1 r x a hi r L i i 1 . o y,, J 1 /. 14! ^ ^ '! ' !'? ; <4/>o Good Unto All Men." _______________________________ VOUg^; FORT MlLLTsrc. WEDNESDAY, JUNE- 15 '892. N036 * M S. M. Mills, Ts the place to buy your Dry goods and notions. Hats, Shoes, Clothing, Hard ware, Tinware, Willow and Wooden ware, Crockery and Glass ware. Tobacco. Pipes, Groceries of all kinds, . w* in fact a complete line of General Merchandise all ways on hand low for spot cash,call and be convinced* Itespectfullv, S M MILLS New Drug Store. 1 carry a good stock of new drugs, Chemicals and Fancy toilet articles, Letter paper and envelops, Cigars Cigarettsand Tobacco. Come and see. I have a competent drug clerk to fill all prescriptions, having had four years wvnaia Ha in nnvirma to serve suffering humanity and will wait on them night or day. My Soda Fountain is now in operation and I will keep Coca-Coiaihe great specific for headache and nervousness, besides several other nonular drinks, that Kill send the thirsty pilgrim on his way refreshed. I a,m in the store formerly occupied l?y Massey& Hughes. Respectfully, T. B. MEACHAM, M. D HOFFMAN & WHITE, Dentists. No. 7, VV. Trade St. Charlotte, N. C. T D. FAULKNER. UNDERTAKER WAgons andJ Buggies repaired. i' r Wheelwright. i Repairing of Furniture and All Kind of Woodwork ttimi A HI'ECI AIjTY A- A YOt/flQ. BY A SPIRIT HANDKILLED HIMSE! F AND CAME BACK TO WHITE HIS STOLtY The S4 range Imaginings of an Almost Hopelessly Discouraged Reporter on a Big Metropolitan Dailey. It was a chilly April even! iti ? V?*V4 Villi V/lICl'j III passing a brightly lighted window, I caught sight of my face in the glass?a face so distorted, so wild, with bloodshot eyes, that I almost thought the family taint of insanity had claimed me for its victim at last. Perhaps it had?perhaps I was mad. An icy chill shot through every nerve at the horrible thought. I dashed forward breathlessly until I brought up before my lonesome lodg ings on a Hide street. 1 stumbWl through thei narrow, darA halls to my j room and opened the door, and as I did so the dampness of the ehamber seemed like n hreti.1 h from +,h? rri*n%r?? Tf t->* was needless to light a match, for tlje mood had drifted from behind the 1 " clouds and shone full and bright through the dingy window. Its beams trembled on the bare floor, danced on the white bed. then crept up the wall in silent, waving, shadows. They made me shiver as 1 sat down to think. To-night 1 must die. Then the reaction came and I almost enjoyed the thought of the new experience and gloated over the fact that I would be the first to wr.te of travels in the srrent iin-l known My razor! I tried i?s Keen edge anil found that it could sever a floating hair. Then sat down again and rolled up my threadbare sleeve. Bleeding, I had heard, was an ea^*' eath. I gave the artery .iced,sharp cut with the blade and a stream of crimson struck my shirt; the arm dropped and I wat< hod the tiny stream trickling down my leg, it reached the floor and Collected into a tiny pool beneath the table. I watched it overflow and 8 tart down the dusty planks, creeping out of the br ight into the shadows beyond. It seemed a sniiKe crawling to its den. Perhaps it was a snake?perhaps I dreamed. A feeling of deadly weakness came ovar me. I glanced at the patch of moonlight in the cracKed mirror and a white face, from which shone n. nnir nf rrlon mino r eyes. Then a flash blinded me and my head fell forward on the damp sill. 1 could hear a mighty roar, a roai liKe a giant Niagara that surged and beat upon 1113* maddened brain, a roar far above that of the great oity below me. The boom of cannon, the sharp rattle of musketry and the roll of Inure dnims seempH oriflior/wl 0 - rv ** vyM into a volume of sound. Like the waves of the raging; s ?a it surged over me. Then silence came as suddenly? silence oppressive, intense. Too weak to lift my head 1 turned it with a sigh and looked around the room. It witll n mio+TT sheen and through it floated strange, dancing shadows. Flashing lights spun before my nan emit eyes. Then a gray mist seen ed to swallow up everything and I could hear the whir of the presses as they ate up the vast piles of paper. I elosed my eyes and listened. Was it a bell ringing? Slowly came every stroke, and it seemed to beat like a leaden hammei on mv barfreniiig brain. I was too: weak to move my eyelids more than a hair line, but 1 could see a mass of blazing* fire whose flames seemed to leap and dance and burn my very flesh. A cliill that froze every drop of blood struck me and for a second I felt the convulsion of a mighty struggle. Then blackness. ***** I was standing on my own body?mv body that had ; rolled from the chair and lay stiff and silent in the pool of blood beneath the table. 1j looked about without curiosity, without awe, and wondered what the reporters would say of that stiff, dead form lying therein the moonlight?the form with the gleaming razor in the stiffened hand and the maniac's smile on the thin, hard iTtce. In another instant I had leftit there, passed through the closed door and out into the street. My motions were strangely light and free. The _ A 1 * 1 1 * ' ? great nuuoing was blazing with light and the reporters rushing to and fro as 1 entered. Many of them \ knew; none knew or noticed me. The whole building seemed to shake with the roar of presses and the tramp of men. In a darA' corner I have found a notebooK and pencil 1.. i ~:.i- a ^ r iic-n? i ?il iuiu write, i can hear a fellow reporter telling the editor tliat *'Edwards has just been found dead;" the news came through the 'phone a minute ago. They are talking now about giving me a funeral and discussing the kind of coffin they will order. i navo aimosr finished my story, vou see. I got it litis time. Will the editor find these notes and know that I have kept my word? I hope so. vis I pen these last words I see the faint streaks of dawn breaking through the gray iat W ) 11Ti niinu. M liUli IICAI i 11 UCrfi shall I go? I do not know. 1 only know tnat niy work is done and ho I sign my first and last report.? Laville Edwards in New York H'orld. A Rock Hill PftBtor Called Rock Hill, S. C., June 8.? Rev. W. M. Anrlornon. nf tho Frst Presbyterian Church of /Jock Hill, liad a call extended liiin some time since by the Presbyterian congregation at Jackson, Tenu., has not yet indicated whether he will accept. Mr. Anderson preached for that congregation a few Sundays ago and they were much pleased with him. lie is offered a salary of $2,000. A Murderer Murdered. Denver, Col, June 9.?A special from Creede, Col, says that Dob Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, was sho4-. and killed by Deputy Sheriff ATelley, in Ford's Dance Hall, this afternoon. K el ley and Ford had a quarrel in Pueblo in February last, and ill-feeling had existed between the two men ever since. This afternoon Kcllev was standing in the < _ O doorway at Ford's Danee Hell, known man was seen to hand him a double-barrelled shotgun, after which Kelley stepped .A-i- i n ^ ~ iimiut; i nIltlll OIKl CUllOCt Hob." Ford who was about five feet a nay, turned around at the same time reaching* for his hip po?-Kot. Kelley raised his <^un and fired a load of buccshot full in Ford's neek and severed the uinpipe and jugular vein, and he died instantly. Kelly gave himself up and refused to tal <. Crash on the Rails, Lawrence. Mass., June 11. There came nearbeing a horr ble accident on the Andover oiectric road this afternoon, but it was bad enough as it was. Two cars going to a drill collided. An unknown boy lies at the point of death a lady messenger has both legs broven; a motorman anr/ a conductor havebro N yard. The particulars have not been learned. I******* v I