BLACK GOODS department Have just received a new line of Oxfoids Give us a look before buying CITY TAX RETURNS ALL PERSONS owntug or controlling taxable property In tbo city of Statesville on the 1st day of June 19U0 and all persons In the city liable to poll tax must make return ot same during the month of June I have arranged with Mr Nattress to take the returns at his office In the Bank building next tho clerk's office and all persons liable for city taxes will call on him and make returns during June EUGENE MOKKISON May 11 1900 Clerk and Treasurer Cull the name Ths Powlar Corse! A Sherrill Co THE Standard Railway of the SOUTH of every planter who raises Cotton The book is sent ree ADVEKTIMKMKNTM AT A MEETING of the County Board ot Elec tions for Iredell county held In States ville on Monday May 7th 1900 the fol lowing orders were made It is ordered by tbe board that the polling place lu Eagle Mills precinct be changed aud that hereafter tbe polling place shall be at Houstonvllle Academy at Young's Hoads In said precinct Disordered by the board that tho polling place In Chambersburg precinct be changed and that hereafter the polling place shall be at the white public school house near Elmwood In said precinct It is ordered by the board that the election precincts Nos 1 and 2 ot Shiloh township bo abolished and that tho election precinct for said township shall consist of the territory now embraced within the boundary of said bhlloh township and that tho pulling place of said precinct bo at Roads It Is ordered by tho board that tbe election precincts Nos 1 and '2 ot Davidson township be abolished and that said election precinct for said township shall consist of the territory now embraced within tho boundary of said Da vidson township and that the polling place ot said precinct shall be at the white public school house near tho old Brawley store being tho polling place of former precinct No 1 It Is ordered by the board that all other pre cincts In said county remain as they are now constituted and the other pjolllng places re main where they now are It Is ordered by the board that the above or ders be published In the Mascot end The Land mabk newspapers published la said county tor twenty nays uiuzn King Secretary Chairman May 7 1900 JE SALE THE ORCUJl I AND BY VIRTUE of an order of the Superior Court made In the caso of II stlmpson adminis trator ot Nelson orcum vs Joe Mlse and wife and others heirs at law the undersigned commissioner aud administrator will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder on the premises on SATURDAY' MAY' IDth 1900 the following real estate situate In Turners burg township Iredell county near CTarkes bury church and known as tho Nelson orcum lands adjolulug the lands of Godby Stroud and others Lot No 1 adjoining land con taining 26 acres more or lees Lot No 2 adjoining Clarkesoury church lot containing 64 acres more or less Lot No 3 adjoining Rtroud and others containing 91 acres more or less Lot No 4 adjoining Joo Mlse rank Nichols and others containing 75 acres more or less These lands are sold for assets to pay debts ot said estate Tebms of Ono thlrd ot purchase mon ey payable on day of sale and the balance on a credit of six mouths The bidding to commence at $583 amount ot Increased bld and will bo sold first as a whole and then sold separately STIMRSON Administrator of Nelson orcum Armfleld Turner April 17 1900 Dry Goods Notions and Shoes Than was ever shown in this city Our spring lines are now complete and we are anxious to serve you rank Shannon JMCnlp WATurk 3d Gen Man Traf Man GP A WASHINGTON April 20 8t ALWAYS KEEP ON HAND HARROWS A Thomas Co March 9 1900 A COOPER Pres JC IRVIN vtce Pres UEO IL BROWN Cashier Wm iv i oe s' Valuable.