The Standard from Concord, North Carolina • Page 3

Some Gold. People Ton Know. i BUSINESS LOCALS. THE STANDARD. SHORT LOCALS.

No ball playing now. This week ia a hot one. The people of Croft, Mecklen. burg county, turned out to hunt a panther said to have been prowling around that community. Later it Items from So.

9. No preaching at Cold Springs until the first Sunday in August Rev. Mr. Gantt will be at conference. Mr.

Eugene Fink, a fine young man who as been teaching in South Carelina, came home on a visit some days ago. Mr. Charles Muse, of Flowe's, in No. 10, is always hunting gold it is his business and it pays him. The soil, of 10 -has much free gold and a number of parties having been making a splendid living at wash ing." Two weeks ago Mr, M.

found a nugget which he sold Dr. Flowe for $26. Many fine specimens have been found in that! section, some much finer and larger than Mr. Muse's recent find. Hotel Arrival.

The following are the arrivals at the St Cloud Hotel for the week ending July 18th, 1889: Lindsay Davis, Chas. J. Stewart, W. RrBurgess, P. J.

A. Solomons. R. IB. Hunter, Jas- A.

Walls, Wm. C. Whitner, W. E. Loessfir and wife.

D- G. Caldwell, L. H. CannonJ E. A.

Smilh. 1). A- Moffet, J. F. Berry, Samuel Taylor, J.

C. Fleming, R. B. Hunter, W. Lindsay, Wm.

M. Worrell, L. Lou-man. J. F.

McKnierht. W. A. Barrier. C.

A. Rodgers, F. M. Rutherford, H. W.

Foltz, R. B. Hunter, S. A. Shans, W- F.

Smith, E. Preiss, J. L- Wilson, C- A. Gundaker, K. a-Booms, J.

P. Collins, A. C. Hook, J. D.

Chamberlin. A. L. McDonald. L.

Blair, Rev. Dr. Burley, James f. Cook, J. U.

Tucker, VV. 11. I Belt, Charles Hunter. J. B.

C. A. Cook, JUtjvuaiut xv. aj Sloan, G. Heilig, L.

Erwin. The following are the arivals at the Morris House, H. McNamara, proprietor, for the weekending July 18th, 1889 Frank Thompson. W. ley, Linn Ervin, J.

D. Varner, John M. Yancey, M. A- Walter. V.

A-Sides. J. M- i W. Alexander. J.

A. Linn, H. C. McAlister, J. P.

Morris son, J. O. Black, I.M. Uglesby, Mathew Movie, Robert Gadd, Giles Daniels, George J. Hileg, J.

H. I aaoa Nmuh .1 .1 I'vado J. B.v Harkey. i N-A. Conrad, J.

H. Vaughn. W. J. Edmonson.

J. M. Brown, A. G. Bost M.

Weding- ton, m- Hayne8 and family. CORRESPOND ENCE. Little Buffalo Items. The Isenhour mine is still improv- Some of our farmers have had their wheat threshed, and it is turn ing out welL i 4' A petition is out for a postoffice. at Mr.

C. L. Nussman's house. We hope they will! get it We hear occasional talk of a pic nic, or a wedding, op something of the kind, in the future, i After the late rains General Green had the start: of the farmers, but nevertheless they are carrying the day now. Ilarrlsbnrjc Items.

Mr. Lin Erwin was in town Wednesday, Dr. J. R. Wilson has been quite sick this week Miss Fannie Stafford 13 visiting friends in Charlotte.

Mrs. R. F. Grier and Misa Elva Caldwell left last Tuesday for Wal- halla, S. C.

Rev, J. G. Anderson's father and sister, Miss Nina, came in last week and will spend; some time here. There is to be a Township Sunday school pic-nic at Rocky River Church oh the 30th of July, and a big time is expected. i Crops are looking splendid, but we are needing rain again This immediate neighborhood has had but very little of the big rains, that have been falling of late.

Hk Flcaaaat Items. Mr. Cicero Badget, of Jackson Hill, was visiting friends in this place last week. Miss Leah! Blackwelder began teaching a select school near St John's church last Monday. Much success is wished her.

Miss Jennie' Blackwelder left last Saturday to visit friends and relatives around Chin Grove. She will remain about four weeks. Prof. P. E.

Wright came down to see us Monday. Says he has come down on a pleasure trip, and will probably stay a week, or more. Your, co-respondent would like to ask some more learned heads than his if Job was not an "old-field" school-teacher, for he thinks that if he was not he certainly missed his vocation. North Carolina College has adopted a uniform to be worn by its pupils next year. Judging by the descrip tion of it, which was given your correspondent, it must be a very beautiful Work is now going on rapidly at the Female Seminafjyand the build ing is taking stupendous proportions.

Your 'correspondent saw on ast Saturday a cut of the seminary as it will be when completed, and he can candidly say that it will be a magnificient as well as commodious edifice, and4 such as will be an orna ment to this place. The architecture is the latest and most improved. Mrs. Margaret Barrier died Sunday night after a couple of years illness. The funeral was to have been preach ed at the Lutheran church, but owing to some trouble in getting the coffin, the procession reached town too late, and they proceeded to the Lutheran cemetery, where the burial services were conducted by Rev.

J. H. Wise, and her body laid to rest to await the final resurrection. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the fc name of the Lorcl. Mr.

Elam King was in Charlotte Tuesday. Mr. W. Worrell came back to Concord Wednesday. Miss Ettie Gibson returned from Winston Wednesday.

Col. Paul B. Means visited the encampment this week. i Miss Clara Harris has returned from a visit to Winston. Mis3 Belle Hall, of Charlotte, is visiting Mrs.

C. T. Troy. Miss Daisy Groner has returned from a visit to Charlotte. Mr.

Ed. McDonald, of Charlotte, has been here several days. Miss Maggie Bessent is on a visit to friends in Davie county. Esquire H. S.

Puryear went t) Asheville Tuesday on business Miss Elva Pharr; of Charlotte, visited Miss Lily Patterson this week. Mr. Charlie Fetzer and family of Reidsville. have been visiting in town. R.

B. Hunter, of the Mecklenburg Times, spent several days in town. Dr. and Mrs. L.

A. Bikle, of Dal las, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. G. W. Means.

Mr. Jerry Dreher, of lit Pleasant, a recent graduate of that place, was in town yesterday. Dr. Herring and Mr. Q.

E. Smith came home Saturday night from the war at Wrightsville. Miss Mamie McDonald and Miss Daisy King, of Mecklenburg county, are visiting at Mrs. Virginia Erwin's. Mr.

John Ritchie, of the Cabarrus Biack Boys, returned Tuesday night It takes a mighty good excuse to get off, they say. Mrs. James Boylen (uee Miss Luke Blair) and Miss Anna Blair, of Wadesboro, are visiting Dr: D. D. Johnson's family.

Mr. Alex. McDonald, ex-register of defida for Richmond county, spent Saturday night and Sunday at the St. Cloud. What for? i Miss Annie Swygert, who has been visiting Miss Essie Fisher and other school-mates, left Wednesday night for her.

home in Columbia. Dr. D. G. Caldwell, of Tulin, the surgeon of the Black Boys, returned from the encampment Monday night.

He reports au enjoyable time. Mrs. Charles J. Harris and Mrs. Jay B.

Harris, of Springs ville, left for the tatter's former home in the Valley of Virginia on Messrs. J. M. and W. R.

Odell were both sick a day or two tnis wplr and rinahle to Vive their ner- sonal attention to their business. Mr. James C. Gibson and family are spending some time in Yadkin connty. Mr.

Gibson very Seldom leaves his office, and his friends in the court-house will miss him much. Capt W. A. Barrier, of Char lotte, and one of the. most prominent teachers in the State, passed through town Wednesday morning; on his way to Mt Pleasant Rev.

W. A. Lutz passed through Concord Wednesday on his way to Severn, where on Thursday he officiated at the marriage of Mr. J. Mc.

Deaton, of Enochsville, N. to Mis3 Carrie Morgan. To this young couple The Standaed wishes all the good things of this life. Mr. Hnnter's Lectures.

Mr. R. B. Hunter, of the Meck lenburg Times, who has been sent out on a lecturing tour by the Executive committee of the State Alliance, has been in pur county nearly all the week, and his lectures have been much enjoyed by our people. He lectured at Mt' Gilead on Tues day, at Poplar Tent Wednesday, at St John's Thursday, and at Sossa- mon's to-day.

We wish his lectures could have been postponed, until later, as our people are just iiow in the midst of laying by their crops. Attention, Confederate Teterans of Cabarrus Connty. Each and every one of you are requested to meet in Concord on the first Tuesday in September for our second Come prepared stay all night. The fair grounds are offered to us free of charge, and are so arranged that they can be ocked up so as to be accessible only to the old soldiers and their friends. Let us have for at least one night an old-time camp-fire, around which we can talk of the days gone by.

Come with your wives and children, your wagons, and your rations It will cost no more than it does at home, and will have a. glorious time. The old Boldiers of our adjoin ing counties are cordially invited to meet with us. The chat around the camp-fire will be interspersed with short speeches by those who can tell of instances and happenings in our soldier life that were once familiar. Come also with your families, and let us once more answer to the roll call.

Be as you ever were in the four years' struggle at your post on the 3rd day of September. Come by 9 o'clock a. m. i Geo. Ritchie, President J.

F. Willeford, Sec. and Treas. The Board of Trustees of North Carolina College met Wednesday to arrange some business relative to the election of some new members of the faculty; OUR STREET CARS will be in operation soon, and will be nrooelled bv steam. runaways and smashups purchase one oi augnan Horse Detachers.

A word to the wise is sufficient. For sale at the Candy Store-. Cows fob Sale. Parties desiring to purchase fine (fresh) milch cows will do well to call on me at once. Very Respectfully, jul23t A.

Brown. Vaxtghan Beos- say that they have come to stay and wish to state to the public that they are now ready to make a milkshake or a leisonade at short notice; also soda pop on ice. Yoeke Wadswoeth have just received a new car of Buggies, Carts Go and get one. They are cheap arid substantial. Men's Low-Cut Shoes for 75 cents, worth $1.50.

at Cannons Fetzer's Fortytwo thoroughbred Essex pigs for sale- Prices to suit the times- Call on or address, R. V. Caldwell, Concord, N. C. A bargain can be had at Yoeke Wadswoeth in Second Hand Machinery, consisting of one 10-Horse Power Engine one 10-Horse Power Boiler one 60-Saw Pratt Gin one Boss Press- Must be sold inside thirty days.

If you wonld either buy or sell a delicious country ham, be sure you call at the Farmers' Store: Bell Sims, Agts. Call and see our $1.00 Kid Gloves for gents. Caknons Fetzer. ICE. Ice for sale by F.

V. Snell. Leave your orders at Johnson's Drug Store. 8 Building Material is offered very cheap at Yoeke WadswOrah's headquarters now- A lot of Fine Slippers on the bargain counter. Cannons Fetzer.

Buy a Challie Dress from Hoover, Lore and keep cool. Straw Hats are selling rapidly, but it is not too late to buy a nice one from Hoover, Lore Co. Grain Drills at low prices. Now is the time to buy one. Mowers and Rakes are still offered at low prices.

Every farmer ought to have a new one at the price Yorke Wadswoeth are offering. Our 50 and 75c. Pants take the cake. Cannons Fetzer. Great bargains in Ladies' Slippers.

Price from 50c. to $3.00, at Cannons Fetzer's. Six thousand pounds of Hay for sale by Chas. A. Cook.

HnnvfT Lnrfi fo fin ure splUno- a inh lot of Lawns, Takools, wonderfully Cotton Gins, Presses and Engines can be had ac Yoeke Wadswoeth-They are agents beyond a doubt for the best Gins imthe world- Call and see Fetzer's $2.00 Button and Lace Shoes for ladies and gents. Best in the market. If you want a sack of pure, fresh-ground Flour that will make as good bread as you ever ate, and save you money, be sure you call at the Farmers' Store." Bell Sims, Ag'ts. Yoeke Wadswoeth are now offer ing Cider Mills and Cane Mills at low prices. Get yourself one.

Comfort, Tasty, Elegance and Dura bility can all be found in our varied stock I of Dress Goods. I Hoover, Lore Co. Business is business. Don't wait unti August to buy a McCormick mower and norse rake; it cost no more to buy earlv we received this week a full car load of the latest improved McCormick mowers and a car load 1 nomas hay rakes. YORKE WADS WORTH.

Street Cabs Street cars will soon be seen coming through the princia pal streets of Concord. The cars will carry the goods which Yoeke Wadswoeth are offering so low to their warehouses. You alwavs eret E. P. Reed Shoes at $3.50 to $4.50.

Cannons Fetzer. Another new lot of Summer Oino-- hams at Hoover, Lore Co. Have you seen them Sewing machines, Sewing machines of the best and most improved makes at Yorke and Wads worth's. Go and see their New Home improved machines painted in antique oak; they are by far the neatest machines ever offered in Con cord. Buy the New Home improved machine and don't buy a machine said to be equal to it.

Yorke and Wadsw.orth have the agency of the New Home machine for four or five counties and will sell you a machine on any reasonable terms. YORKE WADSWOETH. COBS HAESETS COTTON MAEKET. Corrected weekly by D. F.

CANNON. Low 9i lOf Good PRODUCE MARKET. Corrected weekly by DOVE, BOST FINE. JO Sugar cured hams, 15 18 Bulk meat sides 810 Beeswax 18 1520 Chickens 15U 6065 8J 1012J 7U8U Peas, 1-50 Oats. 4050 Tallow, 45 Salt, 7080 IsT I I Having: taken letters of adminis tration on the estate of M.

L. Town-send, dee'd. I do hereby notify all persons holding claims against said deceased to present them for payment and all who are indebted to said deceased to come forward and settle at once. FUBJR, Adm'r. 13th May, 1889.

STOTICZl: Having Qualified as administrator of the estate of Henry Plott. all persons owing said estate must make prompt payment, and all persons having claims against said estate must present the same for payment on or before the 15th day of LecemDer, iy, or mis nonce will be pleaded in bar of their re-eoverv. This, the 14th day of De cember, 1888. W. M.

BARKIEE. By VV. Cx Means. Att'y. LADIES PEERLESS DYES -T Thralnir.

aft HoUt They will dre tTerything. They are old eyery. where. Price lOe. a package.

They hTenoequl for Strength, Brightneu, Amount in Packap or for utiles of Color, or non.f adine They do not rok mut 40 oolor. 1 or aaia by Pnr oalfi ftt 12 FETZER'S DRUG STORE, and D. JOHNSON DRUli FlUP-VY, July 19, 1889 TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Amang ye Takin Notes ad Faith He'll PrentThem." Drowned. A little negro was bathing iu Mr, Jay Harris's fish-pond at Springs-ville, last Saturday, and while he was showing another little nig how to swim got into deep water and sank to the bottom.

The other little fellow, when he saw that he didn't come up again, ran to a neighbor's house, 'several hundred yards distant, for help. Some one went and fished np the little fellow. When asked hat he was doing all the time he was on the bottom he said he was just lying there holding his breath. It -didn't seem to hurt him at all. llrlck Machines to Move.

The new factory at Forest Hill is such an immense affair that all the clay suitable for brick has been used up on the brick yards near the fac tory, and the brick machines will have to be moved. Mr. Chapman 'will be moved ne.r to the depot, just below the junction of the street "railway with the Richmond and Danville road, and surveys are being made for a side track connecting with the street railway for the con venience of hauling the brick. Mr. Watson's machine is to be moved to the Means place, a mile above the factory.

A Fftlal Accident. Last 'Sunday evening in No. 4 township, at the house of William Patterson a fatal accident occurred, and one that, perhaps, has no parallel. Ida Phifer, a colored airl, aged six and a-half years, was playing around an old-fashion feed cutter. The knife was thrown back, with its sharp edge standing tip, and the girl fell on it, inftictirJg a cut half way around the body to such an extent that the intestines fell out.

The liver was even cut. Dr. Fitzgerald was called in, but medical skill' could. -'do nothing; Death occurred shortly afterwards. A Una Piece or Bnsiness.

News comes from Wrightsville of a piece of conduct' that is very discreditable to the State Guard. A party of the soldiers took possession of a car, defied the conductor to collect their fares, and cut the coup-" ling of the car while the train was crossing the trestle across the sound. They did not stop snatched up ladies' hats and played ball with them. It is a great pleasure to state that none of the Hornets Nest Riflemen were in that gang. Our information comes from one who witnessed the scenes.

That crowd ought to be w.eded out of -the State Guard. Charlotte News. 'lioy iot Him. Our sheriff and deputy are hard to heat. On the 2d of July, Jesse ami notiier negro meu 10 a youn Trinity College bought a ticket white man near Lindsay ivfterwards for Concord.

Some one at the railroad celebration 'at 'Asheboro, July 4th, heard of it' and notified Sheriff Props the following Saturday. Deputy John Propst got out a warrant, and, after looking around, found Jesse near Dost's Mills and lodged him in our 'jail. On Sunday the constable from Trinity came here on the search for his man and -found him in jail ready for him, though he didn't know he had been arrested. School Charts. Our excellent State Superintendent, Major Finger, who guards the people's interest so carefully, ia out in a card again defending his position in regard to the use of expensive charts in our public schools.

It seem3 that agents have been canvass-in the State, this county among others, for a chart of thirty-six pages, on nine different subjects, necessarily not much on any one -subject, for which is asked the sum of $16. Major Finger, takes the ground that even if the charts were good (which he doe3. not admit) the price is too high, as they pass through several hands at a large profit for each, as is the case with all agents who travel over the country with expensive turnouts. It would be jmuch better to spend the money Saddling to the comfort of the school -houses, buying desks, etc. Arrangements have been made with the publishers to supply the books recommended by the' State Board much cheaper than others, and inasmuch as charts cannot be' used for any-considerable time it is better to use books altogether.

This excellent advice, of course, does not apply to city schools, that have abundant means to invest in all the modern appliances, but to the majority of our county schools that have no money to invest in fancy touches by way of experiment. From our own personal experience we would judge such charts as these aie said to be would be of very little use to the public schools of this county, AT- -AND- )- -( We start right off with. Zieg-ler's Fine Pebble Goat LADIES BUTTON SHOES S2 Never have been sold in this or any other town for less ttiaij 2.50. Now, if you don't want to. save 50 cents it" is not our fault.

1 If you want something extra wfe can give you Zeigler's Fine French Brazos Kid Hand-Sewed Ladies Button Boots 3.5 These are jegular $5 Shoes, i Also Zeigler's Best Calf Men's Shoes in English Bal's, Congress and Button at $2.75. Lowest price on these has been $3.50. Now there isn't ANY HUMBUG about 'these Shoes or prices, i Now we want to call your attention to a lot of LADIES FINE IN KID AND KID FOXED. City made, elegant goods, about one hundred pairs that must go. They are $3 and 84 goods, and all right, too, at that price.

But we are not splitting hairs we are cutting prices so these Must Go at 1.501 $2. Then if you want a imr pf Opera Slippers, Oxford or Newport Ties, why right here we are with a line.right straight through at SI, worth anywhere ftom $1.25 to $2. Seeing is believing just see for yourselves. We lose from 10 to 50 cents a pair, but there aren't many of them, and we are de termined to clear out and be ready for a fresh start next spring. We want to say right here that we have the handsomest and best Ladies Dongola Kid -Button Shoes for 1.250 all solid leather, nexible bots toms.

The best for the irioney. Now we want to talk about heavy goods. "VVe have about 300 pair Women' I. Kip Polkas good, solid shoes, no shoddy. We want to close but this lot and make the price 65c.

They must go. Two hundred pair Men's Whole Stock Stitchdown Bror gans at $1 a pair. The very-thing for every day working shoe soft, pliable, easy to the foot comfortable for summer wear. They are $1.50 Shoes, and cheap enough at that, but we got these by the underground railroad, and can afford to sell them at $1. They cost more than that to' make, Then we want you to look at our line of Men's Fine Shoes at $1 25 They are the wonder of the day.

We have them in Veal Calf and Buff, warranted all solid leather, no shoddy. We have English Bal's. Congress and Button. We guarantee that you never have seen a better or nicer shoe for less than $1.75. Never Infact these are just as stylish and.

good as the average line of $2 Shoes only $1.25. Be sure you see them. for our genuine Calf Sewed English Bal. for $1.50. The fact is that while we have some specialties that are away down below value, we have a more complete line of S-IH-O IE in all departments infants, fblirirpn's.

misses, bovs' and men's all from coarse ana neavy io uue nri iio-bt abetter line than'- we ever had before and prices average lower. want von to ask for our line of Men's $2 Shoes genu-If. sewed and stan dard. We warrant them equal to any snoe you cau get iw -I i two dollars ana a-mui. We still lead the Eacket in Clothine: Hats Seersucker Crinkle Coats and Cottonade Pants, 50c; Boys' Suits, f.i.20 up Men's Suits, $1.50.

Some special bargains in light Cassimere Suits. Come and see them. If you want a KIUJS STiiA vv HAT you can get it now at nri ce. See our 50c. line, reduced from 75c.

All iN VJM BUTTON beveral cases of typhoid fever reported. Everybody pleased at the crop prospect- Many public schools are in opo ration at this time. Only a few young men in town They are at Wrightsville. i Communion meeting at the Re formed church last Sunday- The Baptist church is being plastered and otherwise fitted up The young people had a pleasant party at Mrs. Bettie Johnson's on Tuesday night.

A visiting young lady regrets right much a report in circulation "she's engaged." Be sure to read the call for the stockholders of the Building and Loan Association. A boy rolling a hoop on the streets caused a runaway Wednes day. No one hurt- The street railway has secured the services of a competent and ex perienced engineer. On the stockholders' excursion last week several parties were put off for beating their way." We were shown this week some beautiful engraving done by Mr, Loesser. It was excellent work.

See the ad. of that excellent in stitution of learning, the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, Our Register of Deeds, Mr John K. Patterson; is spending much time in adding. The tax lists are being ''proved." Union services were held in the Lutheran church last Sunday even ing at 6 o'clock by Rev. J.

H- Page. They will be held next Sunday night at the Presbyterian church- Mr. John Fink, who keeps the nicest barber shop in Western North Carolina, has put up a fan that scares fiies and cools "a fellow-" Carpenters are working on Mr. Coram Corrells new house on Bell Avenue- Mr- Sims new house on the same street will be begun soon- Mr. Bob Erwin, of "Harris- burg, was kicked by a mule last week and painfully though not seriously hurt.

He was clerking for Mr. K. X. Grier. The electric lights worked rather badlv for awhile, but ten minutes rom Mr.

Worrell set matters aright. They now shine out as brilliantly as ever. Mr. D. H.

Lowder, near Plyler'e, a good farmer. He had about is 1,500 shocks of wheat and oats tins season. Biscuit won't bo scarce here. Mr. Oglesby will soon put up new platform scales at Hamsburg for weighing cotton seed this fall.

He is agent for the oil company in Charlotte. I Professor SpiDks is to move his school from Albemarle to Monroe, having purchased the interest of Prof. Wrieht in the high school of that place. The brick warehouse for cotton seed for Mr. R.

A- Brown is being erected in the rear of his store by the Cotton Seed Oil Company of Charlotte- Rev. Prof- Satterfield, president of Scotia Seminary, has invented a bedstead which for cheapness and durability is quite an invention. It can b6 folded up. While the street railway builders are waiting on the dummy they are using horses to pull their flat cars in hauling ties, iroD, etc. They will get there somehow.

The first bale of cotton was sold in New York last week for 16 cents. It was raised in Georgia- In this country we have just finished brag giug about the first blooms. Mr- Monroe Moose, one of. the good citizens who live near Dry's Mil), was in town Wednesday. He saj's no rain has-come amiss for them yti, and crops are fine.

Correll Bi are fitting up their jewelry store mcelj-, and are having it beautifully papered in old gold. So you see they mean all they say in their new ad. this week. Read it. Mr.

William Yorke and Miss Cornelia Robbinson, both of Can-nonsville, were married Sunday evening at 6:30 o'clock by Rev. J. D. Newton, in Mrs. Henderson's parlor.

Brown Bros, have threshed their wheat. The product of about eleven acres amounted to 285 bushels. This is an average of nearly twenty-six bushels to the acre. Does farming pay? The eight-year old young people had an ice cream party at Mrs- S. Fisher's Monday night.

It is pleasn ing to see the young people put on the ways of their older sisters and brothers. We heard a wagon drummer say he had sold at one time forty wagons to a man in Georgia to haul off his: melon crop with. He had four hundred acres planted. is a big business. Some of the fancy "gingerbread" work on the court-house has been torn away, beiDg rotten, and will not be replaced.

Our taxpayers think they have no money to spend on fancy work. The senior editor returns thanks to two of our most lovely young ladies (can't give names) for a handsomely arranged bouquet of beautiful flowers, which now grace our editorial desk. Our Town Commissioners, in their meeting last Mondaj, conj traded with Mr. W. A.

Smith for enough crushed rock to fill up the hollows in Depot street, and this bug-be8r will soon be in good condition. The crushed rock will be furnished at $1-75 per cubic yard. was said to bo a wolf- They haven't caught him yet. A farmer's dog a few days since started to leave his master and fol low a lawyer, "Come back here; shame on you exclaimed the gran ger; "stick to your profession." The dog really did look ashamed. Mr.

J. H. Snotherly, of Plyler's, writes While at school (Yadkin College) everything did not work right if I did not get The Standaed to read Saturday evenings. Success to your valuable paper-" Many thanks, Surveys will soon be made with a view to building the spur line from the depot to the factory at Forest Hill for the convenience of the large manufacturing establishment there. It will probably follow the course of the branch that rises behind the factory.

The Salisbury District Confer ence of the Methodist JUpiscopal Church met at Norwood, Stanly county, yesterday. Revs. Page, Sherrill and Hoyle, Messrs. Charles Montgomery, Lee Crowell and Joe Mabry attended as delegates from this place, Every one I 'sympathizes with Rev. Mr.

Payne in his recent afflic tions. Now he is called upon to mourn the loss of his httle daughter Machlin, who died yesterday morn ing at the age of five months. She will be buried this morning at Lex ington, N. C. I Professors D.

H. Hill, and W. A. Withers, lately elected to chairs in the Agricultural and Me chanical College of this State, are both natives of Mecklenburg county, and both received their diplomas at Davidson College- They are both estimable gentlemen, and are worthy of the honor bestowed upon them. All who remember Mrs.

Br ton, the wife of Rev. D. R. Bruton, pastor of the M. E.

church here nearly twenty years ago, will regret to hear of her death, which occurred at her home in Reidsville, N. C-, last Sunday morning. All who knew her speak of her as a good Christian ady. Last Sunday nineteen carloads of watermelons passed through on the Richmond and Danville railroad. On Wednesday two hundred cars are reported as having passed through, each car carrying 3,000 melons each.

It seems that; the Northern man shows the same weakness as the coon." We are glad to get any kind of ocals these dry times, but we espe cially enjoy those that are nicely put up in paper bags. Sheriff Propst and Mr. M. H- Goodman each gave us this week some excellent grapes. These are the first of the season.

Mr. Goodman's were of the Hartford variety. -A negro from near Reidsville, applied for a position in the mail service as route agent- A letter came from Johnny Breechesmaker, the PosmasterGeneral, a few days ago, notifying him of his appointment. It found him in the peniten tiary, he having in the meantime got into some mischief. Judging from what the returned Black Boys say, going to the encampment must be liko, Lord Chesterfield's experience in fox hunting.

After his first hunt with some friends he expressed himself as having en- joyed i it very much, but was very much surprised when invited to go again. He said he didn't think any one ever went twice. Capt. Charles McDonald had his fine wheat threshed Wednesday. One field of 5 acres made 341 bushels to the acre.

Another field of 6J acres yielded 196J bushels. Can anybody beat that? This was done on land that was cleared in 1780, and was so poor at one time that the corn crop gathered from it was carried in a hamper basket. The families of Messrs. J. W.

Cannon, George Lore and P. B. Fetzer enjoyed a pleasant pic-nic at Boat's Mills, Tuesday of this week. The little folks, of whom there were about twenty, enjo3-ed hugely wad-iug about in the water. Several fell iD, a boat overturned and spilled several, but as it was in shallow wa ter thia only added to the fun.

Peter Ulnm' Host. Railroad men tell a pretty good thing on a hog owned by Peter Glass. Peter lives along the Richmond Danville line, about 5 miles north of Concord, and ie owns a hog that is workingoff its superfluous flesh daily in chasing the watermelon trains. Every time a yatormelon train comes along the hog puts out after it, and goes squealing along at his level best gait until the train leaves him out of sight. For all his running, he hasn't had a watermelon yet.

Peter ought to turn him into some neighboring patch. Charlotte News. The Root Crop. There are some farmers in the country who pay special attention to the raising of turnips, a crop that answers mauy wants. The work required to raise an abundance of turnips is less perhaps than that needed in the culture of most other crops, and besides quite a nice table vegetable they can be preserved and fed all during the winter to stock.

Let the farmers try thia and see how much corn and roughings can be saved. This is "shade farming," but good so far as it goes. L- Hartsell and Robert Cannon spent Sunday and Monday atMisen-heimer Springs. About twentyfive people are there. Mrr F.

M. Smith started Wednes day morning to Norwood, Stanly county, to attend the District Con ference there. Last winter the measles broke out in our school and closed it up now here the sore eyes come. They are in our school already. Two schools began last Monday, at the Fink school-house by Charlie Barnhardt aiid at; the Faggart school-house by W.

M. Voils. Mr. Alfred Lefler, an enterprising farmer, is soon to visit several nurseries. There, is meaning in this move.

He already has a good orchard and plenty of fine? fruit Somehow Mr. Ransom Blackwelder has not dug his "tater" hole (gold mine under his house) yet We have seen a specimen of his tater," and think it is very fine and yellow. Master Simpson Lefler, son of Esquire M. cut his foot with a mattock quite seriously while sprout ing, Thursday last; and Master Floyd McEachern, who split his foot open last fall, cannot wear a shoe yet Hard on him. We wide-awakegeople are looking forward to two weddings very soon.

As we are liable, (but not apt to be) mistaken, and for fear we insult two highly respected young, ladies and ii. i meir -cnoicest companions, we will await movements to call names. Old Uncle Harry Eury, a colored man and very truthful and sensible, tells ns that he has cleared $44 from one hog by selling pigs, and has raised his own meat and given his children several pigs, all from the same hog, and expenses deducted, all in four years. This is worthy of imitation. We learn that a gentleman going with Mr.

Dan Lipe's thresher got badly hurt Friday, the 12th. He was sleeping in a barn, out of which the wheat had been nearly all threshed, and had been propped up to keep the loft in its proper' place, when one of the props fell, striking him on the head. The Latest News. Charlotte had a small fire alarm Wednesday. The speeches in the Grissom case were concluded yesterday.

A combination of publishers has been formed for the sale of school books. John M. Stone has been nominated for governor by the Democrats of Mississippi. The Emperor of Brazil was shot at Tuesday night in a theatre, but was not hurt The little village of Princeton, Ohio, was nearly demolished Sunday by a windstorm. Millionaire Jim Reschler, of Den ver, Won $35,000 in a single night at Long Branch recently.

Emmons Blaine, Jim's son, is soon to marry the of the late "reaper" McCormick, of Chicago. Dr. Chas. F. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers, New York city, finished.

last Sunday the fiftieth year ef his ministry. The long bridge over the Potomac at Washington, D. is to be re built at a cost of one and a-half million dollars. It is said that Shaffer has not yet received his commission. There seems to be a row in the camp by Loge Harris' friends.

J. D. Logan, of Mecklenburg, was knocked from a train last Tuesday I on the Carolina central, strange, he was not hurt. Major R. L.

Dabney, the distin guished divine of Austin, Texas, is said to be losing his sight, and will soon be totally blind. W. J. Pelot ex-policeman of At-anta, was shot and killed in that city Tuesday night by A. J.

Wiley for kissing his (Wiley's) wife. Two of the Hornet's Nest Riflemen caught a large turtle near the camp. It measured thirty-one inches across, and weighed about 200 pounds. Another victim has been slain and mutilated by Jack the Ripper in London Police were near and found the woman's body in a few minutes, but Jack got away. SixVthousand people, in China were drowned in a flood caused by a clond burst The water in the flooded district is said to have been thirty-six feet deep on a level.

The Republican party is an enemy to economy the Republican party is the friend of high taxes the Republican party is a precious friend to monopolies the Republican party is the enemy of the South. No Southern man can give a solitary reason why he should show the least countenance to suoh a party. Gastonia Gazette..