The Gastonia Gazette from Gastonia, North Carolina • Page 2

THE GAZETTE. MY FALL STOCK WHAT THEY TALK I I' IMT N. A little paragraph li.ui for several DEALERS IN. HORSES, MULES, BUGGIES ALSO uaswnuii TANNERS, MANUFACTURE! COLLARS AND HARNESL Of all kinds for the WHOLES A LE ail T.UL Trade, Craigr Wilson i- )- IS! ir in ny I 17 i Mtn. Islan f.

Wft nrf showinsr as lairarest if not the largest and most complete line of Jeans inn Agricultural Bulletin. Bad roads are a curse not only to the traveller and teamster, but also to the farmer. If our roads, as is most commonly the case when crops are carried to market, are in so bad a condition that the fvrmer can hanl only a half-load of produce no market it is very avident that the transportion costs him double what it would if the roads were it good condition, to say nothing of exposure to the wear and tear of wagons, carts and harness. Thus Le frequently loses fifty hollars for whai could, under a better system, have been accomplished for halt the money. We will go further and say that if ten dollars of the fifty it has cost him had been judiciously expended in the improving the roads he would have been better off.

Let us for example take a mile of road. The road-bed has to be repaired. It should be levelled, and bevelled from middle to the sides so that the water may run off; holes should be filled up with earth, and ditches cut. Now, if ploughs, and scoops and horses were used, instead of hoes and spades aud manual labor, more Work would be done in one day, and done better than the road hands could do in a week, even if they should work dilli-gently and. willingly under intelligent direction.

But where are the necessary helps or apparatus to come from? They cannot be obtained by the present the county in all grraties irom iocvio oc. per 'yard. small UshtreiKht A at $2.50. Shawls from a to a heavy wool Blankets from $100 7 i tz wool av ip i- perjfi) a heavy ail Is now about all in. 1 I A good woman's shoe for '65c, better be, to $130.

Fine woman's shoe from "i i i I to $1.85. Men's fine coarse shoe om 95c, to $1.75. Men's fine shoe 1.15 to S2.50. i Woolen jeans, 12c, fee, 35c, etc. FULL STOCK OF Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware i I I is usually kept in a country store.

Call on me and Be. Convinced i i -THAT I I Sell Goods as Cheap as the times will permit Give me a call, John J. Hons, Old -Furnace. N. C.

Shipping Point: King's Mountain. WE Keep a eood lire these cold mornings. and whenever you hitch make for our place and then the idea of this heading" will strike you. I You can hnd almost anything you want in our stock of Dry Goods Groce ries and Hard- ware, I at prices as low, if not lower than the same quality of goods can be bought We'll treat you kiudly and deal with you honestly. si I Give us a call, I H.

P. ALLISON MGR. Allison Ware Co. We Practice What we Preach! 1. We are always glad to see you.

2. No trouble to show gooo 3. If you dou't what yo, want, ask for it. 4. Lowest cash prices' for the Beet Goods made.

5. A full assortment always on hands. 6. To nlease our customers is our greatest delight i MEMBER! That we are always ready to give yeu the lowest prices in Medicines, Chemicals, DRUGS, I Varnishes, Dye-Stuffs, PAINTS, OILS, Fancy Toilet Soaps, Fancy Hair and Tooth Brushes, Perfumes i and Toilet Articles Ink, Letter Paper, Envelopes. Putty.

Lnniw, Chimneys, Physicians Prescriptions accu rately compounded. I W. J. Torrenee. Teas, bujrar.

Canned (70nds Gaudies, Crackers and Cakes, Tobacco. We bitf jlroni re hi) 3.0 SHOES! SHOES! SSOESU Shoes We have iiever hmuclirali oii and tlie- tensive line as vre have this price is the very lowest months been going the rounds of the press to the effect that the sun never sets upon the possessions of the United States, that when its last golden rays are kiss'ng good-bye to the wavelets that lave the shores of Attoo Island, Alaska, the rosy fingers of dawn are just gilding the tree tops of eastern Maine. We have seen the paragraph in the papers regurly since its first ap pearance. We believe it has ap peared in this paper about twice. We saw it first, we believe, among the edi torial notes of the Wilmington Mes senger, which places the ever alert Dr.

Kingsbury among the deceived elect. Our attention has been called to the misstatement by Col. R. W. Sandifer, of Dallas, in which he says: "Your statement that the sun never sets on U.

S. possessions is not correct. When it is o'clock P. M. on Attoo Island, Alaska, it is 2 o'clock A.

M. on the east coast of Maine, too early for the sun to rise there. The difference in latitude is 120 and in time 8 hours between the two places." And it is even so. Get your map or globe and see for yourself. The story has always sounded a little to us, but because we saw it in the p-ipers we let it pass as true.

That is the test which our own Col. X. Wilson ap plies to what he hears by rumor. You never know, he says, whether it is so or not until you see it in the papers. We are afraid that Col.

Wilson's faith the papers will be shaken up when he reads this story about the sun's never setting on uncle Sam's plantation. While the statement criticised by Col. Sandifer is practically untrue, the truth of the matter is, that at a certain season of the year the sun does really throw its rising beams aeross the hills of Maine just as its last rays depart from the shores cf Attoo island. This is true during and about the Sum mer solstice, and only at this time of the year does the sun fail to bid a daily farewell to our NOT GlILTY! That is the verdict Of the jury in the Conoly murder case just tried at Fay-etteville. The jury at first reported that they were unable to agree, aud asked for more time.

After longer deliberation the jury brought in a ver dict of acquittal, as published in the papers. It is in many respects the most re markable case that has ever been tried in our the verdict of the jury is a striking illustration of the aver sion of men to hanging their fellowmau on circumstantial evidence. It was established by witnesses that Conoly was called out of his house by a tali black man wearing a long linen duster. It was established that McDougal the alleged murderer, was seen that day going in the direction of the locality where Conoly lived. He wore a long linen duster and had some bundles wrapped in newspaper.

Conoly was killed at night just before On the next morning a man was seen, about fifteen miles from Conoly 's, wash ing at a brook. When seen by witness he ran away. The same day McDoug-ald was seen by friends with smut under his eyes and on tbejbackof bis neck. He was also asked why his face was so red. He also complained of tired.

An underslrirt, a hand glass, and some lampblack vv capped iu newspaper were found near the same locality. When search" was beiug made for the murderer the tracks of the man who called Conoly out were measured. McDougald who seemed to be as active as anybody in trying to ferret out the murderer was examining the tracks and some one who was with bini measured the tracks and said to -The tracks are about like yours, Dan." McDougald was afterwards seen spoiling the tracks out. When rumor began to implicate McDougald he ran away to the West and changed his name. The motive for the murder was alleged to be, this: Conoly 'u life was in sured.

McDougal had paid the pre mi urns. Conoly was to be married soon, and the policy would, in all prob- been changed. McDougal, so argued the prosecution, murdered his uncle so as to get control of the insurance. McDougal did not go on the stand to prove his whereabouts on the night of the murder and did not make any statement at all in his defense. The only circumstantial testimony in his favor was that of his grandmother, who said the man who called her son out was not so tall as McDougal and did not have on a linen duster.

But what weakened ber testimony was the fact that at the Coroner's iuqnest.she had said she knew nothing about it. As an offset against tin? charge that McDougaJd had pecuniary motives for murdering his uncle, lie proved an un blemished good character by every wit ness and also established tlte fact that he was in good circumstances and did not need the Insurance money that might accure from his uncle's death. In this case the circumstantial evi dence seems to ie overwii immgly a gainst McDougal ami i lie? only th'tii, probably, that saved him is the fact that the jury tiad a strong aversion to condemning a man of previous good character on circumstantial evidence. The jury didn't see McDougald murder the man and so couldn't say posi-tsvely, pn other people's testimony, that he did murder him, Hence they I said he did'nt. ABOIT IX WASHINGTON CITY.

Washington, D. C. Nov. 30. The next Speaker of the House be Mr.

Mills Crisp McMillin Spri ger Hatch, just as certain as the ca cus meets next Saturday. As a propll et with a reputation to maintain, thei are no signs visible that would jiistifi your correspondent in 'dropping an portion ot this composite name ilain everydaj talk, these five gentle men and tneir friends are engaged conducting one of the liveliest and th most uncertain campaigns for tin Speakership ever known. Each them is apparently confident of win ning. It is conceded by the othe: candidates that Mills and CrisD ara well in the lead, but they contend than leither of them can get votes enougl to get nominated and that after two three ballots are taken without result there will be a stampede to other can didates. Mr.

Crisp's friends lollH claim his nomination without fall or the first ballot, while the advocates Mr. Mills say that he will be norui nated on the second or at the outsidtf the third ballot. it is oeiieved that more than onrf hundred unpledged memliers have ar rived within the last forty-eieht hours ind that as many more will bi' here within the next two days. Man of these men are entirely new i pontics and a goodly percentage of them are personally unacquainted with a single one. of the candidates.

It is the votes of these new men which will settle the Speakership, and at this writing no man can say with truthfulness how they will vote. much will depend upon the impression made upon them by the candidate's and their friends, and there is little doubt that some, of the candidates are beiug injured by fool-friends. The caucus, which will probably be held next Satur day, will include all of the Farmers' Alliance men from the South and per-hans some of those from the West, although Jerry Simpson says none of the Alliance men will go into the Democratic caucus. 245 would be about the number if there was a full attendance, but it is safe' to deduct five or six on account of absence of sickness or otiier reasons, so that it may be set down as a reasonable certainty that the man who can get 115 votes will be nominated. The canvass for the minor offices of the House is quite as spirited as that for the Speakership, aud the number of candidates is mucn greater, and not a few of them are ex-members of the xt the House.

Turner, "the iceman'? is- making a typical Tammany struggle for the Doorkeepership; Pennsylvania has two candidates for Clerk, and Virginia two for Postmaster; But: these positions are usually settled in the last hours of the campaign by means of combinations with the winning Speak ership candidate. Wlnle Mr. Harrison was cogitating on the free trade treaty which has been negotiated with Hawaii and wondering what the people would think of his signing such a treaty after refusing to even receive the Commissioners sent by Canada to negotiate for an enlargement of our trade relations, Mr. Blaine slipped over to Philadelphia to see Claus. Spreckels, who is the virtual owner of Hawaii, and find out what he thought about this high protection administration endorsing a treaty of absolute free trade." Meanwhile Mr.

Harrison will hold the treaty until he can sound public opinion; if favorable, he will sign it and send to the Senate for ratification, if uufavarable, he will pigeon hole" it. That's statesman ship of the Harrison brand. It is Baid that Senator Sherman has complained to Mr. Harrison of Mr. Blaine's meddling with his Senator- ship campaign in Ohio, and requested his aid in having it slopped.

Just as lias been predicted all along the Pacific Mail Steamship Company will gobble up the greater part of the money paid out under the Postal-sub sidy act of the last Congress. Mr. anamaker has signed eight contracts for carrying the mails under that' law, and the Pacific Mail Company gets three of the bst of them, being ten years each and to Degm January l. 1S92, while the others will begin at different dates between March 1, 1892 aud December 1, 1894. It seems to make all the difference in the world when you call a plain, everyday subsidy grab of Government money "expediting our ocean mails." One of the great est national legislative scandals ever brought to light in tins country was the exposure of the methods used to pass the Pacific Mail Subsidy bill through Congress a few years ago, an exposure that drove a number of prominent Republicans from public life.

Now the same thing Iras been accom plished, and if any one dares to protest he is charged with being instigated by political prejudice, -and with trying to prevent the extension of our foreign commerce. Odd, isn't It looks as though there was to be a revival of the trouble between Wana maker -and Roosevelt, originated bv the public statement by the latter that the former had been guilty of careless ly handling the truth. Give them room and let them right it out. Thetolumbia Daily Calender. An old friend in a new dress.

and an article that has come to le one of the in dispensibles of an editor's desk, came, to hand in the Columbia. Daily Calender for 18i)2. The Calender is in the form of pad containing 367 leaves, each 5i 2 inches; one for each day of the yearrto be removed daily, and one for the entire year. Jacn slip bears a short paragraph pertaining to cycling or some kindred subject. At the bot tom of each leaf is a blank for memo randa.

The stand is an entirely hew departure, being mane of sheet metal finished in ivory black, and is very compact. At the close of the year the stand wil lbe available for another pad. This is the seventh issue of this now well-known Calender, yet all the matter is fresh and new.1 and comprises notable events in cycling, opinions of pysicians and clergymen, hints about road making, and numerous' other top- ics. Established in 1880. Entered at Gastonia, N.

as second-class mail matter. PUBLISHED EVEHY THURSDAY MOUNINO W. F. MARSHALL, Editor Proprietor. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS: ONE OOPY ONE YEAH $1.50 ONE COPY SIX MONTHS .75 ONE COPY THKEE MUNTH3-.

.40 "A SINGLE COPY JH CTTash la Advance always. If you miss a copy of The Gazettr. you couldn't pleuso us better than by raisin a dust and making the air blue about it. It is our business to keep Gazette matters straight, aud we wa.pt to tlo IU All communications should be signed so that tbe Editor can know their source. JOB WORK OP" ALL KINDS.

THCKSDAY, DEC. 8. 1891. NEWSPAPER FOR SALE. The good will and entire outfit of Gastonia (N.

Gazette are for sale. Tbe outfit consists of an 8 column Washington Hand Press, 400 to 500 lbs burgeois type 100 lbs nonpareil, upwards of 60 fonts of job type, of nearly all sizes, in fonts up to 50 or 75 lbs, stones, rollers, job press, paper cutter, job outfit all complete. Paper on a solid cash basis, advertising patronage fairly good can be made better, job patronage excellent, fell in all an excellent bargain. Reason fox sale: Editor is a teacher, bas school and paper both and wishes to time to school. The work is too much for one man.

Gastonia is the county metropolis. Has 1200 population. Thrifty aud JtealtMul. lias cotton mill (9,500 Dlndles). two uraiture factories, tan- factory, bank two hotels, two drug stores, hardware, goods, grocery, furniture, and general stores.

A live moving town. The newspaper property is a desirable pne. This is an opportunity for a good reliable, energetic, democratic newspaper man. Price $120Q. The offer will be withdrawn on or before TWimhor inHi TVu a-imrln nnv nr reformation address F.

Marshall, Editor, Gastonia, N. C. Oua iiext door neighbor. South Car- olina, is having orie of thoaa-Kvely sen- Bations known as a session of the legis- bill requiring the payment of a fee of m-iivj VUV9 -e Our sister has hitherto allowed everybody who wanted to to get married Without money "and without price. There is still two dollars difference in Jthe license fees of this state and that, And we may expect that the chances against lis" in this competition will con--tin-ue to attract many, couples across tbe line to tie tbe knot.

The Charlotte C7irtnfclehas on its jipw dress. It is one of the best and in many respects is the best daily in the this new dress business is a personal joy to us. We have read its with and find its news served remarkably well." Often have we been teinpted.to quote or clip from but the print of its old type kept us from it because we feared a strike. Our manuscript is nearly a feather that breaks the 'compositor's back in this office, and when we add a clipping of the old Chronicle print, it made us feel wicked. We rejoice in uiate it on the handsome face of its new black and white gown.

We do not write to kill time or fill space when we express our sincere hope that it will achieve the substantial recognition it so richly merits. TI1RIL.L1?IU STATISTICS. General Robt. P. Porter Superinten dent of Census bas favored us with a sample copy of of North Carolina by Minor Civil Divisions." And, as Bill Nye would say, it con tains some of the most thrilling statis ties ever by the brain of But we mean simply to note some of the more interesting to our eaderi.

POPULATION Or SOME COUNTIES. 1890 1880 Cleveland 20.394 17,764 14,254 Llncolnton 12,580 11,061 Mecklenburg 42,673 34,175 Of these counties Mecklen burg shows the greatest increase in ten years, namely 24.67 per cent. Gaston stands next with an of 24.62 per POPULATION OF SOME TOWNS. 1390 1880 120 429 105 1394 197 441 1033 376 472 185 957 11517 48r 335 431 1033 King's Mtn. Shelby Mooresboro Dallas Gastonia.

Mtn. Island 1. Mt. Holly Denver Lincoln 337 990 417 236 321 148 708 7004 391 15)1 583 Davidson College. i Tbe increase shown by Gastonia in ten years js over three hundred and thirty percept, and is greater than that of any other towu ju.tht above list that was enumerated in 1830.

it We have placed our 1 i Move Goods this week aud invite the public's inspection. oonnnnf nf the finil RPn.sftn Xnrttiiirii ubers have been 'compelled slaughter their imraeirie stocks of Staple Goods (ind we have taken advantage of their offers to replenish our stock To meet prices of those who are closing out. we have put the knife to all clusses of goods, and are ready to t. i system, though all will acknowledge their necessity. Bad RoaMo and.

Abandoned. Farms. Agricultural Bulletin. The Boston (Mass.) Hreald makes a statement which, we feel, sure, can not be contratdicted, for we have nev er known of a deserted farm that was located on a really good dirt-road. Good roads and well-tilled faams generally go hand in hand in the world's progress, and on this account we have persistently advocated better dirt-roads in the South, especially if we desire to cut up our large plantations, and change them into small farms.

One reason, declares the Herald, why there ire so many abandoned farms within twenty-five qr thirty miles of Boston, or other New England cities, is that the roads are sd bad thatthe people will not 'use them, or cannot make them of service at all seasons of the year, and. cannot, afford to iive without communication with the ootside world. Our system of road- making, outside of the great cities and their suburbs, is worse than that which i3 now current in almost any other part of the civilized world. The Shelby 4wroro tells of two lively church rows. Watt Roberts, colored at one church took umbrage at offen sive words used by the pastor.

Rev. A J. Mooney. i Watt with a knife in hand cut the pastor severely in the arm The pastor seized a chair and struck at his assailant. A fight disturbed the religious worship, at Hebron church.

in Lincoln county last Sunday, between Noah Cook and Bill Williams. Wil Hams was severely cut in many places bv a knife iu Cook's baud. State Chronicle Ttch oh human ami horses and nil nnima'u cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary lotion. This never rails, fcoia Dy Curry, Druggists, Gastonia. N.

C. You need not move your place of You shall have all the goods "you want atprice made by any house We can't afford to be idle vJc A All iiersons owing us etc. past due will confer a great favor on. us by. sel- J.

'p. S. Do you want shoes? We Iturui, second; order forDfty trade on account of prices you hear-r-. D. Moore Co.

have them cheaper than ypni. jsver saW 1 "sv. Charlotte, --II, -r- ---v "I e. m. Andrews ENGLISH AND AMERICAN I.

Uliina. oeim-liramte. rlain Lcll siud i iiiasd Pitchers; Plates, Cups and Saucers, Ktr'. Woodenware in Bowls, Trays, Buckets, Staph a nd 'Goods 'in Carries the -LARGEST STOCK of FURNITURE PIANOS AND OR- I gans. to be Found in the State BABY CARRIAGES AND TRICYCLES.

Flour, Hams, Breakfast Strips, Baconj i'earl Gris, Rico, Cheese, Maccnroni, GwiTees. Fruit. Fish and Vegetables. Cigars, Smoking and Chewing liable houses. Try u.

Prices ueasrna'iie otocK ew, Very Respectfully, Gastouia, N. CVOct. 29th, '91. i SQUIER CO I Buy in Large Quantities Plrect. from Factories and Can and Will Give You Low-Prices.

5 WmiteWob QawMQGWB GOODS EXC HANGED IF NOT SATISFACTOUT. -w 1 EM. AJNiJUll FOUNDED IN 1864 fcythe present execntlve27 YEARS of continuous and ancceMrai muiaM-r ment Increased animal attendance Now ocenoying foo toulldlnaraBtanaa anrlTaled IB facilities for educating YOTJNO MET AND "WOMEN for anccesa in life. In deciding upon a choci for their children, PARENTS should Bend them to THE BEJsT, because it para. It may reqnlre tht expenditure of a few dollars more at first, but it will prove the cheapest la the end.

CHEAP tuition is very dear, because It means cheap teachers, cheap surroundings, biferior acil-ifies, ind offer NO opportunities for securing POSITIONS for ltopupila and guatea. This Institution, owing to its I standard of excellence-Tias placed Jn desirable poaittoM mora young men and worn? nrom Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, than all similai institutions combined. Catalogue and particulars mailed on application, Address. H. SADLER.

President, and Pounder; or p. A. SADLER, Secretary, BUSsNESJ COLLEGE. 9.8. lO 12 N.Charle.