jp^—'m fcgpi ib ~^^ m pol xxl-thieb seeies salisbuey n c thuesday appjl 17 1890 no 6 send your to the job office j m patton jr losses , o cipiste in all its aimointeats :: i ■, op printing done i i in i'.-s and dlspati el er heads nute heads statements tlnvelopi s posters doc cards tag . jhs h 1 1 v 1 no :-: botch :-: work b :. h h b k h b satisfaction guaranteed . mail solicited and ) r address 1 m pattox jr salisbury x c mm ; absolyte'y pyre r ■• 1 ries . a ma r plot pnr;t y m01 e rconomli it 1 ■ be s ild i.i , ui low 1 esi v i'j hi alum 01 ' •< ■■•. ders sold onlj in cans royal bai ;■ ■ dekco.,10i wall st 3 v for sale by biniiliam & co young <. r c bos tian an 1 .\. p iurphy fl a ttrsmr^wt tafco r.o shoos tinicsi lri ij i s §. "" •• j " i)t »"* lhh ' nri " ic ' ind bottom if the dealer cannot supply you ' k-.iiil direct to factory enclosing nuvertised luico r~^5 g ; : f i tosa e333 &£>%-? a>*rflsbaff*&%0 $«$ ctuiiffels for s ifl^e gentlemen finp '. r i[c:ivy laced grain and creed i moor v.'.ui rpi'i . hosl iu mio w.iii exnmino ills s5.oo fienl inf iiand-skwhi1 shoe 34.00 :: ' ■ :■' •'••■■>■■■.::•;:■!: i s:i.5u : ■■ miimkits :-■••. >>". » kx tit.v vai.i'i < '. l ■•- i()k . ', / • ! \\ us infimkx's shoes 6'.'.oo ami i 1.75 hoys sc1i ooi shoes all 111:1 i . haiti u and lace *>& ql v i -%,} ladies i 1.75 shoe for m rsses >!.-..■ material :■■ style kent fitting w i douglari brockton mass sold by bl 9 s brown i ) i itu l_j ljs ijy ' 1 && lb^j 1 i i . worth of dry goods to be so 7 c at and below mew york cost this is the biggest dry goods sale ever offered to salisbury and now is your time to save money the dross goods stock an 1 trimming 3 is still complete and - many spring g is al half their value : ■. warner's and c i corset left buy at cosl and i r cent profit 2o doz white shirts left some 1 < low x y cost summer . buy while you ran save from 50c to si on the shirt the largest and finest stock of jerseys from 50c to 2.35 crificed from this on big lino jei ci od stock you can save from 2 to h grade this is something every lady needs for spring - i0 worth of ribbons that are worth 25 per cent more when b night now 10 per cent less than x y cost all millinery ( toods per cent less than n y cost 40 rolls of jeans all wool filling cost 28 to 32 cents take or 25 cents these goods are cheap at 50c and will to buy for next winter bed tick the best feather tick worth 25 e tits now 15c all grades from oh cents up table damasks red and white at just half what you can i elsewhere the accounts due o b van wyck must be paid or satisfac i .-. arra ments mal about them in tin next ten days lee s overman anonymous probably of the seventeenth century it s nut beauty i dema.vd t is not beauty t demand a i rystal brow the i ; ir ■ ■ snow s diiughti r a vvhil ■ hand n'or mermaid's yellow pride of hair t<'!1 me not of your starry eyes vuur lij thai sci m on roses fed four breasts where cupid trembling lies nor sleeps for kissing of his be 1 — a bloomy pair of rermeil check3 like ilebe's in her ruddiest hours a breath that softer music spcak3 than summer winds a-wooing iower3 these are but g ads nay what siiv lips ? ( oral beneath the ocean-stream whose brink when your adventurer slij)3 full oft liu perishcth on them and what are checks but ensigns oft that wave hot youth to fields of bl i dm il.l ],'- breast tin ugli ne'er 30 oft l)o recce or ilium oughl ofgoodv eyes m with baleful ardour burn : poison ui iirr:ith t * 1 : 1 1 erst perfumed there's many i white hand holtls an urn avitli lovera : hearts to a>.i~t consumed fur crystal brows there's naught within j they arc but empty cells lor pride ; ii who tin siren's hair would win is mostly strangled i:i the tide ( 1 ',;■■■ me in stead of reaut s bu i . a tender heart i loyal mind which v ith temptation 1 vould trust 1'ct nevi i linked with error liii'l — < j j r in whose gentle bosom i coul 1 pour my secret iieart of woes like tiii 1 care-burtheued honey-fly that hides his murmurs in the ro my earthly comforter whose love so indeh asible might be that when thy spirit w m ■ ! . ;■ v ■. hers could uot stay for sympathy by his own hand col cowles son's death the story as told i'.y the landmark 0 tr last issue contained a ruegre an ■ nouncement of tiie death of david worth ci)\vle's a cadet at homer's school in oxford the landmark gives the history of the case and thecircum | stances connected with it in full young cowles wasin his third ses sion at t he school his habits v ere good he was studious ami popular was 1 rderly sergeani of the first coiu pa:iy and in the line of promotion some weeks ago he began complaining of i ing unwell and became quite de i ressed in spirits ele was advised to consul l!i • barracks p'jy id m but said his i re it men woulil n a help his case nevertheless he received sqme treat rnenl from him but without beneficial results and his melancholia continuing he was advised by cant drewry to go home for a few weeks lie had mean j time written to his father of his con dition and had received cheerful re sfionces to iris letters and had written ' him tour weeks ago for permission , to go nil to washington the permission was gr nted by wire and the young man joined h is fa her and the family in \\ ashington in a day or two he returned to school last saturday two weeks ago very much improved and continued to the end in the regular discharge of his duties and seemingly in the enjoym mt of his normal flow of ; spirits _ < i sunday evening he was allowed to escort a young lady to chinch mon day he was oih'eer of the day early tuesday morning he made arrange ments with capt drewry to get him ai new gold lace band for his cap and also some arrangements about a new pair of pants lie was seen sky-lark ing with som ; of the boys after part ing with this gentleman and appeared at i reakla-t and the early morning ex ercises at the beginning of the se cond study hour about 9.45 a m ho complained of feeling unwell and said to one of his room-mates cadet eniry that he was not prepared on his lessons and believed he would go to bed this was in their room and cadet emry left him at lo clock a cadet in a neighboring room and capt drewry j in the recitation room heard the j noise as of a blind slamming or a a trunk-lid falling but paid no atten tion to it at 10.15 capt drewry in his morning round entered the room of young cowles and detected the smell of burt powder he glanced at the form of the young man lying on the bed ms head in an uneasy position against the wall and saw at once that he was dead he hurried out and soon returned with prof horner the youth was pulseless with a revolver lying on the bed between his legs and a bulle through his light temple and lodge just beneath the skin over the opposite temple a physcian made an an examination but this was a mere formality a coroner's inquest was held and the verdict was that the de ceased had come to his death from a pistol shot by his own hand whether accidental or not the jury did not un dertake to determine the pistol was self-acting and was known to have gone off accidentally in his hands on one occasion c il cowles's theory is that he was sitting or reclining on the bed on this occa sion handling the weapon when it was accidentally discharged the facts that the deceased had had his shoes mended saturday that he had tues day morning made the arrangements noted about the cap band and the pant aloons that he had played injthe morn ing with comrades and that he left no note or writing for any one all these facts are mentioned to negative the idea of suici le col cowles is well-nigh crushed his son was a bright handsome well devoloped manly boy and his father's heart was set upon him the intelli gence of the awful occurrence was a shock and grief to the people of states ville where the deceased was well known and where thedeceased was well known and where his father has so many friends young david cowles was named for his maternal grand father the late david worth of " ashe county raid hnd he lived until the 15th of october next would have been 19 years old the loss of so promising a son at such an j;e and under such tragic circumstances is an unspeakable calamity would to god we could say a word that would comfort m any meas ure the hearts that are crashed and bleeding - — mih 1 1 i i i i ■ swift and monstrous ten grand engines bought for the passenger service on the r & d k lroad iii connection with the panting monsters which will hereafter pull the passenger trains from washington to salisbury and on to atlanta the char lotte news has to say the first of the ten was brought into the city yesterday by engineer tun-tall pulling a freight train as all new engines are first broke in on freights so as to get their bear ings in shape for swift passenger traffic it was the most enormous thing in the way of an engine ever seen in charlotte this new engine is num bered si ! 8 she stand high and is a thing of beauty she has three driv ing wheels on each side ten whe is al together the boiler s:i so high that a man can walk under it with m stop ping all tiie ten engines will be ex actly alike they each weigh 10 1.0 i pounds and each one cosl 10,000 they are provided with every modern improvement and are the finest engines ever seen in the south they are built for both speed and power and can pull a train of ten ears at 00 miles an hour some idea of their size may be obtained when it is stated that they are even larger than the big consolidat ed 12 wheel engines now inih freight servie of i lie richmond & 1 mville engineer tunstall said that no 8 s worked beautifully and did not show any iucliuati in to "\\ ; dow_n a engi neers say when they speak of an engine balking when these new engines are put in the passengers rvice there will be swift transit between washington charlotte and atlanta to stretch hemp a negro scoundrel commits burglars and attempts rape last thursday night allen nelson colored broke into 1 he house of wil liam huffines in rockingham county and making his way upstairs into the bedroom of miss martha randolph at tempted to commit rape upon her the young lady screamed and succeed ing in breaking away from him ran to the room occupied by mr and mrs huffines the negro followed and at tempte 1 to kill her but mr huffines defended her she jumped from a window and escaped to a neighb ir's the negro led and as soon as daylight came mr huffines and his neighbors started in pursuit nelson was found concealed under a house in th 1 neighborhood was cap tured and carried to reidsville that night he was brought here and lodged in jail nelson has a number of aliases and is a desperate and notorious character he has already been tried for his life and has served in the penitentiary for stealing it is said that he escaped from the convict force employed on the cape fear and yadkin valley fie was employed on the farm of mr huf fines who is said to be one of the m st prominent farmers in rockingham and lives a few miles from reidsville miss randolph is about sixteen years old and lives w.ith mr huffiues talk of lynching the negro was strong in reidsville and it was thought here that a crowd would come up sat urday night and string him up s i i far however no demonstration has been made we are told that the \ wretch lives in mortal terror expecting 1 every night to be lynched he has committed two crimes—bur • glary which is a capital crime and as | sault with intent to rape the penalty ; for which is the penitentiary and the 1 court will doubtless put him where he ' can do no more harni '■ • /'< ■ ■ patr'ot the senate concurs the house re-e3ibur3e3 13 :::. ; '- right or wrong the members m i i the silcott defalcation goo i w : : ( rovernment's money an i i he s has now approve i the house bill appropriating s7 000 to supply the deficiency ■ by the defalcation in the office of the i.lte sergeant-at-arms of the ii iu e was reported from the commitb e 01 appropriation without amendi and passed with the remark by mr hale that if was almost an invariable rule to leaveto the house itself all sub ject matters that pertain to its organ "■.■ ttion its force and its '■ sin - ; . western h05 vs southern negro wasiiingtox april 0 by reqnest the house committee on agriculture to-day re-opened the hearing on the conger lard compound bill and the dutterworth anti-option bill both of which have been reported to the house with favorable recommendations on the first named bill graves represent ing the georgia agricultural ass tion and j pennoek jones represent ing the colored cotton farmers and planters of arkansas both colored \ men made arguments against its pas sage graves in addition to argn , ments already presented pleaded for the protection of the cotton seed indus tries against the imposition of the burdeui contained in the bill on the ground that it would contribute more than anything else to theimpovei condition of the farmers and laborers of the south to pass this bill he as serted would be tli 1 entering wedge which driven home would separate the colored people from the liapublicaii party in the course of his argument on the ! bill joules said ii cotton seed must be i taxed why not tax the western hog why break down one industry of the country thai anol her indusi ry . h be protected the republican party is committed to the policy of prote of american industries ji issoenun i ciated in its plai form and to its music it has marched to victory but mi chairman it lie republi can party at chicago had placed in the platform of its principles a singular creed that one industry of our country should be taxed ti death and that an r iudust ry at home shoul 1 be pro !.- ted and live on an appeal t > the country_that they would have been buried so dei p by the weight of ; disfavor that i\r trump of gabri i would not awaken them the protection to american indus tries american mechanic and agricul tural laii uers is against foreign in facturers foreign mechanics and for eign pauper labor the system inau gurated by the republican party in taxing one american industry to pro tect another is innovation that will ii resented by a great mass of our ; ! and will hurl any party fi om p >;:,■<■ : i hat insanely al tempi 3 it so far a ■ the i em icratic party is concerned it i i :• immitted to free trade it cl • t i be in favor of lessening taxes an i ! reducing the tariff if there is any 1 thing in their profes : .' ms or in t be principles laid down in their late re : form t i i we coufi !■ nlly look to '■: to defeat thismost pernicious mea ire how they can do otherwise and be true to their creed as laid down by their leaders is a matter that surprises an ! surpasses us gentlemen of the committee this bill stripped of all guise iv<u!ws it self in 1 ." these conditions western hog against southed negro w hich will win ? there is another phase of this indus try there are supposed to be over 2,000 oil mills mostly located in the south they employ somewhere in the neighborhood of 73,000 pers ms more than three-fourths of this < ; number oe employees are colored m ... ! it would be safe to say that there are at least thn ■■ persons who rely upon ' each of these 75,000 persons for sup ! port and living from this enterprise • the wages paid these pe ple aggr ■: ■ 3.500,000 at the least calcuhi : the p issage of this bill would el se ujj ; many of thes : mills and j r throw thousands of dependent j out of employment and entail hard ship and want upon people who are least able to stand it and all this to i protect western hog ml ■ itt i t ■ — - 1 channcey depew's opinion of the south what he has to say ox the su13je t . '■ hi3 asheville speei i •• it is the coming country he sai '. . u tiie next twenty five years i goingto se ■ some remarkable changes l irge cities will be built the natural re sources will bed svel ped i nd ! will be the richest sec!i m of tl e . united states in my opinion it will !, ,:>;:, like the west a few year a - •. but the b iom will not leave the i try as it did that section here th ■ e is a broad foundation iron and c i i lay sid • by si le there are un i 1 i rich ; es in the earth and the boom i i v co in try richer and no | v irtheni capital mi \ northern ■ pri - ■ ire beginning to le irn o vast wealth that ever crops out . gr un 1 all through the : uth tin \ are beginning to thi 1 . place for inv - y are putting their money in here fast be sides thai the southern awakening to the fact that tli j living in i on the face of t • ' y ■ cnicag-o's propd33d fair b .. j x v /'•' -- ; ■ ar hit i i jei ; for a '•'. id i i vide for a stru ; ire • ■ : '■'•' i i high 1 ■ bal i will - . ■ ■ ■ the es ■ ie s ire is 0,000,0 k am . i id • c - ted ii stay east young kan a nokth i vrolesian in trouble a gentleman writing ; from dakota i to the richmond dispatch m ikes • pointed remarks as to the folly i f vonng men leaving their eastern i to carve out a fortune in the far v -■. dakota is a very rich fertile coun try but on i w mts his g ird on i ■ utside of a tin can nor verily comfortable to retire clad in a fur cap anrl gloves \ erily verily 1 - w unto y i ive a friend who has the promise laud reservalii n ) fever say unto • him come to d il ta in the month of 1 i emb r and lei him stay until may t 1 :" 1st and his fever will be — hilled i t in this 1 ng n inter i vc i i hungered for old n^orth carolina with her piney old fields and bad r no \ irgina or north carolina man in : his right mind wants to exchange tin be it conntrj on earth taking clii i luxuries working m tuths four - . sons agriculi ural r vai ied for i his ( fod-forsaken one cr p country and ; hat too cor si sui ees ; one year in evi 11 ). fertile vy treeless and minus home c mf rts ; ' ris true i have never seen i fple display . i ■ . he.3 lia e built immense towns v ith all : be imp rted c n porl ?, hoi ■ -. ' v . ■ t will pul any ■ in theshti le b it n h i tl m i other it amount to w lion you i to con of other ] irquisites to make life a hi aven : darn ; : count ry where a n is : to pul m a fur a at fur cap nnd fur gloves every i ime he steps i door the l pn inisc l md is uot be ing klled^up 1 here are few a boom rs i her •, and n me en ; < : stay in the south il in the coming country in this ti i liein al i stay in \ irginia ; i . i n ■ il ry \\ e do need the ] work 1 1 \ rgini and north ! lini would div rsit'y their crops by plant ing ■ of everj thing i i can grow i hem i'a save the i e.il in<l semi-l ropic il plai die people w mid soon need no mori gage tin 1 would be fr e of debt . riiore is i tliem ;: f if we only ivy as david i would say i have mean ;." just ( ■. • i r the soul ii ;,. not least to gran i carolina washingt . :■ extravagance i j mvls of tei ' ■■ ; -">' a doz ■:;. cr it i ni canvas-b;u k dm ks at so per p lir tl i isand of ic • a 1 p r | i hese are some of the ext ravaganci - i liat arc ..; j d wn some of the throats of i d's visiting po tion this season the ; / - i - /•. tin i the i vvei -. v ii ne up in th o ■■ i - - ' s i : j ■•■ ■'• at iu per il zen white c uts a spike an ! i ey at lo cents a stem i in tb ■ altar of new ye ir we ■': 10,0 k w rl ii oj were sacrikci ;. for during ! l i wi 11 p flower ] ii i ■.■-. of his only tl he fruits we use are aln cosi re twice in i i !;■■ capil d op straw berr ■ it cost )> ■ ' to i ring i . i mi c difornia to vva x-s ii it or pi arv last y . i 25-cent sti iw berries rolled ■ ■ 3 an i i ■ • ■ ' '• senator ■ il '- '- when he dine 1 mrs gen grant from ; >: ' ■ - .■ of s.;n fi rd's to mrs < ir ml was ■ ne ■>> i your ■ ■■ -■'' out and your i i w ter i its and they ate i and sih <\ \ i q en of pl . ■ ,•: i i f crystal t ■ ■ . : ■ indh idual - w is of i uer as a g randall ir salil 1 11 ■ • ■ ; ■.'.•■■. ■ ■ ■ ■ ' lingl : - - ! republican farmers of massachusetts in insurrecti new 5 '. ■ thec has iul ; 1 1 ,. c mimonwe ilth in men w o till i tive soil of x arouse i phalanx in a i . the <;< call 1 by a i ■ ■ e i thai i | as j i ful in se now ] - mgrv i . e -. \ i ■ ised fiately thai such a bill as on il ;\ law in the uepu • the < \ n revolt oi i lit i ksliiro \\ keen 11 . ■ norfolk and liai ; i the u pow er if it wi , to bill i he f irmers of this conn weal | with porl . • to an i irity and ; mon ■ n d - i for t he p:i - aj;e ol i»ned by ever in of the ! arniern !. . i we will \ ■■•• i n ! letnoi ral ic ti 1 . - ■ forth ij . th ■ i united s i ven . . erti.sisi il t he < . ■ ■■ i hotel in i ! i i'i'i ii 1 ohio which j li wleb ( 01 xty goyerxmext < ' ■■ '. irt j w horali h x wood tresi surer j hurvcj or '• ( ' n . . coroner d \ vtv ell i . ■ i mers r i 1 siimner cliain v !. kluttz ' ! ' !'■ i • sup't of health dr j •! over er of poor a m l>i toivx ( i rk i j julian ;■. i ii i t ( yv i'ool k m u | ' ill ll 1 a : [) ii ii j \ liai reti ; i la i v artl 1 m i 1 a ( v ■■ 1 j ii inn . .! \\ i i i j f \| . ii a m cverj s ' i l : • 1 : ■. it ■ • : • ' t . at i i prayer hum ii j in ii ■ ■ . j . .