Landmark, The (Newspaper) - March 14, 1905, Statesville, North Carolina v. THE VOL. N. MARCH 14, 1905. NO. 65. For Our Little Girl Friends in City and We have on exhibition in our window another one of those Junior which we are going to give ab- FREE of to the little girl under 14 years of who can give us the best ten reasons why her Mamma should use a Buck Steel Range in preference to all Talk with your friends and come to our where you must ter your name and get you a book of Hurry little as this con- test will close MARCH 31st, 1905. Evans Hardware March N. C. f Hall's Bouquet Toilet 25 Cents per AS PURE A SOAP AS CAN BE FRESH CANDY W. F. IT DOES NOT PAY IF your eyes arc defective to keep on straining them and making them worse when the small cost of a pair of f lasses will give you 1 make eye examinations OK arid warrant all glasses satisfactory for three Any person sending their address will re by a card with which they can test their We have just received a large assortment of Mantel Weight Clocks which no will sell at very low We ire selling Seth Thomas eight-day black clocks at that sell everywhere rise at 50. We can make over jour old gold jewelry into new rings and We finish all Watch and Jewelry repairing like new goods and warrant all Watch and Clock work for twelve C. S. Hotel Iredell Jeweler anil Graduate N. C. Coal and You want We have it. Oak and pine wood in stove The best hard and soft Orders filled Grain and all Sorts of Iredell Ice and Fuel W. M. 224. A New Line of Shoes in We are Agents for the Celebrated firm of Dorothy Dodd's Line We have them m all Styles and Would be glad to have you call and see Comp y- AM of Batumi of 18C1, Written br at Glow of flut of the tion of 1861" is the title of a pamphlet written in 1861 by the late N. of Iredell and in Salisbury by the late Jos. J. The pamphlet was sent to THE LANDMARK recently by Mr. F. of who has a fine collection of rare books and valuable historical and at his suggestion has been sent to the State Library at Tn his introduction Mr. Ramsey have prepared the following sketches of the great battles of 1861 from the most authentic but I am aware they contain many er- They were collected at a time when our country was in a state of great excitement and things have been no It will take many years to reveal all the facts connected with the battles and correct the I hope whatever is correct will be accepted and ever is wrong will be corrected by some future The first page and a half is ed Then in the order sketches of the of of Big Battle of Bull's Run and of Oak or of Cape N. of of of Port S. of near The pamphlet closes of Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. the President and Vice President of the and a of some of the events from to December 29th, 1861. In referring to the success of the Confederacy during the year 1861 Mr. Ramsey hand of an overruling idence was with us in our and whenever He supports a cause no earthly power can prevail against it. The Republic of the Confederate States is now a fixed and she is destined soon to take her place among the nations of the earth as a sovereign and independent ment Our Republic will shortly be recognized by European if not already Alas 1 But years later the republic in which the Southern people had so much faith at the time Mr. Ramsey had ceased to All through the pamphlet are repeated references to the hand of Divine of the all-prevailing belief at that time that God was with the Con- forces and that nothing prevail against The is very the more so from the fact that the tives were written when the events recorded had just taken Some of the older citizens of the will recall N. rle was the father of Mr. J. L. now editor of the Raleigh En- OKI of That of Two Yearn Aro by About State Auditor B. F. Dixon finds that the cost of the just adjourned was and there may be odds and ends yet that will run it up to The cost of the 1903 session was Possibly a thousand dollars of the additional cost of the recent session was duo to expenses connected with The Code commission and The Code Representative of said in commenting on the expense of the recent that there is no doubt of the fact that tho number of employes of lature should boon cut in He was on the committee that early in the session the of reducing the He says that when the committee met and the old Confederate soldiers and other needy people on the list came in with fear and trembling and ged that they felt obliged to report to the retention of all on the and this was He says should be some legislation will really limit tho number of within The br the Recent Con- 8th. Statements were issued today for publication in the Congressional by Mr. late man of the House committee on and Mr. ranking member of the minority on the same relating to ihc appropriations by the session oJ Congress just The ments as to the total appropriation for the session being for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, as against 375 for the previous But Mr. estimates the deficit at while Mr. Livingston says it will be double 000. Won't Ban Any More Bunko on Mr of Durham The next time the ty wants whiskey for campaign purposes the chances are it will pay for it. FLIGHT THE Will It tfM 111 Bad of la 10th, The flight the Russian army of upwards of a quarter of a million men and the pieces of with which it expected dently General Kuropatkin and lieutenants squid prevent the ad- vance of the Japanese beyond the and rivers is still in They have been driven from those positions and are now rushing northward wards Tie around which are aigh which were prepared for defense after the battle of in being no hope at that time that Abe Japanese would allow the defeated army to rest south of the Tie That the Russians have many guns and large quantities of ammunition and supplies is for with but a single track of railway to the it would be impossible to remove She large stores which had been seems have been ed. The Japanese have not yet re- ported the capture of which generally po almost but it seems hardly likely that Kuropatkin could have removed all lis On the 1st of according to correspondents who lave just returned from Russians had in position along the and Hun rivers The result of Oyama's great ing movement depends al most enti re- jy upon which las not yet been located although supposed to be moving Tom the east toward Kuropatkin's ine of Should he reach the military which runs almost in a direct line from 1'ushun to Tie before the passage of the sian the circle will be com- as guns already nand the and should con- the mandarin but a short distance east of the railway and runs parallel with it. Even should Kuropatkin extricate his ar- ny it is believed in European that peace soon will follow this atest Japanese victory The calling to St. Petersburg of M. Russian minister to who was No time will be lost ng the negotiations as soon as sia intimates her wish to close the Shortly after the fall of Port a high of the ese Foreign Office arrived in with authority to take up the negotiations so soon as Russia de- clares her desire for The losses in the operations pre- ceding the battle and those in the proper trust reach enormous but up to the present neither side has attempted an They will exceed the in which the Russians lost in killed and wounded and missing The President In a Majority of Washington Special 1th to Post President Roosevelt began term by the termers in There appears only one man in service of the government who s apparently able to retain after eight years on the ment Bellamy to Austria is the and personal influence is ng him next to his These the first that lad to make since he became Chief Executive in his own indicate that Mr. Roosevelt regards eight years as long enough for any man molding a Federal appointive tion to draw salary from the Speaking the the tion makes this very statement is now hardly a man in tho diplomatic or consular service who has served eight years and is to hold and it is expected that the ident will apply the same rule to practically every presidential ap now This includes departmental offices and and high and low The President has told a number of callers in the last few that except in of unusual qualification and he believes that eight years should be the limit for He has not to state that he has no cast-iron rule in that re As evidence of the fact that the President will make exceptions to the he reappointed two termers They are Robert J. Comptroller of the and William L. itor for the State In- diana is their State and personal peals from the Indiana who are their close secured them their STRIKES HIDDEN When your ship or hidden rocki or you arc if you don't help from Or Now for Consumption J. w of I hud been very 111 with under the euro of two li it fretting no hotter when I to Now The lint dose KRVO and one bottle Sure for sore and colds w. R Drue price ud Trial Medical lit The Legislature medical dispensary for Union county to be located at This dis- can sell liquor only on the prescription of a physician and no drug we will be al lowed to The wll go into operation June if the are not can call an election use or IDS 3FARE THE ThU Bird Should Not Be br u U Of ton To tbe Editor of The I want to say a word for This bird is one of the most valuable of the small varieties of the ered because of bis tion of Owing to the fact that they roam in flocks during the winter and ly and roost in selected spots of along the they are easily the favorite of that class of people whom the world is want to call or that tion of them who shoot to kill for the sake of It is not probably known bow far during the day a will wander Tom his roosting but it must DO many miles judging from the numbers that come in at To any who have never ed one of these to go there when these birds begin to semble and stay till is a most astonishing They come in and they come to stay till All the guns in world could not keep one of them alighting in that if he was alive at It would seem with a little dispersed and scattered as they are to their nesting places a little later in the there would be enough to go over several Imagine then what what a or more breech-loading shot guns in expert hands would make in the hours the birds are is just a question of loading and The game is ever ent. In the last few as the er weather brings the worms and and other insects up to the surface of the the robins made their I would say they are roosting now many miles south of and those we see here today will be in South Carolina A little later they will ind a roost further and will be in the canes on Fourth 3reek very If I can help there will not be me killed at the big Fourth creek roost this Why kill His value as a destroyer should save him from for he benefits everyone His clear-cut his measured his military his cavalier speech does not sing at this are marked distinctions in the and intensely interesting to who study When he cates his home and builds his le is a good songster known of all nen since Adam's Besides is industrious and most exem as the of a Why not preserve M. Game That Applies to the Whole Special to Observer The discovery was made today by Code Commission that the passed a local act in such a vay that it applies to the whole State and prohibits hunting except November 20th to January 20th. The act is No 31, regulate ng and fishing in Lanesboro Anson The first section provides it shall be unlawful to trap or fish on he lands of another in Lanesboro Anson without consent of the The ond section provides it shall be unlawful to kill any wild wild or other game i from November 20th to iary 20th next succeeding of each There is no clause limiting section to Anson and under the ruling of Court in the noted accidental law case it applies to the State at law is a good Two is long enough for the open season STATIC Mrs. wife of Rev. J. J. an aged Presbyterian died at her home in tonia a few days aged 73. Mr. Kennedy is a member of the dy family who formerly lived near Mt. in this Mr. Lewis aged about 60 an employe of the Kinston Cotton was found dead in tbe waste of the mills Thursday about 6 The man had been dead but a short while when and his death was due to natural Mrs. A. J. the lady who was seriously burned at Gaston by the explosion of a kerosene died Thursday ing for nearly ten days Her young daughter was burned to death at the time of the accident and two other daughters were seriously Recently Rev. John of Alice Ala visited the Presbyterian churches of Third Cleveland and in Rowan and a call to these His work was to have begun about the middle of next month A few days ago news was received of the death of Mr. Dean at his home in Peter 65 years was convicted in Madison Superior Court last week of criminal assault on a 15-year old girl and sentenced to The crime was a most brutal Some years ago Smith was charged murdering his but the sufficient to convict Elkin Times Nathan of Yadkin died suddenly last Tuesday about the noon He was going from his shop to his dinner about 12 o'clock and when he was about half way home was observed by some one in sight of him to and on going to him found him iu a dying He was a mechanic and had carried on business at for many He was 81 years al eminent Baltimore Sun Fifteen was considered a scandalously large sum for Congress to take from taxpayers for one al hut Chairman of the House committee on reports appropriations oi for the fiscal year ending June increase over and a monstrous increase over the appropriations of the period before the adoption of a jingo Chairman confesses these appropriations are but excuses on the spendthrift plea that nation is Rich individuals are by protracted and nations are subject to the same The great trouble about this session's total of appropriations is that it exceeds the estimated revenue for by In the rent year revenue falls and the increase of extravagance promises badly for the future In tho four years of Mr Cleveland's expenditure was loss than in tho four years (i of President administration Tho army and navy are absorbing an sive portion of the people's Track Greensboro imd S Sun. The Southern Railway Company awarded the contract for the construction of the double track from Greensboro to High and Ihe work will begin as soon as the weather will permit and the rial can be Tho line is ready double tracked from boro to three miles of the and for some time the bound and the southbound trains nave been using separate tracks It is understood that after these two sections of the road are finished the contract for constructing the double track over the remaining part of the road between Danville and Spencer will be This means that in the next few months the main line of tho Southern way from Spencer northward will be double The Late of Senator William B hose death in Washington after a brief illness of was mentioned in tho lust issue f TIIK was 78 years aving boon born in Tennessee in 830 He served in the Mexican was a major general in the Con- He was twice rnor of Tennessee and had ed lis State in various He ad 18 years in the Senate nd on Saturday before his death ivas sworn m for a new The Tennessee Legislature will lect Senator Bate's successor on be 21st and it is probable that Gov. will bo the ana 1 THE COLONEL'S of Colonel John M. nearly mot his Kidney In a tried my mo no so I tt Electric eared thorn host on Ood who sare tho thoni and to ou A to The editor spent last Tuesday very pleasantly in the progressive It makes us feel good to visit that She has a hospitable meet tho stranger with a kindly word and a hearty While not making much fuss about it is steadily forging her way to tho While there wo were ly entertained by T. H. tho secretary and Supply and R. P. of tho wide-awake firm o startling from To prevent and r there Is Just one Now Hlls M 1'lan Vom of Soak DO for COWAN W. A to Illn O ple the at Iml Special tn News The executive committed of tho missionary of the United Brethren in Christ has chopped rom tho rolls of the Church Daniel who was try as a child after was returned by tho board to lis old tribe as a tt is charged bv the board that after a service of 25 years as a negro minister has bean hired 3ack to and has become chief of his old tribe of and lias contracted plural marriages in the wilds of The quality and quantity of the crops depend on a sufficiency of Potash in the soil Fertilizers which are low in Potash will never produce satisfactory results Every farmer should be familiar with the proper proportions of ingredients that go to nuU the best fertilizers for every kind of crop We have published a series of blest researches on thw important which we will send tree if now while you think of it to the New or Ga South Broad COAL We have a good stock of first class Coal now on hand and can make prompt delivery of any SEND US Your Yours Just Received Lot Ca pi tola Star to 10 D. M. Garden THE GEM GROCERY T. L. Prop. street 17i Feb. Hats AND T a nice line of Hats Men's Clothing which I .it low I DR. W. OV lie in St Hotel on March fm the purpose or dis- of the e. 13 u tuul Throat and Tho doctor cun seen in the Hunt on Monday lav on Sundays in Feb 21 1905 A Xmv Court The Court elects of court to succeed V. of whoso term of February 1st. Mr. Biggs is to hold at the will of instead of which has boon practiced in the rlo finished at the and was assistant professor of law there tor several the practice of his profession in torn six years of tho North Carolina B Tho salary as is 200, and tho work will not interfere with law It been II Chat of N Y not he could he MI MI a overtoil HO I healed ft his eyo for burns nod 33o. at W F from 1H miles and N miles from vine in and timbered 175 mon rri s in Land Well watered bj one creek ind two hi burn three tenant ThK 11 Mock furm and will be sold L-t to conti nets in itli renters for the lOfti lots feet on Drake street offered ut a bargain miles of one from the tenant houses 100 acres in 20 Hno and school In one- mile of offend at a low cush on time lots In cotton for at Investment 110 acres Jennies e ist of on the 50 acres of Fur full Inform call on or write MILLS N 0. Real LOGS Whim find HUok Oak with bark diameter li and UP Will Call write or ATHA N Jan 21. hours a to loa 6 to 7 p m tod
