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A Democratic family iiewnpit
jer devoteil to the interest of
it Comity, State and Xutioii.
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Boone, Wntnngii Cour.ty, N. C
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Pnptrad only hy th KEPHALINE DRUI CO.
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Mr. A. G C( rpening North
Cilnwha (Vh'.vell t . X. ('.
hays, "I write this to say
that tlie little bottle of medi
cine railed Kephaline is a
splendid remedy for headache
ny whole family use it and
nil say t hat it relieves t hem."
Mr. Wilson La n ton, Kings
Creek, Caldwell Co. N. Cmiys
"l have used Kephaline for
headache, toothaciie and
neuralgia add have never
fniied to be relieved, I have
also used it for Colic in doses
of one and two drops w ith
great benefit."
Cottonwood, Idaho.
April. 2u. 1839.
To the Democrat.
I w ould like to say a few
words in your noble paper
rather as a coiigratulation
to Messrs Patty and Osborn
who ticketed my croud, which
consisted of eight, persons, to
Uniontown, V. T. on the 14.
of April. My croud was not.
large enough for them to go
through with us, but they
sold us tickets at the lowest
rates and took a great deal
of care in instructing us con
cerning the trip, and also tel
egraphed to every change,
had us well cared for and
showed us every kindness we
could ask. I would say to
those in N C. who contem
plate going west to buy their
tickets of Messrs. Patty &
Osborn to save money, to get
the best accomodations and
to go over the best line of II.
R. in the Union.
J. Roby Howell.
Linville,Moy8'8P.
Editor Democrat.
It seems to me that, be
tween emigration from your
county to the great w est and
northwest and into this town
of Linville, Watauga is a
bout to be depopulated. The
laborers come here in droves.
Win. Beach came some time
ago, and has rushed up a
brick yard, and is going to
make lots of brick, from the
best of clay. He employs a
number of Watauga ns.
1 informed yu that the
Company was going to erect ;
ii In ro-n hotel ;mil fhnt vniiri
! county man, M. F.. Presnell,
was to boss the job. He was
on the ground at work with
a numlier of hand., week be
fore last, when he left to go
home. Arriving there, he
went to f cling of the clog in
his plaining machine and his
lingers went a little too far
forward when off came three
of them. So he had to give
up his job here, and another
of your connt.vmen, (1. W.
Council!, came over to take
his place. This afternoon
Capt. William Hodges came
here. He isgoing to work on
the hotel.
The first lot selected by any
one, since the town was sur
veyed and laid out as Lin
ville, was the one on the cor-
iiier of Watauga and Mitchell
Avenues by I). F. Hit-hie,
which avenues are a hundred
fet-t wide. This is one of th'1
most eligible lofsin the whole
town. On Friday last forest
tras were standing on it;
aow the trees have been cut
down, the stumps have been
grubbed and the most of the
timber, (which was sawed by
Bryant & Church) is on th"
ground. So isChailes Moody.
(Wataugan.) who isgoingto
erect the first framed two
story dwelling house in the
town.
And the above named are
not near all the Wataugans
here In fact, they are so
I'Uirjerous I have not learned
all their names. J. S. W.
Wants The Negro To Go.
(From Progressive Fnrmer.)
The writer has naught but
feelings of kindness for the
negro race. He will not at
tempt to discuss the negro
problem here. The negro is
here not by his own seeking."
Ho did not ask tobebrought
here. His bearing has been
commendable, and we m st
cheerfully bare testimony to
it, but in the light of our sur
roundings, we feel that it
would have been far better
for our race and for our dear
Southland, if the first ship
that brought him to our
s'lores had come laden' with
war, pestilence, famine and
death. It is not his freedom,
not his social orpolitioal sta
tus that is the trouble, but
his presence, for none of
which is he to b'ame. He is
h ere a n i i :cu b u s a so 1 i d , d ea d
barrier to our progress, and
keeps the white man away.
He is, and will ever remain,
so long as he stays, a run
ning, festering sore on our
body politic. The Progres
sive Farmer, therefore, would
hail with delight and rejoic
ing his peaceful departure,
and would pray God's blew
sing to attend him.
An interesting case of sus
pended animation has occur
ed in Chicago. On Sunday
week Wilhelmimi Stahl, a
beautiful German girl, appar
lently died. -Preparations
were made for the funeral,
and the mourners assembled
at the house, when just be
fore the service the members
of the family bea-an to express
; Uoubtsasto their daughter s
'death. Physicians w ere sum-j
moned, tlie loly taken from j
the coffin, nnd a slight move-1
ment of the muscles wan de - -
teemed. The family are still;
watching the hotly and no
change has yet oeeured in it's;
condition.
Advertisimr is the life flf
business. Now is the season
ivhf.ii the oom.U in t.v m.,1
country are looking about
for a suitable place to pur
chase Spring and Summer
goods, and tlie merchant w ho
would cati li the piumc eye
and turn the trade to his : mi " tu.pan-
plaee of business must makej,',,iS m s.-PlnlnJelplna
known wnat inducements he; ' '
can offer. The people are on j Vo clip the following com
the look-out for them every I munieation from "W. II. C "
day. A little money invested ; The Montgomery Yiditte.
in printer's ink will goa long; He says it is good to have
way toward making your an enemy, in that case, most
trade better. The business ! of us are well off :
man cannot afford to do bus- j Have an Enemy.
iness without advertising. It
i:r.. ,.r l
ir i in- mr vti uu.-Miier-in. wit!-
hum (jfcttner.
Jeffs sou Davis's Ilaiaaacp.
The first marriageof .leifer-
.son ifavMWHs.i.somewuaiH.,,, v f wl()
iv. ..: r i. . ..
romantic character. Alter
g.aoaai.ag ai wesi ponu hp
was onlercMl to rort Craw
ford at Prairie duChieu, Wis
mi. . . . i .1. i
me po.M u.euw asr;!mmauu-;run I1R.ninRt it is pr0()f ()f ex
edbyCol. Zachary Taylor. ; isUn(.0 To , Rgniust
Ihe daughter of the h.tter, ROniothil, isproof of motion.
once fell in lovewiththehand
some and intellectual young
t. i 1. 1 j.1 ff j : .
i.euienai.r,a..u u.e autruou
was reciprocated, but t heold
Colonel was averse to any
matehmakinff under the cir
cumstances and peremptorily
forbade Davis from visiting
his quarters except in an offi
cial capacity. The lovers
managed to see each ot her
by strategem, however, nnd
one mormngat daylight they
The household was instan
tly aroused, the servants in
terrogated and search made,
but nothing was elicited save
that the door of the stable
was open, four horses were
gone, and theirtracksindica
ted a hasty departure. Fui
ther examinations of the
premises showed that Lieut.
George Wilson, brother of T.
S. Wilson, of Dui uiue, la.,
and Miss Street, daughter of
Gen. St reet, had likew ise sud
denly disappeared. There
w as but one conclusion, and
in less than an hour every
man, woman and child in the
villiage, knew all about the
runaway match.
Col. Taylor was enraged
and declared with an oath,
as strong as he ever used,
that-under no circiimstnuees
would he forgive .Davis or be
come reconciled to his daugh
ters disobedience. Sixteen
years passed. "Old Zach"
was in command of the Uni
ted States Army in Mexico,
and serving under him, was
Colonel Jefferson Davis at
the head of the famous First
Mississippi Rifles. At the
battle of Buena Vista this
regiment covered itself with
glory, but Davis, while lead
ing one of its charges at a
critical moment, fell severely
and, it was supposed, morta
ly wounded. He was borne
from the field and that eve
ning (Jen.
Taylor, mounted
on Old Whitcy, paid him n j
visit. Dismounting, In step-,
p"d to the Colonel's rot ami !
extended his hand. j
".leff," said he, "you have
saved the day with your glo-
lions rifles ; imw let bygones j
(be bygones; Knox, (the
! niM b.v which he always i
.till' 1 I . V I I
, . 1 1 1 ! 11a v l-
irn,,, u "Pierj ne,v
J"0'"" wo'"t n1 ,m'tal ttlT
than I did."
Frouyhal moment, through
the war, indeed until
the j
death of President Taylor, !
the warmest friendship exis-
A . i U - 1 ll I I
It is said that "if you wish
' 1 ijf,. ,.i i.
IU MIVl.TtMl III lilt1 UIHil,! c KtVp
on hand an active enemy."
Having one is proof thatyou
s npnril; hnvp nn !,,.
i i i
never
m.ive. never run no-nin.st .
,lvtlillir . an,, whell
one is
dead and buried nothingever
runs against him. If we are
An enemy is not apt to flat-
i tei you ; he is not partial to
you ; he will not over-esti-
, nia(e your virtue8) U1(1 he
wjn 1)e vpry Qpt fo inagnifv
vo,...flllt Hpnfl0 W4
that this is of some benefit.
It makes you see that you
have faults, and are therefore
not an angel. It also makes
t hem visible so you can man
age them. Ut course it you
, have f.n,,t vou would ike
j to ,..inw it " ...... (or
rect it. So you see your ene
my does work for you which
your best friend does not
do.
And, another thing, your en
emy w ill keep you a wake. He
will not let you sleep at your
post of duty. It is said "that
there are two that always
keep watch, the loverandthe
hater." Your lover watches
while you sleep. He keeps si
lence, excludes light, adjusts
surrounding, so that nothing
may disturb you. Your ha
ter on the contrary watches
that you may not sleep. He
keeps your faculties on tliea
lert. He is a good detective.
Through his agency you can
discover who your friends are,
and also your enemies, nnd
those who occupy neutral
ground. When your enemy
assaults you, those on neu
tral ground will have noth
ing to say ; but your friend
will defend you instantly. He
will deny everything and in
sist on proof, and proving is
hard work. "There is not a
truthful man in the world
that could afford to under
take to prove one tenth of
his assertions." The next
best thing to having a hun
dred friends, is to have one o
pen enemy.
An old fashioned
house
wife in a Clifton, Pennsylva
nia, farm-house will never
permit her husband to be
i without at least one black
sheep in Iiik flock. She has a
notion that it is not healthy
to ware htockings with any
kind of tlye in the wool, and
as she dislikes to wear white
hosiery, all her stockings are
made out of natural black
wool. She ct.rds the wool in-
to rools by hand, just as the
a
people did three or four gen
erations ago, spins the rools
herself, and knits her own
stockings. Once a tree fell on
her only black sheep and it ;
killed it, and her " husband
had to hustle around and'
ftlwl SinMtllOf It ffwilr lui, fl I
days, and miles of travel.but
he finally came across ablVk
ewe lamb, fifteen miles away,
and bought it.
A queer old man died recen
tly in Stewart Co. Georgia,
For thirty years, he has done
all his plowing with one old
mule, raising crops large e
nough to support a large
family. Every year during
that time he mortgaged the
animal to buy supplies. Be
longing to the family .of which
he is the head, are three old
maid daughters, who have
not been seen by masculine
eyes for years. Men ha,ve
tried, repeatedly, o catch a
I glimpse of them, but the wo
men manage mysteriously to
disappear.
A NATIONAL DISGRACE.
A Chicago sindieate, which
bought the old Libby Prison,
has dispatched a man to
Richmond to superintend the
tearing down of the building
and its transportation to
Chieago. Every brick, every
plank, every piece in its con
struction, is to be marked
with the utmost particulari
ty, so that when it is re-erected
in Chicago it will be just
as in now stands in Rich
mond. It will require 130
car to transport it at a cost
of $10,000. It is estimated
t hat it will cost $75,000 to
get the work ready for the
public gaze.
Rome, in the grandeur of
her noble character, forbade
the erection of any monu
ment, or the preservation of
any memento that was .nl
culated to perpetuate the
memory of her internal dis
sentions. So-called Ameri
cans, purely and only for the
sake of dollars and cents,,
would paint it in its most
horrible form the saddest
and the most repulsive feat
ures of the late war and im
print them in all their most
hideous coloringon the minds
of comiuggenerations! What
a humiliating contrast ! We
hazard nothing in the asser
tion that not one of that
syndicate ever heard the whis
tle of a Confederate bullet.
That old prison will stand in
Chicago, a monument of
shame and reproach to the
city of Richmond, that it
should have allowed it to be
removed and appropriated
for any such vile and degrad
ing purpose. Thank God,
the boys and girls of the
South are not permitted to
visit at pleasure, the dun
geons and cells of Johnston's
Island, Point Lookout and
Fort Mc Henry and Fort Del
aware, to enhale the atmos
phere, laden with the poison
of the bufferings of their fatlw
ers.
The men who at riretukfrp
alive the animosity and bit
ter recollections of the late
war, are em mies to ourliber
ties,tooui country and to
mankind. Progress i ve Fu r
mer. On the very heels of the tt
bove comes this good news
w hile the building was being
conveyed to Chicago. (Ed
itor.) Chicago, May the7. Adi
patch from Maysville Ky.,
says that the freight train
which was transporting the
famous Libby Prison from
Richmond to Chicago was
wrecked seven miles east of
that place yesterday by the
breaking of an axle of one of
the cars. The remains of the
war relic were profusely scat
tered about and people flock
ed to th; scene all day to se
cure old bricks and lumber
as mementoes. So one was
hurt.
The Marion Times-Register
May 3rd makes thefol-'
lowing statement concerning
Mr. Dixon C. Horton, who
is widely known in this, and
adjoining counties:
Mr. Dixon C. Horton, about
w hom there were many w ild
rumors afloat on the streets
Wednesday, has been seen
hy Mr. E. L. Greenlee, since
parting w ith the negro mart,
Ed. Banner. He passed Mr.
Greenlee's house enquiring
the way to William's d'istile
ry, and it is reported, and
generally believed, that he
boarded' the west-bound train
at Old Fort, Mr. Horton,
will in good time, turn up all
right.
We clip the following little
paragraph from the Hender
son Gold Leaf which express
es the sent iments of the Dem
ocrat to a "gnats heel :"
This paper is published "for
revenue only." Gold, not
glory, is what we are work
ing for. We say this for the
benefit of those who think a
newspaper is published sim-'
ply for the fun of the thing.
A very large mad dog was
killed by Rev. W.H. Canter &
W. W. Adams one niilesouth
of the city yesterday mor--ning
Tennessee Tomaha wk.
A bed of pure rock Salt 300
miles long, 25 mileR wide and
400 feet thick has recently
been discovered in Kansas,
If, as scientists declare; salt
is conducive to longevity,
then Pence De LeonV'Fotin
tain of Youth" is at last a
reality, and Rider Haggard's
"Pillow of fllame" is nothing
more or less than a scientific
prophesy. . . . Orphan's Friend.
Commissioner's Sale Of
LAND.
By virtue of a decree of the
Superior Court the undersig
ned commissioner in the case
of Thos, Bingham vs-Charles
M. Bingham and Etta Bing
ham for sale of real estate.
I will sell, for cash, to the
highest bidder, on the premi
ses, on Wednesday the 12th
day of June, '69, the lands
described in the petition con
taining 50 acres moreor lesw,
lying iu Watauga Co.V and in
Laurel Creek township, and
adjoining the lands of Cn.'vin
Ward ami others. This 'Aj.nl
28th, '89. Thos. Binghnrf.
Commissioner.