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rr mocra VOL -1 A !)Kxi n.Tirr.inii!y inwpii - nr tWoti-1 to tin iiit-ivst ufjme so fa v orn My that I sent it County, Sti.te ami Niition. I'ul!il-1 Kvery Thurr-Jay at Ituuue, utm'ga County, X. C. D. ii. ior;ni:uTY, 'kimtok. It. C. KIVKHS, Pi iiusja u. Sl l!S -IMITION It ATKH. 1 copy 1 year $1 1 " ' "months ."lie. 1 " a months AnvKiiTisixn Ratcs. 1 inch 1 week, 7.V. I " 1 mouth $1.75. i rJ i-i vciu--:.T.?.. .:rr::....i 1 1 column 1 week v .....ft) 1 " 1 month. .........i:j.r() 1 " :i " ?2." 1 " (J " ?a7.."0 1 " 1 year ?."() An Ancient Manuscript. (icncral Thomas L. . Cling nian has furnished the 1-Dven-in Journal with a cop3" of a let tcr describing Jesus, which viis found in ancient manu script, wot by I'u M us Len tulus I'reident or Judea, to the Human Senate. It is i fallows: "There lives at this time, in Judea a man of singular character, whose name is Je sus Christ. The barbarians esteem him as a prophet but his followers adore him as the immediate offspring of Cod He is endowed with such unparalleled virtue as to be able to call back the dead from their graves, and to heal every sort rif disease with a word W tffiielf. 'His person is tall and elegantly shaped; hia aspect amiable and reverend. His hair flows in those beautiful shades which no united col ors can match, falling in graceful curls below the ears, agreeably touching on his shoulders and parting on the crown of his bead, like the head Zress of the sect called Naza rines. His fore head is smoothe and his cheeks without spot, save that of a lovely red. His nose and mouth are formed with exqisite symmetry, his beard is thick and suited to the hair of his head, reach inga little below his chin, and parted in the middle like a fork His eyes are bright, serene and clear. He rebukes with majesty, and counsels with persuasive lan guage. His whole address, whether in word or being, is elegant, grave and strictly characteristic of so exalted a being. No man has ever heard him laugh, but all Judea has frequently beheld him weep, and so persuasive are his tears that the multi tudes are unable to restrain theirs from mingling with his. He is very modest, temper ate and wise. Whatever this phenomenon may be in the end, he now seems to be a man of strange beauty and divine perfection, in every way surpassing the children of men." , Cpnceaning thegenuineness of this letter, Gen. Clingman: writes the Evening Journal the following interesting' communication : The letter of Pub'ius 1 Lcn tul us, President or Judea liOOXE, WATAUC.A COI XTV, N. jto tin Roman S?nat struck a copy of it to the Citizen, i-s 1:1. re territories fur v.h;. i between the in; h and 2..th son. who lives in the pines h'storv of this eountrv, ini whos columns it appeared, t'ongns c;l n mak- lav.s i::-id O.tober of th. present with liis two maiden sisters,; the bringing in at onv of in last Sunday's isMie. I ,,,.! whosee;i;.tence d. pe! ds! year. It i i laimed that rhe'is tin one w'dte man wliite four new'states is a pre it n suggest that it .might ".vi'Imoi t!:i- will l autho; it v o? ,,':" made by Miller, when man near Eatontown who!f;1jr ; the hfe of the Union. also, for you to publish' that intersting and be.oiti - ful letter itself I .voul.l like, throniih your paper, to present to the pul- licnlirler aruiaent in Mip - port of ilsp-iuiineness, which has struck most fawJi-rddy several promincr.t p-ntlemen lto whom I told it Th nr - ii - j n,H"1 1Tllv v in.. .:?.: ii in i.-u.ui himii'i iiim-, been willing to invent and pub' v im.,.:-.! .......i i lish it, for two reasons: his.eom.try. Ail of 1 he sovereign conscience would not have al lowed him to practice a ;cjse attach u t!i sc copunon fraud, and he must havej wealths now al theircre.-ition seen that its discovery as an j.nia inception; some in-in:: invention wouh tlio cause of I haveinjiiredj thnstianity; again, no disbeliever or op ponent of Christianit3' would have been willing to have a statement given out Hint would tend so much to strengthen his opponents. For example, no member of one of the political par ties of today would pretend to have discovered a manu script of George Washing ton, the publication of which would greatly strengthen hifi opponents. I think it would be well that t hese suggestions should be published in connection witi the letter referred to a bo vp. Yours respectfully, T. L. Clingman. THE NEW STATES. The political changes that will accompany the cidmis sion of the four new common wealths into the sisterhoods of States have already been adverted to. The Senate will be encreased by eight new members, and the House will also have a lar ger membership. TheRepub licans will gain in the Senate six new Senators and the Democrats two, the Monta na assembly being Democrat ic. Republican ascendancy in that body is thus likely to be assured for several years. In the House the difference is not so perceptible; nor will the situation in the electoral College be greatly altered. Notwithstanding all the new States may vote for the Re publican nominee, the neces ity will still exist for the Re publicans to carry jeit her New York or Indiana as hereto fore, to assure their success. But important as fhese changes are, what challen ges comment even more, is the creation at one time of four sovereign States. Re ferring to this the Herald notes the changes wrought in the status of tin people in the territories. Heretofore they have been governed at Washington, the President appointing their Governors, Judges. &tc. and they have no voice in the election of the President. They have been subjects of the United States Hereafter they cease to be subjects of the United States and become citizens of their States. Their States become sovereign and independent. They attain rights which neither Coiirefcs not the I'm Meat ;)P .uiyothr St,itca1 authority fixes the s.v- tin; t-nt'iinili u !! From r,,;i..;es.;. thv bcon;e na t n '. - .I.t;. s, free fom any outside' I '"utit nd save alone that ll.c iVaivss juaiatii-es totlu-ai ;t ll-;.ul.li(v.n form u'cnwi iV : .nf.t. They -take rank wit h tle otJier mi'mlicrs of tic I'm . j,,M And if tree fouiliM o 1 tbe States hh. -ni l so am j,n. Coustifa'tiouof thi'Tniot. in vii tualiv to ahroaJe il. ... ;;e would a;' as suvcivli'ti a Sraa-e v,v italv or n:iv iVthe: nowers th:veunM then i 'V-- dormant or in ab -vanc i " ii- ding the co'.:timianc: (f th moil, ami. under tneronsh tut ion. 1o !:, exercised only by th;; Federal govcrnrai ill . In modn-n history ve Mud the birth of la:t f.sv Slates abo-u'd. 'ohnid wi :a Sfate, but was conquered. and ceased toexi.t liouam na. Servia and .'ulgaria have been erected i::!o na tions with some sovereign powers, but they are not en tirely independent. The making of these new Stat r here in America is a great event, and the occasion should he used as an object lesson to remind the people of the nature and character of our American common woalt hs. Xcwsnnd Observer Wainting for Gabriel. A minor that the little band of .Idventists located at Eatontown, N. J., had fixed upon midnight to-nigh as the end of the world, and that a farewell of all things earthly was to have been ta ken yesterday, attracted sev eral curious people to the pretty little villageyesterday afternoon. It had been as serted that these followers of the doctrine of William Mille, the Massachusetts enthusiast and the founder of the se cret, were ready with their ascension robes and were ivainting in the full e:cpecta that the sun was to rise but once more and that with the coming of 6)et., 7th the dread trump would be sounded and the "third woe" of Revela tions made manifest. The report that a specific day and hour had been set by Eatontown belit vers was i found to be incorrect, and had probably become cur rent according to the belief of Ezek Wolcott, the local loader because the Adven tists of New England had positively fixed upon the tenth month of the year, 1889, as the time for the ful filment of the prophecy. In Vermont, Massachusetts, fonnectiout and New Hamp shire the Millerites,or Adven tists, have proclaimed that the end is to coine on the seventh day of the tenth month. The difference be twoen the Roman and Jewish , Calender makes it ,mposs.- ole they say, to be accurate as to the. exact (Jay, ami t while tliry aivr th.t Seriplu- . TIiri'SDAY, OiTOIJKK, 17. If 8f, ;enth. tiny pbwv this seventh .! pedi' tit! the de.-ttru-t ion ;f w-orld i:i 1 H I : and al! sulivfjve'iit -rrois. w. r. due England brethren, that he j(l,.,H 0f the fay led the pro to dftf -tive rah illation, an I 'm given 10 each to thelfrM.fJS;Vi poop,, of the new ilint tli 's.' v. i-o;-.H were dis- j dozen negroes who live near! States to submit nuentions uvereil ia 1S7, after (J.:-, hiiii, U'sides lots of provis b :!! did not blow his horn 'ions. Cam Johnson, the son i:il8TS carcfijt and e.hau.i-jof "Mn,o Jack,"' who was tive it s -arch has convinced i lynched three years ago, is t e pi:'siMit lcadei: of .thelsaid to have developed it re ueiiii'!it tiiey ;;ne at last, ;!U"ous frenzy, and to be wait In their possession tli.'kev- to1 iiiir anxiously for the time to tli'Mi'jstciy, and that thei - i cannot possibly bo a mistake this time, z;?k Wol - "I believe," Klid I ott to th;- World reporter yislerd i.v, "that this is the year when the Messiah shall appear a second time on ea; !:. hut I also believe that ao man kiioweih the hour of Incoming. In l.'r.'t I was ; irmly convneed that the 'lour waar hand so tirm! rmle.'i!,. tliat I made myself poor, in disposing of my vnr!dly possessions. The Lord was gracious to me uowevcr. and I allerward. had enough to niakemecom fortahle. I shall not do this year as 1 did iti 1 87d.'? Mr. H'olcott belongs to one of the most numerously represented families in the township. There is old Da vid Wolcott, three Edward Woleotts, Dloouificid Wol cott, Edmund Wolcott, and Henry and William WoVott, the sons of Ezek Wolcott. It is related that in 1 S'7 :l one of the elders of the church, related to this family, be came so thoroughly con vinced that theday was at hand that he mounted to the roof of his house, and there waited until it became daik. While he stood there a bril- lant meteor fchot across tne sky.TheElder took tne flight of this heavenly wanderer as a signal, and, crying with a loud voice, "The hour has come!" he leaped into space. People in the lower part of the house were startled by a loud crash at the same mo ment, and they ran out to see the elder shootthrough a grape 'nbor and land partly on his nose and partly on his .stomach. One of his arms was broken and he was so painfully bruised that large quantities of liniment were found necessaiy to ease his pain. While it is a fact that the tegular attendants at Ezek Wolcott 's modest littlechap cl are looking for the world's end tonight, some of the ig norant negroes around Ocean port and near Sea bright believe that it is about time for them to put away things that are of the earth, earthy. Seraphine Smith, a large coffee-colored woman, has had a lovely robe made of cambric, with sea riot love knots at the throat and waist. The gar ment is loose and flowing, a nil those wuo have had the i privilege of seeing on Sera- (;en Gordon might hnvecs- phina's ample form say she ped, with all the Europ- looks very pure and inno- 'ean, had not his fatal deter-! cent. Seraphine wc.ghs 2S0; urination stood in his wa v. pound-si. Gos-ips about Ovanportj say that oll Simon Ooddi- t tins his aith to the Seville : propheey made by his New .qcome U is a miserable creature, and of course, is not j rpcognfzed in any way by the i Adveatists under the leader ship of Mr. H'olcott. None of the negroes has any affilia tion with the Eatontown .-ect, and whatever fanat icism they have dcveloeil is purely individual and inde pendent of any body of be lie vers in the doctrine. IIo.v Gordon Died. The African traveler, Ilerr Fricke, who has since 1S7" been in Africa, and escaped from Khartoum after Gen. Gordon's death, is now in Berlin. Gordon, always calm and undaunted, did not even for a moment show any out ward signs of excitement, not even when his own soldiers refused to obey him any lon ger because their pay was in arrear. In the last fortnight they had to fight every nigh't, and after every engagement it was found that number of their soldiers had gone over to the Mahd's camp. Three days before the fall of Khartoum he said: "Now it is the highest time for the re lieving force to arrive." He repeatedly urged his Europ ean followers to fly from Khartoum, but as he refused to do so, they would not leave their General in the lurch. About his last moments Ilerr Fricke says: "It is not true that that he was assas sinated as he came down on hearing the sounds ol a liot among the soldiers. He came, as was his wont every morning, to inspect the sol diers, with his stick in hand. He never carried a sword, not even while fighting. As he came out of the house some of his own soldiers hurled their spears at him, and this was the sign for a general massacre." Ilerr Pricke, when he saw the Gen eral lying dead, fled by a by patch to the Nile, where he secured a small boat, in which he escaped down the river. He told me that, al though he suffered many pri-; vations and incurred many dangers, he finally escaped, owing to his being a Mussul man, and so understanding all the customs and ritual ceremonies. From Berbar he jonrned with a caravan to Suskin. Herr Fricke posi tively asserts that two days before the fall of Khartoum -ye.s'3-0b-rve. -1 NO. Hi T:i e!-ction in the New state niiib an orn in Hi n. 1. ,n,, v ..u Hi ,,.v..r nm 1 ,r;,jn. In addition the new JtlPHtl to the popular vote of more or le.As interest. In the two Dakota and H'ashiugton the people voted on constitutional prohibition The brobablity is that that question was answered in the negative by the people of eaci State. Woman sufferage was de Te.itid in Washington, and minority representation was defeated in South Dakota. In Montana there were no ! u-h side issues. The Demo crats appear to have carried the Legislature in Montana which ensures two new Dem ocratic Senators against six new Republicans. We tear that all the new members of the House of Representatives are Republicans. Theiv is no probability of the erection in the immedi ate future of any other new States except New Mexico, and one to be carved out of the Indian Territory. News and Observer. The Montana Election. Helena, Mont, Oct. 8. The latest returns give a Demo cratic majority of seven on joint ballot, in the Legisla ture, with one in doubt, which may increase the ma jority to nine. In several counties the vote is very close, but it is not thought the official canvassing will make any material change. Toole, Democrat, is elected for Governor by a majority of about 800; Carter Repub lican, for Congress, has n ma jority of about J,200. liond ofiering8. Washington, Oct. 8. Bond ofierings today aggregated 1110,500, all accepted at 1.27 for fours and 105 for four' and a halfs. S0OTT& ERVIN, Attorneys at Law, Lenoir, N. 0. T. B. FINLEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW W'llkeshoro, North Carolina. M. M. PARKS, Attorney at Law Jefferson, N. C. W. B. C0UNC1LL, Jn. Attorney at La-. July 4th891y. Boone, N. C W. B. COUNCILL. M. I). Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. I une 12 88. ly. DR. L. C. REEVES. Physician and Surgeon Office at Coffey's Hold, Boone, 2. I; July 4. 89. J. V.. HOPKINS, Jewelek Elk Parfc N O ' Wafches 'ired ' , lands of woKhls li 'fitted promptly. all exe mptly. July 1 896 mo. L.
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